An Introduction to AMASS
| By theguardian777 - Sep 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm EDT |
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This is to introduce you to AMASS, and its concepts of cooperative self-reliance.
AMASS is the Assurance Mutual Association for a Sustainable Society, an international financial group for grassroots cooperative assistance to the fundamental productive sectors of free economies throughout an increasingly populous world.
Since its inception in the fields of America in 1987, AMASS has been conceived, designed and refined to act as the ultimate tool in support of a new socio-economic model - a more efficient, equitable, responsive and sustainable system of distribution of essential goods and services to the free, peaceful and productive people of the world.
AMASS is constructing a free and open membership five-tiered cooperative association based on a cellular structure of local production co-ops, served by area logistical co-ops, feeding regional industrial processing co-ops, supplying national distribution co-ops, all integrated into, and advised by, an international financial assurance mutual, AMASS.
AMASS is founded upon the realization of the fundamental and universal principles that:
1. All 'Real' Capital is the product of solar energy striking the Earth, and, thru some thermo-dynamic, thermo-chemical or photo-chemical process, storing that energy in a form useful to sustain life, or perform work. Capital is merely stored energy!
2. All economies are, therefore, and of necessity must be, based upon the primary production of those food, fuel and fiber forms of stored energy needed for the sustenance, shelter, security, transport and productivity of the Citizenry. The better an economy serves these basic needs at the grassroots local level, the more stable and productive that Society will be!
3. Every society must seek sustainability thru more prudent and proper care, use and conservation of all of her productive resources, and the more equitable distribution of the resultant production to all its Citizens, to forestall its own demise. The more equitable and less wasteful a Society, the longer-lived it will be, and the faster it amasses wealth!
4. Every economy based upon best harnessing the energy and creativity of its Citizens thru the free exercise of their own individual nature, initiative, competitive spirit, private ownership and personal gain will continually out-perform every other economic model. The more unfettered and egalitarian the competition, the more productive and wealthy that society will be.
5. Every Citizen has the inalienable right to life, liberty, property, self-defense and self-determination, along with the responsibility to hold the rights of others harmless from their exercise thereof. Inherent in that right to life for any material life form must be the right of access to the basic necessities of life - clean air, pure water, wholesome food, direct sunlight (or some stored energy) and space sufficient to sustain ones continued existence.
Thus, we can see that all new 'wealth' is only harvested from the farms, forests, seas, and mines of our biosphere, or is value later added by further processing those same commodities into products more useful for life.
The "service" based economy, as well as every other, other than the 'primary production' based economy, is a cruel and fraudulent myth!
An even more 'criminal' myth is that of the universal benefit supposedly received by human society from all trade in our "Global Economy"!
Wealth is never generated from any form of trade. In fact, there is an inherent loss in every form of trade, as it burns some of the energy stored in that commodity in the process of moving the asset from producer to ultimate consumer.
If you burn more energy in a trade than is stored in the commodity traded; you have entered into negative territory and a wholly unsustainable business practice!
Therefore, AMASS insists each co-op should operate a central marketplace for provision of basic needs from the most local production possible, as the less transport involved in any trade, the less energy is expended, and the more wealth is retained.
With this conservative strategy, AMASS will re-build our Society from the ground up. As opposed to the "Rich get Richer, and Poor get Poorer" effect of the current inverted construct of our economy, which concentrates capital in an elite class at the top of a house of cards, in a proper pyramidal structure, AMASS distributes the greatest mass of capital where it belongs at the base of the economy, in primary production, and every economic sector above that must add value to that production, rather than consume it.
The inefficient, irresponsive and fraudulent wealth creation schemes common throughout our current government-instituted, bureaucracy-regulated, monopoly-based, purely-partisan and oligarchic, predatory capitalist system can never result in resolving humanity's problems, but can only result in generating more human misery!.
With the current "credit crisis" fresh in our minds, we should be able to plainly see the folly in the present inverted construct of our economy. Predatory Capitalism is at its end!
The logical forces of Laissez Faire Capitalism, Compassionate Conservativism and Christian Cooperativism must immediately stand up to rescue us from certain disaster!
Our forefathers survived the wild frontiers and built this country upon cooperative effort, we will need these skills again to survive this challenge we now find ourselves in!
Only by returning to the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, insuring the free and open association of sovereign individuals in an unassailable state of equal treatment under the law will be able to save us from this 'uncontrollable tailspin' we are entering into.
We can all see that we are at a turning point in history, where a paradigm shift in Social Justice and Responsibility is imminent. Will we make logical sustainable changes for the future of all life, or continue on the path of purely personal immediate self-gratification?
Will we drive these developments, or be driven by them like sheep to slaughter?
We all like to talk the talk, but when given the opportunity to help change the unjust way this irresponsive and inefficient system works, will we walk the walk?
In the Good Book, we are instructed to "Tithe" 10% of our net income to maintain communal stores of all essential commodities sufficient for surviving 3 years of severe drought. This 'tithe system' was designed, not to support an elite clergy, but for the security of the nation in times of hardship, and the ultimate support of widows, orphans, and other truly indigent citizens as those stocks are rotated out and replaced with fresh. Where are these stores? How will we survive without that insurance?
If we wish America to continue to secure the blessings of our God-given Liberty, we must follow these commandments, and restore grains and other essential commodities to our now-empty storehouses for weathering the coming calamities!
In this life, we never know what the future holds, but we know there will be challenges, wise and prudent people keep good insurance policies against those eventualities!
You are just the person this world needs to help solve the problems that plague us all.
So, I am asking you to invest your sweat-equity in helping to build this private social security system to provide the basic necessities of modern life, from insurance to electricity, clothing to tools, bread to gasoline, thru thick and thin, to all those willing to live, and work, in peace with their fellow man!
In closing, remember that all Governments, by their very nature, are bought and paid for by selfish special interests! They are not responsive to the needs of all of the People! Even if politicians wanted to deliver more than empty campaign promises, Governments can never solve all of our problems for us!
Working together, at the local level, we can solve our own problems! Working together, we will overcome all hardships, survive to fight again, and, one step at a time, win a better life for all on this beautiful planet for generations to come!
Please feel free to contact me, only if you really want to build a better, brighter world!
Larry M. Aden, Nemaha, Iowa, 712-636-4490
AMASS is the Assurance Mutual Association for a Sustainable Society, an international financial group for grassroots cooperative assistance to the fundamental productive sectors of free economies throughout an increasingly populous world.
Since its inception in the fields of America in 1987, AMASS has been conceived, designed and refined to act as the ultimate tool in support of a new socio-economic model - a more efficient, equitable, responsive and sustainable system of distribution of essential goods and services to the free, peaceful and productive people of the world.
AMASS is constructing a free and open membership five-tiered cooperative association based on a cellular structure of local production co-ops, served by area logistical co-ops, feeding regional industrial processing co-ops, supplying national distribution co-ops, all integrated into, and advised by, an international financial assurance mutual, AMASS.
AMASS is founded upon the realization of the fundamental and universal principles that:
1. All 'Real' Capital is the product of solar energy striking the Earth, and, thru some thermo-dynamic, thermo-chemical or photo-chemical process, storing that energy in a form useful to sustain life, or perform work. Capital is merely stored energy!
2. All economies are, therefore, and of necessity must be, based upon the primary production of those food, fuel and fiber forms of stored energy needed for the sustenance, shelter, security, transport and productivity of the Citizenry. The better an economy serves these basic needs at the grassroots local level, the more stable and productive that Society will be!
3. Every society must seek sustainability thru more prudent and proper care, use and conservation of all of her productive resources, and the more equitable distribution of the resultant production to all its Citizens, to forestall its own demise. The more equitable and less wasteful a Society, the longer-lived it will be, and the faster it amasses wealth!
4. Every economy based upon best harnessing the energy and creativity of its Citizens thru the free exercise of their own individual nature, initiative, competitive spirit, private ownership and personal gain will continually out-perform every other economic model. The more unfettered and egalitarian the competition, the more productive and wealthy that society will be.
5. Every Citizen has the inalienable right to life, liberty, property, self-defense and self-determination, along with the responsibility to hold the rights of others harmless from their exercise thereof. Inherent in that right to life for any material life form must be the right of access to the basic necessities of life - clean air, pure water, wholesome food, direct sunlight (or some stored energy) and space sufficient to sustain ones continued existence.
Thus, we can see that all new 'wealth' is only harvested from the farms, forests, seas, and mines of our biosphere, or is value later added by further processing those same commodities into products more useful for life.
The "service" based economy, as well as every other, other than the 'primary production' based economy, is a cruel and fraudulent myth!
An even more 'criminal' myth is that of the universal benefit supposedly received by human society from all trade in our "Global Economy"!
Wealth is never generated from any form of trade. In fact, there is an inherent loss in every form of trade, as it burns some of the energy stored in that commodity in the process of moving the asset from producer to ultimate consumer.
If you burn more energy in a trade than is stored in the commodity traded; you have entered into negative territory and a wholly unsustainable business practice!
Therefore, AMASS insists each co-op should operate a central marketplace for provision of basic needs from the most local production possible, as the less transport involved in any trade, the less energy is expended, and the more wealth is retained.
With this conservative strategy, AMASS will re-build our Society from the ground up. As opposed to the "Rich get Richer, and Poor get Poorer" effect of the current inverted construct of our economy, which concentrates capital in an elite class at the top of a house of cards, in a proper pyramidal structure, AMASS distributes the greatest mass of capital where it belongs at the base of the economy, in primary production, and every economic sector above that must add value to that production, rather than consume it.
The inefficient, irresponsive and fraudulent wealth creation schemes common throughout our current government-instituted, bureaucracy-regulated, monopoly-based, purely-partisan and oligarchic, predatory capitalist system can never result in resolving humanity's problems, but can only result in generating more human misery!.
With the current "credit crisis" fresh in our minds, we should be able to plainly see the folly in the present inverted construct of our economy. Predatory Capitalism is at its end!
The logical forces of Laissez Faire Capitalism, Compassionate Conservativism and Christian Cooperativism must immediately stand up to rescue us from certain disaster!
Our forefathers survived the wild frontiers and built this country upon cooperative effort, we will need these skills again to survive this challenge we now find ourselves in!
Only by returning to the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, insuring the free and open association of sovereign individuals in an unassailable state of equal treatment under the law will be able to save us from this 'uncontrollable tailspin' we are entering into.
We can all see that we are at a turning point in history, where a paradigm shift in Social Justice and Responsibility is imminent. Will we make logical sustainable changes for the future of all life, or continue on the path of purely personal immediate self-gratification?
Will we drive these developments, or be driven by them like sheep to slaughter?
We all like to talk the talk, but when given the opportunity to help change the unjust way this irresponsive and inefficient system works, will we walk the walk?
In the Good Book, we are instructed to "Tithe" 10% of our net income to maintain communal stores of all essential commodities sufficient for surviving 3 years of severe drought. This 'tithe system' was designed, not to support an elite clergy, but for the security of the nation in times of hardship, and the ultimate support of widows, orphans, and other truly indigent citizens as those stocks are rotated out and replaced with fresh. Where are these stores? How will we survive without that insurance?
If we wish America to continue to secure the blessings of our God-given Liberty, we must follow these commandments, and restore grains and other essential commodities to our now-empty storehouses for weathering the coming calamities!
In this life, we never know what the future holds, but we know there will be challenges, wise and prudent people keep good insurance policies against those eventualities!
You are just the person this world needs to help solve the problems that plague us all.
So, I am asking you to invest your sweat-equity in helping to build this private social security system to provide the basic necessities of modern life, from insurance to electricity, clothing to tools, bread to gasoline, thru thick and thin, to all those willing to live, and work, in peace with their fellow man!
In closing, remember that all Governments, by their very nature, are bought and paid for by selfish special interests! They are not responsive to the needs of all of the People! Even if politicians wanted to deliver more than empty campaign promises, Governments can never solve all of our problems for us!
Working together, at the local level, we can solve our own problems! Working together, we will overcome all hardships, survive to fight again, and, one step at a time, win a better life for all on this beautiful planet for generations to come!
Please feel free to contact me, only if you really want to build a better, brighter world!
Larry M. Aden, Nemaha, Iowa, 712-636-4490
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