>Dragan, I understand the political essay. But where is the victim of the government action to which I suppose you are objecting rather than the "whole system" in a country to which you chose to emigrate? And what system do you have in mind (with real-life examples please) that works better for society? Should you offer such an example, do the currently proposed changes (with Senate compromises) bring things closer to or further away from the presumed ideal?

The world has obviously desperate and clutching the thinnest straws, if it's waiting for me to offer a solution :).

And it's not the government action, it's actually the government paid to not do its job. And a toothless one, because it doesn't hold the string of the purse. It doesn't own its own money - its only influence over the banking system is once in every dozen years or less, when it appoints one guy to be the chairman of The Fed... for whom nobody voted, and over whom then they have no control. While in almost any other country I know the national bank is likewise independent of the government once its governor is appointed, these are national banks, founded and owned by those countries. National bank equals treasury equals government's purse. Here, The Fed is a conglomerate of who knows how many banks - mostly private or on the stock market, the largest among them foreign or just transnational. You can imagine how I trust them to have the interests of any people close to heart.

The first and simplest solution, to start with, is shock therapy. It worked a couple of times in Israel, Serbia, Argentina, and a few other countries, so why not here. Bring back the greenbacks. The buck should stop on Capitol Hill, as it did before 1913. The funny fiat money of today is a weapon of mass theft and should be abolished. It should be replaced with solid greenbacks in the amount that citizens have on hand, or the amount of wealth that corporations have publicly stated on their tax forms, let's trust them that those numbers were right.

And that should come from the whole Congress. Last time there was a president who wanted to do that, they never found the man with the umbrella to ask him whether he saw anyone on the knoll.