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2016 Postmortem

Nancyswidower

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2. What exactly does the following mean?

Reply to PatrickforO (Original post)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 05:18 PM

Nov 2016

"And, instead of getting rid of the Federal Reserve Act of 1912 and coining our own money like it says in Article II of our Constitution, we foolishly pay back money we should 'owe' ourselves to bankers with interest. "

We do actually print our own currency/money....loans, be it from US banking institutions or foreign entities... have interest burdens.....our Debt is not interest free.

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