Make Them Worthless

So it appears that a few (very few) Americans have amassed all the wealth of this country while leaving the rest of us to struggle to pay even the basic costs of living. It's sad and seems hopeless. But I have an idea. What is a billion dollars worth if a $1 isn't worth anything? That's right! Nothing.

How do we make it so? By creating a new currency. It's the only way. We need to come up with some other means of trading goods and services that doesn't include the dollar bill. And it can't be based on gold - since they have been gathering that up too. The new currency will need to be based on something they haven't already horded. Maybe it need only be the goods and services themselves - like in the past. I'll trade a chicken for some wheat. I'll trim your trees if you dry clean my clothes. You get the idea.

Imagine if we could actually pull this off - it would be the greatest coup d'état ever! Suddenly the uber-rich would be totally broke. Wall street would be a thing of the past. We would suddenly have our bargaining power back - at least for a while until they gather it all up again. All we need to do is stop using "their" money. Once we stop trading with it - it will be worthless and they will be broke.

Unfortunately I'm not a financial genius of the type it would take to pull something like this off. But I am a creative problem solver. I've solved this problem - someone make it so!