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Originally posted by bobs_uruncle
reply to post by jjf3rd77
Originally posted by Maluhia
reply to post by Americanist
You rid the corruption by purging the enablers. We're witnessing this in action.
I would love to believe this is what is happening, but see no evidence. I pretty much see the contrary. Could you provide some? (evidence) Has our entire congress been executed?edit on 19-5-2012 by Maluhia because: (no reason given)
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Kucinich bill seeks to end the Federal Reserve
A bill put forward by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) would do what libertarians and conservatives have long wished for: effectively end the Federal Reserve.
The National Emergency Employment Defense (NEED) Act of 2011 would place the Federal Reserve, a private, qusai-governmental institution that controls the nation’s monetary policy, under control of the U.S. Treasury. It would also implement new rules for the financial industry, in hopes of ending the worst abuses that created the 2008 financial collapse and the ensuing recession.
Listening to Kucinich speak about the Fed, one gets the sense that he’s moved even closer to the position typically championed by his polar opposite in the House, arch-conservative Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), currently a candidate for the Republican nomination to the presidency.
Paul and Kucinich have both long agreed that something must be done about the Fed, formed by an act of Congress in 1913 as a way of stabilizing the banking industry. Both men have vocally supported audits of the Fed’s accounts, but Kucinich has not gone as far as Paul in most of his advocacy. Until now.
“Ten million homes are in jeopardy,” he explained in a recent plea for support published to YouTube. “Fourteen million people out of work. Fifty million without health care. Endless wars. The Fed creates money out of nothing, gives it to banks, banks keep it on deposit, gain interest, pay high bonuses — fat city — while the rest of America falls apart. The Fed creates money out of nothing for the banks. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to be stuck in a debt-based economic system? I don’t think so.”
“Now do you understand ‘Occupy Wall Street’?” he asked.
Along those very lines, The NEED Act calls for “creation of money by private financial institutions as interest-bearing debts” to “cease once and for all.” It would also block commercial banks from betting depositors’ funds on risky investments like credit default swaps and derivatives, essentially restoring the wall of separation between commercial and investment banking that was toppled by repealing the Glass-Stegall Act.
“Reclaiming the power of the Federal Government to create money, and to spend or lend money into circulation as needed, eliminates the need to treat money as a Federal liability or to pay interest charges on the Nation’s money supply to financial institutions,” the bill’s text reads. “[It] also renders unnecessary the undue influence of private financial institutions over public policy.”
Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by jjf3rd77
The Federal Reserve Bank is a House of Cards. One day, sooner than later, the Central Bank will collapse. Then we all start over.
But what are you planning to do about it? Why do you want to start all over? What can be better?
John F. Kennedy vs The Federal Reserve
On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid.
When President John Fitzgerald Kennedy - the author of Profiles in Courage -signed this Order, it returned to the federal government, specifically the Treasury Department, the Constitutional power to create and issue currency -money - without going through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. President Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 [the full text is displayed further below] gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This means that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation based on the silver bullion physically held there. As a result, more than $4 billion in United States Notes were brought into circulation in $2 and $5 denominations. $10 and $20 United States Notes were never circulated but were being printed by the Treasury Department when Kennedy was assassinated. It appears obvious that President Kennedy knew the Federal Reserve Notes being used as the purported legal currency were contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America.
"United States Notes" were issued as an interest-free and debt-free currency backed by silver reserves in the U.S. Treasury. We compared a "Federal Reserve Note" issued from the private central bank of the United States (the Federal Reserve Bank a/k/a Federal Reserve System), with a "United States Note" from the U.S. Treasury issued by President Kennedy's Executive Order. They almost look alike, except one says "Federal Reserve Note" on the top while the other says "United States Note". Also, the Federal Reserve Note has a green seal and serial number while the United States Note has a red seal and serial number.
President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and the United States Notes he had issued were immediately taken out of circulation. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of the nation. According to the United States Secret Service, 99% of all U.S. paper "currency" circulating in 1999 are Federal Reserve Notes.
Kennedy knew that if the silver-backed United States Notes were widely circulated, they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve Notes. This is a very simple matter of economics. The USN was backed by silver and the FRN was not backed by anything of intrinsic value. Executive Order 11110 should have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level (virtually all of the nearly $9 trillion in federal debt has been created since 1963) if LBJ or any subsequent President were to enforce it. It would have almost immediately given the U.S. Government the ability to repay its debt without going to the private Federal Reserve Banks and being charged interest to create new "money". Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S.A. the ability to, once again, create its own money backed by silver and realm value worth something.
Originally posted by neo96
To resolve the issue of the fiat currency, issued by the Continental Congress immediately prior to and during the United States Revolutionary War—the "Continental".
Oh that's rich can't stop laughing!!!!
End the FED!!!
Originally posted by autowrench
Right now we are using an interest based monetary system. We pay interest on any and all money we use, and many taxes on products, and many hidden taxes we cannot see. To replace this, we need a monetary medium that is market driven, and not traded on Wall Street. Like the Silver Certificate we used to use.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by gorgi
Oh that's rich considering i can't stand Paul everyone knows full well what the Federal Reserve is.
Blah.
Originally posted by jjf3rd77
Originally posted by bobs_uruncle
reply to post by jjf3rd77
Did you read the portion of the OP on wildcat banking? cause I suggest you do!
why the Fed was created and what it dies
Originally posted by eLPresidente
lol didn't think the distaste for Ron Paul would drive some people to protect the the federal reserve (complex?).
At least Neo96 gets it...
Originally posted by bobs_uruncle
Yeah, so? What's your point? Was some portion of what I said incorrect?
Creating the monster that is now that FED or any central bank that matter only facilitates theft and fraud by the criminal international bankster and their lap dog puppet politicians. If that were not the case, the US or any country with a central bank would not be playing the austerity game, since economies would settle to their actual value. In any event, with a social credit system, the value of the country maintained by the corporation of the government would be owned by the shareholders, meaning the citizens rather than the banks.
Cheers - Dave
Originally posted by jjf3rd77
Originally posted by bobs_uruncle
Yeah, so? What's your point? Was some portion of what I said incorrect?
Creating the monster that is now that FED or any central bank that matter only facilitates theft and fraud by the criminal international bankster and their lap dog puppet politicians. If that were not the case, the US or any country with a central bank would not be playing the austerity game, since economies would settle to their actual value. In any event, with a social credit system, the value of the country maintained by the corporation of the government would be owned by the shareholders, meaning the citizens rather than the banks.
Cheers - Dave
And you think the American people will handle their money with bankers better than the Federal Reserve? That would equate to widespread corruption on an entirely different level my friend!
Originally posted by jjf3rd77
And you think the American people will handle their money with bankers better than the Federal Reserve? That would equate to widespread corruption on an entirely different level my friend!
Originally posted by eLPresidente
reply to post by jjf3rd77
But why protect the establishment by arguing that there is no way to eliminate it so it is better off to just live with it until its too late?
For starters, how about auditing the federal reserve? Does that not start the process to inform the masses on the FED?
Originally posted by jjf3rd77
Originally posted by eLPresidente
reply to post by jjf3rd77
But why protect the establishment by arguing that there is no way to eliminate it so it is better off to just live with it until its too late?
For starters, how about auditing the federal reserve? Does that not start the process to inform the masses on the FED?
Sure you can try to audit the fed, but who here thinks TPTB will actually listen to you? They don't even listen to the people who try to do it now that have a little bit of power!
I'm scared of the wildcat banking which will happen without the fed. The fed is a system of checks and balances just like the government. It's the same reason I am not hoping for change or some revolution in the gov't because I'm scared of what type of crazy people can come to power then! At least the system we've got is pretty stable and the laws we don't like can change pretty simply.
Forgive me, but after the last guy who promised change, I'm not very optimistic about changing the entire gov't!edit on 21-5-2012 by jjf3rd77 because: (no reason given)