Greetings.

Have you ever seen the movie Trading Places, where the rich make bets that a criminal could profit him more than his own kind?  So they make a criminal come out of prison, giving him hope in the success of the business sector and the one that is less productive in the business sector, to learn a lesson by being jailed.

If we go to the most accurate book, registered in the Library of Congress in the U.S.A., (no need to say the title, because one of its quotations that is now being lived will give you to know what book we’re talking about!)  “In the end, the rich will be poor and the poor will be rich.”  Isn’t that trading places?

Do we go do the stock market to become a trader, trading on the Stock Market Exchange?  Do the traders invest into the cheapest possible venture that they know will make it big and make them rich?  “What are we talking about?” You will say. 

You give a bankrupt business a close look and them wisdom comes to you as to how you could profit from it, by letting it grow.  It is like a seed in the ground.  The farmer invests it in burying it but we must remember that to bury people will never give you any at harvest time but wasted time that will be costly.  And the proof is, the world of today.

If we take the title again Trading Places, there’s a beautiful Indian legend that says, “Try walking a mile in my moccasins.  You will feel the stones under your feet and then you will walk gently on Mother Earth.”  Otherwise, it will hurt, until your feet get stronger through the exercise of walking in someone else’s shoes.

Does trading places mean that the poor must be a wealthy man because then he would be like the wealthy man?  And then there would be no more poor?  But who would do the chores?  Are we not assuring ourselves of slaves at our feet by making sure that they never become like us? 

A famous Toronto University professor by the name of Driscoll wrote: “The poor, the illiterate, deserve to be ruled by the rich…” which his referring to the few that make themselves masons of a new structure.  But we would like to remind those who are referred to as “Freemasons” that they are very costly masons.  It reminds me when I came to Winnipeg in 1965 to see a big sign though the room that I was in, at the deepest time of poverty of my life, a sign that said ‘Free Press’.  Imagine, to me the word ‘free’ means, ‘no cost’.  It was even at the centre of our bingo cards, where you get a number for free and what was beautiful about the free number on the bingo card is that everybody got one on every card! 

Then I went for a free ride to be stopped for stealing the ‘free press’.  Where to me, the word ‘free’ meant free and them I am called stupid to believe that ‘free’ means free!  And now we have free trade!  Another free thing that doesn’t mean free!  And now we have also on TV commercials telling us: “you don’t need money to get anything you want” so a stupid person like me would start stealing everything, because what he’s stealing to some was contradicted by free, where you don’t even need money anymore to get what you want, enough to confuse anybody.  Do we rewrite the dictionary or do we jail everyone?  Or build mental institutions large enough for everyone?  Or are we being laughed at by those who use the word ‘free’ and believing that we’re stupid enough to think that it means ‘pay for it’?  Then they say, they ‘have an interest’ in you - the interest of the money that you owe for believing that you could have everything and that you don’t need money.  Is that what we call ‘credit union’? 

In such, again the rich have fooled the poor.  And now we tell the poor: “We could legally take you to court by misusing and false advertising that you don’t need money to get anything you want.”  And they never say, “It will cost you so much plus interest.”  They even send you plastic money!  All you need to do is ‘swipe this there’ but they don’t say ‘swiping is stealing’.  Again, false advertising!  And to show you the stupidity of this ‘free trade’ business: “If you can’t pay we’ll grant you bankruptcy with a little seven year penalty.”  Imagine now, if you got all that you wanted for free and declared bankruptcy and in seven years you could go back and do it again, because: “We hope that you learned the lesson that doing business with us is a good thing.  Because it’s free.  You don’t need money.”

Now, here is where trading places begins, that the majority of all nations are subject to the few as one shepherd for twenty three million sheep.  And now the sheep decide to corral the shepherd because they are the ones who elected them.  All they need is to speak.  Baa, baa, black sheep!  You are the black crows in front and we are the little white sheep.  We provide the wool on your back by you taking the wool off our back.  So let’s have a new code for the world to come.  Let’s become one nation, where all belongs to all people.  No more to the few.  And those who threaten to sanction us by the loss of jobs and polluted air with acid rain, we ain’t the loser because we will recycle what you threaten us with by walking away and we tell you, go for a walk.  We could manage our own resources.  We are now the resource teachers to our educators

God bless the Americas (the people).  If you separate yourself from the crowd, you become a Maytag repairman; you make think you’re the best but you may find yourself lonely at the bottom, not at the top because loneliness is a human self-trinity, me, myself and I.  So bless yourself, little god. 

Yours truly,

Roger Poisson

An employee of the people and not a leader, but a voice for all people, the People's Political Power Party of Canada