The facts are, unless we go back to a convertible currency and can get real money from a bank in return for it, we are ensnared in the babylonian money majick snare.
Once upon a time, your sweat would earn you a paper BILL. As the "bearer" of the paper BILL, you could be PAYED by the treasury of the USA in LAWFUL MONEY with intrinsic value.
Then the "note" was introduced and declared "legal tender", but was still "redeemable" for LAWFUL MONEY.
Naw, let's just get rid of that "redeemable" part of the agreement...
Now our beautiful hundies cannot be considered "payable" or "redeemable"... just "tender"
Don't forget the unwritten fine print: turn your head to the side, see? It's AUTHORIZED by an ACT.