08-22-2016, 06:17 PM
(08-22-2016, 02:28 PM)Shannon Wrote: Well of course we have to actually want to get OUT of the national debt... regardless what we do, that's not going to happen until the Powers That Be decide that being out of debt is better than being in debt for whatever reasons they have for our current state of affairs.
That moment when you tell people that the Federal Reserve -- the entity charged with regulating the currency of the United States -- isn't a governmental entity, is privately owned, and Congress has little oversight over it.
Their heads explode. Then they go on as if they didn't hear that private billionaires OWN the banks that the lend the US government money.
