If only America had a real leader like

Andrew Jackson, one who would by his words and actions protect constitutional freedoms and our monetary unit. During his presidency, Jackson viewed as his crowning achievement that he “killed” the 2nd bank of US, and with it the efforts of Congress and special money interests to establish a paper money system, instead of the constitutional requirement that money be only gold and silver.
Jackson’s farewell address to the nation in 1837 reads as if written this very day about our current financial situation. Congress had tried to establish a national bank that could print paper money backed by only the faith of the government. Here in summary is Andrew Jackson’s warning to the people 173 years ago.

Experience has now proved the danger of a paper currency, not back by gold and silver, and it now rests on you the people to protect against this evil. Paper money is liable to great and sudden fluctuations, rendering property values, savings, and wages insecure. In times of prosperity, too much paper is circulated by the bank creating inflation until public confidence is shaken, then money is withdrawn from circulation creating deflation, high unemployment, business losses and a ruinous contraction of the paper money that is felt by everyone. These evil, extensions of credit engender a spirit of speculation injurious to the habits and character of the people and withdraw their attention from honest production and industry for a desire to amass wealth without labor, which inevitably leads to corruption and finds its way into your local councils and destroys the purity of government.
The currency becomes depreciated or worthless, power is placed in the hands of a few to govern by force and to undermine our free institutions. These efforts by our government leaders ought to be indelibly impressed on the memory of the people of the United States and compel you to make war on those who swore to protect your constitution.
This effort to establish a national bank with power in the hands of a few to print un-backed paper money will, I doubt be sufficient to prevent Congress from again chartering such a monopoly. But you must remember my fellow citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty and you must pay the price to secure it in the future.

What a magnificent and prophetic farewell address by one of our greatest protectors ever in government. Had we all been required to learn this speech in school, maybe we wouldn’t be facing our current situation. But just 76 years later, all who read it were dead and our leaders established the 3rd national bank, the Federal Reserve in 1913, that no one knows much about except a few people. Support Congressman Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Fed. And since you were never taught Jackson speech, every concerned patriot should read it in it’s entirely now before it’s too late to save your country. See www.kitco.com and scroll down to Andrew Jackson on a Federal Reserve Note. January 11, 2010 by John Rubino.

The Shadow

Submitted by Davids mom on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 6:02pm.

knows. (That was a wonderful radio program years before TV.) This Shadow has an interesting view of history.

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Andrew Jackson = POS

Submitted by Dondol on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 3:39pm.

Yes it took a real Mans Man to tell the Supreme Court to go to Hell and move the Cherokee out of Their home lands because he wanted to. To this day I will not carry a $20.00 bill in my pocket! He was no better than Obama!

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Dondol, the Issue is Our Paper Dollar

Submitted by The Shadow on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 6:14pm.

I’m not impressed with Jackson’s handling of the Cherokees either particularly since I’m 1/16 Cherokee. However, Jackson was dead on about our current destruction of the dollar. You won’t even be carrying $100 bills before long, when runaway inflation hits. It’s amazing to me how most people are unconcerned about our governments’ monetary policy. The only president that might be worse than Obama is LBJ. Try reading what Jackson said about the Federal Reserve and whether or not it was good advice and what you and everyone else ought to be doing to get back our freedom.
Even if the devil tells the truth, it’s still the truth. The evil that men do live after them, the good is interred with their bones. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn something from them. Try to stick to the issue.

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Andrew Jackson = POS

Submitted by Dondol on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 3:38pm.

Yes it took a real Mans Man to tell the Supreme Court to go to Hell and move the Cherokee out of Their home lands because he wanted to. To this day I will not carry a $20.00 bill in my pocket! He was no better than Obama!

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Andrew Jackson

Submitted by dawn69 on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 4:56pm.

Don't forget the Creek. He screwed them too.

"The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

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