Those commercials really are sickening. And they are absolutely about influencing people to stop using cash. I'm pretty sure the CEO/president of VISA is on record saying we could/should have a cashless society by 2012. Wouldn't that be nice for him???
The question of whether the banks or federal government are worse gets right at what I was trying to address in the thread about the economy:
http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=5633
as far as finance is concerned they are more or less the same thing, and the federal government is actually subservient to the banks. I think most people don't grasp this because it seems silly or a 'conspiracy theory' but it is 100% documented fact.
Is there anything that can be done about this other than raise awareness? That's what I'm trying to figure out, and raising awareness is going to have to start picking up the pace pretty soon. In the U.S. there is legislation pending in Congress to let the Treasury decide at their discretion to start making our coins out of sand or dirt or tapioca or whatever. Once they do this, is there really going to be any point in having physical money at all??
Currently the government can't be trusted much more than the banks, but in theory the government can still be taken back. Here's an idea for how to raise some awareness:
Rather than using satanic plastic to pay for things, use cash like you normally would. But first, go to a bank (yechh, I know) and pick up some of the new Thomas Jefferson dollar coins while they're still available. While you're at it maybe pick up some $2 bills as well, and also some nickels (maybe save a good portion of the nickels just in case they start making them out of aluminum next year). When you're spending the cash, have some pieces of paper with the following quotes or others like them printed on them:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."-- Thomas Jefferson
or pick your own and do something else and add some informative websites. There are some other great bank-hating presidents coming up soon in this admittedly-silly dollar coin series like Madison, Jackson and Lincoln who also have some great quotes.
Maybe this is ridiculous and it will backfire but I know many of you agree, action needs to be taken. It's tough to go into a coffee shop and try to raise awareness of many of the issues discussed here without getting hauled off to the loony bin, but this is one people might actually be able to grasp if given the chance. They even have a chance to learn who Thomas Jefferson was if they didn't already know because his full name and office are printed on the coin. I bet if he saw what the Illuminati had become in this day and age he would be awfully disappointed with it. 
Seriously, taking away our money or making it worse than it already is could very likely be the next step in the Globalist/all the rest of Them agenda. Money is something people are often very emotional about and who knows, if they have to stop and look at it it might actually be able to get them to THINK.
EDIT:
Quotes obtained from this website:
http://www.freedomdomain.com/foundquo.htm
Monetary reform act available at:
http://www.themoneymasters.com
