Lawson for Congress

I need your help making an important phone call. Today is a national day of action in support of HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. This essential legislation, introduced by Texas Republican Ron Paul, will open up the Federal Reserve to a full and complete audit by the GAO.

It’s bad enough that taxpayers have pledged over $12 trillion to prop up a financial system best described as corporate socialism. It’s even worse that the primary entity responsible for our economic crisis dismissively ignores Freedom of Information Act requests for transparency and use of taxpayer funds.

HR 1207 already has over 90 cosponsors, with broad bipartisan support. Unfortunately, this support does not extend to our Representative David Price. Would you please join me in calling David Price’s office at 202-225-1784 to request that he cosponsor HR 1207?

If you’re outside of North Carolina’s 4th District, visit the Campaign for Liberty’s Web site to find out if you need to contact your representative:

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/supporthr1207.php

Thanks!

Just a quick note to let you know I’m going to be on Fox Business around 2:20pm this afternoon to discuss my work reinvigorating our local currency, the PLENTY.

As all true free market advocates know, we can’t have a free market when money and credit are under monopoly control. Our region of North Carolina had the benefit of forward-thinking activists who launched a community currency in 2001, and I’ve been working with a talented group of folks to reinvigorate and relaunch the currency since last fall.

Why might a community embrace a local currency? A local currency circulates within a community, encourages self-sufficiency, and spurs economic growth the old-fashioned way –  encouraging and rewarding people for helping other people. It is also a stepping stone to a desperately-needed education about the nature of money itself — as people use a local currency, they start asking basic questions about money and its relationship to a healthy economy.

We’re still a few weeks away from our relaunch as a fully-reserved community currency in partnership with Pittsboro’s Capital Bank, but an article in the USA Today on Monday triggered a wave of media attention highlighting our work to grow our economy by asserting our most basic economic freedom. If you’d like to follow our progress, and learn more about local currencies in general, please visit our Web site at www.theplenty.org.

It’s ironic that my former opponent is still in Washington trying to “help” by TARPing, TALFing, and PIPPing us to death. If you’re tired of being TARPed, TALFed, and PIPPed, why don’t you try doing business in a local currency for a change?