"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.”
-- Andrew Jackson
History records that he succeeded, and America had no central bank from 1836 to the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, which again brought corruption, speculation, and the present crisis. The only way to sound money and sound banking practices is to repeat President Jackson's action, and abolish the Federal Reserve, returning to specie-based currency!
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