Eau,baby.

In my Media Literacy class, we watched this “fun” little film. It’s an adorably animated description of what’s happening in America’s banking system, and how our currency is produced. It’s very informative, and well…

It’s fucked.

I highly suggest you watch it, but if not here is a brief description of what it’s about:

Banks lend you money, other people’s money. When everyone else asks for money, they give them your money. When they don’t have money to give you, they just have the Federal Reserve make more money. That’s not good right? That makes every dollar less valuable than the one before it.

But it’s okay, our government knows what it’s doing, they won’t dig us into too deep of a hole. After all, it’s the Federal Reserve, our government runs it, and we’ve been a prosperous country since we’ve gotten our independence. 

But the government doesn’t run the Federal Reserve. It’s a private institution. That’s right, the Federal Reserve is a Private institution. 

WHY THE FUCK DOES A PRIVATE INSTITUTION CONTROL OUR MONEY?!

Why did this happen? At what point, did we make a decision that it was okay for a private institution to control literally all of our currency? Where in history has humankind proven itself credible enough to control the financial situations of so many people without there being any form of corruption? With the countless amount of philosophers who have concluded that humans are naturally self-interested, how does it make sense to have all of our money controlled by so few? I guess the main question i’m asking is…

WHY THE FUCK DOES A PRIVATE INSTITUTION CONTROL OUR MONEY?!

The fact that americans expect to have a strong economy, when it’s run on such a fragile system is ridiculous. We need to fix this situation pronto, and the first step is being informed.  As G.I. Joe says: Knowledge is have the battle. Also, if the G.I. Joe was still relevant today, I’m sure he would say…

WHY THE FUCK DOES A PRIVATE INSTITUTION CONTROL OUR MONEY?!