An Update on 'Bus Bond Bucks" and "Bus Bucks"

By John C. Turmel aka “John KingofthePaupers Turmel”

JCT: Bob Brown in Ward 4 has joined the team of Brantford municipal candidates who          support paying students with Bus Bucks to do community service. Bob's been a fan of 

community currencies for years and a miscue in communications resulted in his only being mentioned now. 

But the really big news is that Joshua Borenstein in Toronto Ward 30 not only supports Bus Bucks for Toronto but has garnered a coalition of 7 other ward candidates in support and     working toward finding more. 

TORONTO 
Ward 40: Josh Borenstein
Ward 1: Charan Hundal 
Ward 6: John Letonja
Ward 13: Istvan Tar
Ward 20: Mike Andreae 
Ward 27: Rob Wolvin 
Ward29: John Papadakis
Ward 31: Janet Sherbanowski

With 8 candidates who see the potential of Toronto community currencies, it should be 

easier to get the others to wise up. They can't stay stupid forever. And first come, first 
served, and deservedly so for being the fastest decider. 

BRANTFORD
Mayor: John Turmel
Ward 2: Jennifer MacDonald
Ward 4: Bob Brown 
Ward 5: David Swanson 

We'll keep working at finding a Bus Bucks supporter in wards 1 and 3. They can't stay dense forever. 

And Brantford Bus Bond Bucks will be usable in Toronto and Toronto Bus Bond Bucks will  be usable in Brantford. 

And now I start looking for Bus Bucks supporters among candidates in other Ontario towns. 

How about helping me and you out? If you live in Ontario, just ask your local candidates to   Youtube "Bus Bond Bucks" for the best explanation of how community currencies can 
help use including Timedollars for the sick and unemployed. And then support the one who wants to join our network of BBB-trading communities. We'll take theirs if they'll take ours.    After all, they're all based on the same 60 minutes of time in an Hour as the rest of us. 

And if you live outside Ontario, why not just ask your sitting councillors to see the video. No  need for people to get elected to get it installed when people who are elected may do it         easier. 

If that BBB video can go viral in Canada, then we all benefit who are running in Ontario. And if your town sets up Bus Bond Bucks in the process, how can you lose? 

So we have just over 10 days to see if we can capture the imagination of the Canadian         people. 

Heck, it works everywhere. Maybe it's time to send the video to towns in the US, England,    Australia, New Zealand. They can't stay stupid forever. The secret of DIY P2P money is now out. If I end up talking about BB Bucks on the national news or CNN, you can bet I'll get         elected in Brantford! 

Here's the Laurier U. Sputnik newspaper report: 

http://www.thesputnik.ca/meet-brantfords-mayoral-candidates

John Turmel
Candidate Turmel, a man sometimes known under the aliases of King of the Paupers,          Banking Systems Engineer, Great Canadian Gambler, and TajProfessor, wants to be Mayor of Brantford in order to restructure the community to run on an independent local currency     known as  "Brantford Bond Bucks" to adults, and "Bus Bucks" to students. In relation to 
students, Turmel's concept lies in the idea that youth would perform work tasks around the    city for bus tickets. Turmel cites Argentina's bank crash in the 1980s as his inspiration, as the country used bonds to pay citizens. 

Turmel promises to create a local timebank baby-sitting network. Alongside his degree in      Structural Engineering, Turmel holds the world record for the most election attempts, and is  known for his signature white hard-hat worn while campaigning. Turmel is particularly           notable for bringing his concept of "Brantford Bucks" to the television program Dragon's Den,and later launching a libel suit against the program. In regards to his plans for Laurier 
Brantford's students, Turmel told the Sputnik, "There could be a nasty winter coming up and gangs of students clearing driveways after the snow-plows pass may really be needed. 

I've written other ward candidates to ask if they would support paying students with Bus        Bucks credits at $12 Bus Bucks/hour . I hope we don't have to shovel out the snow-drifts in   our driveways this winter."

JCT: Well, let's hope either we in Brantford or they in Toronto can show the world how          paying kids on their Transit cards can work. 

Here's the latest flyer: 

VOTE FOR BUS/BOND/TIME BUCKS 

http://youtu.be/mlDpxWjncYM is the Turmel: 2014 Brantford Mayor Bus-Bucks Bond-Bucks & DIY P2P Money Expositor interview video explaining in depth: 

BUS BUCKS 
http://www.johnturmel.com/busbucks has the videos from the 2010 Brantford mayoral       election where dozens of youth including the mayor's son Connor Friel offered to work for 12 Bus Bucks an hour on their Brantford B-Cards worth 6 bus tickets. In 2011, Hong Kong         Octopus Bus credits were used to pay students. It works. Their students do. Card-readers     used on buses could be adapted for use in recreational centers. 

"Elderly Man Dies Shovelling Snow" was a Hamilton headline. Do we wait until it's a            Brantford headline too? Having a useful function in the community and some spare spending money could reduce youth suicides too. 

BOND BUCKS
Youtube "Argentine Solution." In 2001, Argentine banks shut down. Rather than be laid off,  unions were paid in small-denomination provincial bonds anyone could use to pay HTML: 
Hydro, Taxes, Medical, Licenses. 

By 2006, all foreign debt was paid off. During the 1990s Russian bank crash, 750 States andMunicipalities paid employees with Bond Rubles! City workers who leave the city's cash in   the bank by taking Bond Bucks may receive a 10% premium for saving the city the interest.  The more local they spend, the more they get.  

With a Brantford Timebank account, you'll be able to afford: public transit, community centers, part of your taxes. 

FLUORIDE 
World's most prestigious medical journal The Lancet Neurology, March 2014 Volume 13,       Issue 3 just said: "Since 2006, epidemiological studies have documented additional              developmental neurotoxicants.. fluoride" We will ban fluoride neurotoxin from Brantford's     water with free tooth-brushes for those worried about cavities. 

John Turmel for Mayor
Jennifer MacDonald for Ward 2: [email protected] 
David Swanson for Ward 5:  [email protected] 


UNILETS TIMEDOLLARS 

A LETS (Local Employment-Trading Software) Timebank provides a Directory of members' Goods & Services Offered & Wanted ("Wish List"). If I double-duty baby-sit your kids with     mine and you later double-duty baby-sit mine, we pay each other with 1-Hour notes owed     validated by our online ID. Everyone starts at zero. 

In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with IOUs for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hoursof volunteer time valued at 60 TimeFrancs in France, 6 TimePounds in UK, 20 TimeMarks 
in Germany, 10US and 12CA Timedollars. Outside trading is accounted with HOURS.          Skilled trades and professions may command more Hours/hour and charge part-Cash to       cover their cash costs while taking their profit in part-Timedollars. 

PAPER LETS TIMEDOLLARS
"Argentina Creditos" http://youtu.be/EO79TevS5Jc details 7 million Argentines who joined thousands of barter clubs using paper time creditos to trade when they couldn't get any        money during their bank crash. 

Julio Archet: "Unlike the IMF, we don't lend you 100 and say pay back 150. We say we'll        lend you 100 and then you pay back 100 in goods and services to the network." 

Like huge yard sales, people could drive a car-load of their goods to one location and use     their paper "creditos" to trade. Companies paid people in product who went to barter 
fairs to trade. 

UNILETS Timebank works the same except everyone runs our own online account for large transactions and uses our own Facebook or Website ID on our own Timedollar IOU notes for small transactions.

Instructions for DIY P2P MONEY are posted at: http://www.johnturmel.com/unilets

I O U v I THANK U 
A Timedollar can be used for Hours owed or Hours of  Community Service. I do nursing        home accordion concerts. Volunteers for Salvation Army, Humane Society, St. John's 
Ambulance should publish their useful time served like I do. Just document them proudly likeI did. Make up your own civic job cleaning a park, your nearest, with your friends. 

VALIDATE WISH LIST 
Once you've printed your Timedollars and prepared your Wish List, post a selfie with your     announcement at UNILETS Brantford Facebook Group and your FB Info (About) page. 
Your FB IDed P2P DIY Timedollars are now good at Timebanks, around the world to accept.Or not. Just ask. I did, everyone said yes. So post your past hours and start getting Thank U notes from now on. Any Disabled or Elderly person can witness your service to them. 

Minuteman printer will print up your T$8700 for $2. 

For snow removal network contact David Swanson. 
For the baby-sitting network, contact Jennifer MacDonald. 

John C. "The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel, KingofthePaupers, Great Canadian
Gambler, TajProfessor, Author of the UNILETS interest-free time-based currency
United Nations Millennium Declaration C6 in the
http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm See http://johnturmel.com