Draining the Swamp
by Harvey F. Barnard
1996, Allodial Publishing; 2005, The NESARA Institute
Written by Darrell Anderson.
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Draining the Swamp was written by my best friend, Dr. Harvey Barnard. For several years I received this fine man’s personal mentorship and through his patient scholarship, learned his new theory of money. Although he and I wrangled and disagreed about the specific means of accomplishing meaningful monetary and fiscal reform, we always agreed on the end result — an honest exchange system. We both agreed that meaningful social reform was impossible without including meaningful monetary reform.
For more than 30 years Harvey studied currency, banking, economics, taxes, law, philosophy, history, sociology, and politics using the analytical principles of systems theory. Dr. Barnard never worked in academia, instead working in the real world as an employee and corporate officer in heavy industry in technical and engineering fields as a systems troubleshooter, educator, and consultant.
I helped him revise, edit, and proofread the second edition of his book.
In his book Harvey evaluated some common monetary theory fallacies and introduced his new theory of money. He also examined several elements of the American socio-political system and how Americans partially got into the current mess. He introduced his legislative proposal and provided a detailed explanation of how his proposal would operate. Appendices include an explanation of his new equations for secured loans made on a fractional reserve basis that eliminates the socially destructive nature of compound interest, an indexed Constitution, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Harvey’s lifetime goal was to provide an engineered, socially equitable, and politically doable legislative proposal to provide monetary and fiscal policy reform. He emphasized the politically doable aspect because he believed that the only way the typical person on the street would embrace a paradigm shift in monetary theory was through existing social and political system processes. Although he pursued his solution from an intellectual perspective, he felt the pain of a people and nation and desperately wanted to publicize a remedy for that pain.
Harvey believed that his proposal would double the standard of living within one generation. Additionally, he believed that after people once again experienced and tasted ownership of the products of their own labor that remedies for other social conflicts would be more easily attained.
After years of trying to introduce his proposal through traditional political processes, he decided to post his ideas to the world wide web and hope for grass roots support.
If you support the idea of a limited constitutional political system, then this book is for you.
Harvey died peacefully in his sleep on May 18, 2005, from complications of congesitve heart failure. He was 63 years of age. Much like Will Rogers, Harvey seldom met a person he didn’t like. He was one of those rare individuals who genuinely enjoyed people. Harvey’s natural intelligence and congeniality provided a rare combination of talents that helped him befriend many people. He was a true southern gentleman and scholar in every sense of the idea and is missed by many people.
His death leaves a hole in my life that cannot be filled. I miss you dearly my friend.
Finis.