The Constitution, Part 2

If you have not yet read Part 1, I encourage you to do so prior to reading this post. If you are unclear on how modern banking works, in particular how the FED works, I strongly urge you to read this post.

We ended part one with the newfound understanding that 1933 was a very bad year for Liberty. It was a disaster for the Republic. Next we will explore why 1933 was such a pivotal year. 1933 was the year that the Fed’s 20 year charter expired. This was the year they were to either be dissolved, or have their charter renewed.

We can presume that congressmen voting on renewal would first consider whether or not the Fed had done “a good job”. The fed’s public mandate was to maintain the value of the dollar and to ensure that there were no economic fluctuations or panics. That was their entire public mission. Had they done well? No! 1933 was the 4^th year of a calamity the likes of which America had never known. The great depression was laying waste to the entire country. So, WHY WAS THE FED CHARTER RENEWED? The $1,000,000 question.

If you have read this post, then you understand that the FED is a private corporation. They pay the US Treasury to print money, paying only for ink and paper costs. They pay the same amount for a $1 bill as they do for a $100 bill. Then they lend that money to the US government at interest. To say this is the holy grail of “money for nothing” is an understatement of vast proportions. It guarantees, without any doubt, that eventually the country will be bankrupt. But when will a country the size of America be bankrupt?? When it can no longer pay the interest on it’s debts. When might that be? That day already occurred. It happened in 1933.

After 20 years, from 1913 to 1933, having lent America the money to fight WW1 and then lending money with reckless abandon throughout the go-go years of the “Roaring 20’s” the Fed had brought the American government to it’s knees. Just as the deadline to renew it’s charter approached, it stopped lending money and demanded payment on it’s huge notes to the American government, industry and farmers. The government could not pay the interest on it’s debts, let alone the principal. It was technically bankrupt.

The new President was informed of the situation shortly before taking office.  The Fed was arguably correct in saying: “A deal is a deal. A debt is a debt. Pay up or accept that we will foreclose on everything the country has.”  FDR may have felt like he had a gun to his head and no choice in law.

Others, this author included, would argue that they did not “lend” America anything, as they gave only printed paper that the Treasury had printed for them. It was not real money. In any case, after 4 years of the Great Depression there was no way FDR could pay the interest on the country’s debts. What was he to do? We can argue what he should have done (and we should in fact argue/discuss it). But after the arguing is over we must come to grips with what he in fact did.  He yielded to the Fed’s demands.

Unable to pay them the massive amounts owed, FDR offered to steal the gold of the entire American Citizenry, and give it ALL to the Fed’s owners as partial payment of debts owed. The Faustian bargain of this de facto bankruptcy proceeding was that the Fed have it’s charter renewed, and would continue to make “private money” available, but the “money” would no longer have any intrinsic value. Of course, most American people would not understand the depravity of the situation, so a façade of legitimate government could continue.

BUT how would future debts to the Fed be paid, now that the American people had no REAL MONEY (gold) with which to pay?? The Fed, like world governments, want to be paid in real money. Gold is how international banks and nations settle their debts to this day. WHAT DID FDR OFFER AS COLLATERAL FOR ALL THE DEBTS SINCE 1933?

Collateral must be substantial and tangible. FDR pledged the labor of the American people, in the form of income taxes, which can be thought of as rental fees for the use of the private notes/money the fed makes available. By 1973 the government was also pledging American lands to the Fed, which is why so very much of the country today is land which can not be developed by American Citizens. It is “protected” in the name of parks, wildlife, historical places, etc. The REAL reason is that it is being protected from being developed by anyone other than the ones to whom it has been pledged – the owners of the Fed.

The ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the American government has been a Ponzi scheme of a scale so tremendously huge it can scarcely be believed. But it is all true. However, like all Ponzi schemes it will fail when there are no longer enough new people coming to the party to support the payouts. The American Ponzi scheme was beyond huge. It was so huge that it took 75 more years, until 2008, for that balloon to begin to pop.

The next charter renewal is scheduled for early in 2013. It is interesting timing, is it not?