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Originally posted by muse7
Any person of color that is not white and that is actively involved in the Tea Party must be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
Originally posted by neo96
socialist idealism has created the fed...
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by neo96
socialist idealism has created the fed...
The idea was actually floated by by Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich and adopted by WIlson with little modification in 1913.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Using "Free market capitalism" as the selling point, you see where that has gotten us now?
Originally posted by MajorKarma
reply to post by meeneecat
Jane Mayer, of The New Yorker,
Media Matters,
Fox News Channel,
The Guardian.
and Oh My, Janeane Garofalo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they are against the "Tea Party" maybe its time I consider joining them.
Has it occurred to anyone that Wealthy People maybe care about this country too? That not all of them are Globalist Traitors? .
edit on 24-4-2011 by MajorKarma because: Typos and expanded comment
Originally posted by MajorKarmaMoreover, if you can't figure out who are the "Bad Guys", sometime looking at who are against this or that group may be way to seeing "The Truth"
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Using "Free market capitalism" as the selling point, you see where that has gotten us now?
That was not the premise it was marketed upon, it was proposed as a means of controlling banking panics.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Look what has happened since, more panics in the last 100 yrs then the previous 300 combined so in reality they only did it so that nothing can trace or link back to them.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Originally posted by muse7
Any person of color that is not white and that is actively involved in the Tea Party must be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
I'd like to see at least a dozen African Americans, a dozen Arabs, a dozen Orientals, a dozen Hispanics and a dozen Islanders, a dozen disabled people, a dozen war vets in the TP before I take them seriously and not have just a token.edit on 24-4-2011 by TheImmaculateD1 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by neo96
i dont care if a republican came up with that idea i know for a fact that the democrats will never use any republican idea...
Originally posted by meeneecat
Originally posted by MajorKarma
reply to post by meeneecat
Jane Mayer, of The New Yorker,
Media Matters,
Fox News Channel,
The Guardian.
and Oh My, Janeane Garofalo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they are against the "Tea Party" maybe its time I consider joining them.
Has it occurred to anyone that Wealthy People maybe care about this country too? That not all of them are Globalist Traitors? .
edit on 24-4-2011 by MajorKarma because: Typos and expanded comment
"poisoning the well" i see? Attempting to discredit facts by insulting the source? 18 million given to Freedom Works and AFP, memos instructing Tea Party how to conduct themselves at town halls and specific questions to ask. These are all objective evidence, regardless of the reporter or new organization who first reported them. And I never used Janeane Garofalo as a source, but if you want to lie about it and link her to my comments, so be it. It still doesn't change the facts here, which you seem to want to ignore or insult rather than address.
And are you actually arguing that rich political elites care about the country? That this class of people, the same criminal corporatists who buy our politicians and pay to write the laws of this country, the same robber barons who crashed the economy so they could make millions and loot trillions from the American people, and are still making millions from war profiteering among other shady and immoral endeavors...that these people actually care about the country? Now that's something you don't hear everyday, especially here on ATS. It would be funny if the results of their neo-liberal globalist agenda weren't so tragic.
Originally posted by MajorKarmaMoreover, if you can't figure out who are the "Bad Guys", sometime looking at who are against this or that group may be way to seeing "The Truth"
You mean kinda how Mussolini was against "socialism" so he then decided to become a "fascist"? Or kinda how Muslims are against Jewish Zionism, and so we should be for Zionism? Does this mean that because Libyan dictator Qaddafi is against U.S. involvement in the country, that we should then support a war there? And what about Al Qaeda given that the U.S. was for them before they were against them? Things are so confusing when you make the assumption of there being just two sides, that there can only be two positions "for" and "against". Ah. well, such is the nature of false dichotomies...and precisely how politics are manipulated through the lens of "left vs. right", "conservative vs. liberal", "republican vs. democrat"...looks like this political tribalism is working out just as well for the "Tea Party" people too.
Originally posted by neo96
it doesn't matter to me who comes up with the trash its who signs it in to law
the buck stops with the president so wilson has the blame here
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by AugustusMasonicus
it doesn't matter to me who comes up with the trash its who signs it in to law
the buck stops with the president so wilson has the blame hereedit on 24-4-2011 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by neo96
it doesn't matter to me who comes up with the trash its who signs it in to law
the buck stops with the president so wilson has the blame here
But it does not get to his desk unless Congress sends it there, there was some complicity on the Republican side. The point I am trying to make is there would have been some sort of reserve system implemented whether there was a Democrat or a Republican in the White House, most Republicans favored Aldrich's plan. The Republican bill was already prepared, the only reason it did not make it to the floor was the loss of Congress to the Democrats. Once they took over they modified the bill slightly and passed it on to the President.
edit on 24-4-2011 by AugustusMasonicus because: Networkdude has no beer
The banking and currency reform plan advocated by President Wilson in 1913 was sponsored by the chairmen of the House and Senate Banking and Currency committees, Representative Carter Glass, a Democrat of Virginia and Senator Robert Latham Owen, a Democrat of Oklahoma. According to the House committee report accompanying the Currency bill (H.R. 7837) or the Glass-Owen bill, as it was often called during the time, the legislation was drafted from ideas taken from various proposals, including the Aldrich bill.[6] However, unlike the Aldrich plan, which gave controlling interest to private bankers with only a small public presence, the new plan gave an important role to a public entity, the Federal Reserve Board, while establishing a susbstantial measure of autonomy for the (regional) Reserve Banks which, at that time, were allowed to set their own discount rates. Also, instead of the proposed currency being an obligation of the private banks, the new Federal Reserve note was to be an obligation of the U.S. Treasury. In addition, unlike the Aldrich plan, membership by nationally chartered banks was mandatory, not optional. The changes were significant enough that the earlier opposition to the proposed reserve system from Progressive Democrats was largely assuaged; instead, opposition to the bill came largely from the more business-friendly Republicans instead of from the Democrats.[1]
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
According to wikipedia, the Democrats ruled both houses of Congress plus the Presidency. So even though the original plan was the Aldrich plan(republican), changes were made to it to get the Democrats to get behind it.
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
According to wikipedia, the Democrats ruled both houses of Congress plus the Presidency. So even though the original plan was the Aldrich plan(republican), changes were made to it to get the Democrats to get behind it.
Which is exactly what I said earlier. It was always partisan politics. When it was a Republican plan they were behind it and vice versa with the Democrats.