A recipe for RECESSION

Ingredients:

One national note decreed as legal tender in exchange for all debts and obligations.

Millions of trusting and hard working PEOPLE.

One very powerful military complex

One LARGE serving of pseudo-democracy.

One subserviant mass media apparatus

Instructions:

1. Give exclusive control of ALL tender to private bankers.

2. Add interest to ALL tender that circulates.

3. Once control is firmly in place, seal all openings and PREHEAT oven by extracting a portion of tender, in TAX, from that which circulates.

4. Set oven to 5% interest; periodically adjust for inflation.

5. To ensure economy rises, allow tender to circulate either as cash or as credit based on as little as 6% tender on reserve.

6. To keep people from sticking together, employ media to insert wedge issues between them.

7. Check regularly to ensure economy does not overheat. If needed, apply military.

8. Keep bankruptcy pores closed at all times to avoid deflation.

9. Add foreign investment as needed, raising INTEREST, and TAXES as you go.

10. Repeat STEP 9 as often as economy will tolerate; then move on to the next nation.

Please note, to ensure effective transfer of wealth from working class to idle rich:

1. Tax only LABOR;

2. Do not, under any circumstance, tax income from INTEREST;

3. Do not, under any circumstance, accommodate REAL growth;

4. Do not, under any circumstance, pay off the DEBT; and

5. Always speak in riddles to avoid exposure.