Fed Backers Scared by Ron Paul's Audit Bill - 271 co-sponsors, 19 more to veto-proof - Are You Active?

Written by John F. McManus
Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:30

Congressman Ron Paul’s H.R. 1207, calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve, has attracted 271 cosponsors in less than five months. The Republican congressman's bill has received strong bipartisan support, and approximately 100 of the bill's cosponsors are Democrats. Support for H.R. 1207 has frightened some of the Fed’s champions in the academic world, Fed officials themselves, and, of course, many of the Fed's friends in the financial world.

There are obviously some who don’t want the American people to know what the Fed has been doing ever since it was launched in 1913.

Secrecy, of course, is completely anathema in a free country. Especially should the Fed and the powerful few who lead it be heavily scrutinized. Fed action controls the value of the dollar, and everyone in this nation who uses dollars — all but infants — is victimized when their value is eroded.

In the Senate, a companion bill (S. 604) authored by Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina Independent Bernie Sanders has attracted some cosponsors and has already been blocked from consideration by Democrats through use of a questionable parliamentary procedure. But DeMint hasn’t given up. The heat is on and it is growing in intensity.

On July 15, therefore, more than 250 economists, academicians, and investment bankers signed an Open Letter to Congress and the Executive Branch claiming that “the independence of U.S. monetary policy is at risk” because of the rising clamor for an audit at the Fed. Their letter touts the nation’s monetary manager as the necessary “foundation of U.S. economic stability.” It takes some real chutzpah to make such an assertion at a time when even half-alert Americans know that the nation is hardly experiencing economic stability.

The letter claims that the Fed is “essential for controlling inflation,” relying as usual on the falsehood that inflation is rising prices when the truth is that rising prices are the result of the Fed flooding the nation with freshly created currency. On November 26, 2008, the lead article on page 1 of the New York Times stated that the Fed and the U.S. Treasury “would print as much money as needed” to create $800 million in new lending. Those dollars take on value by stealing a portion of the worth of all existing dollars. This is inflation pure and simple.

On March 9, 2009, another lead article on the front page of the New York Times announced that the “Fed Will Inject $1 Trillion More To Aid Economy.” This article pointed to a plan that would see the Fed “creating vast new sums of money out of thin air.” More erosion of the dollar’s value! During its life, the Fed that was created in 1913 has presided over the loss of 95 percent of the dollar’s value.

Who benefits from the clever form of thievery that is inflation? An audit would tell us. Congressman Paul wonders if the recent posting of huge profits at Goldman Sachs might have resulted from that Wall Street megabank being in bed with the Fed. He’d like to know, and so would 270 members of the House and millions of alert Americans. But the Open Letter says, “When the Federal Reserve judges it time to begin tightening monetary conditions, it must be allowed to do so without interference.” Doesn’t this sound like something is being hidden? It obviously sounds precisely that way to an increasing number in Congress and across the nation.

Signers of the Open Letter included two former Fed governors, Laurence Meyer and Frederic Mishkin. Three Nobel Economics Prize winners — Daniel McFadden, Robert Merton, and Eric Maskin — put their names to it as did several university presidents and a host of economics professors from Ivy League institutions and other bastions of liberalism. The names of officials from J.P. Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Commerica, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort, and even Ford Motor Company can also be found on the letter.

The Fed arose from a highly secret meeting held at Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1910. The main author of what became the bill to establish the Fed was German-born Paul Warburg, an agent of the Europe’s Rothschild banking empire. The measure was guided through Congress by President Wilson’s guru Edward Mandell House, the man who stated in his own 1912 book that he was working for “socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx.”

A quick look at Marx’s Communist Manifesto shows that House’s mentor was indeed Karl Marx, who called for “centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.” That’s the Fed, except that what we have here in the United States actually out-Marxes Marx. Karl Marx, the hero of all communists and socialists, wanted the national bank “in the hands of the State.” The Fed is a private organization and has never been part of the U.S. government. It decides monetary policy and manages the U.S. currency. If our nation would revert to gold, silver, or some other valuable commodity as money, there would be no need for management. The free enterprise system, the marketplace, would do the managing. Management of commodities, money included, is the hallmark of a totalitarian system.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could bring H.R. 1207 to the floor for a vote at any time. Don’t count on it. President Obama could let it be known that he wants “transparency” at the Fed, something that could be accomplished with an audit. But Obama’s largest donor during his run for the presidency happened to be Goldman Sachs. Would the president want his benefactor’s relationship with the Fed made known?

Ron Paul fears a watered-down measure that will accomplish very little while protecting the Fed from the kind of investigation of its operations that could easily result in a growing cry to have it abolished. Meanwhile, more Americans every day are learning about the Fed, about inflation, and about what must be done to protect our nation’s independence and the freedoms of all Americans. And this is a very good development.

SOURCE: TheNewAmerican

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Tell Nancy Pelosi to schedule debate and a roll call vote on Auditing the Fed

Petition to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

Whereas: The Federal Reserve refuses to give a public accounting of the TRILLIONS in recent taxpayer-backed loans; and
Whereas: Congress has the responsibility to force a public audit of the Federal Reserve, and the American people deserve to know how our tax dollars are being spent; and
Whereas: Allowing the Fed to remain out of control and shrouded in secrecy clearly allows for abuse and the continued stealing of our tax dollars through inflation and unaccounted electronic bank "loans"; and
Whereas: The Federal Reserve's abuses lead to economic crises like the current housing crisis, international banking crisis, and the resulting chaos; and
Whereas: The Federal Reserve System forces fuel, food, housing, medical care, and education costs upward, meaning that everyone who is NOT on the government dole is forced to make do with less as the value of money slowly decreases; and
Whereas: Congress has allowed the Federal Reserve to operate without sufficient oversight for too long;
Therefore: I urge you to schedule debate and a roll call vote on Ron Paul's Audit the Fed Bill, H.R. 1207.

SIGN THE PETITION ---> http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/petitionpelosi.php

Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill is gaining more support with each passing day. We must not take the pressure off Congress for one moment until we shine some light on the Federal Reserve's dirty little secrets.


James aka adap2k Comment by James aka adap2k 22 hours ago
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I think the count in now 273!

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