You bring up a good point zuluX, about money running the world, this is definitely true. This whole current crisis has been started by businesses who wanted an excuse to outsource and lay off (IMHO). Very few companies are honorable (like Busse) and will try to keep the work force local to where they sell their products, thus not ruining their main customers for a quick profit.
Charging interest on a loan was illegal almost everywhere until 1694, and is considered a sin in the bible.
From "
http://www.larryhannigan.com/EarthPlus.htm" (Everyone should read the entire story, its a dumbed down version of how money as we know them came about):
The Bank of England began in 1694. King William of Orange was in financial difficulties as a result of a war with France. The Goldsmiths "lent him" 1.2 million pounds (a staggering amount in those days) with certain conditions:
1. The interest rate was to be 8%. It must be remembered that Magna Carta stated that the charging or collecting of interest was a serious crime.
2. The King was to grant the goldsmiths a charter for the bank which gave them the right to issue or create credit out of nothing. Prior to this, their operations of issuing receipts for more money than they held in deposits was totally illegal. The charter made it legal.
The only real democracy is a direct democracy where the entire population is informed of subjects and everyone gets to vote on everything. The closest thing I know of is Switzerland.
