“Washington Doesn’t Make Money. It Takes It, and Borrows the Rest.” Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)
“You cannot buy or sell unless you have the mark.” — Revelation 13:17
We all know that couple: the ones driving luxury cars, wearing designer clothes, sending their kids to private school, yet with zero savings. They live paycheck to paycheck, chasing appearances and keeping up with the Joneses.
On the surface, they look successful. But one job loss, one medical bill, one unexpected expense, and the whole illusion collapses. Their lives depend on debt disguised as prosperity.
That’s the same illusion our nation runs on.
We’ve been trained to measure success by cash flow, not real value. Bigger homes, newer cars, endless upgrades. The illusion of wealth has replaced the reality of stability.
Enter the United States government, the most expensive role model in history. It doesn’t earn money. It extracts it. It doesn’t produce wealth; it doesn’t balance a checkbook or a budget. Yes, it borrows against the future of those who do.
Between income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and the hidden tax called inflation, average Americans are allowed to keep maybe ten cents on the dollar for themselves. The rest feeds a machine that calls itself “freedom” while quietly enslaving those who fund it.
The modern American economy is an elaborate illusion of prosperity. It’s a tick that feeds on its own people, fattens itself on debt, and calls the cycle “growth.”
The government borrows from tomorrow to pay for today, then blames you when the bills come due and raises your taxes to cover its own overspending. It’s the national version of that neighbor living on credit cards and posting “#blessed” from a financed vacation.
When interest rates rise, Washington panics because the debt bubble starts to shake. The interest payments alone now rival defense spending. So, what do they do? Borrow more. Print more. Increase taxes. And spend more. The fix for addiction is always another dose.
Remember 2008? Lenders encouraged people to borrow; borrow, borrow, borrow. Money was cheap. “Leverage your home,” they advised. “Buy that boat, buy that RV.” Then interest rates climbed, real estate values dropped, and foreclosures swept the nation like a plague.
And when it hit the fan, did the government bail you out, or the banks?
Exactly.
They bailed out the banks. The same ones that engineered the mess, sold the poison, and called it prosperity. They handed the bill to you, the taxpayer, the very people they betrayed, then patted themselves on the back for “saving the economy.”
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” — Matthew 6:19–21
The Great Dollar Diet
In 1997 there were about $475 billion in U.S. currency in circulation. Today there are around $2.4 trillion, a 400% increase. Real estate prices rose about the same. Did your paycheck go up 400%? That’s not growth. That’s dilution, or what they call inflation. That’s imprisonment, a trap.
The experts tell us inflation happens because “consumers spend too much.” Tell me, did you start buying way too many eggs suddenly?
Nonsense.
Inflation is created in the printing press, not the checkout line.
When the government prints what it doesn’t earn, your savings quietly shrink. Your cost of living triples. The same people who created the problem then congratulate themselves for “price stability.” After a trip to the grocery store, my paycheck doesn’t feel very stable or secure.
The Federal Reserve prints when it wants. Congress spends what it wants. Wall Street cheers. You pay what they require to sustain their lavish lifestyle.
From Gold to Oil: Birth of the Petrodollar
Before 1971, the U.S. dollar was tied to gold. There was restraint. Then President Nixon cut the tie. Suddenly, the dollar was backed by nothing, only faith in the government that issued it.
In 1974, Washington made a deal with Saudi Arabia. Oil, the blood of civilization, would be sold only in U.S. dollars. In return, America would provide protection.
The result was simple. Every nation on earth now needed dollars to buy oil. To live, they had to hold, trade, and borrow, in the currency of one nation.
The dollar became the oxygen of global trade. The United States could print limitless money, run endless deficits, and export inflation to the rest of the world, all while claiming to be the hero of free markets.
Under gold, money represented value. Under oil, it represents dependence.
The Religious Mirror
Long before money was weaponized, faith was. Rome mastered the art of spiritual control centuries before Washington mastered the art of economic control.
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” — Matthew 7:15
Rome fulfilled that prophecy. It changed God’s times and laws, and the world followed, by force when necessary. The Church claimed authority to alter the calendar of heaven, and the people bowed to tradition instead of truth.
Rome controlled salvation through fear. America controls survival through finance. Together, they form the full image of Revelation’s prophecy, spiritual deception fused with financial domination.
Ignorance Is Bliss
Most people are too comfortable to care. Too distracted to notice. Too tired to question. They’d rather be entertained by sermons than transformed by Scripture. They’d rather buy a new car on credit than drive an old one paid in full.
They trust the system because they enjoy the luxuries; questioning it requires effort. They blame inflation on producers and shop owners instead of central bankers. They cling to comfort and call it freedom.
The Bible calls it deception. Washington calls it democracy.
Dependency as Dominion
This is not capitalism. It’s captivity. It rewards debt, punishes saving, and taxes freedom.
But when the printing stops, so does the illusion.
Which is why governments and central bankers fear BRICS. And why they fear leaders like President Trump, who dare to challenge global dependency through tariffs that eased the strain on taxpayers. If they lose control of you, and of the world, their power disappears.
The Call
Pick up the Bible, not a sermon, not a podcast, not a filtered quote. Read what God actually said. Start with Exodus 20. See which commandments the world quietly removed. Because the same system that taxes your labor and controls your speech also wants your worship.
“You have sown much and harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.” — Haggai 1:6–7
Maybe the American dream didn’t die.
Maybe it was sold out from under the people, one printed dollar at a time.
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