Thomas Jefferson wrote:

"The [privately-owned] Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly
hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution...
if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered."

This "Central Bank" he speaks of has evolved into the Federal Reserve Bank.

The Bank of the United States (1816-36), an early attempt at an American central bank,
was abolished by President Andrew Jackson, who believed that it threatened the nation.

He wrote:

"The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government, the distress it had wantonly produced...are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it."


Even Andrew Jackson, who also disagreed with this concept had at least two attempts made on his life. So proud and intent on warning the future generations was he that his tombstone is inscribed with the phrase
"I killed the bank!"

It came back.

The Federal Reserve Act was passed in December 1913; ostensibly to stabilize the economy and prevent further panics, but as Congressman Charles Lindberg Sr. warned Congress:

"This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth...the invisible government by
the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be legalized."

How can we counter this? We have been entrenched in this mess for so long that it is firmly embedded into our nation. When you vote for Governor are you voting for a Governor or the head of a corporation? That corporation being the State? I belive that with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, This country began the slow process of becoming a big incorporated entity rather than a soverign nation.