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In Debt We Trust

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Note: replaced video Sept. 6, 2012

Aug 26, 2012 by

1:29:19 – 1 year ago

IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, “The News Dissector,” director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media’s role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer’s new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt.

It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls “Financialization”–the “powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex.” While many Americans may be “maxing out” on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands…..with frightening consequences.

IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America’s dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China.

In America’s earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation.

see

The Historical Roots of the Economic Crisis – The Cure: Monetary Reform by Richard C. Cook

Exclusive: The student loan racketeering industry needs to be investigated!

from the archives:

Money as Debt 2 – Promises Unleashed (full video)

Money As Debt (video) + “In Debt We Have Trusted,” For over 300 years By Jim Kirwan

The Ascent of Money (2008) (must-see)

Modern Money Mechanics Federal Reserve