For Medium, Joe Brewer claims that the “’mental disease’ of late-stage capitalism is shame, the devastating feeling that we failed ourselves in the Land of Opportunity.”
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“…the financial system is morally corrupt.”
“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 them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered…. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” Thomas Jefferson
It’s a shame our recent Federal Reserve chairmen / women didn’t bother to “In God We Trust,” while managing our monetary system. But Thomas Jefferson pointed out the problem, and solution, long ago.
