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In reply to the discussion: An #Occupier said something interesting about Ron Paul... [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)IS a problem. The major banks get (essentially) interest-free money from the Fed and then turn around and charge interest to the American people while profiting handsomely. The "Fed" isn't a government institution - it's also a private bank. There are HUGE problems with a central bank that controls all. I disagree that everyone who recognizes the Fed's role in destabilizing the economy to the benefit of a very few investors is a deluded Ron Paul supporter.
It's simply not true. The Fed does not WANT you to know it's role. It revels in people believing it is a government institution, so that it can continue to aid the banks in manipulating markets. That has nothing to do with being paid, OWS, or anything other than bothering to cut through the bullcrap that the Fed itself has attempted to permeate our discourse with - primarily, that we cannot survive without its hand.
We can.
We did just fine before they became the invisible hand in 1912.
That isn't germane to this discussion, however. I just thought I would clear up some misconceptions that everyone who recognizes the Federal Reserve for what it is, a parasite, is a Ron Paul supporter.
That couldn't be further from the truth.