Get Involved! Run as an Independent

Some people think this is a lark. Others think it's a waste of time. They say to me: why waste your time going up against the leviathon?

Why not I say? Or rather, how can I not? Like many people intelligent people who have stopped voting, I realized that I was wasting my vote casting it for any candidate who was a member of a traditional national party.

Rather than crawl in a hole or sit there shaking my fist at this screen or that newspaper, I figured that with what I have learned, I could do something. In the past couple of years, I have had the opportunity to lecture bank managers on how loans are issued. I had a letter written to me from a retired economist, apologizing for saying that my view was not correct. I had a conversation with a former member of the board of governors of Toronto Dominion, who acknowledged what I had learned about the banking system is correct. I have found that my economic views are the same as Thomas Jefferson.

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)

I discovered that Abraham Lincoln felt the same way.

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than beaurocracy. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe." -Abraham Lincoln