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Originally posted by 0zzymand0s
Between 2007 and 2011, the Federal Reserve has "loaned" over 16 TRILLION dollars to foreign banks and corporations at ZERO (0%) interest.
It'ssocialism for the rich
, and bootstrapping for the rest of us.
Originally posted by EspyderMan
Originally posted by apacheman
reply to post by jessejamesxx
It is what the protests are about.
Hard to see why people don't understand that.
People are easily fooled. The media writes "the movement has no voice, the movement has no purpose" and the sheeple regurgitate that in their writings and sayings while acting as though it was an independent thought.
I usually call those people ignorant and blind. Listen to the movement not the media covering it, you shall have your answers.
Originally posted by Misoir
I have a better idea what they could have done with $16 trillion if they absolutely had to print and spend it at 0% interest rate.
$16,000,000,000,000 as a direct check divided up between the 308,745,538 Americans would equal $51,822.61 for every single American. 27.3% of the population is under 20 years of age so if we take that out of the population and just use the population 20+ in age that would be $71,282.82 per adult. People could have kept their homes, invested in savings, encourage entrepreneurship, and saved themselves from poverty. Or we could have eliminated the $14 some trillion national debt we currently have.
Nice job FED, let the American people become homeless and give all that money to other banks for free.
edit on 10/18/2011 by Misoir because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jessejamesxx
Originally posted by apacheman
reply to post by jessejamesxx
It is what the protests are about.
Hard to see why people don't understand that.
If you ask the 99%, it's about how they can't pay for school, and how the government should give them a free ride.
There isn't a large "end the fed" movement in the protests, it's about Wallstreet. Wallstreet isn't directly related to the banks taking bailouts, and the FED dishing out all of our money.
The reason it's hard for people to understand, is because the protests, from an outsiders point of view, have been taken over by an extreme leftist view. They hate RP.
Originally posted by jessejamesxx
This is what the protests should be about. As well as the bank bailouts.
Originally posted by vapor
reply to post by the4thhorseman
What's your source for that info? Not doubting you, just wondering.