HomeThe reason rich is getting richer is because of usury. The banks create money out of thin air when we borrow. "We" includes the US government. Then banks demand interest for this money that does not exist! When we buy a home with 1 million dollar mortgage, bank does not give us the money. Bank gives us the promise to pay. This promise is our bank account. All bank accounts are promises to pay.
When we write a check, we transfer this promise to the seller. The seller takes the check back to the bank. Thus the bank does not put a dime of it's own money into this transaction but somehow owns the house until the buyer pays the debt back with interest.
Now this interest demand creates an impossible situation. Let me explain. Almost ALL of our money supply is borrowed from the banks like this. It has principal + interest to pay. Principal exists (somewhat) because it is the money supply. But interest portion is not even created yet. Thus it is very hard for the entire population to find a job that pays enough money to make it possible to earn and pay back the interest portion. Thus, the weakest borrowers are guaranteed to go bankrupt!
Various fixes have been suggested to change this monetary system. Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and JFK all had tried one way or another to fix. Some of them got killed. Jesus, who turned the tables of money lenders in the temple, was also killed.
This is a money machine for the bankers. Imagine, entire population is paying interest for money that was created by the private bankers. The original American solution (the real reason why we fought the revolutionary war) is that the government should be able to print it's own money and declare it to be legal tender without having to borrow. Most of our tax is spent on interest payments. Imagine if we did not have to pay that!
The government can actually print the money, spend it as public services. Borrowers can borrow from the government (non-profit government banks?) and pay back with interest. But to make it possible for borrowers to earn it, government can print the interest portion and spend it ahead of time into the economy. This would fix the threat of deflation. And the public would not go into debt. Money supply would still be flexible enough to accommodate growth. Inflation would be avoided by destroying the interest paid by the borrowers (remember that the government would have already spent equal amount into the economy by then).
Web of Debt by Ellen Brown is a good book on this topic:
http://www.kondratieffwavecycle.com/web-of-debt/
In the old days, usury was considered to be any "interest". But people got away by re-defining it to be excessive interest. So, were old Christians did not know what usury meant, and we are suddenly enlightened to know that usury means "excessive interest"?
Today Islam prohibits interest. Iran is involved in Islamic banking. If their example succeeds, it will be a threat to the western bankers. Thus, through the use of scary Nuke story, the world is asked to apply economic sanctions on Iran. This is to strain their economy and the banking system.
So, if you want to "change" the system, this is what you are going up against. Almost entire world is the slave of bankers, because they do not claim their own right to print their own money and pay no-one for it.