| Money IS green! And here all these years I | | | | to burn oil. Or coal, or both! They also do |
| thought "money", for Americans, only | | | | not want to spend all the money necessary to |
| consisted of paper "fiat" script. Or printed | | | | update their facility. Not the one in America |
| wastepaper, if you prefer.Money, that is REAL | | | | anyway. So they get to continue use of the |
| money, was invented by a guy named Penny, in | | | | facility, but only if they can keep their |
| England. This is our more modern variety. | | | | carbon emissions low enough. But, they get to |
| There has existed money in the form of coins | | | | subtract from that total emission any "Carbon |
| or medallions for almost all of human | | | | Credits" that they have. OR can buy! It is |
| history. But the small lowly Penny, is for us | | | | sort of like a "cut this cupon out for .25 |
| "poor folk". I use the parenthesis due to the | | | | cents off the purchase of soap, or food. Neat |
| abstract thought of the image for "penny" is | | | | right?Well, I guess! Especially if you are in |
| not the same as that used by Mr. Penny way | | | | Office, and have tons of land, and have tons |
| back when. You see, in his days, a penny was | | | | of trees! All of which you sign up under the |
| indeed worth that much. But times, they are a | | | | program and earn tons of money by not cutting |
| changing?Gold and the more popular, silver, | | | | them all down to earn money! Especially if |
| has existed beyond memory. If any | | | | you don't need the wood to make paper to |
| intellectuals tells you it was only from | | | | print the fiat money upon! Get the |
| "such and such" a date, don't you believe | | | | picture?The value of this is said (reading |
| them! Like the Penny, it was just too good an | | | | many newspapers for sources) to be about; |
| idea not to use. But, money in the ancient | | | | $1.50 per acre for "no-till" land, and about |
| days had better be worth its denomination | | | | $2.50 per acre of seeded grasses; and |
| stamped thereupon, or you were apt to die | | | | woodland perhaps higher. To the tune of about |
| over the difference! Instead, today we may | | | | 500 ac x 5 Yr. equals 600 plus or minus tons |
| argue over the differences between the value | | | | of Carbon Credits. These can be worth more |
| of the almost copper penny, and its mostly | | | | than $2,500!Of course, being Americans still, |
| "other" metal content, being actually worth a | | | | we do have an option to sign into the |
| penny in value. Actually, it costs much more | | | | program. But you must of course have lots of |
| than a penny to make. We would be better off | | | | land, and qualify. The EU has mandatory |
| without it! But then there is the normal "One | | | | enrollment. See that? Picture that in your |
| Worlder" who would want us to use "debit | | | | mind, please. Now, picture in your mind's |
| cards".Debit Cards are pieces of flat plastic | | | | eye, the trillions of acres in the other |
| with embedded identity. Your identity, the | | | | countries within a soon to become formalized |
| bank's identity, your account identity, and | | | | American Union! We have tons of open land, |
| even the card's own identity. All to access | | | | much of which is not being cultivated. But we |
| you account in fractions of a sale second. | | | | do not have the combination of low population |
| The problem is; that as soon as you change | | | | of carbon producing plants, and trillions of |
| your fiat script printed wastepaper for" | | | | acres. You see what this is going to become? |
| plastic only", you are in big trouble!Big | | | | A huge write-off against carbon credits from |
| trouble; I ain't kidding you" becomes | | | | other countries for the very Corporations |
| something you would have to overcome to make | | | | that do the most to pollute our heavily |
| your ends meet. I am full of those particular | | | | commercial zones!In plain ole Amer' kan Eng |
| type of sayings, because I was taught them in | | | | lash; I could say it this a way! Mexican |
| order to cause me to remember them. Not as | | | | land, growing nothing, earns Carbon Credits; |
| poetry, but as fact! Fact is; we convert to | | | | which fat-cats in politics, who are mostly |
| "plastic only" and we save tons of millions | | | | lawyers, buy to prop up a business that |
| of money by not having to print fiat money! | | | | produces more pollution that it does |
| No printing; no printers! No printers; no | | | | products!If you think becoming an American |
| labor! No labor; no employees! No employees; | | | | Union or anything approaching a One World |
| no need for the plastic! You see? Besides all | | | | Government is going to be just an "incidental |
| that, we would see our Government increase | | | | journey", all paperwork and no reality for |
| their spending (I always wondered why they | | | | you; then you are more than a lil' bit |
| say "Our country debt" when they mean "Our | | | | stupid!Dan Bunch, a Cherokee; Choctaw; and |
| chance to spend more"?) to take up the slack | | | | Melungeon; whose mother was a naturalized |
| of all those saved millions by not having to | | | | citizen born in Hong Kong. His father was |
| print paper. Figures.A plastic economy might | | | | born in Texas, a Cherokee-Choctaw-Melungeon, |
| give someone the stinking idea to change our | | | | who served in the Army during WWII.Dan Bunch |
| system of money! We could use a different | | | | grew up in Texas, where he participated in; |
| system. One that is more normal. Like that of | | | | football, baseball, and boxing. He enlisted |
| the EU? You get my drift? Or one that is | | | | in the United States Navy Reserve while still |
| "common" to all the American Union? See? | | | | a junior in high school. He has had a |
| Wouldn't you hate not to have the "float" | | | | multitude of experience in the business world |
| between our currency and that of Mexico? Our | | | | in; insurance, real estate, finance, and a |
| one "whatever" would be worth their one | | | | builder of custom homes. He has always been a |
| "whatever"! We would be assimilated all the | | | | writer, and cartoonist. He attributes his |
| quicker, don't cha' see? I ain't kidding | | | | interest in many subjects to his early career |
| you!Ok, what we have is a system, in plastic, | | | | as a newspaper boy. He married his high |
| that can change overnight. One day the | | | | school sweetheart Gayle, with whom they have |
| dollar, is an "A", and the next day it is | | | | two children and five grandchildren.Dan Bunch |
| worth .25 or 1/4 of a dollar, because someone | | | | is a graduate of Grayson Co Jr. College, |
| says so! Talk about quick!There is only one | | | | which he attended upon his return from |
| way to create "green" out of money. And that | | | | Vietnam. He was a PO2'nd, crewmember aboard |
| is, evidently, to own tons of land and plant | | | | U.S. Navy River Patrol Boats, and is member |
| trees! Then you enroll them acres in the | | | | of the DAV; and Veteran association. |
| "Carbon Emissions Trading Program" the U.S. | | | | |
| Government has. That will get you lots of | | | | PLEASE VISIT MY CARTOONS BY DAN BUNCH MAIN |
| bytes, not in plastic, of "Carbon Credits". | | | | PAGE |
| This is worth a mint! Ok, a small mint. But | | | | |
| nonetheless, it is very much valued by the | | | | hometown.aol.com/bunchd |
| corporations that have to toe the mark when | | | | CARTOONSDANBUNCHMAIN. |
| it comes to emissions!"A" Corporation Wants | | | | |