Social Credit policy
Sir, — I wish to take issue with the writer of Monday’s editorial article when he comments about the vague platform of Social Credit. Is it. anv vaguer than what is bandied about as “Man’s rights,” words reflecting ideas, which many groups are frantically clamouring for. In my opinion rights are what persons may grant to others, reluctantly or otherwise. I contend the
simple needs of human beings are vitally more important, whether they are acknowledged or not. Unfortunately it is more often not. If "a Social Credit claim states that money is simply and merely a medium of exchange, why is it vague? Many in this present age appear to look on money as a commodity and figures copied again and again are of great value, or considered so. — Yours, etc., F. H. ENGELBRECHT. Oxford,
February 21, 1978. We agree that money is a medium of exchange. This standard definition is not exclusively a Social Credit view of money and it does little to illuminate Social Credit theory. — Editor.
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