Originally Posted by StickyGreen

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

Oh whoops, I forgot that quote is irrelevant these days because people actually think the Federal Reserve is part of the government. Carry on!