An interesting piece by George F. Smith points out that:
The Fed is a racket at heart, a con game writ large — what else can you call an organization with the exclusive privilege of printing money in the trillions and handing it over to friends? But if this is true, what does that say about the state, the organization that created and sanctions it? Is the Fed an honest mistake in the state’s otherwise undying efforts to preserve our liberty, or might it be a key component of a bigger racket?
Without the power of the state, there would be no proposal to audit the Fed because there would be no Fed to audit. Like any cartel, it exists to protect its members from market retribution, and only the police power of the state can make us shoulder that burden. A bill to audit the Fed could by force of logic become a state audit, much like the investigations of the 1972 Watergate burglary exposed the grinning skull behind the government’s public persona. During a Fed audit, for example, would it not be reasonable to ask why the people’s elected representatives continue to support a banking system that secretly steals wealth from their countrymen and other dollar holders? Or are we to take the naïve position that most elected officials really are clueless about the Fed’s policy of currency debasement and the effects such policies have had in history?
Sadly, this is why Ron Paul’s bill will have so much difficulty being passed by the bank-owned Senate clowns, augmented by the most recent addition, Al “Bozo” Franken.
Rep. Alan Grayson asked House Dems to co-sponsor the Federal Reserve Transparency Act (HR1207). The bill calls for the GAO to audit the Federal Reserve. Ron Paul was the original author. Zero Hedge has the link where readers can lend their support to this bill.
It’s been obvious to anyone who bothered paying attention that the Fed is increasingly acting as an extension of the Administration, without the oversight and disclosure to which the Executive Branch is subject. For instance, only the Federal Reserve Board of Governors appears to be obligated to honor to Freedom of Information Act requests (the Board of Governors has a FOIA office). The New York Fed, which is the where the alphabet of new programs is domiciled, argues that it is a private organization and has made only limited. voluntary disclosures.
It truly is time to limit the FED. Go to the link and support the bill! Also, be aware that the fight is just beginning in the Senate, where true persuasion will need to be accomplished (later)…only one senator is sponsoring the effort…Swamp Report suspects that the FED and it’s minions, like Goldman Sacks, Rapes and Pillages, have substantially more control over the Senate than they do of the House.
