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- MassRoadKill, on 02/15/2008, -13/+195Donate to Kucinich's Congressional campaign. We need to keep this man in office.
http://kucinich.us/contribute.html - GhostyBoy, on 02/15/2008, -9/+159No matter who you vote for, or who gets in, the central bank has the power to usurp the government.
Stand up to them. - decepticrat, on 02/15/2008, -7/+103This is a really important issue to be aware of. It's amazing how much power such a small group can wield over the masses.
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -6/+95I feel like at this point we are almost playing with Monopoly money...
- TheTaoOfBill, on 02/15/2008, -16/+88Donate to Ron Paul's congressional campaign as well. Ron Paul has fought hard to end the federal reserve. And stay tuned Kucinich fans for the March on Washington led by Ron Paul to educate people on the constitution. No date set yet but it will happen. Paul is picking a date. Kucinich supporters are more than welcome to participate. As well as anyone else who believes the constitution is more than just a "God damned piece of paper" We will take this country back and get more people like Paul and Kucinich in office. Stay tuned America. We've got a lot of fighting to do.
- Klydethegreater, on 02/15/2008, -4/+70Wait didn't they call Ron Paul crazy for saying this?
- kpmoore, on 02/15/2008, -3/+67“Give me control over a nation’s currency and I care not who makes the laws.”
--Mayer Amschel Rothschild - Napoleone, on 02/15/2008, -7/+65Firstly, although Ron Paul has been slandered and accused of being a racist, he's anything but. He's the only candidate who's advocating granting full pardons to every single non-violent individual that's been convicted for the use of drugs. It is minorities that have been disproportionately affected by such convictions.
Ron Paul, the supposed racist, is also the only remaining candidate who before the Iraq War began condemned it as being, "an illegal and immoral action against innocent Muslims". While Barack Obama, who also advised against it said, "I'm not against war. I'm against dumb wars". The stronger statement is clearly evident.
Ron Paul has pledged to work to repeal the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. To repeal the Real ID. To abolish the practice of torture. To close down CIA black-sites (secret prisons). To shut down Guantanamo Bay and exit Cuba. To re-instate Posse Comitatus and Habeas Corpus. To end warrant-less domestic spying, broad warrants and data-mining. To end the Iraq AND Afghanistan wars. To bring our troops home from Italy, Germany, and Japan (turns out WWII is over). To bring home our troops from South Korea, which is incredibly wealthy, can afford its own defense, and feels our presence is an impediment to re-unification. To end the military's role in the war on terror. To open diplomatic ties with Iran. To stop subsidizing the armies of Israel and Saudi Arabia. To curtail the CIA's role, and keep it from propping up dictators and overthrowing democracies. To decrease military spending ($700 billion dollar budget last year alone). To end the drug war, and treat addiction as a disease.
Ron Paul opposes the death penalty, because he believes it is applied with prejudice, and because he believes there's too much of a chance that innocent persons will be killed by the state.
Ron Paul opposes and has pledged to abolish military conscription, i.e. "the draft".
Ron Paul does have his negatives. Depending on who you ask, they might tell you these are good or bad, but here they are...
He wishes to see put out of business the following departments and or agencies. FBI, EPA, ED, FCC, FDA, IRS, Federal Reserve. It should be made clear that, whether or not you support him in this regard, he'd see little to no success in abolishing any of these departments, because of the major political roadblocks. He would however, be able to start a dialog to evaluate the merits and shortfalls of these departments, agencies and institutions. In any case, he has repeatedly said that accomplishing these goals would be difficult and are not his priority, as instead he would rather tackle the issues of foreign and monetary policy.
According to the comptroller general of the United States, with well over $50 trillion dollars in obligations and growing, both the Social Security Trust Fund and Medicare are on the brink of insolvency. According to his figures, the United States would have to invest $8 trillion dollars a year at treasury bond rates in order to make good on its promise to pay those who have payed into these two systems over the course of their working lives. According to this same man, the United States is currently investing $0.
Because of this, Ron Paul wishes to provide younger people with the option of opting out of these programs, while honoring the obligations to those who are currently dependent on them, and also allowing those who wish to continue to participate in them to do so.
Ron Paul does not object to gays openly serving in the military. Ron Paul introduced a bill into the House that would have made gay marriage impossible, but he has since changed his tune, because he was unable to reconcile his actions with the Constitution. He now is of the view that marriage is a religious ceremony and thus, the federal government should not be involved in the issue; gay or straight. He says states should handle it.
It's worth noting that States are obligated by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to provide equal protection of the laws. Because of this, whether or not you support it, gay marriage is an eventual virtual certainty in every state that issues marriage licenses. There will be legal battles, but there is only one way in which this issue can be decided. Gay marriage will be a matter of fact across the Union.
Ron Paul opposes abortion. But whether or not you support it, this is an issue in which the numbers are not in his favor. He would not have the authority nor ability to bring about change in this area.
Ron Paul does not support government sponsored universal health care, because he believes the government's ability to print as much money as it has paper and ink, would only encourage health care providers and hospital equipment manufacturers and suppliers to spike their prices. I've worked in the military-industrial complex, and I can testify to this effect in this other major industry. A metal casing very much like your desktop or lap-top's will go for around $300-$500 dollars. Regular materials, easy specifications, cheap labor, and still... they charge what they know the government can afford.
He also objects to universal health care on the grounds that he believes it would be an unfair tax burden on those who do not wish to participate. In that same vain, he does not support college grants. He does not feel it is fair to tax the limited income of a working stiff who did not get to go to college, in order to send someone else to college.
Beyond just promising new government programs, Ron Paul is the only candidate running with the goal of restoring each and every right you've lost since 9/11 and prior. I think we need to restore our Constitution before we concern ourselves with other worthy matters.
One season of Ron Paul. Obama's a young man, he'll be there for 2012. But this time around we need to focus on restoring our freedom. - Minutemanjones, on 02/15/2008, -5/+60Congress shouldn't have even passed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. It directly violates Section 1 Article 8 Clause 5 of the Constitution.
- Napoleone, on 02/15/2008, -10/+61If Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich were to make a third party run, my head would explode.
Ron Paul has repeatedly said he is willing to compromise on the domestic spending policy side, because he believes the priority should be fixing foreign and monetary policy. If you wish to understand why I and others support Paul, read a comment I wrote about it, under my reply button. - swrostmore, on 02/15/2008, -12/+53Since both of their campaigns are finished/dead in the water, now is the time for a Kucinich/Paul third-party protest ticket.
- kirstpo, on 02/15/2008, -3/+32Why doesn't Kucinich endorse Ron Paul's presidential candidacy? They share similar views on certain things. A Republican getting a Democratic endorsement would be pretty big news. I guess one of the reasons is because of party politics.
- masterwalls69, on 02/15/2008, -4/+31Dennis...You are a Good Man...Keep up the good work and also...Endorse Ron Paul.
"Its not the man or the party, its the message of freedom and truths!" - bamafun, on 02/15/2008, -7/+33Thanks for posting - this is definitely something that needs the attention of our nation ! =) Hopefully it will make the Front Page before its too late lol .............
- ggfobster, on 02/15/2008, -1/+27"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies..."
--Thomas Jefferson - phazon88, on 02/15/2008, -2/+25Imagine, if you will: You decide to lend money to the government, so all you do is take some camera-ready-copies of whatever you decide are "legal tender" to your local Office Depot or other copy shop. You pay the copy shop for printing the "paper" (because that's all it is!), then you "lend" this very same "paper" to the government. Then you demand that the government pay you back the entire amount of whatever you supposedly "lent" to the government (depending on what you told Office Depot to print on the "bills"), plus interest, in whatever amount you decide at the time of the transaction!!
"Ridiculous!" you say? Well, that's exactly what has happened since the international bankers along with President Woodrow Wilson and the government imposed the Federal Reserve upon America in 1913.
Later Woodrow Wilson realised what he had done and regrettably said
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"[Our] great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men... Who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy economic freedom.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated nations in the civilized world - No government by free opinion, No longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority but a government by the opinion and the duress of a small group of dominant men."
Just one day before President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, Congressman Charles Lindbergh, Sr. (father of the famous aviator) said:
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"The money trust deliberately caused the 1907 panic, and thereby forced Congress to create a National Monetary Commission, which led to the ultimate creation of the Federal Reserve. This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic monetary trust [monopoly] on earth. When the President signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed The people must make a declaration of independence to relieve themselves from the monetary power. This they will be able to do by taking control of Congress. Wall Streeters; could not cheat us if you Senators and Representatives did not make a humbug of Congress The greatest crime against Congress is its currency system. The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill. The caucus and party bosses have again operated and prevented the people from getting the benefits of their own government."
Lindbergh also made this observation: "Ever since the Civil War, Congress has allowed the bankers to completely control financial legislation. The membership of the Finance Committee in the Senate and the Committee on Banking and Currency in the House, has been made up of bankers, their agents and attorneys. These committees have controlled the nature of the bills to be reported, the extent of them, and the debates that were to be held on them when they were being considered in the Senate and the House. No one who is not on the committees is recognized, unless someone favorable to the committees [the banking interests] has been arranged for."
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"A World banking system was being set up here...A superstate controlled by International bankers...Acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. The fed has usurped the government." - Louis McFadden
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"If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation! This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation - cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous, if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is!" (Infact it can't be paid off because the government has to keep borrowing more to pay off the interest which they then owe more interest on top of that that)
- Robert Hemphill, ex-chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies...
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency... The banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered" - Thomas Jefferson
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"If you want to remain slaves of the bankers and pay for the costs of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control the nations wealth." - Sir Josiah Stamp
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"Permit me to control the currency of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!" - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Founder of the Rothschild banking Dynasty
and that is the story of how everyone became enslaved to a few rich powerful International bankers, whose last remaining goal is World Domination under a New World Order, sleep tight. :) - counterspin, on 02/15/2008, -3/+24Bilderberg, anyone?
- Stochio, on 02/15/2008, -3/+24You have no idea what you are talking about.
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -7/+28 I trust the Federal Reserve. I have complete trust that they will do everything in their power to rob the United States until there is nothing left of it but a shell.
Napoleon when describing the same banking families that now control the American dollar said, " The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." The bankers give and the government takes, therefor the banks are the real government.
Just as the Rothschild's stood the masters of France at the end of the revolution through the control of the money supply they and the other banking families now stand above America as well. It is this control which is the biggest issue facing us today and any revolution or so called movement for "change" which does not address this issue is merely a smokescreen in the service of continuing bondage. - swrostmore, on 02/15/2008, -0/+20Ron Paul is not going to run for President third party because the GOP would then not allow him to run as a Republican for re-election to his House seat. That would be the kiss of death in Texas.
- dball48, on 02/15/2008, -5/+24It's also being dugg down by obama supporters who don't want to hear about someone who actually represents real change.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 02/15/2008, -5/+23There has been a lot of back and forth argueing in the Ron Paul forums about a third party run. I'd have to put my vote towards no.
Just look at Ron Paul There were many within his party who wouldn't even listen to him simply because he chose to run third party once in 1988. It forever scared his record.
Nothing good has ever come out of third party runs. Even Ross Perot, arguably the most successful third party candidate didn't change a damn thing unfortunately.
The key is to infiltrate the main partys like the Neo-Cons did to the republicans. It's time to vote with a brain people. Vote only for people who support Kucinich's platform if your a democrat or Paul's platform if your a republican. Let's have a goal of raising the number of honest candidates in congress from 2 to hundreds. - phazon88, on 02/15/2008, -2/+19Peter T. Whitte, a National Geographic writer talking about when he interviewed a spokesperson for the Federal Reserve regarding where our "money" comes from:
"We created it,' a Fed official tells me. He means that anytime the central bank writes a check, so to speak, it creates money. 'It's money that didn't exist before,' he says.
"Is there any limit to that?' I asked. 'No limit. Only the good judgement and the conscience of the responsible Federal Reserve people.' Bwahh! good conscience.
Federal Reserve is held by powerful banks, owned or largely controlled by the Rothschilds. The banks are:
1) Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin
2) Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris
3) Israel Moses Sieff Bank of Italy
4) Warburg Batiks of Hamburg and Amsterdam
5) Lehman Brothers Bank of New York
6) Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
7) Chase Manhattan Bank of New York (controlled by the Rockefellers)
8) Goldman Sachs Bank of New York
These, then, are effectively the owners of not only the Federal Reserve, but also the entire United States of America.
Even the House Banking Committee itself acknowledges the ultimate power of the Fed, saying that, "the Federal Reserve is, in practice, independent of that body [Congress] in its policy making The Federal Reserve neither requires nor seeks approval of any branch of government for its policies. The system itself decides at what ends its policies are aimed, and then takes whatever actions it sees fit to reach those ends!"
They create the inflation and recession cycles.
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"The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here, so that they might emerge as rulers of us all!' - Louis McFadden
The private bankers used the power of the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply dramatically. In 1922 the amount of money in circulation was approximately $33 billion dollars. The amount was increased every year until by 1928 there was more than $45.7 billion dollars in circulation (that additional $12.7 billion dollars being that much more debt the American citizens owed to the Fed - plus interest, of course). This period of "easy money" caused massive speculation in the private sector - just as anticipated by the private bankers, who then ordered the Federal Reserve to withdraw money from circulation as quickly as they determined the economy could bear without collapsing it entirely (which they knew could bring on a revolution from the people). By 1933 there was only $30 billion in circulation, and America was brought to her knees.
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"Under the Federal Reserve, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we might figure a mathematical problem."
- Congressman Charles Lindbergh
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"It was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as rulers of us all!" - Congressman Louis McFadden (while still chairman of the House Banking Committee at the time.)
Curtis Dail, FDR's son-in-law, who also "just happened" to be a manager for Lehman Brothers (one of the owners of the Federal Reserve - what a surprise!) was on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange the day of the Crash. He said,
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"Actually, it was a calculated 'shearing' of the public by the world money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call money in the New York money market."
William Bryon, author of The United States' Unsolved Monetary and Political Problems," had this to say regarding the Panic of 1929:
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"When everything was ready, the New York financiers started calling 24 hour broker call loans. This meant that the stock brokers and the customers had to dump their stock on the market in order to pay the loans. This naturally collapsed the stock market, and brought a banking collapse all over the country, because the banks not owned by the oligarchy were heavily involved in broker call claims at this time. Bank runs soon exhausted their coin and currency, and they had to close. The Federal Reserve refused to come to their aid, even though they were instructed under the law to maintain an elastic currency."
These gangster tactics worked very well on most members of the government. But not on Congressman Louis McFadden.
As chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee for more than 10 years, Louis McFadden understood exactly what the Federal Reserve was, who controlled it, and what they were up to! On June 10th, 1932, Congressman McFadden fearlessly stood up before Congress and bravely challenged the Federal Reserve in the following powerful speech:
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"Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks, which have cheated the government and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law, by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it!
Some people think the Federal Reserve banks are United States government institutions. They are NOT! They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers, and the rich and predatory money lenders. In that dark crew of financial pirates, there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislation; and there are those who maintain international propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us and wheedling us into granting new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime!
These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by bankers who came here from Europe, and repaid our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money out of this Country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a reign of terror in Russia with our money. They planned and instigated the Russian Revolution.
In 1912 the National Monetary Association, under the chairmanship of the late Senator Nelson Aldrich, presented a vicious bill called the National Reserve Association Bill. This is usually spoken of as the Aldrich bill, although Aldrich did not write it. He was the tool, if not the accomplice, of the European bankers who, for nearly 20 years, had been scheming to set up a central bank in America. In 1912 they were spending - and are continuing to spend vast sums of money to accomplish their purpose.
We were opposed to the Aldrich plan for a central bank. The men who ruled the Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later, that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of sinister Wall Street figures, established, here in our free Country, the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the 'King's Bank' - to control us from the top downward, and to shackle us from the cradle to the grave!
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state, controlled by international bankers and international industries acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is: The Fed has usurped the government! It controls everything here, and it controls all our foreign relations! It makes or breaks governments at will!"
Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter to Colonel Edward Mandell House wrote
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''The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."
America's on the verge of going into recession right now. They'll completely collapse the dollar soon and then they'll propose that a North American Union between Mexico, Canada and the United States be instated and that a new currency be used called the Amero. They've already printed the currency for it, they're just waiting till they can use it.
After that they'll begin their plans to instate a new one world order.
“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”
- Statement made before the United States Senate on Feb. 7, 1950 by James Paul Warburg son of Paul Warburg who wrote the Federal Reserve Act and one of the co-founders of the CFR, and nephew of Max Warburg who had financed Hitler.
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto-determination practiced in past centuries”
- David Rockefeller, Member CFR, in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
- David Rockefeller, of Standard Oil, Chase Manhattan and the Council on Foreign Relations, from his Memoirs in 2002.
If you wanna get a good idea of everything watch Zeitgeist the movie it'll clearly explain the whole thing http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ - counterspin, on 02/15/2008, -0/+17Wait until the RFD chip comes to town...
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -2/+19 Who are all these people digging down comments critical of the Fed and digging up posts displaying ignorance of our monetary system?
- swrostmore, on 02/15/2008, -2/+19They agree on all the important issues - Taking power back from the Fed, Constitutional democracy, end NAFTA, get out of the WTO, withdraw from Iraq, end the drug war, kick lobbyists out of DC - and the positions they disagree on, like cutting/increasing spending on social programs or increasing/abolishing gun control, a compromise between them would be far better than what either guy proposes.
- ggfobster, on 02/15/2008, -7/+24***** THE FEDERAL RESERVE.
- nullr3, on 02/15/2008, -13/+29Ron Paul also wants no IRS hes got my vote these were my two top picks but the media and possibly the goverment gave them the shaft its hard to win if no one knows who you are
- Look4Truth, on 02/15/2008, -2/+18Gee, I wonder why you don't hear anyone else besides Ron Paul talking about this. Hmm...could it be that the others are NWO goons who are bought and paid for and part of the scam?
Will America ever wake up? Eh, probably not because these things aren't discussed on the boob tube so they must not be true. Nothing to see here folks, move along, it's all just a bunch of conspiracy nuts jabbering on about nothing. - RudeTurnip, on 02/15/2008, -12/+28BTW, folks, "God damned piece of paper" is a direct quote from Bush. The more you know...
- destraht, on 02/15/2008, -0/+16I just sent an email to my Representative asking him to basically get on board.
Hey, you can do it also! Lets get a forum! - Erich100, on 02/15/2008, -0/+16All you need to know about the Fed is right here.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560 ...
Dennis Kucinich has brass balls. We need more politicians like him. - nullr3, on 02/15/2008, -1/+17Its not the only thing that violates the constitution but people dont seem to care or Kucinich would be doing alot better
- SPLASTiK, on 02/15/2008, -1/+16-Thomas Jefferson
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -2/+16 The short answer is that instead of the congress just issuing money for the people to use instead the Fed issues it and we owe them the debt on the money they created. Besides owing them money for doing nothing they do not stop inflation but cause it. Right now our money is only backed by the faith in the Federal Reserve and the United States Government. That faith is already on shaky ground around the world and without a real backing could one day falter making our money worthless, especially with continued printing devaluing the currency. That's a penalty on those who save money and can rightfully be thought of as theft of savings.
This scam is at least 3,000 years old and has crashed many countries through the ages. Read the story of Joseph in the Bible, he took over the Egyptian government and "the money failed", Joseph devalued and destroyed the Egyptian currency in the same manner. This is also what happened in Germany at the close of WW1. - dball48, on 02/15/2008, -5/+18yea, kucinich is attempting to get real things accomplished, but where are his catchy slogans and "cool" sense of style?
- TheTaoOfBill, on 02/15/2008, -2/+15You do realize this isn't the first time Kucinich has ran for president and congress right?
- kidid, on 02/15/2008, -4/+16It's definitely time to DROP THE FED!!
- leucaruth, on 02/15/2008, -8/+20Central Bank independence is important to avoid high levels of inflation and manipulation of monetary policy to suit the political cycle. I'm not sure what has people so concerned. To those who think inflation is too high, there's plenty of credible economic research demonstrating that low (1-3%) inflation is better than zero inflation because it helps to keep the market functioning efficiently in the face of nominal wage stickiness. Even more research shows that higher inflation than that dampens growth, but I don't think people are complaining about insufficient money growth.
- theinept, on 02/15/2008, -4/+16Abolish central banking: Because it worked for Andrew Jackson! Do it for the lulz.
- mlirblur, on 02/15/2008, -2/+14Although Paul and Kucinich would never work on a POTUS/VP ticket together, I believe that their presence in Congress and their shared belief in the abolishment of the Fed could lead to something very, very important to this cause.
Is anyone else thinking of some sort of bipartisan comission on monetary reform or reconstruction? - aliengoods, on 02/15/2008, -3/+15The problem is any stable currency is issued by a central bank similar to the federal reserve or one that does the bidding of a communist regime or dictatorship. My advice is put your money in gold. It's also a nice hedge against inflation (which is becoming a very real problem in America).
- fuzzmeister, on 02/15/2008, -3/+15And the government simply printing money would improve that situation.... how?
- otero1, on 02/15/2008, -6/+17You are a damn moron.
- rexblade, on 02/15/2008, -3/+14Apparently ncurses doesnt know how the Fed works.
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -9/+20Who cares if the FED prints money out of thin air, backed by nothing, and charges the United States Government interest?
Who cares if your money is being devalued?
Who cares if America is trillions in debt? - amiches, on 02/15/2008, -1/+12Well that's wrong from any perspective - the Fed was established in 1913 in reaction to periodic bank panics that occurred throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, most recently in 1907. Although you're right, there were other measures post-1929, like the FDIC.
- rexblade, on 02/15/2008, -1/+11The Fed is corrupt to the core it answers to no one and cares only about maintaining its strangle hold on this once great nation.
- moontime, on 02/15/2008, -0/+10I hope more in congress speak out about this.
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