The 20 dollar insult.

[Dark Aerow]

I've been reading this book about Andrew Jacksons fight against central banking on and off during the past couple months. I've always loved Andrew Jackson ever since I heard about how he "killed the bank". Jackson is easily my favorite president because of the passion and hatred he had toward central banking.

I've somehow managed to overlook something for the past 3 years that I've known about Andrew Jackson and his hatred of central banking. I needed to put some "fake" money on my university card so I could pay to leave the parking lot, so I got out my wallet and grabbed a crisp $20 bill to put on my card. Right then I noticed that it had Andrew Jackson printed on it, the irony almost killed me; I was actually genuinely PISSED OFF when I realized this. I'm more annoyed and angry than ever about our government, the Federal Reserve and the mass ignorance about monetary policy in this country.

I spend every second I can reading about monetary policy and then informing people about how government fucks them in the ass and then steals their money. If I have anything to say about it this country will wake up from its insanity.

 

[amy31416]

Andrew Jackson is truly one of the most interesting presidents we had, a true rebel.

 

[Pauliana]

He was very interesting, indeed. And putting him on federal bank notes was kind of like pissing on his grave. grrr...

 

[ARealConservative]

I was expecting the likeness of Bernake on a Double Eagle.

 

[molly_pitcher]

Poor Andy, if you were that pissed, think how he must feel.

 

[Dark Aerow]

Poor Andy, if you were that pissed, think how he must feel.

Yeah, he must be rolling furiously in his grave. I can only imagine what would happen if he were alive today and saw what has become of our country.

 

[Fox McCloud]

as someone said here (or maybe it was just on the 'net)...

"Irony is Andrew Jackson on a Federal Reserve Note".

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "elites" manipulated that to happen just to be a subtle jab to Mr. Jackson.

Either way, Jackson wasn't a SUPER great President, but I admire him for "killing the bank".

I do find it really neat though, that Thomas Jefferson is on the nickel...which is going up in value against the dollar.

 

[heartless]

I do find it really neat though, that Thomas Jefferson is on the nickel...which is going up in value against the dollar.

FTW!

 

[Dark Aerow]

Either way, Jackson wasn't a SUPER great President, but I admire him for "killing the bank".

Actually if it weren't for him killing the bank he would have been mediocre, irrelevant or a horrible president. Some of the things he did were awful.

None of that matters to me though, he's still my favorite president because of he slayed the "many headed hydra of coruption". He understood the evils of central banking and how it corrupted washington. He saw it and dealt with it first hand with a level prowess and cunning that few men possess. He really was both honorable and truly incorruptible.

Unfortunatly, Andrew Jackson was no economist, and therefore didn't realize where the banking institutions power originated from, Fractional Reserve Banking. He essentially cutoff the heads of the hydra, but like all hydras...the heads eventually grew back.

Jefferson is my second favorite president though, a very close second to Jackson in my book.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

"Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit." - Andrew Jackson

"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated." - Andrew Jackson

"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses." - Andrew Jackson

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson

"If Congress has the right [it doesn't] to issue paper money [currency], it was given to them to be used by...[the government] and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations." -- President Andrew Jackson, Vetoed Bank Bill of 1836

These are some of my favorite quotes from these 2 great presidents. Their words even to this day ring with truth and wisdom.

In contrast, one of the few things I've heard FDR say that I ever liked:

"The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president." -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 23, 1933 in a letter to Colonel Edward Mandell House

I also love this quote...lol. It's just off the wall and awesome.

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word." - Andrew Jackson


...I guess that's enough, I was only going to post 2 quotes, one from Jefferson and one from Jackson...but i couldn't decide on just one.

I had to stop myself before I ended up quoting their entire biographies.

 

[pacelli]

I've been reading this book about Andrew Jacksons fight against central banking on and off during the past couple months. I've always loved Andrew Jackson ever since I heard about how he "killed the bank". Jackson is easily my favorite president because of the passion and hatred he had toward central banking.

I've somehow managed to overlook something for the past 3 years that I've known about Andrew Jackson and his hatred of central banking. I needed to put some "fake" money on my university card so I could pay to leave the parking lot, so I got out my wallet and grabbed a crisp $20 bill to put on my card. Right then I noticed that it had Andrew Jackson printed on it, the irony almost killed me; I was actually genuinely PISSED OFF when I realized this. I'm more annoyed and angry than ever about our government, the Federal Reserve and the mass ignorance about monetary policy in this country.

I spend every second I can reading about monetary policy and then informing people about how government fucks them in the ass and then steals their money. If I have anything to say about it this country will wake up from its insanity.

Almost as if they are using his image and passion for... evil ? They are rubbing it in his face, and rubbing it in the public's face every time you use their fiat currency.

 

[Fox McCloud]

"The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president."

It's rather ironic that he States this, because he is basically saying that he's corruptible, and that he probably already is....of course, he intentionally provoked the Japanese, then let them slaughter Pearl Harbor to get WWII...so, what do you expect?

I think there were a few other Presidents that were decent, but not many at all.

 

[Doktor_Jeep]

This is kind of like Che Guevera on a t-shirt sold by capitalists to white kids.

 

[Dark Aerow]

It's rather ironic that he States this, because he is basically saying that he's corruptible, and that he probably already is....of course, he intentionally provoked the Japanese, then let them slaughter Pearl Harbor to get WWII...so, what do you expect?

I think there were a few other Presidents that were decent, but not many at all.

FDR also handled the great depression in one of the worst ways imaginable. He gave the banks immunity (the ones who caused the problem to begin with) and then he went on to "spend us" out of the depression...then he sent us to war. Arguably the war might have eventually been neccessary but IMO the war lasted way longer than it could've/should've.

In all honesty, I'm actually glad we got into the war, if we hadn't japan may have developed the nuke before we did, it turns out they were actually pretty close.

In any case, I really don't like FDR, with the exception of that one quote.

 

[youngbuck]

It's rather ironic that he States this, because he is basically saying that he's corruptible, and that he probably already is....of course, he intentionally provoked the Japanese, then let them slaughter Pearl Harbor to get WWII...so, what do you expect?

I think there were a few other Presidents that were decent, but not many at all.

yea..