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| quote: | Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
What have you brought? tHe FEderAl reSeRVe ArE SoCIAlistS!!! Yea, what substance... |
When you don't know how the system works, it's easy to believe in the utterly ridiculous conspiracy theories you so easily have bought in to.
The more money is seen as printable paper, the less buying power(value) it has. The Federal Reserve was brought into power by propagating the need to combat inflation. Now the dollar is worth less than 4 pennies of its original value. That is FACT not conspiracy.
| quote: | | People owe taxes and that's it. |
Is this a joke? Yeah we owe taxes. What happens when thats not enough for people like Bush or Obama? According to Obama himself, the Treasury is empty. You're going to tell me that there is no such thing as inflation when trillions are printed and backed by nothing? You dont think that inflation devalues the the money in your pocket or the money in your bank account?
| quote: | | Wrong, we have an elastic monetary system because money supply should be a function of the needs of the economy. |
You're right!! We all need more money for the things we want. Now that money literally grows on trees, nobody even has to work anymore....
| quote: | | I don't think you understand the concept of "too big to fail", do you? |
Ok Mr.Economist, explain what happens if Freddie Mac and Goldman Sachs or AIG do fail. Tell me why Lehman Brothers despite being the largest investment firm in the USA WAS allowed to fail. In a free market system, corporations who fuck up or take too much risk FAIL. Or they go bankrupt because nobody wants to buy their stuff. Its that simple. In a socialist system, a bank who hands out mortgage loans to people who could not possibly afford them, gets propped up by bailouts that are paid for by people who are honest with their money like you and me. The entire term "Too Big to Fail" is pure fear mongering.
| quote: | We have a fiat currency so the military industrial complex can profit from wars funded by fiat currency!  |
Thats just one of the reasons. And it doesnt seem like you have much of an arguement for it either. The USA has been in a constant state of warfare and weaponization dating back to the very point that the Federal Reserve was brought into existence. A government that relied on savings would have been completely exhausted of the financial means to fight and build weapons by this point. I cant believe you dont realize that fiat currency provides the government with the means to fight endless wars instead of seeking diplomacy and peace.
| quote: | | Pay interest on inflation? Are you serious? They pay interest on their bonds. The Federal Reserve returns all profit back to the Treasury. |
You have to get it into your head that the Federal Reserve is a series of private banks. The Fed is not a branch of government. When they loan money to the government's treasury they charge interest.
| quote: | | How has your savings and investments been confiscated by the Federal Reserve? Don't say inflation either. |
I dont need to say inflation. You answered this question for me. I think I've explained this well enough already. You think I'm a conspiracy theorist. If I was a theorist I would be saying things like "This economic crisis was engineered!" All I'm saying is that GREED has brought us to this point. Is that so disagreeable?
| quote: | | Oh god NOOOOOOOOOOOO! SOCIALISM!!113@@E@# GOD SAVE US!!!! |
For the record, Obama already admitted to hand picking Marxist professors throughout college. He also advocated social justice when he put Sonya Soto-Mayor in the supreme court.
Plz excuse any of my spelling mistakes im trying to write all this on my cell phone.
Last edited by zDmn on Feb-19-2010 at 21:32
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