Dear Bob Barr,
Knowing WHY the Fed is doing things - Bear Stearns, etc - is a powerful weapon IF you can figure it out. If you are smart enough to tell me what a children's cartoon means, maybe you are smart enough to be my President.
Following the 1981 Gold Stabilization crisis, the Federal Reserve of Boston published a comic book called "Wishes and Rainbows." In 2007 this was republished as "The Road to Roota" with a teacher’s guide in 2007. The comic is a cryptic and, at first, a confusing allegory. Here is my challenge
1) Go here to read it at the bottom right of this page of the Boston Fed
2) Tell me your thoughts and post your comments below.
3) Reply however you like, but here are some questions to consider as you read:
If the story is an allegory, what is the World of No Color?
Who are the Pebblepeople?
What do the Color Flowers represent?
What is the Golden Sunlight?
What do the Black Tears look like?
Where could Boulder Ridge and Gopher Junction be in our world today?
No luck Bob? Still too vague? Stymied by a cartoon? Well I was at first too. OK, before you ask Ron Paul, I will even give you a few hints but you will still need to think.
The first hint here is from 1967, written during the Vietnam War while you were aged 19, which just happened to be the average age of the "American fighting man" (figure you would like that phrase as you used it on your presidential website under Issues>National Defense) in that war. Did you answer my earlier question about why you not in that war? I’m just curious. As I recall, you voted for the Iraq war.
Here is the second hint. See page 18/20 and 20/317 on these links. Notice the year these articles were published at the Hewlett Packard… Museum.
Well this is the second time I’ve posted this puzzle at the Nolan Chart and haven’t had any solid shots taken at the solution. If any Reader gives a Thumbs Up (no, I can’t doublecheck if you do or not) and shoot me an email, or leave your email below, I will send you a solution. And it’s pretty shocking. By the way, the solution isn’t mine, but since one of my pursuits is involves getting paid to solve math problems and I have been getting paid for quite a few years now, I can say the darn hypothesis makes Common Sense. Trust me this idea makes so much sense it may alter everything you think you know about the dollar, which came from thaler, which was a division of gold.
Anyways, this column is a pursuit where I don’t get paid a single cent. Bob, does that make any sense? Peace.
Jake, the Champion of the Constitution
P.S. Dear Bob, I still have one shot at you left in me, keep going, you are almost done!
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Dear Bob Barr, Ron Paul Knows where the "Road to Roota" Leads, Do You? (PART 5/6)
Published: June 6, 2008
Bob Barr, relax for a bit and read a lovely Federal Reserve state-sponsored comic book for schoolchildren. Then tell me what it means.
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Reader Comments:
Posted By: George Dance
Date: 2008-06-07 00:01:12
"The Road to Roota" -- sounds like a promotional brochure for a gated community of Wayne Allyn Root supporters. Not that I imagine that many Root supporters; however, I can imagine Root raising the funds to get Roota built.
Posted By: JacobRutland
Date: 2008-06-10 05:26:08
Jake,
You have me hooked, I 'Scroogled' the term 'Roota' and have found some interesting website content, however, I'm still stuck on the solution that you mention above,
e-mail provided, through this 'Leave A Comment' and would like to hear from you further on the solution.
JacobRutland
Posted By: JacobRutland
Date: 2008-06-19 09:50:34
If the story is an allegory, what is the World of No Color? - The Dollar System
Who are the Pebblepeople? American Public, So Pebbleton would be, USA.
What do the Color Flowers represent? Gold backed dollars
What is the Golden Sunlight? Gold
What do the Black Tears look like? Oil
Where could Boulder Ridge and Gopher Junction be in our world today? Mexico and Canada
Much more insight could be driven further, mayby someone else has taken the challenge to research. "Is there anybody outthere"
Jacobrutland
Posted By: Jake, the champion of the constitution
Date: 2008-06-25 10:17:57
Dear Jacob -
Sorry, I've been on vacation contemplating my navel for a bunch of weeks now and havent had time to check back (warning, same thing next week). Good guesses, but I have no email to send you a reply. Best bet is to send a link to my email either here or find the link under my article listings [Reach the Author Here!]
Posted By: Nickalis Tower
Date: 2008-08-08 14:36:48
If the story is an allegory, what is the World of No Color? - America before the New Deal Era
Who are the Pebblepeople? The 'Commoners' in America; the working classes and the poor.
What do the Color Flowers represent? Free money in the form of social security.
What is the Golden Sunlight? Promises made by the Government.
What do the Black Tears look like? Blood of those taxed to provide the social security payments.
Where could Boulder Ridge and Gopher Junction be in our world today? One represents the world of the free market capitalists that turned into 'political capitalists' who now use government regulations and corporate welfare schemes to keep above the competition, and the other represents the poor that turned into the 'welfare class', who choose not to work, who have been bought off by the welfare bribes, and who live in the 'projects' created by the welfare statists.
Posted By: ed
Date: 2009-06-22 14:29:51
If the story is an allegory, what is the World of No Color? The world before the current banking system. The age of the Gold Standard
Who are the Pebblepeople? Traditoinal bankers- bankers during the old gold standard that bought in to the Federal Reserve Banking system. They all wanted a piece of the action.
What do the Color Flowers represent? Color flowers are todays paper money that circulates from bank to bank that people believe has real value.
What is the Golden Sunlight? The golden sunlight is the system in which the money is currently created, through FED trades of T-bills/bonds, etc.
What do the Black Tears look like? The black tears look like oil. But they represent deposits or reserve funds that banks maintain in order to grow more paper notes, or flowers in this case.
Where could Boulder Ridge and Gopher Junction be in our world today?....only missing piece of the puzzle.
Posted By: Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
Date: 2009-06-22 14:37:38
Dear ed -
Thanks for the interesting reply!! Perhaps you are correct!
Jake
Posted By: Nitin Dadar
Date: 2009-10-09 12:14:36
great article.. very insightful.. I am shocked at how Greenspan contradicts himself..
Thumbs Up!
ndadar@ryerson.ca
thanks