We deserve what we ask for.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
--Thomas Jefferson

At least some people were aware of the problem when banks have the run of the government (or at least the money of a country).

In the US, the Fed controls the interest rates used between banks. And for some time, they've kept the interest rates very low especially after 9/11. All this caused the housing bubble until 2005 and, for now, the commodities bubble. And we're going through the housing deflation (which I believe will last at least 10 years) and I'm sure the commodities will be next along with the stock market (I'm short with most of my investments). Fortunately in America, we won't have to worry too much about homelessness since most people today have too large home so taking in relatives and friends shouldn't be any problem during the coming long recession/depression ahead.

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Enslaving the people: government and banks

The video "America Freedom to Fascism" is a great video which explains the farce of American freedom, especially when it comes to money, from taxes to Federal Reserve, as well as how government is reaching into our private lives like RFID to track us.

I love how Honorable Dr. Ron Paul points that today, we need permission to do anything: be it open business, own land, drive cars, or even own guns. They can now spy on us by peaking into our phone call records, medical records, library book checkout records, listen to our phone calls, read our emails and snail mail.

Our legal freedom is being legislated way one law at a time. Meanwhile we have bonded ourselves to the banks through loans ("The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." Proverbs 22:7), which means that we have given up financial freedom. We are also mentally conditioned to follow (be enslaved by) leaders (teachers, employers, politicians, etc.) and the boob tube (actually, various forms of entertainment). Spirituality is much the same: follow the leaders or else! (Women might find comfort in such an environment but freedom is given up when formal structures are put in place.)

So, what freedom is left?

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