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To: Toddsterpatriot
It's the above portion of your claim I deny.

I don't care if you deny it, it's cold hard math.

If you had one, you'd post it.

Why bother, your mind is made up. If you had an iota of intelltual curiosity you would have looked it up yourself and wouldn't have bothered to keep arguing a case where you are clearly mistaken.

The Federal Reserve, like many other central banks, is an independent government agency but also one that is ultimately accountable to the public and the Congress.

An independent government agency although it's employees are not considered government employees? A government agency that isn't in the government's register of government agencies? That isn't audited by the same group that audits all other agencies? That doesn't have budgets approved like all other government agencies? One free from the same oversight as any other government agency? At a certain point their "independence" determines that they are a private organization as their ownership clearly indicates.

The very web sight you link states quite clearly their ownership. Is there some other government agency that is owned by someone other than the government?

I guess I should just listen to them and their "independent government agency" explanation rather than my own lying eyes.

45 posted on 10/01/2013 6:41:38 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Durus
I don't care if you deny it, it's cold hard math.

Right. You just can't show me.

Why bother, your mind is made up.

I know, why bother proving your ridiculous claim?

If you had an iota of intelltual curiosity you would have looked it up yourself

I have tons of curiosity, just no time to figure out what idiotic conspiracy site gave you that fake tidbit of info.

An independent government agency although it's employees are not considered government employees?

Yup. Except according to this, Fed employees can enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. You can check for yourself, at the .gov website I linked.

The very web sight you link states quite clearly their ownership.

Sure did, government agency.

49 posted on 10/01/2013 7:21:55 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Durus
Is there some other government agency that is owned by someone other than the government?

There are 70 independent agencies listed here.  It's got the Fed and other stuff like the CIA, but one of them they listed is the Panama Canal Commission, and the link shows a canal owned by a foreign power employing a foreign workforce.  Of course PCC employees used to be federal employees and the website also says--

Due to Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government, the information on this web site may not be up to date.

52 posted on 10/02/2013 4:41:41 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: Durus
...it's employees are not considered government employees?

Found it!  At the Federal Government Office of Personnel Management's data site they got info on all 1,285 federal employees working with the Federal Reserve whose fed paychecks total  $146,604,567 yearly.  They got no employees listed any more with the Panama Canal.

53 posted on 10/02/2013 6:07:30 AM PDT by expat_panama
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