Right Scott, and the global money system is a racket too as the bank monopoly issues all money as interest-bearing debt, a form of slavery. The system extracts wealth from those who create it causing the price of goods and services to be on average 50% interest on the money it took at every step of the way to bring it to market. World debt is at $305 trillion while there is only 82.5 trillion in the world money supply, controlled mostly by the power elite. Then this massive accumulation of money is used to control governments public policy to maximize their own profits. Money is power and is thus the governing factor. This is why it must be a democratic power, not a private one. Time to Change the Money. Join us in Chicago on May 18th at the FED. monetaryalliance.org