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Kristoffer O said:
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I ask you, since the US Dollar is no longer tied to our nations precious metal reserves, what backs it? Economics of paper money, especially money that is quite literally just printed without any measure to its backing, is a recipe for disaster.
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Faith and psychology backs it. And if you don't want to pay taxes the faith in the dollar will decrease. A recipe for disaster 
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Within the past year, I've read an article by a German economist who basically said that unfounded faith in the US dollar is the only reason that the US dollar hasn't totally collapsed, and the main reason international bankers still invest in US dollars is that no one wants to take the financial loss that would come from being the first to admit how weak the US dollar really is.
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no one is investing in education because the powers behind the system want our children, and by extension the American population, to be stupid. Think about it, knowledge is power and if you have a well educated populous, then the chances are people are going to figure out how the game is being played and manipulated and then they will affect change. If you keep your population dumbed down, in debt, brain washed by cooperate owned entertainment and news organizations, and tied to working three jobs just to survive, they will never question the system and those running it. The American dream, yes that is an accurate statement because you have to be asleep to believe it.
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But you are right. It is better to know what you do and what you get. THat is why it is important to educate yourself, and that is why I find my job important (teacher in social sciences). [...] Just get rid of all that home-schooling and your country will prosper
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IMO, home schooling is one of the only things that offers hope for change. Like everything else, it's subject to Sturgeon's Law, but that other 10% is the main source of independent thinkers who haven't been brainwashed into supporting the status quo.