Thread: Advise from Thomas Jefferson

Hard to get much better perspective than Thomas Jefferson's letter to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin in 1802:

“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.â€

Sadly, we have no leaders today like Mr. Jefferson. We do have commies, socialists, marxists, social re-engineers, and corrupt-greedy politicians, elitists and bureaucrats.

They really were brilliant people. Seemed to know every scam comming and going and tried to not let it happen here.

zeezil

We do have commies, socialists, marxists, social re-engineers, and corrupt-greedy politicians, elitists and bureaucrats.

You know I'm thinking you are giving them too much credit.

They don't have the belief system to even be a communist, etc. We are too nice to them when we suggest they actually are doing this out of some ideology - even wrongheaded ideology.

They are just corrupt and greedy.

[quote="UB"]Hard to get much better perspective than Thomas Jefferson's letter to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin in 1802:

“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.â€

Thomas Jefferson was our greatest President IMO, we will never see any man like that in History again sadly.