[CLUE-Talk] [OT] A Call to Action

[Jef Barnhart]

> >   * LETS or a local currency system
> >
> >     LETS stands for either Local Exchange Trading System or the word "let's,"
> >     or something else, depending who you ask. It is a kind of virtual 
> > currency
> >     system, operated by and for people and businesses in a given 
> > community. In
> >     essence, LETS and other local currency systems increase people's buying
> >     power by increasing the local money supply. Beginning in the mid-70s,
> >     successful LETS systems and local currencies have been established in
> >     dozens of communities throughout the industrialized world.
> 
> First : Printing your own currency is illegal if I remember correclty.

Well you almost got it wrong (near miss sort of thing.). It is illegal to print your own money, a forgery of legal tender and try to pass it off as such. There are no laws saying that you can not print "your" own money.What you may find is that you won't find too many people to accept "your" money. Note the story at the bottom.
http://www.syntac.net/hoax/counterfeit.php

I would be all for "my" own currancy but that could not happen and the reason that we all use the dollar is becouse in the past banks had their own money. Exchange rates differed from one side of town to the other.

> Second: "Technically" using the "Barter" system is still subject to Income 
> Tax. - But as long as know one tells between the two parties doing the 
> "Bartering" your safe.
> 
> 
> >   * Community-supported Agriculture
> >
> >     CSA is a scheme where urban residents and other non-farmers make a
> >     financial commitment to a particular farm, sharing in the risks, rewards,
> >     and often the labor of growing food. I don't know how much there is
> >     to discuss about this, since there are already several CSA farms in the
> >     region, but maybe it would be worthwhile to promote the concept in some
> >     way.
> 
> Better Yet:  have many people grow their own small gardens at their homes, 
> each growing different things.  Then they "swap" back and forth. Cheaper 
> than buying produce in the grocery store, and it takes SO much better. I 
> can vouch for it. My wife grows lots of stuff in here garden.
> 
> Next: Eat more rabbit!  Grow your own rabbits (The big white ones are 
> best). And slaughter them yourself and freeze the meat. Heck rabbit goes 
> for $3.99/lb in the grocery store.  Also learn to hunt.  Get a deer or two 
> or an Elk or whatever.  Cheap meat that way to. OR even do your own fishing 
> and freeze the fish.  If you find some good butchers you can offer to trade 
> meat as well. Trade some of your deer or elk or rabbit for say beef, pork 
> or chicken.
> 
> Also another good thing to do with the "Barter system" is to trade work for 
> work. If you know a plumber, offer to do some computer consulting work in 
> trade for him doing some plumbing work. Or, whatever.
> 
> 
> 
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