reply to post by nh_ee
Exactly.
Some quotes by politicians and bankers:
"We are completely dependant 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.... It is the most important subject
intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely
understood and the defects remedied very soon." — Robert H. Hamphill, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank
Senators and Congressmen
"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have
never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States" — Sen. Barry Goldwater (Rep. AR)
"This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson] signs this bill, the invisible government
of the monetary power will be legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill." — Charles A.
Lindbergh, Sr. , 1913
"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created." — Congressman Charles A.
Lindbergh Sr. , 1913
"The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board as ministers the finance system by authority of a purely
profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's
money" -- Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1923
"The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny..." — Congressman
Wright Patman, Congressional Record, Sept 30, 1941
"We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution
has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the
moneyed vultures who control it". — Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)
"The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen.
There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the
International bankers — Congressman Louis T. McFadden (Rep. Pa)
"Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government's institutions.
They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves
and their foreign swindlers" — Congressional Record 12595-12603 — Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency (12 years)
June 10, 1932
"I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been
accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a
legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected." — John Danforth (R-Mo)
"These 12 corporations together cover the whole country and monopolize and use for private
gain every dollar of the public currency..." — Mr. Crozier of Cincinnati, before Senate Banking and Currency Committee - 1913
"The [Federal Reserve Act] as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the
currency... I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable
paper currency." — Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., 1913
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and
commerce." — James A. Garfield, President of the United States
"A great industrial nation is controlled by it's system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to
be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world--no longer a government of free opinion, no
longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." —
President Woodrow Wilson
James Madison
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control
over governments by controlling money and it's issuance." — James Madison
"Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing" — Ralph M.
Hawtrey, Secretary of the British Treasury
"To expose a 15 Trillion dollar rip-off of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000
largest corporations over the last 100 years will be a tall order of business." — Buckminster Fuller
"Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation...but can't, [won't]
support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job." — Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded
Universe
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a
revolution before tomorrow morning." — Henry Ford
"[Every circulating FRN] represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve system." — Money
Facts, House Banking and Currency Committee
"...the increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve banks from 143 million dollars in 1913 to
45 billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [federal reserve] banks." — Eustace Mullins
"While boasting of our noble deeds were careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of
oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery. — Horace Greeley