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To: chilepup

An audit of the Fed would be feckless.

The Fed has to be stripped of any power over our money. That power constitutionally belongs to the House of Representatives, and it must be returned there.

Cain has no understanding of that fact.


1,521 posted on 10/06/2011 5:49:33 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: mrreaganaut

ping to 1521. Your opinion?


1,528 posted on 10/06/2011 5:53:47 PM PDT by reaganaut (Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Wrong, Cain knows and has said that anything having to do with the Fed has to be done through Congress first. It wasn’t until the last debate that Ron Paul agreed.


1,572 posted on 10/06/2011 7:35:51 PM PDT by chilepup
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To: editor-surveyor; reaganaut
An audit of the Fed would be feckless. The Fed has to be stripped of any power over our money. That power constitutionally belongs to the House of Representatives, and it must be returned there. Cain has no understanding of that fact.

It sounds like you favor Ron Paul. I agree that the Fed is a bad idea, but I can't agree with your certainty that it must be 'stripped of any power.' Remember, the Fed came before we left the gold standard, so the power to create fiat money still lies with the Treasury, technically.

Under a gold standard, the Fed can't collude with the Treasury to print money, but the likelihood of that is still pretty low. Without severe reform, the best we can hope for is that the federal budget will actually stop expanding. This is only possible with a Republican president WHO IS ALSO A CONSERVATIVE. I don't hold out hope for the establishment just rolling over in the primary process, but they are weak.

I don't know why you think Cain has no understanding of that fact. He did serve in the Fed, in the belly of the beast. Replacing the Fed is something that must follow other, more basic reforms.

1,576 posted on 10/06/2011 8:07:29 PM PDT by mrreaganaut (There is no salvation in politics.)
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