m II wrote:

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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private
banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then
by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the
banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their
children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . .
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the
people, to whom it properly belongs."

-- Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill,
(1809)
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Amazing! Jefferson must have had a crystal ball -- he foresaw the the
Fed over a hundred years before it happened and the fix we now find
ourselves in, 200 years later, just like he predicted. :-(