GUEST OPINION: By Allen Holm
People really don’t understand anything about how money is created, yet it is so very simple. I was amazed at the magic myself until I finally understood it. Fully one half of every transaction in almost everything we do involves money, and yet I had no idea where it originated or how it is worth anything. The most amazing thing is, we don’t even care. Millions of people make their living dealing with money every day and most of them don’t even know why money is money. It is truly amazing. Sigmund Freud suggested that there is a psychological connection between money and feces; he said we grew up thinking shit was valuable. (In fact they used to call outhouses “vaults”) Maybe that is why we guard such smelly truth, and don’t even want to discuss it.
Right now our money system is so benignly fraudulent that we call anyone who criticizes it a “conspiracy theorist”. Amazing, because Ron Paul is right on, and he is considered crazy. If he could have his way, everyone would be better off. Even those who think he is “insane”, even the bankers. The only place that money gets into society is through a bank, and every time a bank issues money, they demand it back with interest. Why is it strange to think that cannot work forever? Maybe it is because it has worked for so long, even though it really hasn’t. Why is it strange to think that whoever controls the bank, eventually owns or controls whatever else they want? Using bribery, donating to campaigns, paying news editors, running the education system, and intimidating or even killing someone who threatens them? What a cash cow. What would you do if you had this power, would you rather be president of the United States?
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