Americans need to educate themselves before our leaders lead us into oblivion. How long will it take for the masses in America to realize that the Federal reserve is neither Federal nor reserved. Though it has the word federal in its name, the Federal Reserve is a group of privately owned banks that print the U.S. dollar with absolutely NOTHING backing it's value up. In other words, since America went off the gold standard under Nixon in 1971, the dollar has had no intrinsic value other than that applied through military force. It's not complicated as so many faux American leaders have claimed about the most pressing issues of the day. It's simple and I will prove it in this next example.
Say, you're playing the game Monopoly by Hasbro. In the game, there are the players, one of which is the banker. The banker passes out the money to each player. Each player starts out with the same amount of money which affords each player the same opportunity to win the game. There is a certain amount of chance or luck that either helps or hurts a player, but this luck works equally for or against each player. The bulk of a player's success however comes from that player's skill and tolerance for risk. Again, every player has the opportunity to take on more risk to achieve higher rewards or less risk to avoid greater failures. What would happen to the game however if the player who is also acting as the banker took the money from a second third or fourth Monopoly game (basically printing it from thin air) and loaned it to the initially game? So, this extra money is introduced into the game with 40 percent of debt already attached to it. Say the player(s) accepting this new money borrows one hundred dollars. That actually only gets $60 dollars free and clear while the remaining $40 dollars is created as debt. This player only gets $60 dollars but owes the bank $40 dollars, basically for no reason at all. If I could loan someone one hundred dollars but only have to give them $60 and get one hundred in return, I would be rich, which is exactly what those who own the Federal Reserve banks are. So, the TLDR version is that the banker gives any player who asks $60 dollars with the expectation that the player will repay the banker $100 dollars. In this scenario, the banker makes $40 dollars for practically doing nothing. And, if you think the banker is running the risk of the player getting the loan defaulting, remember the player in this scenario is the government of the United States of America. And, instead of actually handing over san actual $60 dollars, the Federal Reserve only provides the loan as digits on a computer. They basically just say they've given the government $60 and the government owes them $100 dollars. Ultimately, that $100 dollars is paid back through our taxes and foreign investments, because the U.S. government does nothing to generate income other than through taxation and bonds sold to foreign investors.
As for the reserve aspect of the Federal Reserve, how reserved can an entity be when it creates five trillion dollars of debt out of thin air during a Pandemic and distributed most of it to the wealthy?
Now, as to the title of this post
"Who's dumber? Stupid leaders or those who follow them?"
While I do believe those leading America's interests today are stupid as us evidenced in this clip. I hold no delusions that most of our leaders know exactly what they are doing and are aware of the extent to which their policies and actions harm the people of this nation and the nation itself. That said, I am of the belief that these same people are not as smart as they think they are. In my opinion, they are about as smart as the rulers who watched the French Revolution in realtime. And, like the French monarchs, America's self-appointed royalty will eventually have to face the music. Eventually, Americans and people from countries that have been graced (disgraced) by any attention given them by the American Empire will question their leadership and the results it has garnered. When people realize that American leadership has racked up more dead bodies than all of the terrorist organizations it claims to fight, people are going to angry. When everyone comes to understand that much of the poverty, starvation and displacement we see today is due to American leadership choosing who gets money and who gets shafted, they will be in the mood for revenge. The biggest question on many Americans minds will be what would be the appropriate punishment befitting leaders who have killed millions abroad, while ignoring millions at home. And, when the dust settles, Americans will wonder how stupid it was of these elites to think their malevolence would never go noticed. This they will ponder just before they wonder how stupid it was for them to allow such bad acts to occur for so long.
In 2018, I wrote a book highlighting the problems Humanity would face if more power, wealth, and control was funneled to a small group of elite individuals, groups, or organizations. In my book, I provided solutions (from myself and others) to the inevitable problems and also a means for the Public to analyze, compare, and contrast the words and deeds of those we choose to follow against reality. In my book Solutions: Enough complaining. Let's fix America.
In "Solutions...", I provide the means for readers to disseminate information as provided by their news sources of choice, their elected officials, and any other authority they choose to follow. The book also offers a means to hold their leaders up, not just to a higher standard than is currently accepted but to one that would improve their lives and the lives of those for whom they care.
