Although a century of British experience has proved to what a wonderful extent the funding on specific redeeming taxes enables a nation to anticipate in war the resources of peace, and although the other nations of Europe have tried and trodden every path of force or folly in fruitless quest of the same object, yet we still expect to find, in juggling tricks and banking dreams, that money can be made out of nothing, and in sufficient quantity to meet the expenses of a heavy war by sea and land. It is said, indeed, that money cannot be borrowed from our merchants as from those of England. But it can be borrowed from our people. They will give you all the necessaries of war they produce, if, instead of the bankrupt trash they now are obliged to receive for want of any other, you will give them a paper-promise funded on a specific pledge, and of a size for common circulation. But you say the merchants will not take this paper. What the people take the merchants must take, or sell nothing. All these doubts and fears prove only the extent of the dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens, and especially of those inhabiting cities or other banking places; and this dominion must be broken, or it will break us. But here, as in the other case, we must make up our mind to suffer yet longer before we can get right. The misfortune is, that in the mean time, we shall plunge ourselves into inextinguishable debt, and entail on our posterity an inheritance of eternal taxes, which will bring our government and people into the condition of those of England, a nation of pikes and gudgeons, the latter bred merely as food for the former.

Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, January 1815.

Jefferson was way ahead of his time.  He foresaw the issues we are experiencing today.  The value of the American dollar is an illusion.  It only has value because the banks and the government have convinced the American people that it has value.  It has none.

The pikes of today are actively trying to turn us into a nation of gudgeons.  They plot and scheme continually to make us serfs to their mastery.  They strive to make us dependent on them, which requires that we surrender our independence.  They work tirelessly to con us out of our freedoms so they can have more power.  They have many of us convinced that our Constitution does not mean what it says.  The Constitution says clearly and simply that no state may make anything but gold and silver tender for payment.  Yet, how many states accept federal reserve notes, which are money “made out of nothing,” as tender for payment?  What does it say about us as a nation when we have a Constitution, but ignore the simplest things it says?

Stumble it!