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“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 them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” – Thomas Jefferson
Now, Tom Jefferson and I don’t always see eye to eye, but I really liked that part about a revolution every twenty years or so he mentioned in that Declaration of his. Now ours.
I’m not sure what the point of this quote is exactly but I sure agree with it. I mean, who wouldn’t understand that banks and corporations have grown up depriving the people of all property while their children wake homeless. Just ask any of those of folks with a foreclosure in front of the house they thought was theirs until Wells Fargo or JP Morgan or Bank of America decided they couldn’t have it anymore.
Jefferson also grew lots of stuff at that house he built, Monti-cello, and we try the same thing here, though not quite as scientific, I suppose. He sent out those two good boys, Lewis and who was that other one? Clark. Yep. Clark. They wandered a long way from home.
I also like that line, banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Amen. My boy’s in the Air Force and I trust his thinkin’ a lot more’n I do those guys behind mahogany doors and deep plush carpets.
So, the next time you send in your mortgage or car payment why not stick Tom’s message in along with it. Hell, can’t hurt.
