[glock rocks]

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent they conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

[zzeeman]

There ya go, that says it all, doesn't it.

The beginning of the End: Jekyll Island, December 24, 1913.