Do Jews control America

“The heads of the federal reserve are Jewish, as are the heads of Goldman Sachs.” Goldman sachs is an excellent & successful bank, but as evident from what I wrote in the previous round, It is one of many, and not nearly as big as other banks in America. Lets take a look at what's known as “the big four”: (Big Four is the colloquial name for the four main banks in several countries, where the banking industry is dominated by just four institutions and where the phrase has gained currency. http://en.wikipedia.org...(banking)) “The term Big 4 within the banking industry refers to the four largest banks within the United States: Bank of America, Chase, Citi and Wells Fargo. With each bank holding assets in the low trillions, these institutions serve the majority of personal and business account holders in the US.” (1) As you can see, Goldman Sachs is not one of them. Both, JPMorgan Chase & Bank of America, are more than double the size of Goldman Sachs (I.E. each one is double the size.) In fact if you add up these 4 banks, they are more than 8 times the size of Goldman Sachs. (2) I’m not 100% sure what my opponent means by “The heads of the federal reserve are Jewish” as he only lists 1, Ben Bernanke. It is absurd to say that Ben Bernanke “controls America", no doubt he is a powerful person, but he by no means “controls” America. 1st of all there is no question that Barack Obama is much more powerful. (I’ve never heard anyone say that African Americans control America. (Maybe I’m just not reading Stormfront enough.)) America is set up in a way that no one person or group controls it, the American people control it. The majority of the American people voted for both George Bush & Barack Obama, who were the ones that decided (with the approval of congress which is also elected) that Ben Bernanke is the right person for the job (He was first chosen by Bush, then given a second term by Obama). It’s also worth mentioning that Obama a democrat chose him despite the fact that Bernanke is republican. And he certainly is qualified for the Job, here are some quick facts about Mr. Bernanke; He (won the South Carolina state spelling bee, scored 1590 out of 1600 on his SAT,) earned a B.A. in economics summa cum laude from Harvard University, was given the distinction of having the best undergraduate economics thesis, and was named the outstanding senior in the economics department. He received his economics PhD from MIT and began teaching at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He was chairman of Princeton's economics department, Governor of the Federal Reserve, and chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. (3) Bernanke has a 75% approval from investors in a Global Poll. Four in five say the Fed has done a better job in handling the problems facing the U.S. economy than the European Central Bank has had in coping with its region’s troubles. (4) Ben Bernanke is clearly not in control, as U.S. news put it:“Congress has gotten away with its awful handling of the economy for one big reason: The Fed has done a lot more to aid the economy than Congress has done to harm it. Unprecedented "quantitative easing" by the Fed has pushed interest rates far lower than they'd otherwise be, boosted stock values, accelerated a housing rebound and generally persuaded investors and consumers that there's some adult leadership in Washington.” (5)As we see Ben Bernanke is (unfortunately) not in control. (he's not perfect, but he's better than congress) (I saw a cute line to the effect of "It can't be that Jews run America cause if Jews truly ran America then it wouldn't be around $14,348,286,329,736.85 in debt and would probably have a similar amount as a surplus.") In what way are the Jews “controlling America” through Ben Bernanke? Is he buying up billions of dollars worth of Israeli bonds? No. “Also, thee business of America - moviemaking - has historically been run by Jews.”[sic] Right, like Walt Disney, who was an anti-semite.(6) I’m not entirely sure what my opponent is trying to say here altogether. Even if true, how does running “moviemaking” translate into “controlling America”. Seems like a bit of an exaggeration to me. “ For only 5% of the population, they wield one hell of an amount of influence. The tiny relative population only serves to underline how powerful a culture they are..." Two points: 1) Notice the word my opponent used “one hell of an amount of influence.” Influence, is not the same as control. 2) Notice the words “For only 5% of the population, they wield one hell of an amount of influence.” Their relative influence is irrelevant, what is relevant is their actual influence/control. Any individual member of congress has “one hell of an amount of influence/control” relative to his population (I.E. 1). There is no 1 member of congress that controls America. I don’t like making racial/ethnic divisions like this, but just to illustrate the absurdity of “Jewish control”: Even if “Jews” as a whole/on average had 5 times as much influence/control per capita as Christians, the christian influence/control would still outnumber that of the Jews 3:1. And that’s using my opponents exaggerated (sourceless) number of 5%. The real percentage, is closer to 2%.Total U.S. population = 308,745,538 to 313,914,040 (7)(8). Jews in the U.S. = (6,588,065-6,600,000[3][4][5] to) 6,721,680[6][7][8] (9). (Christians are about 75% (10), (millionaires are about 3%.(11))) So if anything, it would be more accurate to say that christians “control America”. But alas this too is false, America is not controlled by any one group, it’s pretty much controlled by the people. IMHO, to say that this 2.1% “controls america”, is an absurd conspiracy theory. “Is there a more powerful, more influential class of person in America than the Jew? I don't think so.” As I’ve shown, this is not true, (Every president in the U.S. has been christian, etc.). But even if it were, it’s irrelevant. Consider the following; suppose you have 3 groups, 2 have 30% “control” each, the 3rd has 40%. Is there a more powerful, more influential group than the 3rd? No. but yet it wouldn’t be accurate to say that it controls. If we increase the numbers it’s even more clear, suppose we have 99 groups, 98 have 1%, and the 3rd has 2%... Finally, I want to point out that Jews are not monolithic, there’s no one (or even cohesive group of) leaders) of the Jews. There are all different types of jews, there are; Orthodox, conservative, reform, Reconstructionist, secular, atheist, Christian (jews for J). There are republican Jews and there jews who are democrat. There are rich Jews, and poor jews. There are jews that support Israel, and there are jews that hate israel, and there are jews who couldn’t care less. Even within these groups there are sub groups there are Haredim, Hasidim, Sephardim, Ashkenazim, etc. There are Jews that are proud of their heritage, and there are jews who couldn’t care less. So when one says “the Jews” it’s not like one tight group, with a single common goal. It’s ridiculous to say that they “control America”. (1) http://banking.about.com... (2)http://www.forbes.com... (3) http://www.time.com... (4)http://www.bloomberg.com... (5)http://www.usnews.com... (6) http://www.straightdope.com... (7) http://en.wikipedia.org... (8) http://www.census.gov... (9)http://en.wikipedia.org... (10)http://www.pewforum.org... (11) http://www.nydailynews.com...