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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The second part is close to the last sentence in a letter Jefferson wrote to John Taylor in 1816:

Fake but accurate?

banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies

Railing against banks, not quite the same thing as....

swindling futurity on a large scale.

worrying about government borrowing

106 posted on 02/08/2010 5:49:59 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
Fake but accurate?

Buchal: "I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies."

Actual Jefferson quote: "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies;..."

Your reading skills are usually better than this.

Railing against banks, not quite the same thing as.... worrying about government borrowing

Unless the banks and the government are working together.

109 posted on 02/08/2010 6:11:33 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
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