What we have is government controlled by a few giant corpo - rations, and they got their power by acquiring the power to create the national money supply.

What we have is government

controlled by a few giant corpo

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rations, and they got their power

by acquiring the power to create

the national money supply.

“If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue

currency [paper money], it was given to them to be used

by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corpo

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rations.” —

President Andrew Jackson

“Whoever controls the volume of money in any coun

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try is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”

—

President James A. Garfield

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America

arise, not from defects in the Constitution or confedera

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tion, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from

downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and cir

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culation.” —

President John Adams

“The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds with

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out one penny...” —

Congressman Wright Patman,

Con

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gressional Record, Sept 30, 1941

“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the

United States government’s institutions. They are not

government institutions.They are private credit monopo

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lies which prey upon the people of the United States for

the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers.”

—

Louis T. McFadden,

Chairman of the Committee on

Banking and Currency, 1932

• The power to create money in our nation has been

usurped by a private international banking cartel, which

issues our money as debt and lends it back to us at

interest.

• Governments get blamed when things go wrong; but

they are actually just pawns of the cartel.

• We the people can get back our government and our

republic only by reclaiming the power to create our

own money. We can use the same credit system that

private banks use, but administered as a public utility,

monitored and overseen by public servants.

• To be a sustainable system, profits need to be returned

to the community rather than siphoned off into private

coffers.

• We have faith in the government “of the people, by the

people, and for the people” set out in the Declaration of

Independence and described by Abraham Lincoln. But

what we have is government controlled by a few giant

corporations, and they got their power by acquiring the

monopoly on creating the national money supply.

• “Allow me to issue and control a nation’s currency,”

Amschel Mayer Rothschild allegedly said in the 18th

century, “and I care not who makes its laws.”

That last statement may be apocryphal, but that is how

they did it, and that is the power we have to take back if

we want a just and trustworthy government that repre

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sents people rather than wealthy corporations.

—

Ellen Brown,

attorney, Chairman of the Public Banking

Institute

and

author of

Web of Debt

(www.webofdebt.com)

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far

reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system

of financial control in private hands able to dominate the

political system of each country and the economy of the

world as a whole.”—

Prof. Caroll Quigley,

Georgetown

University, and author of

Hope and Tragedy.

The Public Banking Institute (PBI) is a non-partisan think-

tank, research, and advisory organization dedicated to ex

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ploring and disseminating information on the potential utility

of publicly-owned banks, and to facilitate their implementa

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tion. Through its consolidated corporate business model, the

actions of a banking industry, dominated by the “money cen

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ter” banks of the Federal Reserve, have precipitated the eco

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nomic imbalances now witnessed across the US economy.

PBI seeks to explore the possibilities for, and to facilitate the

implementation of, public banking at all levels - local, region

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al, state, national, and international. Its approach is informed

by the historic role of public banks, in the U.S. and elsewhere,

in fostering access to cheap and readily available credit for

governments, businesses, and individuals, particularly with

respect to creating productive capacity.

www.PublicBankingInstitute.org

“It is well that the people of the nation do not

understand our banking and monetary system,

for if they did, I believe there would be a

revolution before tomorrow morning.”

—Henry Ford, Ford Motor Co.

“Well, we’re starting to understand and this is

the beginning of the revolution...the banking

revolution.”

—Ellen Brown, Occupy LA Teach-In