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To: TopQuark

Post links to prove there is no foreign influence in our currency, reserve or government.


89 posted on 03/12/2011 2:17:23 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Post links to prove there is no foreign influence in our currency, reserve or government.

It don't work like that. You're making the charge, YOU post links supporting your contention instead of asking someone else to post links trying to prove a negative.

93 posted on 03/12/2011 2:23:46 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (Insane, Corrupt Democrats or Stupid, Spinless Republicans - Pick America's poison.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Post links to prove there is no foreign influence in our currency, reserve or government.

Contrary to what your teachers told you in school, links do not constitute the main source of education, nor are they arbiters of truth.

Moreover, your request is totally illogical. Suppose I asked you, "Post links to prove there is no Martian influence in our... government." Could you find such links (or books, for that matter)? I am pretty confident such links don't exist.

Your main mistake is in being hung up on "influence." The CEO of a company has a tremendous influence on the company (s)he leads. Even more: (s)he benefits personally whenever the company is doing well. So what?

What you --- and I and every American --- should be concerned with is whether there is influence that is contrary to the stated objectives. The CEO becomes a krook not when he exerts influence on the company but when he does so to the detriment of the shareholders. There is nothing wrong with any shareholder of the Citi, even the Arab sheik, to influence the bank towards greater profits. It becomes a problem only if he were to try to do so to the detriment of the rest of the shareholders or our national laws.

And that is where your "theory" falls apart. To do something against our country, the sheik would have to enter into a massive conspiracy with Americans that own and manage the Citi. In this country, it is difficult to create a successful conspiracy of half a dozen people: someone always blows a whistle --- to promote his own interests, if nothing else. What you believe in --- conspiracy by the banks and the Fed --- requires not just half a dozen people but thousands of people (in fact, different generations of people), and you assume that such a conspiracy remains undetected for decades. No offense, but this is utterly silly.

Public finance is a complicated issue. The banking system and its relationships with the government and business is a complicated issues. Studying it requires diligence and time. If you are interested pursue that path.

But it is a mistake to assume that one can understand economics by browsing the Web. You would probably laugh at me if I suggested that someone can learn higher mathematics, theoretical physics or engineering by browsing the Web. The thought that someone can learn economics from links is equally laughable.

106 posted on 03/12/2011 2:44:21 PM PST by TopQuark
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