Posted on 05/09/2016 11:25:00 PM PDT by TheWriterTX
He can tell the Fed it’s our money and we owe you nothing for creating debt out of thin air.
Didn’t work well for JFK though...
I hope Trump understands this.
I’ve been saying the same thing since 2008.
Didn’t work well for JFK though...”
Where’s my tinfoil hat....JFK had absolutely no concern about American monetary policy.
Great post. I think about this issue every single day.
I'm amazed that it hasn't happened yet.
Investment banks then had the ability to hold the US economy hostage without fear of going bankrupt.
God only knows what Hillary Clinton has for marching orders.
Yeah, I’m an expert, too! Buy my book!
I would, instead, state that Obola didn’t TRY to “stop it” - but instead, deliberately USED IT, ADDED to it, and CONTINUED the policies that created the recession of 2007-2016.
Without that recession, he could not have gotten in.
Everyone was trying to stop it. Congress had voted special spending packages in, before the wave hit, but it didn’t work.
If no one has coimed the term “taxslave”, I would like to coin it here. That’s all we are to the DC establishment
The GOPe doesn’t care but it has nothing to do with anything so complicated. The only significant policy difference between the nevertrumps and Trump is open borders, amnesty and trade. The Chamber types want amnesty more than anything else. The elected officials are fine with Hillary because they can use her to scare people into keeping Congress Republican. If Trump wins they aren’t in charge anymore, they don’t get amnesty, and people might just decide a Democrat congress wouldn’t be so bad and vote them out.
Hillary represents the status quo, and they like the status quo.
I remember the so called pundits here at FR telling us over and over that a second term of O would be a good thing because after eight years of his disastrous policies people would be ready for a ‘true conservative’.
Seems to me they were dead wrong
They were completely wrong. I think that was Ted Cruz’s play, which explains why he went to great lengths to depict himself as the true Constitutional convervative in the 2016 primary.
He probably figured that after eight years of Obama, the country would be hungry for a true conservative to right the course of the ship of state. He was wrong. Not even Republicans are hungry for a self identified conservative, preferring to back a non-ideological pragmatist, instead.
I think this also explains why Cruz became so unhinged towards the end. Not only was his plan for 2016 going up in smoke, but if his act didn’t play in 2016, he knows it probably won’t play at any time in the future during his lifetime.
Precisely
Do some quick research on “JFK and the Federal Reserve”. Astounding stuff.
It wasn’t conservative principles that did Cruz in. It was the “do what it takes to win” campaign and his lack of clarity on issues of trade and cheap foreign labor. Then there was the maddening talking down to folks when they disagreed with him. And, oh yeah, lots of folks aren’t convinced about his natural born citizen status.
Trump stakes out a few leftist positions but he is far more conservative than the average Republican in the House and Senate and this is good enough for me. Trump is the reliable and true conservative on my top issues which are trade and immigration.
Ted Cruz could not be trusted on these. Cruz was highly effective in the Senate and should have been content to do more there. But got a swollen ego and figured he could pull an Obama and catapult himself from freshman Senator to the Republican Presidential nomination to President. He was so ego-driven that he allied himself with GOPe skullduggery the last few months. Trump was very hard on Cruz and drove him to it. Trump made Cruz go crazy.
If a “do what it takes campaign” was his problem, Trump’s vicious “do what it takes campaign” would have done him in... so that’s obviously not the problem.
The problem is that we have an electorate that is too busy, too tired and too well-entertained to think their way through the shiess-storm of information, so they simply went with their emotions, as did the folks who gave us Obama, and voted for the funniest guy.
Folks who support Trump....it's for issues where Cruz is weak. For the fist time maybe since 1968, voters are AWAKE and LISTENING, and don't like what's happening in the world. That's why Cruz didn't get away with his inconsistencies and tactics.
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