Reply #17: Sorry to burst your bubble....

[liberation]

But unlike whatever the libertarias would like to have you believe, the "gold standard" was a crook of shit too.

Banking by its definition relies on investment, and it has always created usury and money out of thin air. It was true in the 1600 when the first banks got started, as it is today. And the gold standard did diddly squat when speculation went out of hand in the late 20s.

The gold standard is another side issue, that does not address the overall problem. Fiat money, paper money, or gold backed money... for the most part is an illusion that transfers control from the people generating wealth, the workers, to the people who print the money.

It is time for people realizing that Capitalism has run its course, and start a new phase in our collective human evolution. Deciding how printed money should be banked is not the issue, in as much as it is akin to a drug addict deciding that his or her problems are not due to the drug itself but the quality of the drug.

I am not a religious guy, but at least that Jesus feller gave us a hint: The only people he got physical with were the usurers at the temple, i.e. the bankers. If the son of god, the prince of peace, loses his cool with that bunch of people... you know that there is something going on there.

Alas, it has been 2000 years since that, and we are even more controlled by the bankers. So as Jesus would say now a days if he was to return back: "You stupid fuckers...."