Thursday, October 23, 2008

Thomas Jefferson had it right!

"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." Thomas Jefferson - Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802), 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

On Fannie and Freddie:
Congressional Hearing about Fannie and Freddie

Here's Barney Frank's opinion of how we got there:
Barney Frank passes the blame

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