Social Credit is talking about debt piling up

09 Sept 2020

 

So, Richard Prebble, the man who toured the country proclaiming he was
going to save rail and was then instrumental in selling it off to an American
corporate that asset stripped it and caused taxpayers to have to rebuild it with
money that should have been used for hospitals and schools thinks the
country is using Social Credit.
The former Labour cabinet minister clearly doesn't understand what the first
Labour government did under Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage - use
Reserve Bank credit (Social Credit) to fund a massive state house building
programme.
What he also appears to have missed is that Quantitative Easing has been
going on for a long time outside New Zealand without any of the dire
consequences he is trying to conjure up.
The European Central Bank announced in March it would be doing 150
billion Euros of QE (money creation) immediately, buying government
bonds from banks and pension funds. It had already been doing 35 billion
Euros per month in QE for several years prior to this.
The QE programme before the Covid crisis by the Bank of England had been
435 billion pounds since 2009, and the Federal Reserve, 4.5 trillion dollars but
both have done vastly more since. China’s central bank pumped 1.2 trillion
yuan into its economy in February, 1,589 billion in June and 1,785 billion in
July.
Despite derogatory comments about ‘funny money’ Social Credit always
advocated that the Reserve Bank could create new money and make it work
for the economy.
It’s been proved right on money creation, but what's happening now is not
Social Credit.
The Reserve Bank is digitally creating up to $100 billion dollars but that is
going into the pockets of rich investors, overseas pension funds, and
commercial bank shareholders - the very people who are most likely to
support ACT, the party Richard Prebble deserted Labour for, to become one
of its cheerleaders.
A Social Credit government would use the Reserve Bank’s money creation
capability to provide money directly to the government for it to spend into the
economy on things like a better healthcare system and an education system
funded by the government rather than student loans and the sale of university
space to overseas students.

The country’s infrastructure would not be in such dire need of replacement
and development because a Social Credit government would have poured
some of that Reserve Bank money into building those assets for the country.
The one thing Mr Prebble was right about is his quote from Walter Nash, who
made it after having been summoned to the UK and told by British bankers
that if the Labour government, in which he was Finance Minister, didn't stop
using the country's own credit to build assets, Britain would stop importing
New Zealand's farm produce.
Despite pressure from John A Lee and others, Nash capitulated.
Apparently the rise in discussion about the Social Credit idea of the
government using its own bank to benefit New Zealanders is concerning Mr
Prebble and his friends at the New Zealand initiative who appear to prefer a
continuation of the massive inequality that has eventuated from the
implementation of their economic dogma.
If that’s the case, more discussion on ideas like Social Credit is something we
should all be very happy about.