Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 21. August 28 1978
The Social Credit Economic Cauldron
The Social Credit Economic Cauldron
Social Credit is often called the 'funny money' party. In fact, SC policy covers a much wider field than finance alone; a glance at their Manifesto shows that it stretches from industrial relations to parliamentary reform, from rating to road safety. The League has decked itself out with the full paraphernalia of a serious political party.
Nevertheless, financial reform is still the foundation of Social Credit politics. It is (as it were) the 'elixir' with which they would like to work their alchemy!
But whereas the alchemists of old attempted the modest task of turning stone into gold, the modern credit chemists aspire to the much more exalted ambition of conjuring gold out of thin air!