Posted on 07/25/2012 1:01:02 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Edited on 07/25/2012 1:06:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In a move that serves as a capstone to Rep. Ron Paul
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
,,,, ya think the Senate will even vote on it ???
Hardly !!!
Congress should be focusing on their own decision making process. They’re the ones authorizing all the spending and borrowing.
Congress should ALSO focus on their decision making process.
AND they should audit the Fed.
It is possible to do 2 necessary things at the same time.
Congress never enforces anything that the PEOPLE want.
Reid will not allow a vote on it.
You expect honesty from Harry “Butthead” Reid?
He’s so crooked he’ll have to be corkscrewed into his grave,
Roll call vote:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll513.xml
House doing some nice things today:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll511.xml
“BILL TITLE: Congressional Replacement of President Obamas Energy-Restricting and Job-Limiting Offshore Drilling Plan”.
Passed with 25 Dem votes.
And... “Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 738. H.R. 4078 “To provide that no agency may take any significant regulatory action until the unemployment rate is equal to or less than 6.0 percent.” “
Currently in debate.
Here’s a question...
If 95% of Nevada is owned by the Government, what percentage of Harry Reid is owned by the Government?
What Paul want's to do, is audit the FED's decision making process. Basically he wants the FED to have to account to Congress on a continual basis on how they arrive at every decision they make.
Effectively congress will be able to second guess every move the FED makes. You'll have Pelosi and Reid telling the FED that they should be making monetary policy that increases the number of bath houses in San Francisco instead of keeping the dollar stable and unemployment low.
It's a bad move.
And it plays into Soros' hand. The FED keeps things stable and when things are stable, traders like Soros can't make money.
I’m sure what a financial audit is, but I’m not sure at all what an audited decision-making process is.
Can you explain?
(serious question, DT)
Fascinated to hear any sane argument AGAINST it.
Ha-ha!! Very funny.
The Fed already serves two masters in conducting monetary policy at the demand of Congress: price stability and maximum employment.
It needs to go back to one chartered purpose.
Isn't that the provision where the party of fail accidentally wrote 6% employment instead of unemployment and the dems are saying that they will not allow the typo to be fixed?
bttt
That would be looking at the decision making process and the deliberations that lead to an actual decision, to see if the decision making process is complete, relevant, relying on accurate data, etc. And this is the part that you really don't want congress involved in, because they'll have them focused on all kinds of pet peeves.
When Congress set up the Federal Reserve they wanted it to be independent and not subject to political interference from Congress. So although they did provide for independent audits they set some restrictions on GAO audits as follows:
Restrictions on GAO Audits Contained in the Federal Banking Agencv Audit Act' (From 1993 GAO testimony)
Audits of the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve banks may not
(1)include transactions for or with a foreign central bank, government of a foreign country, or nonprivate international financing organization;
(2)deliberations, decisions, or actions on monetary policy matters, including discount window operations, reserves of member banks, securities credit, interest on deposits, and open market operations;
transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee; or
a part of a discussion or communication among or between members of the Board of Governors and officers and employees of the Federal Reserve System related to items (I), (2), or (3).
Transactions with foreign banks and FOMC transactions were excluded, because the FED enters these transactions to stabilize a market or avoid a crisis. You don't want to telegraph those moves. The GAO is too close to Congress, and it's too political. So it's not that those transactions don't get audited, it's that the "GAO" is prohibited from auditing them, and this was set up by Congress.
The other part of the GAO restriction is the decision making processes themselves. And again this was to keep the FED from becoming a political football. Most of the decision making process is public record anyway. They publish the minutes of the FOMC. Every time the Board of Governor's meet, they immediately announce their interest rate policy and why it is what it is, and what they expect in the future.
If you look at the following testimony from the GAO on their restrictions, on page 6 even they recommend that if their authority to audit is expanded, that additional safeguards will be needed to prevent disclosure of sensitive information as the result of congress requested audits.
GAO 1993 testimony on their restrictions
What Ron Paul's bill would show
The problem with Ron Paul's bill is he wants to report everyone the FED and FOMC is currently doing transactions with on an annual basis. Well if the FED is trying to shore up a part of the financial system, and restore confidence, and you publish details of exactly which countries or institutions are in trouble, you're just throwing blood in the water. That will cause bank runs and people like George Soros will look for opportunities to undermine you and make a profit off of it.
I can understand the desire not to want sensitive info to leak.
I can also understand the desire to have openness.
If I had people I knew I could trust, then secure information would bother me less.
If I had people I was suspicious of, then I would everything transparent.
It sounds like Paul is suspicious.
My Congressman Paul Gosar co-sponsored this bill.
I’ve had 3 opportunities to speak to him in person over about a week recently, but only for brief amounts of time each time. The first time I told him about the Desertification Treaty and how it was snuck through and how concerned many of us are that it would be done again. He didn’t indicate if he already knew about it or not, but, by his face I could see he at least took it seriously. Then we were interrupted.
The second time I asked him if he knew about how much treaties effect our federal laws and he does (he started with Indian treaties, but also said he knows about UN treaties too) and he understands how bad the pending treaties will be for us.
The third time I asked him if he understood that the reservations, declarations and understandings that we put into all treaties supposedly to protect our Constitution are actually null and void. He does, and he said there are several people in the House looking into it to see how/what can be done...
It’s too bad he’s in the House instead of the Senate and my Senators are McCain and Kyl, but at least there are people in DC who know and understand and are concerned.
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