If anyone has read this book, then you know what I'm talking about. I am recommending, to anyone who cares about the true direction our leadership is taking us, that you read "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin. It's a book about the cartel called the "Federal Reserve System" and, literally, how those who run the monetary system in this country (and around the world) have us duped. The book may scare you, but it might just get you thinking in a slightly different direction. It did me...
Now, just to warn you, Griffin is a self-described libertarian. Some of his views won't jive with some of your core beliefs. However, open up your mind and read it for an alternative view. For instance, he's a privatizer. I'm not, but for likely different reasons than many readers are.
However, he lays out in painstaking detail how inflation is actually designed to rob us of our money. He lays out how, because of the way our monetary system works - it's based on debt and debt only - the US will never get out of debt. You could tax 100% and it will never happen. This is because every dollar you hold was issued because someone borrowed a dollar. It is based on nothing. Without the debt, greenbacks and US currency in general cease to exist. The economy would collapse under intense deflation.
Ever notice how inflation went away when Clinton started to pay down the debt? The economy was doing great but inflation was in check or actually reversing. I thought that interest rates had be increased to "cool off" the economy? Why, then, did a booming economy paying off the debt have a deflating currency? It's because debt IS money. Money IS debt. Inflation is the increase of the money supply, not prices. Paying off debt takes away greenbacks and deflates the currency.
Inflation is set as a way to tax you without your knowing it...and it was planned this way. Why would they do this? The end goal is to have ultimate control of all countries and their citizens. Groups such as the UN, IMF (int'l arm of the Fed), the World Bank (financial arm of the UN), etc. are set up to swoop in and "help" countries in crisis. "Peacekeepers" stay for years and preempt sovereign governments. Financial assistance is given to the governments, not the people. What's the result? Inflation and eventual socialism. If the people are impoverished and need the government for subsistence, the government holds the power. Without citizen power, you have no freedom. Yes, it sounds like a wild-eyed conspiracy. Yes, it sounds crazy. I'm not usually like this. But this book simply lays it out too nicely with the documentation to prove it. You can find it yourself.
This is where I get a little uneasy. We are on these boards fighting for international cooperation, yet the institutions that might facilitate this were set up specifically to rule others, not help others. There is nothing wrong with wanting to help others. However, that's not what these institutions were set up for. We on this board could very well be slitting our own throats. We're for individual freedom, helping others, fighting tyranny, fairness in legislation, and an increasing standard of living for all, not a few. Noble goals. However, we might, in our quest for this, be playing into the other side's hands.
Let me give you a scenario that is certainly possible...
The dollar, under the weight of Bush's trade deficit and lunatic deficit spending, collapses in world financial markets due to a glut of supply. Purchasing power is cut by 2/3 overnight. Dollars return to the US by the trillions. Inflation, due to a greatly-increased supply of dollars, is in the mid-double digits. Incomes are now becoming useless. Middle-class citizens become impoverished. Businesses close their doors due to supplier prices shooting through the roof. Massive layoffs follow, shooting unemployment to 20%. Those with wealth move their assets into shelters or into goods and commodities to protect their worth. Gas shoots to $6.00/gallon, milk to $10.00. Angered by this, protests arise. Violence eventually erupts in all large cities in the country. With most US troops deployed overseas and stretched here at home, the UN votes to send in peacekeepers to assist in quelling the violence, creating a de facto international military occupation. We are now governed, in part, by Russia, China, and Pakistan. Rights are curtailed, curfews put in place. However, inflation is still running rampant here at home due to plummeting tax revenues and soaring spending. The government is "stimulating the economy" by spending even more in the red, which simply puts more dollars into the economy. The government is borrowing tons of money, which is then converted into money based on the Federal Reserve Act (think Federal Reserve Notes - pull a dollar out of your pocket and look; it's an IOU). The money supply increases by trillions. The layoffs killed the income tax base, corporate taxes are rock bottom, and the wealthy moved their holdings into international markets, killing the capital gains tax base. Entitlements continue to be paid, shooting deficits through the roof. The government needs help. In order to stabilize the currency, does Congress re-base it to something of substance - silver, gold, platinum? No, as the Fed controls many in Congress. It is instead decided that an IMF loan should be used. Here's where it gets interesting. The IMF loans the money to the US government, allowing it to continue paying its loans to the Fed and others, and to continue paying its bills. However, even MORE money is now injected into the system, increasing inflation even more. The banks get their money. To us, however, each dollar is worth less and less every day. To save money, entitlements are cut out of the budget. Millions are impoverished. However, the IMF loans must be paid back. To be certain that they will, the IMF places liens on government property and sales taxes on consumer purchases. The IMF is now taking from both sides - the government AND the people, collecting interest AND taxes. The crisis deepens. Financial decisions can no longer be made by Congress due to the conditions of the IMF loan. All must be passed through the IMF. Peacekeepers are still on sovereign soil. Violence erupts again, as citizens begin picking off peacekeepers. An insurgent war erupts. Rights are further curtailed. Elections are suspended. However, the banks are still getting their loans paid. The IMF stays, along with UN troops, until unrest ends and the loans are paid off, leaving in their wake a decimated country and trillions of extra, worthless dollars. The country could possibly never recover.
Don't think it can happen? We might already be on our way. The chips are lining up quite well. The damage won't be limited to the US, either. All trading partners will feel the pinch, as well. This could happen multiple times, with the IMF "rescuing" each country along the way while simply lining the pockets of the richest bankers in the world.
The sad part is that all of this is planned. The Fed was designed by members of the Council on Foreign Relations, set up in a will of Cecil Rhodes (Rhodes Scholars, Rhodesia, etc.). This group stems from a society called the Fabians. The goal? World socialism, and not the Swedish kind - the Soviet kind. A ruling elite over millions of impoverished souls paying their loans to the banks and dependent on the government for everything, making them afraid to rise up against it.
Yes, it's scary, but it's worth the read. Doesn't change my political orientation, but it makes me fight for something a little different - individual freedom. Let's take it back.
For further info, go to www.freedom-force.org. The book is available at www.realityzone.com. I also found it on Amazon for about $12. Best $12 I ever spent. Have fun.