Thomas Jefferson speaks!

[The Sushi Bandit]

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

[midnight]

1. OOps. sounds like Jefferson predicted the future.

[gateley]

2. K&R. These guys had it nailed. nt

[mac2]

4. Human nature doesn't change regarding greed and power.

[gateley]

8. Perfectly stated. nt

[melody]

3. BushCo was the agency by which they did it, too

Jefferson (and Adams) called this a long time ago -- that our enemies would eventually destroy us through our banking system.

[snot]

5. Can you tell me where he wrote that? thx

[PADemD]

6. Here

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes/banking

along with other quotes on banking.

[snot]

11. gracias!

[ralbertson]

7. ARF! ... n/t

[kentuck]

9. Mighty close to reality...

I would say.

[Selatius]

10. Thomas Jefferson has been defeated. Benjamin Franklin had a word on the issue as well.

I guess the bankers got the last laugh in the end. We now operate on fractional reserve banking as opposed to Colonial Scrip.