There are some good points, but until we take major steps towards re-implementing a fully constitutional gov, we will not be able to break the trends. The United States of America's government was usurped by THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA corporation long before we were born. Without addressing this, nationalizing the FED will be like pissing in the wind.
I plan on starting a topic on this soon, but I highly reccomend this read:
http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm