What we have is a choice between bankers running our money supply, or politicians running our money supply.
I will go with bankers.
If you think Bernanke is bad, just imagine a Majority Leader with their hand on the printing press on/off button.
Those aren't the only options.
We could let the market run the money supply.
Long ago that might have been possible. Matte of fact it was kinda like that. You had a variety of private banks issuing their own currency. Bit coins is kinda the same idea.
But it ain't gonna happen again.
If you were a high level plutocrat working for the Federal Reserve, would you let anyone take control from you and your kind? When you control all the money. Hell no.
You could just make a big depression if you wanted to. Matter of fact, most of our boom and bust cycles have been since the Fed came into being. That and deflating the value of our money. Wars were encouraged to benefit the central banks of a variety of countries.
If you control the money supply, you pretty much control the country. Any country.