This piece was reprinted by OpEd News with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
Achieving these and other goals depends on returning money power to public hands. Otherwise, political Washington may only approve cosmetic changes too meager to matter.
Money power runs America. Baron MA Rothschild (1818 - 1874) once said, "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."
With it comes supreme power to control world markets, resources, and cheap labor, exploiting them for maximum profits.
Thomas Jefferson railed against money power, saying:
"I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Money power) should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."
He later said:
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."James Madison called bankers "Money Changers," saying:
"History records that (they) have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over government by controlling money and its issuance."Andrew Jackson called bankers "vipers and thieves." Refusing to renew its charter, he described the Bank of the United States, America's 19th century quasi central bank, as a "hydra-headed monster." Jefferson opposed chartering it in the first place.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
