Comments on: END THE FED! Protest to take place on Saturday, 11/22/08

By: Mark T

Mark T — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:32:06 +0000

Insofar as the Fed is intimately tied to the dollar, I just realized this morning that Ben Bernanke will probably be the leading member of the “End the Fed” program.

I’ll be near Richmond on the 22nd and might swing by just to see who’s there. My own personal plan, however, is to simply ignore the Fed to death. I’ve moved most of my meager assets out of US Dollars and am continually developing my barter network. The big advantage of this plan is that I don’t need to get the permission of the masses.

Of course, if the masses did help get rid of two laws, large financial institutions could also barter for gold without being threatened with monopoly laws.

By: Jake4Constitution

Jake4Constitution — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:46:50 +0000

RBurnett -

Yeah, I happen to agree with the slogan, but if you read the fine print its also a rally for sound money. I dont think they were able to think of a cute jingle that would get people out of bed about sound money (I haven’t either, its a tough one)

So what if history is against me/us? You think the colonists thought they would win against the big, bad British empire?

As far as the alternatives, that’s an upcoming article, there are plenty of them. Plus you know the USA has been able to exist WITHOUT central banks, right?

Freedom takes time. How many Americans do you think actually understand more or less how the FED works? How many are as well educated as you? (That’s a compliment, no irony, based on past exchanges) Will the demonstration practically achieve nothing? Yes, you are correct. But it might get a few more to question the FED, and that’s good enough for me.

Spit into the wind? You could also write to just piss into the wind, that’s more dramatic. So if a government takes away your privilege to free speech, bear arms, free religion, to trial by jury, to sound money, you wouldn’t also spit into the wind?

Perhaps you should stay in bed on Saturday!
Jake

By: RBurnett

RBurnett — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:04:13 +0000

Funny, Jake.
Considered comedy as a vocation?
OK, we end the Fed.
Then what–a private central bank? Well, no, as a lot of you think the Fed is a private bank.
So no cnetral bank?
Well, no–history is against you, to get Marxist for a bit.
That wonderful Thomas Jefferson got rid of the Hamitonian inspired private central bank, the First U S Bank.
And then, waddya know–who’d a thought it- his own James Madison puts it back as a government cnetral bank, Second U S Bank in 1816–less than thirty years after the Constitution was made the new law of the land, by its Father.
So protest, predict and prognosticate–the Fed or whatever central bank, will be with us, and with your great, great, great grandchildren.
In a word, you are spitting into the wind–it only makes you all wet.