[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

I have actually read every word of Jekyll Island, and I agree with a lot of it. But that was 100 years ago. We cannot simply drop everything to sit down and try and put the toothpaste back into the tube. It's been 100 years, you can't just unravel them and be back where we once were.

Bravo!

What you have just articulated is precisely Ron Paul's policy. The guy is on the house finance committee (may have the committee wrong, it may be banking), he already knows that an immediate shift would cause chaos, and has said so. His actual policy is one of a gradual phase out of the federal reserve, (which is neither 'federal' nor a reserve) through competition.

The man, in spite of his critics, is not a fool.

[A_perfect_lady]

I’m glad to know he wouldn’t just yank out the plug and let the chips fall where they may concerning the FR. Unfortunately, it sounds like he would definitely yank out the plug on most of our foreign policy. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like a little gentle twisting and pulling on that plug: I don’t see why we give away the money we do, and I don’t see why the U.N. is allowed on our shores. But I’m just not for evacuating the Middle East, leaving it half undone, leaving Israel twisting in the wind, and letting the chips fall into hands that are almost nuclear.