The bankers got control. Hamilton fronted for them in the young
United States. Jefferson and Jackson fought them. Lincoln fought
them. Lincoln was assassinated, the bankers once again had control
and the war for control of the nation's supply of money raged
on.
After decades of planning and massive PR and propaganda, having
bought up the support of Ivy League scholars, journalists and the
requisite number of votes in Congress, the Wall Street cartel and
their foreign allies pushed creation of the Federal Reserve through
Congress and got complete control of the nation's money and
credit.
Before you pay your taxes, the money you pay with has already
been taxed by the owners of the Federal Reserve, which for over 100
years have diverted trillions of dollars of interest payments on
our money from the American people into their own pockets.
That is what "central banks" are designed to do: extract wealth
from nations by monopolizing the supply and cost of money and
credit.
The debt ceiling, sequestration, austerity and budget deficit
are a diversion. The U.S. Congress can slash the debt by taking
back control of our money from the Federal Reserve monopoly and
returning it to the U.S. Treasury and the American people, as the
Constitution (Article I, Section 8) wisely provided.
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