To:              Lucifer and my miserable readers

From:          Dracma, Overlord of Babylon

Subject:       Money!  Money!  Money!

Illustrious Master and miserable readers,

I have gone by many names over the years.  I have been known as “Mammon” – the god of money and now just by Dracma – that wonderful Greek currency that goes way back.  But money has always been my game because as the good “Book” says, “the love of money is the root of all evil.”  Even I must admit – that’s a pretty good saying.  People need money to live but the more they get the more they want and some just fall in love with it and can’t get enough!  You know the old saying, “follow the money” or “money makes the world go round.”  It is no accident that I am called “DRACMA”, anglicized from the Greek “Drachma”.  The lack of money makes people poor and miserable.  The abundance makes them want more and easy to control.

Talk about conspiracy!  This has been one of my main projects for the past several thousand years.  As long as money was pegged to something of value there was at least the chance of keeping the value of a currency, but rulers long ago learned that they could dilute currency by decreasing the amount of precious metal or by issuing “paper” money with some defined or assumed value.  Ah, but I could always count on my ingenuity and man’s greed to undermine the value of their money.  The effect was always the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few and the impoverishment of the masses.

Humans are so incredibly stupid.  They just keep making the same mistakes over and over again.  Of course, money never has held its value (especially of the paper variety).  There is just too great of a temptation for the ruling cast (or elected officials) to keep making more and more until it has no value.  Meanwhile, people have the illusion they are getting richer as they see their houses “increase in value”, but they end up paying more and more for everything.  It is all just a wonderful illusion.

It is no coincidence that bankers have been one of the most despised and hated people of all because they not only have the money to lend but they make a bundle doing it.  I must admit humans exceed my expectations sometimes – “Wall Street” was a truly inspired movie and now there is a sequel, Wall Street II, but one has to only look at AIG, Goldman Sachs or any of the other Wall Street moguls and you will see fact and fiction blurring.  Gordon Gekko is back!  I don’t think people appreciate the extent of the actual situation with the recent bailouts or they would be rioting in the streets!  What placid dull little creatures! 
The average bonus (yes bonus alone – not counting salary) for a Goldman Sachs employee was a half million dollars for just one year!   Yes, we are talking about $5 billion in bonuses for just one company! And how did Goldman make all that money?  Did it produce anything?  No, it just took bailout money from the government through AIG and others – wheeled and dealed and manipulated.  Did it earn it?  Of course not!  Gordon Gekko and Dracma are proud of the greed and avarice.  But the most incredible slight of hand, the greatest magic trick of all time is how the government (and the Fed) took trillions from taxpayers without their really understanding what happened and giving it to the same businesses and banks that caused the problem to begin with!  This represents the greatest transfer of wealth in history.  And guess who pays?  The poor, and growing much poorer sots known as middle class taxpayers?  America – welcome to the third world!

And who is paying for the bailout of Greece?  Those same poor sots who fund the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Americans!  How beautifully ironic!  And they don’t even have a clue that they have done it!  Not a clue!  I am so proud of all the Gordon Gekkos and politicians of America pulling off the greatest heist of all time right under the noses of their little people without them even noticing!  I am just overwhelmed with pride and emotion!

So where is this headed?  Well, the central banks of the world (and the banks they represent) are going to succeed once again in destroying the average persons hard earned savings, in transferring wealth once again from the poor to the rich, in ruining all fiat (paper) currencies, which will usher in our “new world” order, “new world” currency and “new world” government run by you my Most Illustrious Master.  Our plan is so fool proof, because we have proved the humans to be fools, easily manipulated, putty in our hand.  No one can put it together.  No one gets it.

They couldn’t understand the prophecies in their Book if their life depended on it.  They are so misled and deceived.  They actually believe America is the chosen nation of good guys in white hats and cannot conceive the evil they have created, supported and exported throughout the world – the chaos which will result in our final ascendency to our rightful place on the throne – ruler of the world and masters of the universe!  Destruction is our game!  Deception is our name!

Your most humble servant,

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