The American Dream (animated short)

[neobeetle]

Run time: 29:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2oCXbW4r0   Posted on YouTube: January 02, 2011 By YouTube Member: 111newuser Views on YouTube: 51848   Posted on DU: January 04, 2011 By DU Member: neobeetle Views on DU: 1402

 

[wysimdnwyg]

1. Short? It's a half hour

That's not a "short".

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Certainly some truth in it.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

TRUTH!!!

[Capitalocracy]

4. Here's what's good and bad about this...

Good: It's true that the Fed is a terrible idea and is screwing us over like nobody's business.

Bad: This presents no solutions, and clearly advocates violent fantasies. OK, they're not actually robots and snakes. We need to find some other way to fight them than dressing up like Spartans.

And gold? What's so great about freaking gold? The price of gold is equally easy to manipulate as the value of the dollar, and in a population which will grow, fixing currency to a limited commodity creates false scarcity. Gold isn't the only thing that's worth anything, everything the economy produces and all the labor people do have value that can be represented by paper money. If it's tied to gold, then we're overthrowing our evil Fed overlords in favor of Goldline. How is this better?