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When you take the stupid political shit out of the equation, the USA is doing well. The news media has become nothing but click and rage bait. And people eat it up.
That’s the thing. The USA is doing fine. The dollar is the world’s currency. The USA is the worlds police. If the USA fails we all go down. If the USA’s military stops militarying we all go down. Global trade stops. The Western world’s functioning, largely depends on the USA doing well.
It’s a large portion of the USA’s population that isn’t doing well. Which for a country as rich and powerful as the USA shouldn’t be a thing. But, that’s a feature not a bug. See, if they keep us hungry, and desperate then they save money on social services and have cheap labor and soldiers.
Back when Obamacare was being figured out. Some top military official said that if we gave free healthcare to all Americans no one would join the military. I can’t find it anywhere now. But, it was all over the news when it happened.
Poor people get healthcare already. In fact, anybody who goes to the hospital will get treated. Regardless of income.
Anyways, the ones keeping people poor are the bankers.
If you’re lucky enough to live close to a charity hospital you get normal healthcare. Otherwise you have to rely on the emergency room. Which only gets you help if you’re dying.
If you aren’t dying, but it’s bad they’ll send you to a specialist. That specialist will charge you basically a co-pay to see them. Here it’s $60.
But I wasn’t just talking about healthcare. Homelessness, drug addiction treatment (which should be healthcare but in America is separate), food help, mental health.
The bankers only have the power they do because they’ve paid for the US government.
The federal reserve is a private bank that controls the money in the USA. The money is also not backed by anything any longer. Banks are allowed to loan 90% more money than they have in assets. They keep people in debt to control them.
I’m very well aware what the federal reserve is, and what it does. But, previous to the federal reserve banks printed their own money. The further from that bank you got the less that dollar was worth because it became a huge pain in the ass for a bank to transfer the required assets from far away.
So, if I had a dollar printed in Birmingham, Al. Then I caught a train to California, but not that far was required. That dollar was damn near worthless. Because the bank in California would have to have the bank in Al to send them a dollar worth of “assets”. It was ludicrous.
I agree that the federal reserve is A problem. It is one of many problems. But to blame the federal reserve for the problems plaguing the poor is incredibly narrow minded, and a weird hill to die on. After all we have enough money to spend on tons of other things that certainly seem superfluous. The “federal reserve” hasn’t eaten the money for those projects. From a multi-trillion dollar war on terror to giving out millions to people for ppp loans for farms that don’t exist.
So, keep on with this federal reserve nonsense. Yes the fed sucks, but it wasn’t really better before they came along. Just different. While we still have money to spend. We just “choose” to spend it not helping poor Americans, because that doesn’t play into our narrative of “if you work hard enough you can be whatever you want to be”.
Might I recommend a good book on the matter.
The creature from Jekyll Island.
I’m not here to argue or convince you of anything. Have a good day
