I'm Australian. My country has a government controlled central bank, responsible for effectively printing money and setting our cash interest rate. Admittedly, my country is run by politicians, hence most of their time is spent making catty and spiteful observations about the other side of the house (government vs. opposition) instead of being competent, but it still seems to be a damn sight better than the good old US of A / UK.
I have seen, on you tube videos (Zeitgeist, Thrive, Esoteric Agenda, The Eye in the Triangle, Money Masters, etc ) that (apparently at least) the USA is funded by a private bank (the Federal Reserve) and all your income tax goes towards paying the interest that the fed charges on the money they loan to the government to distribute through the country. That the Revolutionary war you guys fought with the British was, at least in part, to rid the country of having to pay taxes to the Queen and jolly old England. That JP Morgan and co basically tricked congress into passing the fed reserve bill, that was signed off by Woodrow Wilson as President because the same bankers paid for his election campaign.
If that's true, and your founding fathers were more or less united in the condemnation of a private central bank... How come you guys are currently sitting on a "Fiscal Cliff"? What would be required to say to Mr Rothschild / Rockefeller / Morgan / etc "Thanks for all your good work, we're gonna print our own damn money now thanks, we don't need European bankers to do it for us".
I could ask this question anywhere on the internet, but I certainly wouldn't ask on Youtube. Or a conspiracy theory website. In the main there are a fair % of down to earth smart people here, so, what's the opinion?
P.S. The world financial system (ie. countries drowning in debt) affects everyone, even down here. Ripping shit outa the ground and throwing it on massive bulk carriers is how we make our living here. If the main countries are in the financial hole, then they don't wanna buy our shit any more after all. Hence why I care.
Edit: Don't mean to make it sound like I'm saying, "My country rules, yours sucks" because that's not it at all, I am frustrated as hell at my country lately, we are breeding out common sense and embracing the nanny state. I'm just wondering how come all 250 - 300 million of you haven't risen up and said enough is enough, spend income tax on this country and it's people, not this broken system.
I have seen, on you tube videos (Zeitgeist, Thrive, Esoteric Agenda, The Eye in the Triangle, Money Masters, etc ) that (apparently at least) the USA is funded by a private bank (the Federal Reserve) and all your income tax goes towards paying the interest that the fed charges on the money they loan to the government to distribute through the country. That the Revolutionary war you guys fought with the British was, at least in part, to rid the country of having to pay taxes to the Queen and jolly old England. That JP Morgan and co basically tricked congress into passing the fed reserve bill, that was signed off by Woodrow Wilson as President because the same bankers paid for his election campaign.
If that's true, and your founding fathers were more or less united in the condemnation of a private central bank... How come you guys are currently sitting on a "Fiscal Cliff"? What would be required to say to Mr Rothschild / Rockefeller / Morgan / etc "Thanks for all your good work, we're gonna print our own damn money now thanks, we don't need European bankers to do it for us".
I could ask this question anywhere on the internet, but I certainly wouldn't ask on Youtube. Or a conspiracy theory website. In the main there are a fair % of down to earth smart people here, so, what's the opinion?
P.S. The world financial system (ie. countries drowning in debt) affects everyone, even down here. Ripping shit outa the ground and throwing it on massive bulk carriers is how we make our living here. If the main countries are in the financial hole, then they don't wanna buy our shit any more after all. Hence why I care.
Edit: Don't mean to make it sound like I'm saying, "My country rules, yours sucks" because that's not it at all, I am frustrated as hell at my country lately, we are breeding out common sense and embracing the nanny state. I'm just wondering how come all 250 - 300 million of you haven't risen up and said enough is enough, spend income tax on this country and it's people, not this broken system.