Funding for the Token Economy??

Scholastic Incentive System?  Why not?

This is as good an example of how an actual economy works as any. 

1.  Decide on a unit of currency, and its divisions.  Monopoly money is as good as anything else, because it shows the effect of "flooding," inflation, and counterfieting.

2.  Use your "money" to trade in FICTIONAL goods -- not tangible goods!  Trust me, if you go tangible, fights really could break out -- we'll see exactly why in a few minutes. 

3.  Your school sets up a "salary" for each student, with higher grade point averages getting the greater amount of monopoly money once a week.  Out of that, the students pay rent, buy groceries, invest (the financial page works well as an exercise) and so forth.  Inside a week, the higher paid students might be in a position to "buy" a rental home and whoever wants to may rent it, etc.  Again, use actual market valuations but DO NOT consider using real money.

4.  Note that some students are known to cheat.  They can bring in Monopoly money from other sets of Monopoly, and there is no way to tell it from the notes actually issued by your "treasury."

At the end of the school year, see who has the most Monopoly money.  Then have them account for how they got it, who they got it from, what they invested in, and what the return was on the investment.  That is your annual "IRS Audit."  Whoever has brought in stolen money, or has "counterfieted" etc, get to spend the last day before summer vacation in "prison." 

If that seems like a situation that is rife with fraud, misfeasance, forgery, theft, and other nastiness, then you will have a good idea what it is like to actually balance a real budget.

Funding a token political environment that is against the American people.  The day all America finds her guts we will be back on track til then everything that is a token will be broken and we can move back into being one of the Greatest Nations on the face of the earth.

LadyDarko, you have not responed to my post and that shocks me as to the fact that you always had, and I not have ather contact with you, as was Honey also waiting, not like you to ignore, and at this time is most important, have a lovely piece that will incase your icon that honey has done. Do hope that you answer this post, or may start to wounder as to your safety, not like you to ignore.

    Hope all is safe and we shall take soon!!!

Tanya

Per Lady Darko:

Funding a token political environment that is against the American people.  The day all America finds her guts we will be back on track til then everything that is a token will be broken and we can move back into being one of the Greatest Nations on the face of the earth.

You are extremely vague in how you denounce a token economy.  Are you really sure that you uderstand the question?

Darko, do you want these kids to see how an actual free-market economy works or not?  I know a few communist hardlikers who consider any contact with reality "Dangerous, right wing extremism," but rational people never say any such thing.

Now, if you want to see an economy that is utterly corrupt, fraught with abuse, tyrannical in the extreme, and subject to the caprices of the power elite, that would have to be socialism.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics proved that fact repeatedly.  If you have any doubts, ask the Russian Mafia.  They controlled the "black market" where anything could be had -- for an unseemly price.

We have not had that here, yet.  But give Obama bin Laden a chance, and the Chicago Mafia will be the replacement for Congress.

You guys need to read this.

Subject: Buy USA    REALLY GOOD READING 

 Okay my friends, this is one way we can all help our hard working American citizens throughout the U. S.  I'm willing to take the time to read labels, hope you will, too.







 

 
 


 

THIS IS INTERESTING AND A MUST READ....
 

This is very important if we want to keep and create jobs in the US !


Hey you, check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowes the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose attachments. They were all made in China . The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA . Start looking.

In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track. Let's get behind her!


A good idea.

My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more. My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico now. I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything.


This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off brand labeled, "Everyday Value." I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio .


So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here.


So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets....yep, you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada .. The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price!


So my challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!


If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address; book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies!

(We should have awakened a decade ago.......) Let's get with the program.... help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U.S.A.

THIS EMAIL WAS DESIGNED AND MADE IN THE USA
 
 

Lester and I (our pics on the post) refuse to buy anything that is NOT made in America!  We drive Kenworth and Freightliner trucks, American built Chevy cars, and on the farm we use only American built John Deere and Case equipment.

Keep that Kubota and Komatsu junk in the scrap pile.  And tell that lunatic with the Jap car to park it in Tokyo harbor! 

Now, Obama has a program called "Cash for Clunkers."  That puts American cars in the scrap pile and makes us even more dependent on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian cars -- and we have to finance them through American banks.

These cars set a new low in pollution.  Their batteries are made of poisonous heavy metals, we have to charge them from coal-fired steam power plants, they overload the electrical grid, and if some lunatic puts a nuke over us, the power grid is history!

Let's see you get to work when your hybrid car can't move!  You can't even fuel it because the pump at the gas station runs on electricity! 

I don't know about you people, but we're ready for that.

I suggest that you join us, while you have time to do so.

LadyDarko says,

Funding a token political environment that is against the American people.

Really?  We have a competitive market system, and it has withstood every attack from leftists.  That is why we have a humane country and why socialism always deals in bloodshed to keep the people in line.  So it has always been, so it is now, so it shall always be.

The day all America finds her guts we will be back on track til then everything that is a token will be broken and we can move back into being one of the Greatest Nations on the face of the earth.

Accusing me of being a worthless and spineless coward is a challenge to a duel.  You are such a coward that you would not show up on the field of honor.  All communists are worthless cowards, and that is why yopu atheist extremists will all burn in hell for all eternity.

That is the price for stupidity, dishonor, spinelessness, and racism.

I'm calling you out, dingbat!  Meet me at one end of our thousand yard range and I'll be at the other.  We'll see who has the range.  Name the day, at dawn.

Let's see who shows up, coward.

The question was about funding a token economy. Rocmike3 made concrete suggestions how to implement it in real terms, Darko sleazed in with a communist insult that we aren't supposed to have a free market economy, Southern challenged Darko to a duel in reply to an insult from Darko no that one with a conscience would tolerate, and besides that, it has become unpleasant.

It looks to me that our beloved Darko should look to China to see the real effect of communism.

Where once China was in the bitterest backward age of its long history under communism, it has since come out of that dark age into the warmer and brighter times of a true free-market economy.  Gone are the days of a woman havving to seduce a communist party official to get into a hospital.  Now, they buy medical insurance modeled after Kaiser-Permanente.

Darko, I'd say that you stepped in it more ways than one: you espoused communism before people who know better, and you chose off Annie Oakley.

It sucks to be you, Darko.