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What You Don't Know About the U.S. Bailout


Voters are rightly furious at the proposal to spend $700 billion that the government doesn't have, just to bail out Wall Street bankers who created the current economic crisis in the first place. 

But did you know about the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is pumping into the system on top of that?  

Or the trillions missing from the Pentagon?  

Do you know what the real cost of the bailout of Wall Street may end up being?

 



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In an unfortunate turn of events, a revised bailout plan was approved after the first one failed to pass (which I reported on September 30th). Now we’re in the exact place Ron Paul has been warning us about for years.  

This $700 billion bailout may end up providing some short term relief – although recent stock market crashes around the world indicate that it’s failing to do so – but will undoubtedly accelerate the massive decline of the value of the U.S. dollar.  

And, what many also do not know is that this bill is NOT a $700 billion dollar bailout, but more like $5 trillion dollars, as reported by Bloomberg news service.  

As this video details, the Federal Reserve has created an average of $188 billion per day last week to prop up failing investment banks, and has pumped $630 billion into the global financial system to “alleviate” the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression. 

In the last week of September alone, more than $1.5 trillion of newly printed money – backed by nothing but thin air -- was made available in loans to Wall Street. 

What you end up with when you keep printing money is inflation – what Ron Paul equates to a tax. What’s really happening is that you are being taxed, without knowing it, to bail out these banks. 

For another really interesting video on how the Federal Reserve and our monetary system works, check out http://MeetTheFED.com, featuring Gary Franchi, Managing Editor of Republic Magazine interviewing Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, and Jerry Nelson, Corporate Communications for the Federal Reserve. 

Creating the Illusion of Money 

A mind-boggling $1 quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) is held globally in exotic financial instruments called derivatives. Derivatives are financial fictions; imaginary money created by leveraging real assets hundreds of times.

Unfortunately, the U.S. mortgage meltdown is now threatening to set off a chain reaction that could burn its way through this fictional-money-bubble. What happens then? 

Perfect Example of What Happens When You Run a Country With Monopoly Money 

I got a thought-provoking glimpse of what the reality might be like if the Federal Reserve does not stop this insanity when I read an article about the hyperinflation of Zimbabwe. Their inflation rate has now reached 231 million percent

Economists around the world say Zimbabwe’s economic collapse is gaining velocity, radiating instability across Southern Africa.

What caused this out of control inflation? 

Zimbabwe’s government went bankrupt, and in an effort to stay afloat they keep printing ever more money. This destroys the Zimbabwe dollar's value in terms of hard currency, sending the cost of goods, especially anything imported, soaring.   

Sound familiar? 

Inflation actually rose so high they had to lop off 10 zeros off the currency in August because the calculators ran out of digits. Had they left it alone, $1 U.S. would now have been worth about 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. 

For the population, days are spent standing in line at the bank to make the daily maximum withdrawal, just to get by for the day.  

The fact that no one in power is listening to the wise words of Ron Paul may end up haunting us all in the decades to come. 

Remember the Importance of Focusing Attention on Positive Changes 

However, as I’ve said before, fear may be the most real danger right now.

Once you step into the powerful emotion of fear, and you put your intention on what you don't want, you actually activate powerful natural forces that tend to provide you with whatever thoughts you attach strong emotions to – positive or negative. 

This is clearly something you want to avoid doing, so stop being afraid of the economy. 

It is important for you and your family to CANCEL any negative thoughts about the economy. Personally, I simply yell "Cancel!" and imagine a large red diagonal line going through any image I don't want. The more you and others do that, and focus your attention on the positive changes you do want, the more likely we will all reap the benefits of this positive focus and intention.



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Posted On Oct 09, 2008
They got themselves into the mess with their greed and poor policies, and now the government expects us, our children, and future generations to pay for it? How dare them. I say let them deal with it. Or have their CEOs and/or all responsible go to federal prison instead of walking away free with their salaries and profits.

You don't hear the government giving $700 billion, or having tax cuts for the average man struggling to feed his family. It's the same as stealing from the poor to give to the rich (like Prince John in Robin Hood).

And the next presidency isn't going to have the money to spend on infrastructure. If it keeps up, it's going to bankrupt the country. And there is no "trickle-down economics".

There's something a little out of place with society that I once read in a reader's feedback.

If bad behavior nets you a few thousand dollars, you go to prison and take your chances.

If bad behavior gets you a few million dollars, you get a slap on the wrist or go to a minimum security prison with luxuries and lax restrictions.

If bad behavior gets you billions of dollars, you walk away completely scot-free, you can deny whatever you want, the government even pass laws just designed to protect you and let you do whatever you want, or gives you a $700 billion bailout.

 
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Posted On Oct 09, 2008
Barney Franks and Chris Dod are great examples of your last line.  They even advocate its not enough risky loans Fanny and Freddy where doing.

 
 
 
Posted On Oct 09, 2008

In 1942, Germans devised a clever scheme designed to counterfeit hundreds of millions of dollars worth of British Pounds and destroy the British economy by flooding it with counterfeit money.


Today, the Federal Reserve is engaged in an eerily similar operation, counterfeiting trillions of dollars in U.S. bank notes and flooding the U.S. money supply with money created from nothing. The result, of course, is the same as was intended by Operation Bernhardt in 1942: The economic destruction of the target nation. Only this time, the target is the United States of America.

 

Read more about the similarities between the Federal Reserve and Operation Bernhardt: 


 
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Posted On Oct 09, 2008
The community I live in already has an alternative currency in place, absolutely beautiful silver coins minted by a local man, and worth their weight in well, silver. ($17 last fall)  They are accepted at the farmer's market and some health practitioners' among other places.
Most people are already engaged in a fair amount of trade.


All Under Heaven
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Posted On Oct 09, 2008
What do you suppose this means, Mr. AK?


stoic
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Posted On Oct 09, 2008
oh, silly! it is only "counterfeiting" when done by someone or some entity other than the fed/gov. lol.....


Mr.AK
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Posted On Oct 12, 2008
First of all - the Federal Reserve is NOT part of our government - it's a private bank - they don't want this to be public knowledge. 

When the government needs more money, the Fed starts the printing presses and just prints more - then 'lends' it to the government and charges interest on it. This is where your income tax - all of it - goes; not for services or infrastructure or government facilities - your income tax pays the interest on the money that the Fed prints up. So, as you can imagine, the Fed is more than happy to print up as much currency as we ask for.


xyzsch
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Posted On Oct 22, 2008

To AK

Your comment contains some errors.

1. The Treasury sells debt to the public, and pays interest on all debt. The Fed buys some, but not all of the debt.

2. Income tax pays for a lot of things, not just interest on the national debt. It also pays for defense, welfare, national parksa etc. When tax revenues are insufficient, the Treasury must borrow, i.e. issue new debt. That has been typical in recent years with the large Bush deficits.


 
 
 
Posted On Oct 21, 2008

It now becomes quite clear why third party, and people like Dr. Ron Paul were ignored in this so called election process.


 
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Posted On Oct 21, 2008

Baldwin/Castle '08


 
 
 
Posted On Oct 21, 2008

Is inflation a real force? Sure. Is the current administration causing inflation with its policies? Yes.

However, please keep in mind that all monetary value in anything is based on perception only. The silver coins that BeeGirl is using at her farmers market? Inherently worthless. The gold bars in Fort Knox? Very heavy bits of nothing.

The only reason why there is value in anything be it dollars, silver, gold or diamonds is that a critical mass of people BELIEVE there to be value.

Even the gold standard upon which the US used to operate was based in ‘thin air’. The reason why it was effective was not that there is inherent value in gold, but because there is a physical scarcity of gold in the world. The only thing that the gold standard did was to make sure that general fiscal policy treated dollars as a scarce resource because the underlying material to which the dollar’s value was tied was a scarce resource. We may as well have been using a cubic foot of helium.

Perhaps we should start paying for things using sandwiches – at least you can eat those.


 
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Posted On Oct 21, 2008

All too true, Formula_Agent.  Of course, your idea of using sandwiches takes us back to a system of bartering which has its own inherent problems.  For example, maybe I have too many sandwiches and can't possibly eat them all before they go bad, or maybe I don't like sandwiches at all and would rather have something else in trade for my cubic foot of helium.



Muslim Robot
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Posted On Oct 21, 2008

"monetary value in anything is based on perception only"

That is true. People perceive that the US dollar is tied to Gold go ask the average person. They still think their currency is tied to Gold in some form.

The only reason why the US dollar has this perceived value is due to it's previous link to this metal. This is why people believe it has value.

Fiat money is loses value over the years and can crash to nothing. I have seen a bag of chips go from 25 cents a bag to over a dollar in my lifetime. And there is less chips in the bag too.

Fiat currency is good for day to day transactions. But for saving your money over the long term, Forget it. Fiat money is not a good store of value. As long as you have people creating it out of thin air. You would be better off putting that money into something else.

At least with Gold you have to work hard to make it. The fed just creates money on a computer.

Overall something seems totally off when a non government bank can make 700 billion dollars from nothing and can buy real stuff with it. If I try to do that I get put in jail and if I created 700 billion I would have been nailed on a cross.


 
 
 
Posted On Oct 21, 2008

www.Mudutu.com - Knowledge is Power - Share it!

watch ZeitGeist: Addendum for a more in-depth explanation of this!

www.Mudutu.com/node/794

the Federal Reserve is Illegal!! Congress doesn't not have the right to sell the right of coining money to anyone else! Learn your Rights and Abolish the Federal Reserve!


 
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