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by davetufts 6233 days ago
I'll paraphrase what I posted there...

Putting quotes from the Bill of Rights is pure propaganda. Money, in the U.S. is not issued by the government and has nothing to do with Presidents, the Constitution, or Bill of Rights.

These are Federal Reserve Notes, issued by the private, for-profit central bank. The only connection with our government are the federal legal tender laws that force citizens to accept these pieces of paper as "legal tender for all debts, public and private"

For a quote -- instead of something from the great Bill of Rights -- I'd love to see Woodrow Wilson's sad lament of his signing of the Federal Reserve Act. It would be much more appropriate.

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." -- Woodrow Wilson

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Excellent quote, and even more relevant today than ever.