Great posts about malignant and toxic and parasitic bankers - from 1800 on...

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“The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor”

Helen Keller
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“Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.”

J. Edgar Hoover
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“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

Robert Frost
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Lord Acton
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1. Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen. Woody Guthrie

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3. I always thought that that was Bob Dylan -

Which it is - but you are right, the Folk Music Maestro of all times said it first.

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2. Napoleon Bonaparte, and more John Adams and...

Napoleon Bonaparte-

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."

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John Adams, quotes about Banking:
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
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Maxwell Anderson, quotes about Banking:
When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.
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[Solomon]

4. Finally. Thread about the banking problem that plagues us.

Something is terribly wrong about the international banking system. It makes slaves of us all. Making us pay taxes to secure loans they force us to borrow with which they force us to buy weapons and wage war. Loaning to both sides of every conflict to boot.

That's just a big ole bowl of wrong.