Read "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin. You will never, ever, ever,ever trust the Federal Reserve System, which by the way is not a part of the Federal Government (or any government agency), it has no reserves and it is not a bank. Wake up folks, we owe so much to foreign contries that they are now taking over our financial systems so that they can get their money back. It's going to get real ugly before this finally implodes and falls in on all of us.