Our Government And Those Big Banks

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. 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 will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson

   Mr. Jefferson was certainly right on this issue, as it would seem that most of our founding fathers had more common sense than do our latest batch of " experienced " professionals in government and economics. Read the above paragraph again, and note that Jefferson's words are coming to fruition. Thus far, President Obama and his so-called " advisor's " are playing along to the tune of the banks.

    We are getting fucked, and we will continue to get fucked until we get really loud. Those ass-wipes in D.C. are leading you and I into the gutter folks. What are we going to do about it?

  President Obama has appointed those same crooks who worked us into this financial mess in the first place, to fix it?  That's not change I can believe in!

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Conservatives Hate Transparency..

  and boy are they now up in arms over President Obama revoking Bush's executive order to keep presidential records hidden from public view.

Conservatives hate transparency

by Daisy Cutter   Fri Jan 23, 2009

"Democracies die behind closed doors."
    - U.S. Appeals Court Judge Damon J. Keith

"Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix."
    - Harry Truman

"What I’m afraid of is that what Obama did with this executive order is actually make it easier for the media to go get Bush documents. Because you know Pelosi and some of the guys over in congress are talking about war crimes trials and charges and so forth. [...]

What I’m afraid of is what Obama’s done here is made the gathering of the information for this kind of stuff– This is not American. This is not America. This is not what America does. We don’t– This is Banana Republic kind of stuff."
    - Rush Limbaugh

FreeRepublic:

This is about the LEFTIES socializing this country and destroying anything President Bush did.
As Barack is showing himself for the Ideologue that he is, he is forgetting he will only be in D.C for a short period of time.

Others will come after him, his political path will do nothing but come back to bite him in the end.
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This is actually about setting the stage for a prosecution of Bush and others in his administration.

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I’m well aware of what is taking place. They’re on a witch hunt. The other poster seems to think Barack Hussein Obama is working for the people, which is absolute nonsense.

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This is a Witch Hunt. SO hold on folks, you can bet if anyone does not agree with the POS, the IRS will be called out,etc.

HotAir comments:

He open divorce records, why not these. When is he going to unseal his birth certificate or at least his medical records or maybe even his college transcripts.
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Maybe he did this so leftists could plow thru Bush’s records in an attempt to find ammo for prosecution. I simply have a hard time believing Obama had some kind of altruistic intent here.
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...In other words, now the Clinton administration documents will be opened. Bush, we know, is honest. The Clintons? Not so much.
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Ah, yes, Mr. Sunshine. The same guy who did everything possible to hide his connections and votes from the American people when they could do something about them suddenly has a change of heart when we’re stuck with him for four years. Such a shame he wasn’t as transparent about his domestic terrorism connections.

The Orwellian world view of the wingnut mind is a fascinating thing indeed. Transparency and accountability makes America a "Banana Republic?" I mean, really Rush? Maybe conservatives should think of it this way: if Bush has done nothing wrong, then he has nothing to hide. If wingnuts hate America so much that they want to keep basic public policies a secret, maybe they all should think about leaving. I've heard that North Korea has a fairly closed society, maybe they'd feel more comfortable there.

I have documented Bush's penchant for secrecy a while back, and I hope that Obama does a great job of exposing his abuses of power. If conservatives don't like it, tough.

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