Griftopia

As I read Griftiopia, it's nice to know BRT's not alone in stating we have been systematically robbed (and continue to be so), by Wall Street Banksters, thanks, in part, to the antics of Woodrow Wilson creating the Fed, Ronnie Reagan's voodoo economics,  the destruction of the Glass-Stegall act under Bill Clinton and W's disastrous financial policies, policies continuing unabated thanks to the current president all too willing to acquiesce to the powers at be in order to get reelected and continue to do nothing regarding the drastic changes needing to be made if the US is to survive as a viable nation. 

"Aside from the hot weather, it wasn't such a bad gig. But on one of his trips home, we met in a restaurant and he mentioned that the work had gotten a little, well, weird.

"I was in a meeting where a bunch of American investment bankers were trying to sell us the Pennsylvania Turnpike," he said. "They even had a slide show. They were showing these Arabs what a nice highway we had for sale, what the toll booths looked like . . ."

I dropped my fork. "The Pennsylvania Turnpike is for sale?"

He nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We didn't do the deal, though. But, you know, there are some other deals that have gotten done. Or didn't you know about this?"

As it turns out, the Pennsylvania Turnpike deal almost went through, only to be killed by the state legislature, but there were others just like it that did go through, most notably the sale of all the parking meters in Chicago to a consortium that included the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, from the United Arab Emirates."

After reading works like Griftopia, one comes away with the notion TR was the last president with real power as the government, during his administration, could print and manage it's money, an impossibility today thanks to the creation of the Federal Reserve, a cartel protected by government, in 1913. 

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." 

-  Mayer Amschel Rothschild