The Irony Of US Money

There are many ironies in our money we use.......if you have done any study of the criminality of the Federal Reserve and the International Bankers against our country, you will note that they have installed their most heated opponents upon our money, like a slap in their faces that despite all of their efforts they achieved victory.... These are the currencies issued by our Federal Reserve....

PENNY: $0.01

Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the largest opponent of the Federal Reserve system, and issued "greenbacks," dollars issued by our own government, outside of any debt system, which were deemed of value because of the backing of our own government, as it should be. He was assassinated on April 14, 1865, just one short month after he was re-elected to office, with a view of the Civil War in sight, an end to slavery called, and passing the National Banking Acts, the last of which passed in 1865. Some quotes by Lincoln:

"I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions, in the rear. Of the two, the one in the rear is the greatest enemy..... I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war."

"The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. By adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity." - Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President

NICKEL: $0.05

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the US, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and was a strongly outspoken critic of a central banking system. Some quotes:

"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution - taking from the federal government their power of borrowing." - Thomas Jefferson, 1798

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for sub-dividing property, only taking care to let their subdivision go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the unequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock to man to labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be permitted to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not, the fundamental right to labor the earth returns to the unemployed.... It is too soon in our country to say that every man who cannot find employment but who can find uncultivated land, shall be at liberty to cultivate it, paying a moderate rent, but it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles & organising it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.

DIME: $0.10

Franklin Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the US, ushered in the "New Deal" and the entry into World War I and World War II, was in office through the time of the Great Depression. Many believe he was little more than a puppet of the international bankers, and followed their whims. He signed into effect the FDIC, instead of taking the power of money back into the people's hands, he ensured that the Banks would survive and thrive. He ended the gold standard. He increased the national debt, approved the Social Security Act, and made the federal government bigger than it had ever been. If ever in America's history there should have been a revolution of the people, it should have occurred in his presidency, but he evaded that with programs that seemingly helped the people (though we are paying the consequences for it now), and making the people think that he was on their side, all the while doing nothing about the bankers that caused and were financing (or de-financing) the problems of those times. It is thought by some that he was probably aware of this, as noted by the following quotes:

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

QUARTER: $0.25

George Washington of course was our first President, was an advocate of a small central government and lead in the Revolutionary War against England and the Central Bank of England, advocating against taxation without representation and the evils of the central bank system. He was against the evils of a party system

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice." George Washington, in letter to J. Bowen, Rhode Island, Jan. 9, 1787

HALF DOLLAR: $0.50

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the US. He was in office in the early Vietnam War years.

President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110 in 1963 giving the Treasury Department power to issue silver certificates as the base of U.S. money. Once sufficient silver certificates existed it would eliminate the demand for Federal Reserve notes. JFK was assassinated five months later.

When Kennedy called for a return of Americas currency to the gold standard, and the dismantling of the Federal Reserve System he actually minted non-debt money that does not bear the mark of the Federal Reserve; when he dared to actually exercise the leadership authority granted to him by the U.S. ConstitutionKennedy prepared his own death warrant.

"The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us."

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans' freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight." --John Fitzgerald Kennedy [1917 ~ 1963] President of U.S.: 1961 ~ 1963. Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination

ONE DOLLAR BILL: $1.00

The first $1 notes (called United States Notes or "Legal Tenders") were issued by the Federal Government in 1862 and featured a portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase (1861-1864). The first use George Washington's portrait on $1 notes was on Series 1869 United States Notes. Of all the notes printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $1 notes make up about 45f currency production.

"Every lover of his country will therefore be solicitous to find out some speedy remedy for this alarming evil. There is no possible substitute for the loss of commerce. Our first grand object, therefore, is its restoration. I presume not to dictate or direct. It is a subject that will require the deepest deliberations and researches of the wisest and more experienced men in America to fully comprehend. It probably belongs to no one man existing to possess all the qualifications required to trace the course of American commerce through all intricate paths and to those and only those that shall lead the United States to future glory and prosperity I am sanguine in the belief of the possibility that we may one day become a great commercial and flourishing nation. But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on un-funded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them."

TWO DOLLAR BILL: $2.00

Thomas Jefferson also advocated that the National Debt should be eliminated. However, he did not believe that living individuals had a moral obligation to repay the debts of previous generations. He said that repaying such debts was "a question of generosity and not of right." Some more quotes:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)

"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction. I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system; a system which if it could do good in any form is yet so certain of leading to abuse as to be utterly incompatible with the public safety and prosperity. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies... and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"... we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds our people must come to labor16 hours in the 24, give the earnings of 15 of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the 16th being insufficient to afford us bread. We have no time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves, to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers. Our land holders, too, retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train, wretchedness and oppression."

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. This issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of the moneyed corporations which already dare to challenge our Government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

FIVE DOLLAR BILL: $5.00

Abraham Lincoln.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

There should be no war upon property or the owners of property. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."

"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

"Yes; we may all congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its close. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. The best blood of the flower of American youth has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the Nation might live. It has been, indeed a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war."

"I see in the near future a crisis approach which unnerves me and cause me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations (of banking) have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic destroyed."

TEN DOLLAR BILL: $10.00

Alexander Hamilton

"To emit an un-funded paper as the sign of value ought not to continue a formal part of the Constitution, nor even hereafter to be employed; being, in its nature, pregnant with abuses, and liable to be made the engine of imposition and fraud; holding out temptations equally pernicious to the integrity of government and to the morals of the people."

TWENTY DOLLAR BILL: $20.00

Andrew Jackson was one of the largest opponents of the Federal Reserve and stopped its creation for some years.

"If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations."

"The bold efforts that the present bank has made to control the government and the distress it has wantonly caused, are but premonitions of the fate which awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it...If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system there would be a revolution before morning."

FIFTY DOLLAR BILL: $50.00

Ulysses Grant was the 18th President of the US and he too issued "hard-money" bond backed paper dollars. The Panic of 1873 hit the country hard during his presidency, and he never attempted decisive action, one way or the other, to alleviate distress. The first law that he signed, in March 1869 established the value of the greenback currency issued during the Civil War, pledging to redeem the bills in gold. In 1874 he vetoed a bill to increase the amount of a legal tender currency, which defused the currency crisis on Wall Street, but did little to help the economy as a whole. The depression led to smashing Democratic victories in the 1874 off-year elections, as that party took control of the House for the first time since 1856. During his reign, he had numerous scandals of corruption among his staff, which he did nothing about.

ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL: $100.00

Benjamin Franklin

THE INABILITY OF THE COLONISTS TO GET THE POWER TO ISSUE THEIR OWN MONEY, PERMANANTELY, OUT OF THE HANDS OF GEORGE III AND THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS WAS THE PRIME REASON FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (a founder of America condemning global monopoly power in his autobiography. 1775. 1706-1790)

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

"The refusal of King George to operate an honest colonial money system which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the manipulators was probably the prime cause of the Revolution."

"The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters, had it not been that England took away from the Colonies their money, which created unemployment and dis-satisfaction."

"In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called 'Colonial Scrip.' We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods and pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one. In this manner, by creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay, to anyone. You see, a legitimate government can both spend and lend money into circulation, while banks can only lend significant amounts of their promissory bank notes, for they can neither give away nor spend but a tiny fraction of the money the people need. Thus, when your bankers here in England place money in circulation, there is always a debt principal to be returned and usury to be paid. The result is that you have always too little credit in circulation to give the workers full employment. You do not have too many workers, you have too little money in circulation, and that which circulates, all bears the endless burden of unpayable debt and usury."

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL: $500.00

William McKinley was the 25th President of the US and was assassinated in 1901 by a supposed "anarchist", then succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. He led American into the Spanish-America War and ushered in the "New Imperialism" Era. He was in office in 1900 during the passage of the Gold Standard Act.

Rockefeller influence in the White House began in 1894 with the election of William McKinley. But it was not until the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that it became a deciding factor in determining policy. In many ways, the New Deal was a Rockefeller deal.*

Although it is generally believed that the New Deal was designed to help business and the stock market quickly recover from the depression, its effect was to prolong the depression for several years. We now know that this resuIt was deliberately contrived; among other reasons, the Rockefellers wanted a depressed stock market so they could buy up shares cheaply. (It is worth noting that the "New Deal deaIt most kindly with the Rockefeller interests.

ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR BILL: $1,000.00

Grover Cleveland was the 22nd President of the US. Shortly after Cleveland was inaugurated, the Panic of 1893 struck the stock market, and he soon faced an acute economic depression. He dealt directly with the Treasury crisis rather than with business failures, farm mortgage foreclosures, and unemployment. He obtained repeal of the mildly inflationary Sherman Silver Purchase Act. With the aid of J. P. Morgan and Wall Street he maintained the Treasury's gold reserve. He was an adamant opponent of the Pullman Strike that shut down most of the nation's passenger, freight and mail traffic in June 1894. He obtained an injunction in federal court and when the strikers refused to obey it he sent in federal troops to Chicago and 20 other rail centers. "If it takes the entire army and navy of the United States to deliver a postcard in Chicago," he thundered, "that card will be delivered." Most governors supported Cleveland except Democrat John P. Altgeld of Illinois, who became his bitterest foe in 1896.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR BILL: $5,000.00

James Madison

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance." - James Madison, 4th US President

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

"The prime function of government is the protection of the different and unequal faculties of men for acquiring property."

"The extension of the prohibition to bills of credit must give pleasure to every citizen, in proportion to his love of justice and his knowledge of the true springs of public prosperity. The loss which America has sustained since the peace from the pestilent effects of paper money on the necessary confidence between man and man, on the necessary confidence in the public councils, on the industry and morals of the people and on the character of republican government, constitutes an enormous debt against the States chargeable with this unadvised measure, which must long remain unsatisfied; or rather an accumulation of guilt, which can be expiated no otherwise than by a voluntary sacrifice on the altar of justice of the power which has been the instrument of it. In addition to these persuasive considerations, it may be observed that the same reasons which show the necessity of denying to the States the power of regulating coin, prove with equal force that they ought not to be at liberty to substitute a paper medium in the place of the coin."

TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR BILL: $10,000.00

Salmon Chase was the US Treasury Secretary under Abraham Lincoln, and was solely responsible for the issuance of Lincoln's "greenbacks," a non-debt money system issued by our own government. Chase articulated the "slave power conspiracy" thesis well before Lincoln did, and he coined the slogan, "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men" . He devoted his enormous energies to the destruction of what he considered the slave power, that is the conspiracy of slave owners to seize control of the federal government and block the progress of liberty.

The Chase National Bank, a predecessor of Chase Manhattan Bank was named for him, though he had no personal affiliation with it.

SALMON P. CHASE, (Lincoln's Secretary to the Treasury) who was the pilot of the 1863 banking act in the US never forgave himself, subsequently saying: "My agency, in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act, was the greatest mistake in my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people should be arrayed on one side, and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never seen before in this country."

IN GOD WE TRUST

The inclusion of "In God We Trust" on all currency was required by law in 1955. The national motto first appeared on paper money in 1957 on $1 Silver Certificates, and on all Federal Reserve Notes beginning with Series 1963.

On the back of every piece of currency issued by our Federal Reserve are the words "In God We Trust." Again, this is a slap in the face of those that believe this nation is wholly Christian in our practices. There was only one time in Jesus' life that he became violent, when he overturned the tables of the "moneychangers" in the market place in protest of their practice of "usury" or lending money with interest. Here are some Bible verses that address this issue:

"If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest." -Exodus 22:25

"You must not lend him money at interest or sell him food at a profit."
-Leviticus 25:37

"Do not charge your brother interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest." -Deuteronomy 23:19

"who lends his money without usury
and does not accept a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will never be shaken." -Psalm 15:5

"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." -Matthew 6:24

"Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves." -Matthew 21:12

"On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves," -Mark 11:15

"No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." -Luke 16:13

"So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables." -John 2:15

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." -1 Timothy 6:10

CONCLUSION

Knowledge IS Power. Isn't it interesting to note that the two Presidents that actually began issuing debt-free money were assassinated within months of their actions. Many of these Presidents took us into wars, which were planned by the International Banks. Those Presidents that rebelled against their control were killed. Every economic expert will tell you our Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression. They may be setting us up for another fall with the great inflation of our dollar just as they did before. They didn't call it the "Roaring Twenties" for nothing. Call your House Representative and Congressman and demand that they publish the M3 report as previously done, and then demand that the Federal Reserve be abolished and the power of printing money be put back into the hands of the people/Congress as indicated within our Constitution, not the hands of private bankers who are manipulating the governments of the World and keep us in slavery under a debt-money system and fractional-reserve banking! Do not be fooled by those that say a return to the gold standard would benefit us, there is no more gold in Fort Knox, it was given to the Federal Reserve to back our huge national debt. The IMF bank holds the largest reserve of gold in the world, thus a return to the gold standard would only consolidate the power into the world bank's hands. Watch the last 30 minutes of the Money Masters video, part two, listed in my blog entitled Monopoly Money for a full detailed recommendation on how to fix our system!

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Audrey