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Still Using Federal Reserve Notes?(How to Beat Inflation)

"My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge."How's  that  for  representative  government?
Hosea  4:6"The one aim of these financiers is world
control
This  short article will address the topic of
by  the  creation of inextinguishable debts."
inflation, its causes, the effects thereof,
and--Henry  Ford
how  to  safeguard  against  it.Now  you  know  what  the  dollar  is.
Do  not  fall  victim to inflation, i.e., theThis  brings  us  to the underlying causes of
government manipulation of your money. Let meinflation. Let us remember that the dollar is
an
explain.
instrument of debt, i.e., a loan. As such, it
must
I.  What  Causes  Inflation
be repaid, and with interest. Where will the
money
Have you ever heard of the Federal Reserve?
Well
to the pay the interest come from,however, if
the
then you know what causes inflation. The
"Fed"  is
principal itself never existed? Why, it must
be
the engine of inflation, by self-admission.
But
printed. The bankers are a clever lot,
admittedly.
how can that be?, you ask. The "Fed" is a
branch
The most important factor causing inflation
then,
of  the  federal  government,  no?
is the interest charged by banks(the
It is not. It is neither federal, nor areshareholders
there
of the "Fed"), the costs of which are then
any reserves - anywhere - to speak of. Timepassed
was,
along to consumers in the form of higher
when the American dollar was indeed as goodprices.
as
Inflation is, purely speaking, an inflation
gold, for it was actually backed by gold.of  the
These
money  supply, as required simply to pay this
days, the dollar is no more than a three cent
interest. The money supply, or number of
piece of paper(the three cents includes thedollars,
price
is inflated, or expanded, thereby reducing
of  ink),  worth  anything  only  because ourthe
government says it is. This is to say, thatvalue  of  each  and every individual dollar.
the
Know that it is not, generally speaking, that
dollar has value due only to government's
faith  in
commodities are rising in price, but rather
that
the people's ignorance, or, more accurately,
the
the dollar is losing value. With every new
dollar
people's ignorance of their government's lack
of
that is printed, each pre-existing dollar
loses
faith.
corresponding value. And when you have a
The story of the Federal Reserve exemplefiesdollar
this
that is worth less, naturally, it will take
infidelity, the greatest fraud evermore
perpetrated  on
of  them  to  make  your  purchase.
the  American  people.  Even the most cursory
Worse yet, because all our "dollars" are
investigation will reveal that the "Fed" is adebts
private corporation, a "cabal" of bankers, ifloaned into circulation, and with interest
youdue,
will.  As  with  most  corporations,  it  hasthe more of them there are, the greater the
impact
shareholders - mostly foreign, in this case.
Thison inflation. In other words, inflation is
not
bears repeating: the controlling interest in
theonly here to stay, it must, by definition,
only
company known as the Federal Reserve is
European.get  worse.
And I thought we won the Revolutionary War(!)Thusly, and seemingly, prices rise. In
reality,
Let  us pause here. My dear reader will agree
you are wanting more of the devalued dollars
for
that  the  aforementioned facts are cause for
the same amount of goods. In the absence of a
gold
concern: of much import and gravitas, for you
standard, this is not only entirely possible,
academic types. For the rest of us, it is abut
matter
encouraged.
of everyday life, indeed, one of survival.
Truth
"In the absence of a gold standard, there is
no
be  told,  and at the risk of sounding like a
way to protect savings from confiscation
Democrat, it is getting harder. Let's clearthrough
the
inflation. There is no safe store of value.
air, and get down to brass tacks. Does yourIf
salary
there were, the goverment would have to make
double every ten years? It had better,its
because  the
holding  illegal,  as was done in the case of
average price of a new car does. Clearly we
are
gold... The financial policy of the welfare
state
dealing  with  inflation  here,  and  clearly
require that there be now way for the owners
government-given figures regarding inflationof
are,
wealth  to  protect  themselves.
well, underinflated. What is not as obvious
is
"This  is  the  shabby  secret of the welfare
that  there  need  not  be  inflation.
statists' tirades against gold. Deficit
spending
But first, a question: What is in your pocket
at
is simply a scheme for the 'hidden'
confiscation
this  moment?  Is  it  a  one  dollar  bill?
of  wealth.  Gold  stands  in the way of this
Congratulations! You are one dollar in debt!
Do
insidious process. It stands as a protector
of
you perhaps have a twenty? Then you are
twenty
property  rights."
dollars in debt. For this is all that the
dollar
--(a younger and much more
honest)AlanGreenspan:
is, no more than an instrument of debt. It is
Gold  and  Economic  Freedom
simply the federal government's obligation to
the
As we can see, inflation is a hidden tax, and
Federal Reserve, with you - the American
people  -like the income tax itself, is the interest
we  are
pledged  as  collateral.
paying  to  the  Federal  Reserve.  It  is no
Observe the back of a cancelled check from
thecoincidence that both the "Fed" and the IRS
were
IRS: it will often state, "Pay any Federal
Reservecreated in the same year, just as it is no
secret
Bank,  for  debts  incurred by the US Gov't."
that  prior  to  that  year, 1913, the income
It works like this: a)government needs money
totax(along with property taxes, incidentally)
were
operate; b)government borrows money from
privatenonexistant. The constitution, in fact,
strictly
bank(Federal Reserve); c)private bank prints
moneyprohibits such a direct tax on income.(Where
is
"out of thin air"!(This is known as
fractionalthe ACLU on this?) The inescapable conclusion
is
reserve banking, the discussion of which is
beyondthat the more government spends, the more the
the scope of this article. But I urge theFederal Reserve profits. It is for this
readerreason
to  conduct  his own investigation.); d)sincethat we have the welfare state we find
ourselves
government  gets  its  money from the people,
oppressed  by.
government  issues legal tender("dollar"), in
Did I mention that Alan Greenspan(titular
head  of
effect, "passing the buck"; e)ignorant
American  is
the private company known as the Federal
Reserve)
now  forever  enslaved by debt, owing Federal
visits  the  White  House  on a weekly basis?
Reserve  what  he  thought was his own money.
Can you say conflict of interest?



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