The US Flag is a Banker's Flag... That would explain a lot now wouldn't it? Ben Franklin liked France, didn't he... The flag of the East India Company is considered to have inspired the 1775 Continental Union Flag, the first flag of the United States, as the two flags were of the same design. This connection is attributed to numerous sources. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania once gave a speech endorsing the adoption of the Company's flag by the United States as their national flag. He said to George Washington of Virginia, "While the field of your flag must be new in the details of its design, it need not be entirely new in its elements. There is already in use a flag, I refer to the flag of the East India Company." This was a way of symbolizing American loyalty to the Crown as well as the United States' aspirations, like those of the East India Company, to be self-governing.
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