Your thought-provoking comments aid clarity in assessing our system. Inflation, for example, is terribly insidious and yet many of the reason-challenged cheer the Fed's stated "Inflation Targets" and appear disappointed when those targets are not met. How sane is that? Considering that since 1913 when Capital induced Gov't to create The Fed, the purchasing power of a single US Dollar has fallen from one real gold dollar to around two-bloody-fiat-cents, and dropping further daily in 2017. Your thoughts regarding the value of money ring alarm bells.
Point Four - regarding just giving politicians a billion dollars each being cheaper is far more accurate than people can imagine. Taking time to view the CIA whistleblower, Kevin Shipp, videos on Youtube regarding the Shadow Government and the trillions and trillions of dollars expended in The War Against Citizens is shocking. As the infrastructure in 'Murica deteriorates to Third World standards, do we see any poor military-industrial companies/contractors? Over 75-percent of "Muricans are living paycheck to paycheck yet politicians can gift arguably "deplorable" nation states and groups billions in arms and funding to further the money machine agenda. They further allocate trillions more to incrementally legislate out of existence our basic freedoms and privacy.
Recent events demonstrate that any politician, no matter how well-intentioned and whatever the populist rhetoric, is actually held captive by the forces of Capital and the Shadow Government.
Hillary was correct that there are "deplorables" in 'Murica. What she got incorrect was that it isn't the segments of the voting public, the Real Deplorables are actually Capital and its minions, the Shadow Government and the Political Class. Dog help us!