Incredible: Single Payer way more popular than ObamaRomneyCare.

[woo me with science]

133. +100000 Well said and worth its own OP

as a broader topic, I think.

It's like something a James Bond villain would devise, isn't it, or a feudal lord: Insert yourself between the people producing something and the people who need it, and rake in the money only because you have the power to insert yourself there.

This middleman tactic of sucking profit from work/services/value generated by others is worth making explicit wherever it happens, because we are trained not to question the status quo or examine it too closely.

And the biggest example of all, the elephant in the room that nobody ever notices, is the Federal Reserve system itself, which almost nobody understands because it is generally not taught in school

Almost nobody realizes that America does not print its own money directly, but rather relies on the private Federal Reserve banks for every dollar that goes into circulation. Almost nobody realizes that every dollar that is put into circulation is issued as debt, with interest.

Almost nobody realizes that every time the one percent push a war, they will make billions not just because they own the defense contracting companies and weapons manufacturers...but because they own the banks that issue the loans, at interest, that the government needs in order to pay for a war. Almost nobody understands that the banks have an interest in pushing policy that will sink our nation in debt, because they profit from every transaction. And almost nobody understands that we could change all that in an instant by printing our money directly and taking out the middleman.

But that doesn't happen, because the middlemen have tremendous power and have inserted themselves there.

I wonder how many other places in this economic system we could see the same scam at work...money funneled to the leisure class simply because they have the power to insert themselves between what is needed and the people who need it...if we decided to open our eyes as a nation.