So, what is the national deb? When government spends more than it collects in taxes, it has to borrow the difference by selling interest bearing IOUs, such as US bonds. When a US bank buys a $100 dollar US bond, it gets to loan out ten times that amount. So, the bank not only gets back the $100 dollars plus interest from the Federal Government, it gets to loan out another $1000 dollars it doesn’t have and charge additional interest. Banks are allowed to create this extra money out of thin air. So, banks aren’t making just 6% interest, for example, they are really making over 1000% interest. That’s why bank buildings are the biggest in every town on the planet.

This system of lending way more than you have is called fractional reserve lending. Almost all our money is created by banks, lending it to people, to companies, or government.

As we’ll see, there is a better way for our government to get money. Simply issue it without debt for the benefit of all citizens equally. Abraham Lincoln did it. Ben Franklin did it, Jefferson wanted to do it. Honest Americans have fought against this bank controlled-debt money system throughout American history. But unless we change it soon most of our freedoms will soon be lost in a tidal wave of debt.

75 years ago an employee of the Atlanta Federal Reserve explained the importance of the debt money system and how it can strangle our economy:
“Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation… If the Banks create ample money we are prosperous if not we starve when one gets the complete grasp of the picture the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is incredible… It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon.” -1934, Robert H. Hemphill, credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Nobody’s talking about the debt problem as such. They’re talking about the fact that the the bankers aren’t making enough money to live in the way that they’re accustomed to.

After 600 years, the money changers were finally able to reassert their control over English money when they convinced the Parliament to create the Bank of England. This put the banking community back in control of manipulating the quantity of English money. Now England had to borrow its money supply from banks and pay interest on it, instead of the government simply issuing its own money without such debt. So in England we learned that simple sticks of wood broke the monopoly of gold money. This debt free money lasted for seven centuries and allowed a small island nation to rule the waves and freedom to root deeply in the new middle class, With the goldsmiths back in control, England was now financing its wars with this bank loaned money.
Just 75 years later, England’s war debts consumed 75% of its budget. Three quarters of British taxes were spent just on paying the interest on its war bonds. As a result England needed to squeeze more and more money from all her colonies to pay the interest on this new growing debt.

America was no exception.

Pre-revolutionary America was still relatively poor. There was a severe shortage of precious metal coins to trade for goods. So the early colonists were increasingly forced to experiment with printing their own homegrown paper money. This paper money was called Colonial Scrip. Colonial scrip was a dangerous concept for bankers. It broke the colonies free of the privately owned central banking system where a money had to be created by banks and then loaned to governments, as Franklin put it:
“In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. …we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay to no one.” – Benjamin Franklin

In 1764 the British Parliament passed the Currency Act. Again it ordered all Americans to pay their taxes in gold or silver coin. For those who believe that a return to a gold backed money is the answer for America’s current monetary problems, look what happened to America after the Currency Act of 1764 was passed. As Franklin put it:

“In one year, the the conditions were so reversed that the prosperity ended, and a depression set in, to such an extent that the streets of the Colonies were filled with unemployed.” -Benjamin Franklin.

To Ben Franklin, this return to a gold money system was the basic cause of the American Revolution.

“The Colonies would have gladly 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 dissatisfaction.” -Benjamin Franklin.

Americans were mad and did everything they could to get around Britain’s gold money system. In 1765 Parliament past the Stamp Act, requiring that every item sold had to have a stamp placed on it indicating that a tax had been paid on that item and paid in gold. This is what drove America to open revolt.

Do you understand what that means? Without gold you could literally buy or sell nothing. Why? Because the British had successfully forced the colonies to pay for everything using only a precious commodity, gold. This is the very definition of the word plutocracy, ruled by the rich.

By the outbreak of the revolution in 1775, the colonies started printing a new form of paper money to finance the war. I was called Continental Currency. Because unlike Colonial Scrip, it was the first issued by the new central government. Continentals worked great at first, but then the British started counterfeiting it massively sending it to America literally by the bail. By the end of of the war the currency was virtually worthless, as George Washington lamented: “A wagon load of money will scarcely purchase a wagon load of provisions.”

Earlier Colonial Scrip has worked, because just enough was issued to facilitate trade and counterfeiting was minimal. In other words the quantity was controlled by the government that issued it. Gold bugs today try to claim that because paper money didn’t work during the Revolutionary War, it shouldn’t be used today. But keep in mind it doesn’t matter what backs your money. All that matters is who controls its quantity. Will it be your elected officials? Or will it be some unelectable banker? Colonial paper money, before the revolution had worked so well, that the Bank of England had Parliament outlawed, and forced America to use only gold money. Gold which they controlled.

On our next stop on the yellow brick road, which represents the bankers gold money system, we find how the curse of the privately owned central bank first came to America.

In 1781 towards the end of the war, the Continental Congress met here in Philadelphia. They pondered what to do about their grave financial situation. The money was so worthless that the people papered their walls. Congress finally agreed to give a group of bankers a monopoly on creating US money by loaning it to the Government. It was the first privately owned central bank. The plan of course was modeled on the bank of England. The new bank would be called the Bank of North America. It would be the first of a string of controversial privately owned central banks which Congress would charter, and then in the face of public outrage, uncharter over the years.

Four years later in 1785, the value of the new currency had plummeted. Inflation was rampant. Prices had risen by 72%. So after a stiff battle, Congress killed this, the first privately owned central bank in America.

Two years later when it came time to write the Constitution in 1787, many of the delegates did not remember how well America’s government issued paper money had worked in Pennsylvania. They were still stung by the inflation of the Bank of North America and the hyper inflation during the revolution, primarily caused by British counterfeiting. Strangely the Constitution allows the Federal Government to borrow money, but is silent on the federal role on printing paper money, known in the language of the day as emitting Bills of Credit. This defect in the Constitution is at the root of all our economic problems today.

Two years after the Constitution was signed, debt free money was tried in Sweden in 1789, but with tragic results. To pursue a war with Russia, King Gustav III persuaded the Swedish Parliament to print debt free money called riksdalers. This was very costly to the bankers. Sweden had learned the secret to printing its own money without debt. In 1792, only three years into the experiment, King Gustav was assassinated by money lender Jacob Johan Anckarström. As is frequently the case in time of war, too many riksdalers were printed. The quantity was not controlled. A nation with sacrifice everything for survival during time of war. So inflation ruined the debt free money experiment in Sweden by 1834 just as it had a few years earlier during the American Revolution, again, because the quantity was not controlled.

The problem is since 1864 we’ve had a debt based banking system. All our money is based on government debt. We cannot extinguish government debt without extinguishing our money supply. That’s why talk of paying off the national debt without reforming our banking system is an impossibility. That’s why the solution does not lie in discussing the size of the national debt rather it lies in reforming our banking system.

well what we’re about to show you is that there’s nothing federal about the Federal Reserve and there are no reserves. The name is a deception created back before the Federal Reserve Act was passed, in 1913, to make Americans think that America’s central bank operates in the public’s interest. The truth is that the Federal Reserve is a private bank owned by private stockholders and run purely for their private profit.

The Federal Reserve really, even though it is not part of the federal government, it is more powerful than the federal government. It’s more powerful than the president, the congress, and the courts. Now a lot of people challenge me on that but let me prove my case. The Federal Reserve determines what the average persons’ car payment is going to be… what their house payment is going to be, and whether they have a job or not and I submit to you that’s total control. And the fed is the largest single creditor of the United States government. …The borrower is servant to the lender…

When his son Mayer Amschel Bauer inherited the business, he decided to change his name to Rothschild. Amschel soon learned that loaning money to governments and kings was more profitable than loaning to private individuals. Not only were the loans bigger, but they were secured by the nations taxes.

By cooperating within the family the Rothschilds soon grew unbelievably wealthy. By the mid 1800s they dominated European banking and were certainly the wealthiest family in the world. They financed Cecil Rhodes making it possible for him to establish a monopoly over the diamond and gold fields of South Africa. In American they financed the Harrimans and railroads. The Vanderbilts and railroads and the press. And, Carnegie and the steel industry among many others.

“The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained as one block, and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination of the world.” –Otto Von Bismark

Lincoln understood who was really pulling the strings and what was at stake for the American people. This is how he explained his rationale.

“The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers… The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity…
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.” –Abraham Lincoln

If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt.

It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.

…claimed that Lincoln was assassinated , not only because international bankers wanted to reestablish a central bank in America, but because they also wanted to base America’s currency on gold. Gold they controlled. In other words, put America on a gold standard. Lincoln had done just the opposite by issuing U.S. notes. Greenbacks, which were based purely on the good faith and the credit of the United States…

They were the men interested in the establishment of the gold standard money system and the right of the bankers to manage the currency and credit of every nation in the world. With Lincoln out of the way they were able to proceed with it in the United States. Within eight years after Lincoln’s assassination silver was demonetized and the Gold Standard money system set up in the United States.

3 years later American the people elected republican James Garfield president. Garfield understood how the economy was being manipulated. As a congressman, he had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee and was a member of Banking and Currency. After his inauguration he slammed the money changers publicly in 1881.

Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce… And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

Unfortunately, within a few weeks of making this statement
on July 2nd of 1881, he was assassinated.

“After WWI, Germany fell into the hands of the German international bankers. Those bankers bought her and they now own her, lock, stock, and barrel. They have purchased her industries, they have mortgages on her soil, they control her production, they control all her public utilities. The international German bankers have subsidized the present Government of Germany and they have also supplied every dollar of the money Adolph Hitler has used in his lavish campaign to build up a threat to the government of Bruening. When Bruening fails to obey the orders of the German International Bankers, Hitler is brought forth to scare the Germans into submission… Through the Federal Reserve Board… over $30 billions of American money… has been pumped into Germany… You have all heard of the spending that has taken place in Germany… Modernistic dwellings, her great planetariums, her gymnasiums, her swimming pools, her fine public highways, her perfect factories. All this was done on our money. All this was given to German through the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve Board… has pumped so many billions of dollars into Germany that they dare not name the total.” – Rep. Louis T. McFadden (D-PA)

At first Roosevelt railed against the money changers as being the cause of the depression. Believe it or not, this is what he said on March 4th 1933 in his inaugural address.

“Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion rejected by the hearts and minds of men… the money changers have fled from their high seats of the temple of our civilization.” –Franklin D Roosevelt March 4th 1933 in his inaugural address

But, 2 days later Roosevelt declared a bank holiday and closed all banks. Later that years Roosevelt outlawed private ownership of all gold bullion and all gold coins with the exception of rare coins. Most of the gold in the hands of the average American was in the form of gold coins. The new decree was in effect a confiscation. Those who didn’t apply risked as much as 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine; the equivalent of $100,000 today. Out in small town America some people didn’t trust Roosevelt’s order. Many were torn between keeping their hard earned wealth, or obeying the government. Those who did turn in their gold were paid the official price for it; $20.66 per ounce. So unpopular was the confiscation order, that no one anywhere in government would take credit for authoring it. No congressmen claimed it. At the signing ceremony President Roosevelt made it clear to all who was present that he was not the author of it and publicly stated that he had never read it. Even the Secretary of the Treasury said that he’d never read it either saying it was quote ‘what the experts wanted’. Roosevelt convinced the public to give up their gold by saying that pooling America’s resources was necessary to get America out of the depression. With great fan fair he ordered a new bullion depository, built to hold the mountain of gold the U.S. government was illegally confiscating. By 1936, the U.S. bullion depository at Fort Knox was completed. And in January 6th 1937 the gold began to flow into it.
THE RIPOFF OF THE AGES WAS ABOUT TO PROCEED.
In 1935, once the gold had all been turned in, the official price of gold was suddenly raised to $35 per ounce. But the catch was only foreigners could sell their gold at the new higher price. The money changers, who had heeded Warburg’s note and gotten out of the stock market just before the crash and bought gold at $20.66 per ounce, then shifted to London could now bring it back and sell it back to the government nearly doubling their money while the average American starved.