The Great Taking: "We’re Living Through The Greatest Transfer Of Wealth From The Middle Class To The Elites In History"

 

The latest Bēhance poster by our good ol' friend Damian Bennett is called The Great Taking and is based on the book of the same name that he has been reading.

To understand what it is about, and the dire danger that the author is warning about, THE GREAT TAKING by David Rogers Webb can be downloaded for free — as can Damian's poster above — through a link at the latter's Bēhance page. Here is what Damian has to say about the matter (and about the book):

Regardless of politics or party, financial circumstance or station in life, The Great Taking comes for us all. You might never know though, because The Great Taking is not under-reported, there is virtually NO reporting at all. 

There are a few Cassandras in the financial press that have been warning of corruption and systemic collapse for years.

• We’re Living Through The Greatest Transfer Of Wealth From The Middle Class To The Elites In History (Carol Roth, Newsweek) October 24, 2021
  When historians look back on the decisions made beginning in March 2020 and still going strong, this period will be remembered as the "Great Consolidation"—the acceleration of a historic wealth transfer and power concentration out of the hands of the middle class and into those with political power and connections.
• $2.5 Quadrillion* Disaster Waiting To Happen (Egon von Greyerz) November 2, 2022
  Credit has increased dramatically through derivatives. All instruments being issued now by banks, pension funds, stock funds, it’s all synthetic. There is no real underlying payments in anything almost. Therefore, my estimate for derivatives would be at least $2 quadrillion, and I think that is probably conservative. Then, we have debt on top of that of $300 trillion, and we also have a couple hundred trillion dollars of unfunded liabilities. So, we are talking about $2.5 quadrillion, and that’s with a global GDP of $80 trillion. So, there is a disaster waiting to happen, and especially because all this created money has created no value whatsoever.
  * 1 Quadrillion = 1,000 Trillions
• Household Debt Tops $17.5 Trillion And Americans Are Feeling The Strain (Mike Maharrey) February 8, 2024
  On top of borrowing on credit cards, Americans are pulling equity from their homes to make ends meet. Balances on home equity lines of credit (HELOC) increased by $11 billion in Q4. ... Americans haven’t just been borrowing using credit cards. Every debt category increased in the fourth quarter.
• How America’s Paper-money System And The Federal Reserve Plunder American Taxpayers(Jacob G. Hornberger, FFF) October 14, 2025
  By inflating the amount of money in circulation, the Fed reduces the value of money sitting in people’s savings accounts or that they receive in income. Their savings and income buy less than before simply because the federal government, through its inflationary policy, has debased the value of money.
• Will The Next Big Crash Lead To The Great Taking? (Christopher Talgo, Heartland Institute)February 2, 2026
  In 2002, Warren Buffet stated that “derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal. … We view them as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.”

Let's organize these interrelated problems (some of these I address here) as a cascade:

1. There is too much debt.
2. There is too much money.
3. Money is uncorrelated to wealth.
4. Money uncorrelated to wealth debases the currency.
5. Debasing the currency produces inflation.
6. Inflation produces stealth wealth from the middle class to the powerful. 

The eventual consequence of such bad fiscal stewardship will be catastrophic collapse. This 'collapse' will happen out of sight, as financial giants re-valorize worthless dollar valuations and divvy up the assets as what's owed them. You will wake up to the sun shining, the air sweet, everything pretty much as you left it at bedtime -- BUT YOU WILL LIKELY BE BROKE. Your investments, your house, your car, anything financed by debt, will be seized. THAT is the great taking. 

The intent of the taking is not wealth itself; the intent is wealth as power and with power, control. Decisions will be made for you by distant entities through powerless governments -- so, without one atom of your being having changed, you will be changed into a compliance slave. 

There is a general overview The Great Taking at Bēhance, but I strongly recommend watching the David Rogers Webb documentary linked there for a greater understanding of the history and theory -- and built-in theft expropriation -- of 'Security Entitlement' (Uniform Commercial Code §8-511.(a).(b).(c); click here for Wikipedia's no-worries gobbledygook or read the legalese itself here). 

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