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Old 07-11-2008, 09:01 AM
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The Legendary Tirade of Louis T. McFadden

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Originally Posted by Paulitics View Post
I believe Lindberg said that right after the Fed legislation was passed.
Lindberg definitely said, after creation of the Fed, that depressions/recessions would now be scientifically created.

But was I was thinking of was :


......Here I present excerpts from his speech with my comments and analysis (the entire text may be found in the Congressional Record, pages 12595-12603).

Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States; has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it (C.R. p. 12595).
Once the hyperbole and histrionics are deducted, there is little remaining of substance in the above quotation. McFadden makes the claim that the Federal Reserve had cost the federal government enough money to "pay the national debt several times over."

The Legendary Tirade of Louis T. McFadden
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