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The AMERICAN DREAM is a new 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day? THE AMERICAN DREAM takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.
I have been trying to tell the folks here at CD about the unFederal Reserve. Many of them know about it, and are just ho-hum. A few are outraged, as I am. Then there's that group that just refuses to believe it. They think I'm wearing a tin-foil hat.
Until the sheeple of this country realize that paper dollars created out of thin air is NOT money, it's "currency", and that if you want to know what "money" is, it's gold and silver -- well, then we'll have something to build on. We had gold and silver money in this country, both less than a hundred years ago. Our grandparents and parents (the older ones) will remember this quite well. It's not a crazy, far-fetched idea. The unFederal Reserve is just depending on a few new generations of people who have no such memories, to continue its con.
Soon, the unFederal Reserve will be just a memory...
There have been things that, according to the conventional wisdom, have always been called the American Dream, but in fact, for most people turn out to be The American Nightmare. Several that stand out are 1) owning your own business, and 2) owning your own home, 3) buying a new car.
I watched this yesterday and it was good, but now the owners of the film have removed the video so disregard this thread if you have not already viewed the film.
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What is the problem with "play" money so long as everybody agrees it has value and represents some form of wealth? I can still buy gasoline, groceries and electricity with my Federal Reserve Notes or with just electronic records stored somewhere. If I desire I can buy real silver and gold coins or blocks of metal any time I want.
I realize that the recent housing bubble was fueled by a fervent desire by the banking industry to make certain everyone had a mortgage. They created laws that increased their customer base so they could lend more. They were making some very ill informed lending decisions but have somehow avoided owning their own losses.
The problem is less about the form of the currency but with the speculative gambling the holders of that currency are so fond indulging.
I also believe “the Great American Dream” was slowly strangled when previously less than desirable people, primarily blacks and Hispanics, started to realize the dream by moving to the white suburbs. The Dream was supposed to be for proper White folks. Off shoring of much of our industry with the loss of opportunity for an increasingly non white workforce may be at least partially assigned to this ingrained racism. Although I am ashamed of this behavior I will not deny it happened.
The American Dream is what you make it.
Some set very high goals and took on a lot of debt to try to achieve it; many of those are hurting now.
Others lived within/below their budgets and are content with what they have; these folks made their dream come true.
"Champagne taste on a beer budget" eventually catches up to you.
Ah, so what you meant was that if your predictions of massive inflation come, and wages/returns don't have a similar increase, then the many who actually have achieved the American dream will suddenly not have it any more. Totally different statement.
I've never watched Glenn Beck in my life, and if he makes me sound as irrational as you do I won't start.
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