The Banking Cartel

The Federal Reserve system was created by bankers, for bankers. It’s purpose  was to cartelize banks under it’s yoke and eliminate competition to provide for complete control over the country and it’s people.

Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws. — Mayer Rothschild

The Fed is a bank. A privately owned bank. It is not a government entity. It is in fact above the government. How? It is the government’s lender. When the government wants money, it asks the Fed. It prints up treasury bonds and the Fed buys them from reserves which are limitless. Thus money is created for the government and it is then disseminated through the economy.

The catch is, bonds have to be re-payed. Our government is in debt to the Fed. Because of laws preventing private mints and competing currencies, the Fed is the sole source of money in our country. Because all existing money was brought about by the Fed, all existing money is actually owed to the Fed in one way or another. Either via bank loans by member banks or the national debt of the government.

If the American people ever allow the banks to control issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. — Thomas Jefferson

As Jefferson foresaw, the transfer of wealth that derives from a central bank manipulating the money supply and creating booms and busts to further it’s member’s own ends will eventually render a country worthless and under the chains of tyranny. What’s scary is that no one will fire a shot.

The Concept of a Degree

Why are we so obsessed with the concept of a degree? We care not about the substance or the place where it was obtained, simply the degree. Any job ad in the paper that has a collegiate requirement simply asks for A degree. Nothing specific. I personally knew something was wrong with our society when i, as a student, went to one of my teachers wondering “what the hell am i spending this money on?”

His reply was “Get a degree, it doesn’t matter what. Just get it.”

So was the same with every teacher i asked. As i delved further into the ordeal i found that almost every one of my teachers had a degree in something other than what they were teaching!

This is curious, some would say it is evidence of a varied and well-rounded educational system. I say it exposes the true flaw in collegiate education. The obsession with a degree. At least conceptually.

There are thousands upon thousands of different specialized degrees available to a student leaving high school; arguably the most traumatizing experience they will suffer. It is quickly followed up by choosing a degree and a school, equally ridiculous.

College is a formative time, when you should be exploring your world and the world around you. Looking inward as well as out, learning about life in general in the context of refining your knowledge of your interests towards a common denominator.

Unfortunately you are undeniable restrained, pushed, shoved and otherwise coerced into following the strict guidelines of a path that is predetermined the day you enter.

You are, however, not restricted by choice or possibility or opportunity, but by the concept of a degree. Of a piece of paper that not only says you finished college but you did it in without exploring an ounce of the ocean outside it’s tiny island.

Thus people, who are otherwise smart and easily capable of doing nearly anything in life are restricted to a set career path. They are disqualified to pursue a trade not because of the quality of their work or intelligence but by a piece of paper that explains their life before it was known.

But this is an impossible system. In a free society there can be no such barriers. Despite the lettering on the certificate people are qualified for work by the quality of their work.

And the more specialized the degrees get, the more they shut out opportunity, the more we are going to see people with medical degrees working in engineering firms and teachers of philosophy lecturing on economics.

Eventually people will come to realize consciously that it is the means, not the end. By then however we will live in a world run by people who cheated to get their political science degree because they believed in the concept of a degree, not of education.