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(Sold)

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(Sold)

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(For Sale)

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(Bank like family!)

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(Loan)

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(Pile signs loan contract)

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[Dog barks]

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[Brakes screech]

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[Off voice] The American Dream.

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There's a reason to call it a dream.

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[cock cries]
[Man] Who's there?

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[Off voice] Cockadoodledo, Pile!

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[knocking]
(Foreclosed)

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[Pile] No, no, no, no no!

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I don't have any more money!

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My job sucks right now, please!

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I'll have more money next month!

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(Bank)

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You can't take my house!

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[Banker] Is that your signature?
(Loan contract signed Pile)

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[Dog whines]

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[Pile] OK, just tell me we'll work something out, OK?

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I mean you said I'm a good credit guy, right?

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Hey, wait! My dog is in there!

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No, don't take my Dream!
[He weeps]

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Oh, how did this happen?

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[Explosion and flare noise]

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(OUTATIME)

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Hartman? Is that you?

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[Hartman] It's been a long time since the fourth grade.

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(4th Grade)

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[Pile] Is that a time machine?

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[Hartman] There's no need to concern yourself with my astounding accomplishments.

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Just get in. There's not much time.

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[Pile] Well, I got to go down to the bank to get my life back.

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They took everything!

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[Hartman] Oh! Bank ain't gonna help you now.

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Towel in the trunk.

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It's a set of balls. Put them on, you're going to need them.

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[Pile] You're going to get my dream back?

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[Hartman] No, pal: you are. I'm here to show you how.

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(E=mc squared)

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(Winter of 2006)

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[Hartman] Submitted for your approval:
1. First National Bank.

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What is a bank, you ask?

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A curious place where both space, time and irony exist -

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- and yet, don't.

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[Pile] Are you going to be doing that the whole time?

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[Hartman] Pay attention, Pile.

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Exhibit A: those who have come to deposit and safely store their earned monies.

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Exhibit B: Those who need to borrow said money for purposes unknown.

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[Pile] Hey, that's me!
(Not so prime)

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[Hartman] Ergo.

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Exhibit C: The bank only has so much money in the vault to lend out to people such as you.

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[Pile] Hey! Hey, that's the guy! He took my house!

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[Hartman] Really screwing my vibe here, Pile.

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Space-time continuum: he can't hear you. Just let me narrate.

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Now where was I?

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So you see, by the time he got to you, Pile, his bank was out of money.

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[Pile] But he gave me lots of money and charged me a lot of interest.

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[Hartman] Yes: that's the only way banks make money,

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by making debt loans: debt equals money, Pile.
(DEBT=MONEY)

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Remember that: debt equals money.

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The more loans they make, the more money they make.

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[Pile] But if they don't have any money, then where did my money come from?

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[Hartman] You're going to want to take a step back.
(FED)

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(FED)

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[Pile] Whoa! No way!

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[Hartman] Yes way. And that's nothing.

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[Banker] Hey, buddy! Need some money?

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(BUM)

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[Pile, offscreen] They didn't do that!?

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[Hartman] Oh, they did exactly that, pal.

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Remember: banks make money by making loans, by selling debt, even to -

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bad credit risks.

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[Banker] Yo! Have some money, dude!

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Just sign here.

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[Pile] Oh my gosh!

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[Hartman] Mmm! They called it free money.

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[Pile] Yeah! That's exactly what MY loan guy told me: free money!
(Loan contract signed Pile)

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[Hartman] But it ain't free!

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The worst part was offering money to people who don't even need it.
(We own your ass!)

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People, Pal, like you.
(New Home Magazine - New Bank Offers)

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[Van honks]
(Bank like family!)

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[Pile] You're right! I didn't need him: I was happy here.

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I didn't need it!
(New Home Magazine - New Bank Offers)

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(Bank Like Family)

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[Pile] Why is he sad? He's making all that money.

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[Hartman] Shh. He's thinking.

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[Clock ticking]

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[Hartman] Now wait for it, now wait for it...

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Bingo!

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See, the bank has loaned to everyone in town.

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But to make more money they have to loan even more.

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[Pile] More? How much money do they need?

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[Hartman] More...

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[Pile yells] What's that?

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[Hartman] Behold! A black horse riding: credit cards.

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(Refinance your home!!!)

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[Pile] Wow! Look! I mean it's going to be okay, everything is going to be okay.

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What now?

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[Hartman] Now? Pile, with all this money, we might as well party.

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[Music plays...]

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[Pile] Woahao, this is awesome! I needed to get my head clear.

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When I get back I'm going to straighten all this out.

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I just hope Dream is doing okay.

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[Howling]

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[Barking]

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[Male witch] I'm going to get you, my pretty.

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[Pile] Yup, he is. I'm sure he is.

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[Burps]

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[Hartman] Yeah, you put it on his tab. A little something for yourself.

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Wait.

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[Pile] You know, wait a second Hartman, I just thought of something.

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If I got this money from the bank

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and the bank got this money from the Federal Reserve dump trucks

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[Hartman] Go on.

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[Pile] Then, where does the Federal Reserve get their money?

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[Glass breaks]

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[Hartman] Real nice time ladies, real nice.

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Excuse me while I borrow these.
[Women screech]

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[Pile] Say, Hartman. Why am I wearing a burglar bikini top?

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[Hartman] Because no one is allowed inside the Fed.

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Not you, nor me, no American citizen,

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no duly elected member of our Congress,

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not the Supreme Court

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[Pile] Not the Supreme Court?

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[Hartman] Not the Supreme Court.

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Not the Justice Department, not the CIA, the DIA, FBI, ATF, ATENBC

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not even G-O-D.

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[Knocking]

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[Pile] How come the government isn't allowed inside its own building?

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[Hartman] Government? Pile, the Fed is a private bank, owned by private stockholders,

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do NOT let the name "federal" fool you.

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This place is about as federal as Federal Express.

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[Pile] A-a-a private bank?

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But, private?

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[Hartman, quietly] Shh.

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Best to keep your voice down Pile.

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[Phone ringing]

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[Ethan] This is Ethan, Federal Reserve.

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[Bill] Hey Eth, Bill here, First National.

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[Ethan] Hi there Bill, how are ya?

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[Bill] Good, good, we're running a little low on money.

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[Ethan] No problem. How much do you need?

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[Bill] Oh, how does 20 million sound?

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[Pile, loudly] What?

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[Slaps]

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[Ethan] Excellent. We'll ship it over first thing tomorrow.

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[Pile] Wait, he can just call up the Fed and ask for more money

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and they give him whatever they want?

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[Hartman] No, Pile. The Fed don't give the banks money.

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The Fed loans the banks money.

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[Slams]

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[Hartman] The banks have to pay it back with interest.

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Come on, ...

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[Pile] Wait wait wait wait, I still don't understand.

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Where does the Fed get their money? I mean if they're a private bank.

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You said they were a private bank, right?

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Okay, so who puts money into the Fed bank?

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(US MINT)

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[Phone ringing]

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[Mal] This is Mal, United States Mint.

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[Ethan] Hiya Mal, First National needs another 20 millies.

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[Mal] We're already running the press at full steam here Ethan.

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[Ethan] Gotta keep making loans, gotta keep the money flowing.

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[Mal] All right, you're the Fed. Whatever you guys say.

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Twenty million more, by morning!

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[Horn blowing]

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[Pile] But I don't get it, what's so wrong about the Fed printing money?

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[Hartman] Because it's unconstitutional, Pile!

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Our Treasury is supposed to create our money

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but now the Fed controls the printing of Americas money.

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Nobody gets a friggin' dollar that the Fed didn't print.

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[Pile] So?

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[Hartman] They print the money, then they loan it to the government

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then they charge the government interest,

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then the government taxes you to pay for it.

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Wake up Pile!

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[Pile] I don't see what the big deal is.

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[Hartman] You know, you're right Pile.

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[Pile] Wait a minute, wait, I am?

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[Hartman] Yeah, I forget how effective they are at keeping you ignorant.

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[Pile] Well that's okay -

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Hey! I'm not ignorant!

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[Hartman] Do you even know what money is, Pile?

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[10th Century]

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[Pies]

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[Hartman] In the long, long ago, people bartered:

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they traded things they had, for things they wanted.

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I'll trade you my raspberries for that there pot pie.

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[Pile] I don't want your berries.

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[Hartman] Come on, Pile, they're sweet berries.

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[Pile] They're not sweet, they're old, and I don't like berries.

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[Hartman] Give me that pot pie!

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[Pile] No.

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[Hartman] As you can see, this bartering situation created some problems.

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Then one day, a goldsmith walked up and said,

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"Now, everybody thinks gold is valuable,

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so why doesn't everyone trade gold for things they need?"

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[Cheering]

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The price was set for gold and now it was very easy to conduct commerce

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because now people could trade gold for all the things they needed.

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[Pile] Hartman! Wow, look at all my gold!

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[Robber snickers evilly]

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[Pile] Hey! Hey, stop them! That's my gold!

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[Hartman] Damn thieves.

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[Ethan] Say there, Pile

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I've got a vault and some guards.

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I can keep your gold safe for you.

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For a small fee.

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[Pile] Yeah, sure, that'd be awesome.

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[Hartman] You see Pile, this is how the first bank made money.

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[Ethan] There you go Pile, I.O.U 100 gold coins.

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[Pile] Okay, great!

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[Ethan] Come back anytime and redeem your gold when you want it.

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It will be right here-

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in my vault.

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[Hartman] Now you're holding the very first paper money Pile.

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[Pile] Wow, this is great. It all makes sense.

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[Hartman] Oh, that's right, it was good,

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and everybody started using "I.O.U"

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because everybody knew the I.O.U was as good as gold.

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(Chocolate $1)

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[Pile] Wow, this candy is really a good price.

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1 I.O.U, I'm getting some more for later.

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(Chocolate $10)

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Wait a minute, it was just 1 I.O.U.

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10 I.O.U's for chocolate?

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He can't just raise prices like that!

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[Hartman] Oh, the candyman can.

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[Music plays]

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[Hartman] ♪Oh, the candyman can!♪

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[Pile] Wait, that is just freakin' wrong!

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(Water 20)

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(Water 200)
[Hartman] It's called inflation Pile.

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It makes your I.O.U's worth less and less

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until they are worth nothing.

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Less bang for the buck, dollar ain't what it used to be.

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[Pile] But I worked hard and made all those pot pies.

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Now I have to work harder to make less?

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That's not fair.

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[Hartman] Oh, if you think that's not fair

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you're gonna love the next part.

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[Pile] Oh, what's he doing?
(Chart - Gold | I.O.U.S)

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[Hartman] How do banks make money, Pile?

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[Pile] Errh, by making more loans?

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[Hartman] Oh, that's right! He's good.

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See, he prints more IOUs without any more gold,

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loans them out for interest, makes a pretty penny - and nobody is the wiser,

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unless -

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- everybody wanted their gold back at the same time.

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[Pile] No no no no no no, that's my gold!

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[Hartman] Not -

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anymore.

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[Pile] What are you talking about?

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[Hartman] I'd like to redeem my IOUs, please.

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Thank you very much.

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(Out to lunch)
[Pile] Hey!

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[Crowd shouting]
[Pile] I want my gold back now!

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[Man] Thief! Thief! 
[Hartman] Battle of the bank run. Bringing people together.

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See, they all found out he was stealing,

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made a run on the bank and demanded their gold.

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But as as you can see, there ain't no gold to get.

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[Pile] Hartman!

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[Hartman] Don't worry about it. Back in these times,

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vengeance will be yours.

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Three things in this world you don't do:

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Never mess with another man's woman.

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Never mess with another man's ego.

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And, most importantly, you never mess with another man's money.

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Else, man, we'll mess with you.

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[Pile] My God! You hung him?

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[Hartman] Yes, Pile. Oh, we hung him, we hung him high.

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And do you know why?

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[Pile] Well, because he was a thief?

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[Hartman] Because, Pile, an evil invention was born

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Man discovered how to turn worthless paper into gold.

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Thus was invented the ultimate machine to steal real money

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and enslave all the nations on earth.

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[bang and growling]

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[Financier] It's alive!

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[Pile] Oh now, come on! You're just being dramatic.

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I mean, I lost my house, but...

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[Hartman] What is that? Explain.

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[Pile] A nuclear power plant?

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[Hartman] Mmm. Produces lots of electricity and little pollution.

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An invention for the good of humanity.

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[Pile] OK, but what does this have to do with...
[watch ticking]

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[Hartman] Three, two,

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[Explosion]

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[Pile] Holy...!
[Hartman] Atomic energy.

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A discovery more powerful than anything man had yet conceived.

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It can be used for good

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or evil.

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Now, unlike Einstein, the goldsmith's discovery has been kept a closely guarded secret.

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(Fractional Reserve Banking - Reserve | Loans)
It was never intended for you to see.

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(Depositor)
This discovery is called Fractional Reserve Banking.

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(Borrower)
In the wrong hands, it's more powerful than the nuclear bomb

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in its ability to completely and utterly destroy a nation who is subjected to its perversion.

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[Pile] No - no no no no no.

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[Hartman] It is time we stop this evil secret and the men behind it ...

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[Pile] You're being ridiculous!
[Hartman] ... before America is destroyed forever.

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Believe it, Pile!

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[Pile] No no no no no! I just want my dog back.

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[Hartman] Damn it! That's it. I give up.

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Let them live in chains.

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[Tinkling]

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[18th c. ghost] No, Hartman!

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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

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[Pile] Thomas Jefferson?

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[Hartman] Mr President, how do I get him to understand?

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[Jefferson's ghost] As we did, son, remain vigilant.

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Too many have hidden the truth and the light of our liberty dims with every passing day.

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[Tinkling]
Quickly, take my horse! Show him! 
[Tinkling]

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[Pile] Wait. Show me what? Where are we going?

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[Horse whinnies]

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[Hartman] Away, Stallion of Liberty! Ride hard the hoary wind!

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[Pile] Oh, where are we?

00:14:46.815 --> 00:14:49.823
[Hartman] Battle of Waterloo. Hold on! We gotta get through!

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A money machine. There it is!

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[Pile] Hey, is that the same people?

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[Hartman] Rich banker men from Germany flying under the banner of the Red Shield.

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They financed both sides of the war. We must hurry.

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That's him, the Red Shield courier. Shoot him!

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[Pile] No. I'm not shooting anyone.

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[Hartman] Dammit, Pile. 
[Pile] What?

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[Hatrman] He beat everyone back with the news of the war

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and told England that Napoleon won.

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The Red Shield bankers of London pretended that England was doomed

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and started selling their English stocks.

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The English went into a selling frenzy to get rid of worthless English money.

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[Pile] But, the English won, right?

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[Hartman] Of course they won.

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But it was a trick by Red Shield.
(London Stock Exchange)

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They waited until the stocks plummeted to pennies and then bought England back for nearly nothing.

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[Pile] What? They did that? How?

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[Hartman] When the English leaders found out,

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they had no choice but to give themselves over to the Red Shield.

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Their money was gone and they were slaves to the Red Shield war debt.

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Since that time the English have been paying their national taxes

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directly to the Red Shield private bankers.

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The people have no idea.

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But the bankers bragged about what they did to us,

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laughing at us all the way to the bank. 
{Buckingham Palace)

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[Nathan Rothschild] Why, it's the best pistes (?) I've ever done.

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If I can control a nation's wealth I cannot make its laws.

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[Pile] Oh, is this what Jefferson wanted to show me?

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[Hartman] No, Pile. Look.

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[Pile] They're in America too?

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[Hartman] The Red Shield banks are here, Pile, seeking a way to conquer our American Dream.

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The dream you had, Pile. The dream of free men.

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They tried to take over our country many times

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and failed because Jefferson and the patriots vowed to stop the evil tyrants at all costs.

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[Kiss - tinkling]

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[Hartman] By authority of eternal God he would not let the bankers win here.

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[Jefferson] To preserve our independence we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

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We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.

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(Thomas Jefferson actually said this...)
[Pile] Wow!

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[Jefferson] I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues,

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and public debt is the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.

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(Banking) 
[Banker] We must have a central bank to secure this country's finances!

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[Jefferson] If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money,

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(Yes. He actually said this.)
first by inflation and then by deflation,

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the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property

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until their children will wake up homeless on the very continent their fathers conquered.

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[Banker] Jefferson, you're mad! This country will have a central bank.

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[shouts]

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[Pile] Who's that? 
[Hartman] America's first Secretary of Treasury.

00:17:48.632 --> 00:17:51.669
[Pile] Alexander Hamilton. 
[Hartman] Not for long.

00:17:51.669 --> 00:17:55.135
Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson's Vice President.

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They didn't take too kindly to our first Sec[retary of] Treasury.
[Gun shots]

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[Off voice] Sweet shot, Burr.
[musical note]

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[Hartman] The first attempt at a central bank only lasted 20 years and was shut down.

00:18:06.745 --> 00:18:11.525
But the bankers tried again against "Old Hickory", President Andrew Jackson.

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[Jackson] You are a den of vipers and thieves.

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I intend to rout you out and by the eternal God I will rout you out.

00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:28.479
[Hartman] After surviving an assassination attempt, Jackson finally defeated the bank in 1836.

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When asked what was the greatest accomplishment in his life, Old Hickory replied:

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[Jackson] I killed the bank.

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And those were his last words: "I killed the bank."

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And, with real money backed with real gold,

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our country experienced the greatest boom in any nation's history.

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Oh, it was beautiful, Pile.

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But the bankers, greedy for more power and wealth, were concocting their most ambitious plan yet:

00:18:57.126 --> 00:19:01.639
to once and for all take control of the finances of the United States.

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In 1910, a secret meeting was held in the J.P. Morgan estate on Jekyll Island of the coast of Georgia.

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This meeting was so secret, so concealed from government and public knowledge,

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that the 10 attendees used code names.

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(J.P. Morgan
code name: Hula Girl)

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[Morgan - clears his throat] I am clearly the richest man, so I should be the one to run the super secret central bank.

00:19:25.527 --> 00:19:26.165
(J.D. Rockefeller
code name: Lube Job)

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[Rockefeller] I own all the oil in America. I'm clearly richer than you will ever be Hula Girl.

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I should run the super secret central bank.

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[Morgan] You're nothing compared to me, Lube Job.

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I shall run the secret bank.

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[Boom!]
[Off voice] Silence!

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[Morgan] Supreme Master Leader, I didn't know you were gonna be here.

00:19:43.928 --> 00:19:44.657
(Supreme Master leader
(name withheld for scary security reasons))

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[Supreme Master Leader] I'm not. Neither are you, dumb ass.

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[Rockefeller] Oh yeah, right, right.

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[Morgan] He's so smart! [thunk]

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[SML] None of you shall run the bank.

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We have failed in the past because of openness. This time the key to success is secrecy.

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The people must believe that they run the bank.

00:20:04.885 --> 00:20:09.873
[Morgan] Yes, brilliant! A sneak attack. What's the plan? [thunk]

00:20:09.873 --> 00:20:13.546
[SML] We first create panic, then we show them the solution.

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With our man in office and well-planned timing, we will have our central bank.

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And so the people think it is theirs.

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We shall christen it Federal, the Federal Reserve.
[general laughter]

00:20:28.590 --> 00:20:35.295
[Thunderclap]
[Hartman] ["Jingle Bells" tune] They struck on December 23rd, 1913,

00:20:35.295 --> 00:20:37.969
when most of our Congress were at home eating fruit cake,

00:20:37.969 --> 00:20:41.927
these bastards - I mean bankers - presented their treasonous act

00:20:41.927 --> 00:20:45.131
to their newly elected accomplice Woodrow Wilson,

00:20:45.131 --> 00:20:48.067
who had fortuitously already agreed to sign it
(Federal Reserve Act - The 10th Amendment to the Constitusion of the United States - I.R.S)

00:20:48.067 --> 00:20:50.043
before he was even elected.

00:20:50.043 --> 00:20:54.734
[Pile] Wait. The IRS? I thought we always had the IRS.

00:20:54.734 --> 00:20:59.065
[Hartman] No, Pile. They did this to us too.

00:20:59.065 --> 00:21:04.057
The Fed now has the exclusive power to print America's money.

00:21:04.057 --> 00:21:08.283
They loan this money to our banks and our government at interest,

00:21:08.283 --> 00:21:10.786
putting immediate debt on our own money,

00:21:10.786 --> 00:21:17.396
printing more and more so each dollar they print becomes worth less than the one before.

00:21:17.396 --> 00:21:24.500
[Bang]
[Hartman] Merry Christmas.

00:21:24.500 --> 00:21:27.217
(IRS)
[screeching, mechanical noises]

00:21:27.217 --> 00:21:29.208
[Pile] What in the hell is that?

00:21:29.639 --> 00:21:34.125
[Hartman] That, Pile, is how our government now must pay back these debts to the Fed.

00:21:34.125 --> 00:21:37.522
Your taxes did not go to your government.

00:21:37.522 --> 00:21:38.545
[Pile] They don't?

00:21:38.545 --> 00:21:41.992
[Hartman] Hmm. It's the greatest theft in human history.

00:21:41.992 --> 00:21:45.663
[Pile] But... Okay. I mean, I sorta get what you're saying,

00:21:45.663 --> 00:21:50.447
but it's also confusing and really Hartman, I don't see how it affects me at all.

00:21:50.447 --> 00:21:52.300
If I had more money, none of this would have happened.

00:21:52.792 --> 00:21:57.921
Hartman?
[Car door clanks - engine revs up - cash register clinking]

00:21:58.989 --> 00:22:01.656
[Pile] 1955! Wow, what are we doing here?

00:22:01.656 --> 00:22:03.402
[Hartman] Oh, a little bit of shopping.

00:22:03.402 --> 00:22:06.882
Here, hold this. Gallon of gas: 23 cents.

00:22:06.882 --> 00:22:09.299
Postage stamp: 3 cents.

00:22:09.299 --> 00:22:12.006
Ounce of gold: 35 dollars.

00:22:12.006 --> 00:22:14.692
Hot baby: priceless.

00:22:14.692 --> 00:22:17.089
Best be getting back.
[Flying noise]

00:22:17.089 --> 00:22:19.160
[Boy] Hey, Hartman! I need my car, man!

00:22:19.802 --> 00:22:21.700
[Pile] Oh, was that Michael J?

00:22:21.700 --> 00:22:23.030
[Hartman] Yeah, he'll be fine.

00:22:23.030 --> 00:22:26.177
[Cash register clanking]
(For Sale $20,000 -> $400,000)

00:22:26.177 --> 00:22:27.461
(Gas - Everything Must Go!!!)
[Hartman] Now Pile,

00:22:27.461 --> 00:22:31.351
would you agree that you have the same exact things you had in 1955?

00:22:31.351 --> 00:22:35.725
[Pile] Yeah: one stamp, one gallon of gas, one ounce of gold and one home.

00:22:37.758 --> 00:22:40.979
Wow, we just made a lot of money.

00:22:40.979 --> 00:22:42.402
[IRS men] Grab grab grab grab grab.

00:22:42.402 --> 00:22:44.477
[Pile] Hey!
[IRS starts noisily]

00:22:44.742 --> 00:22:48.940
[Hartman] Gotta pay your taxes. Then it's nice to have made all that money.

00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:54.775
[Pile] Wait, that isn't fair! Now I actually have less money. I can't even go buy the things I just sold.

00:22:54.775 --> 00:22:58.933
[Hartman] The IRS and the Fed's inflation work together, Pile.

00:22:58.933 --> 00:23:02.643
They aren't just taxing gain, they are taxing their inflation.

00:23:02.643 --> 00:23:06.124
You are no richer than you were in 1955.

00:23:06.124 --> 00:23:08.752
Now, does that sound fair or American to you?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] Yeah, but I mean, who doesn't hate taxes? I hate the IRS anyway.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] Pile, the higher they make the inflation, the more of your money they take.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It's thievery. You're not paying taxes on any more,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
you are paying taxes on the same and now you have less.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
They take our property away right in front of our eyes just like Thomas Jefferson said they would.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] What's that?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] They found us! Quick, my sword!

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] What sword?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] We don't need your banking machine! I condemn you to die, dammit!

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Die! Pile, Bernanke bogie on my nine! Take him at his knees!

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[John Fitzgerald Kennedy] For we are opposed around the world

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
for expanding its sphere of influence.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] What's happening? Where am I?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] I believe perhaps you understand now, Pile. But you are afraid.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] JFK. Hartman, what does this have to do with my house and my dog?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Okay, that's enough. I want to go home now.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] This is the last president to stand up to the Fed.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You must see.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
On June 4, 1963, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
This executive order empowered the U.S. Treasury to issue real money without the Fed.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It would have worked.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Kennedy's plan to dismantle the Federal Reserve machine had begun.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But six months later, John F. Kennedy went to Dallas and never returned.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] No way. No way they can do that.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] The new president, Lyndon Johnson, threw out Kennedy's order.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
And since JFK, no president has dared confront the secret powers behind the Federal Reserve.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
They consolidate bigger and bigger banks, print more and more money, accountable to no one,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
decimating our nation's wealth for the benefit of a few.
(For Sale - Sorry we're closed)

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] Why? Why do this? If they hurt us it hurts the global bankers too.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] No, Pile, they are protected! They are too big to fail.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] But I'm not. Those sons of bitches!

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] Mmm, sons of bitches all.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Wind blowing]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman(?)] The day was cold, the wind sharp and strong, but we were determined.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
The bankers and their parasites had us vastly outnumbered, but their hubris made them weak.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Not like us, not like this band of immortals we have assembled.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
We have come to take back our... 
(If lost call Hartman)

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] Hartman, is that...?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman] My dog.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Pile] Oh, sh...

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Hartman?] Then the inevitable. The money kings could ignore us no longer.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
They sent an emissary, a cog in the machine of greed, to bring about our submission:

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Hank Paulson.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Paulson (?)] Hartman, this is blasphemy. We own the corners of the earth. It is futile to challenge us.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Oh, I've seen that look before, that of a predator taking in the scent of its prey:

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
bold, fearless, the look of a free man.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Paulson (?)]You have come far, Hartman, farther than most.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Be smart now; join us. We will bring you money, power, everything you want.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You can be one of us if you will kneel.

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[Woman singing wordlessly...]

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[Paulson] Madman! You're a madman! We're offering you everything!

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What do you think this is?

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[Hartman] This...is...America!

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(The End)

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(He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
Ben Franklin)

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(Written and directed by Tad Lumkind and Harold Uhl)

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(Produced by Tad Lumpkin)

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(Executive producer John Stagliano)

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(Animation services by Six Point Harness)

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(Sound design Onnalee Blank)

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(Music by Tom Hiel}

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(Starring Jess Harnell)

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(DC Doughus (?))

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(??????)

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(The Provocateur Network Presents)

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(The American Dream)

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(www.theamericandreamfilm.com)