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Old 07-31-2009, 12:25 PM
 
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With no partisan hacking, insults or ridicule, who objects to HR1207 and why?

Campaign For Liberty — Ron Paul: What Are They So Afraid Of?
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Old 07-31-2009, 12:30 PM
 
Location: Honolulu, HI
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Well, I'm a Liberal and I'm a BIG supporter of legislation to audit or abolish the FRB. One has to wonder where our nation would be today if the Federal Reserve Act was never passed in 1913.
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Old 07-31-2009, 12:31 PM
 
Location: US
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For those that don't want to listen to Ron Paul:

Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress)

H.R. 1207: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 (GovTrack.us)

I'd like to see this happen.
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Old 07-31-2009, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Who wouldn't want it, except for people being bad that don't want their misdeeds to be discovered.
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Old 07-31-2009, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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The only people who don't want it are either power elites or those who want to protect the status quo of shady monetary policy.
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Old 07-31-2009, 01:13 PM
 
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Along with that, check this out:

The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone
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Old 07-31-2009, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Along with that, check this out:

The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone

If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy

Sums it up, in 6 words.

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