PrintJuly 20, 2011
LBJ and the Destruction of American Currency
For the United States, since the nation's founding, gold and silver currency has all but set the stage for political war. Now, with the government having separated citizens almost completely from precious metals, the state of the American people's freedom has never been more precarious.
Our nation's founders had no illusions about the danger of bank- and government-controlled currency. See, for example, the following words from Jefferson:
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency ... the banks ... will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered[.] I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies[.]
Nearly a century later, Lincoln spoke with equal criticism of banking:
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... the money...(Read Full Article)
