Ben Bernanke with Jim Lehrer on Auditing the PRIVATE Federal Reserve

[megamogx]

Until the USA takes bake control of it's currency depression by design is inevitable...

[jduran9123]

Bernanke's a douche bag and just another puppet for the Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan empires lusting 'globalization' while violating and stripping us of our civil liberties.

What about Executive Order 11110 that JFK signed on June 4th, 1963 that gave back Treasury the constitutional power to create and issue currency: "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury", without having to go through the privately owned Federal Reserve.

[TheENERCHI]

He looks scared! LOL. This guy is a criminal. April 19th is Liberation!

[hwk1955]

"Congress looks at all of our books" ..... What a joke,these private banker's actions are the most secretive of all.

"Not consistent with independence" .... certainly not the American peoples independence.

"I don't think the American people want congress running monetary policy" ..... Don't speak for the American people,congress is supposed to be running monetary policy, not a private bank corporation.

[joescarafone]

Who trusts Congress?

[joescarafone]

YOU aren't better then me!

[joescarafone]

Great Ben, now the Taxpayer gets to look at them. What's the BIG SECRET?

[karlkarlkarl1234]

His real words are "PWEEAASE don't audit us because you will uncover the sad truth that we bail out banks that we ourselves are large shareholders of, bail out friends, that we are owned by foreign banks and hence foreign banks run the US, that we give heaps of free money to Israel, and that we have completely destroyed the lives of the average American citizen and are artificially stimulating the economy until we create a new "safe" fiat currency to screw even more people over worldwide".

[sobal79]

and you thought that the country has power! in a real world privet comp can be overcome by other privat company... why dont give it back to people?!

[YoDudeRock]

I want Congress running monetary policy.  The Constitution says that's it's responsibility!

[IridescentEye]

Why should a private company have independence over monetary policy? Surely this is an area that directly elected representatives should be dealing with. Who knows what private interests are being fulfilled with their policies. Totally unaccountable!!!

[Europe85]

Ben could'nt even give the correct history of when the Federal Reserve was created while being questioned by congress. It was December 23, 1913, Ben, "A Day Of Infamy" The World Bank & IMF

[DJCW]

stop bullshitting BEN!!! and open the damn books!!!! Don't you think the banks have had economy power long enough? They have brought the WORLD economy to its knees and still asking to borrow more money, now the bankers are getting ready for marshall law.

The world is watching!!

[kronckjc]

My favorite movie is Hang em High...

[infoblitzkrieg]

Well, at Least, on One point--I have to say I agree with HeliBen: This group of gangsters in Congress, I Don't want to have the authority to dictate monetary policy[Did I REALLY just agree with old Red-Tie Ben? Maybe it's the new UN-Blue Necktie...]

[RealFoodRemedies]

So, you can see how great of a job the International Bankers have done--they have conditioned most of the people to believe that there should be an "independent" (that's a good word to use for garnering support) monetary council of private bankers. Ben piles on saying, "you want CONGRESS to make monetary policy (LOL)"--no, we don't need ANYONE to make heavy-handed monetary policy, BEN!

[RealFoodRemedies]

Give me back my purchasing power--96 Cents! This FRN is worth only 4 Cents since your boys have performed the 100 yr wealth transfer operation.

[MsIMListening2U]

Independence from what? Accountability?

[Tomorer]

Forget audit the Fed. If there proves to be no gold in Fort Knox there should really be a complete overhall of money itself. It really is a load of rubbish. Cant we all just get along? Money is the reason for corruption. People cant trust anyone with it. No gold in Fort Knox = Noone really gives a shit its just a power trip!

[capitalist4life]

I am surprised that Jim Lehrer of the truly state-run media even brought up that topic.

[PumpkinJoe999]

Let's say he's right, congress can't control currency, but it can tell people how much money they can pay employees?

That doesn't sound consistent with independence either.

Congress can control the entire economy, but not our money supply?

[DBlundon]

Ben Bernanke is scared because if they audit the fed, he would be spending the rest of his life in jail.

[wanabyastick]

I think the fed needs to understand that the people don't want the fed and we will destroy the grip that the banksters have on OUR country, audit then destroy!!

[TABOOVSKNOWLEDGE]

His argument is do you want to get shot or stabbed!

An audit? To mild!

More like an Home Invasion!

[michaelpshipley1]

i almost feel sorry for the guy. he looks so pitiful. i think he really believes what he says, he's just wrong. this is what id say to him:

"im sorry mr. bernanke, but you failed. i know you believed you were doing the right thing, the noble thing, i know that, i respect you for that, but it didnt work. i hold no grudges. i wish you well. but its time, you have to go, we need our country back."

[idahoMW]

This guy finally looks scared.

Really scared.

This is GOOD, we should make him and his cronies pee their pants.

Transparency, openness and truth.

They shuffle trillions of YOUR dollars like pocket change to themselves and thier friends, wouldn't you like to know how?

Wouldn't you like to stop this thievery?

[Schwanke78]

Bernanke is a lying sack of shit, lies, lies and more lies. HR 1207 opens up the real books and then watch the Federal cockroaches run from the light! Also the Constitution states that Congress and only Congress are to regulate monetary policy!

[oweifhraoiurh]

right, but do you really want congress controlling fomc decisions and whether they are going to be successful or not. Members of the federal reserve are trained economic academia. Congress really has no business whether they should decide a decision should be passed or not without proper education about the actual economic function the ultilization is trying to achieve. It would slow down monetary circulation in times where credit needs to be available at the economies discretion.

[michaelpshipley1]

congress wouldnt control the money supply, treasury would.

the treasury is just as competent as the fed, and is also part of the executive branch, which is no more or less independent of congress as the fed.

at any rate, the problem isnt so much who controls the money supply, its the fiat currency system that allows unlimited printing.

if you go back to a full reserve gold backed currency, the treasury could be trusted to print gold backed dollars. they did it before, worked fine.

[oweifhraoiurh]

right, treasury is a part of congress.  I dont really know. I'd trust bernanke over Geithner and Paulson.

[Schwanke78]

No Treasury is part of the Presidents appointed staff, now true they answer to Congress and youre absolutely right about Geithner and Paulson. But the Fed's hooking up their buddies to buy other banks and foreign loan programs, I am not buying that and something needs to be done.

[evilevanevilevan]

Geithner is from the federal reserve buddy, have fun trusting him.

[wanabyastick]

members of the fed are thieves using the law to rename theft. nothing to do with gov should be done in secret. Credit needs to be done away with all it acomplishes is making slaves out of working men and women and make rich people richer using the money of the working class. All that proper economic education teaches is how to leach off of other peoples money. find an honest job!

[sonofaglitch2]

Yet more bullshit and lies from Helicopter Ben. How anyone believes anything this moron says is mind-boggling.

The Fed was last independent when, exactly? It was established to benefit the big-banks' cartelization scheme, and to provide infinite credit for the blood-sucking lifeforms in the federal government.

Audit the Fed, the ABOLISH IT.

[militantrebell]

hr1207 audit the fed!!!

AUDIT THE FED !!!!

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT CONGRESS TO AUDIT WHAT HAPPENS WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS

[HarleyEqLoser]

Bernanke is exactly right. We DO NOT want Congress mucking with the Fed - this act will create bad precedent for arbitrary knee-jerk "show" audits based upon political brinksmanship.

Read the stupid thing. The Act provides poor parameters for accountability and will do nothing to help focus a coherent monetary policy. However, it will help to re-elect numerous shill congressman and placate the huge number of morons who post here.

And that's what we want, RIGHT?

[michaelpshipley1]

its the feds monetary policy that has caused this financial crises, and all the other ones as well.

the US doesn't need a "coherent" monetary policy. it needs the government and its appointed monetary policy monopoly (the fed) OUT of the "coherant" monetary policy business, and give it BACK to the free market where it came.

the audit bill is merely meant to reveal what the fed does, counterfeit dollars. once that is done, people will demand its abolishment.

[reflectivegoat]

As far as Bernanke's point having to do with the importance of independence regarding monetary policy, it might be accepted by more people if this independence was the initial reason for the establishment of the Federal Reserve. Without this, he is basically asking people to believe that the United States could not function without this entity that came along after it.

[wanabyastick]

NO NO NO all government actions should be transparent and open to full audit with the full uncensored report available to the people period!!!

[NYredwhiteandblue]

I want congress running monetary policy too.... Enough with the private bankers... How dare we have foreign banks controlling us. And we, we work a third of a year to pay them their vig.... Hang em.. and hang em high....

[wanabyastick]

Hanging is to kind I was thinking more along the lines of a belt sander

[mcgrawtim123]

I'd rather have Congress running monetary policy, at least I know who they are and can vote against them, than some secret banking cabal like the Federal Reserve Shysters.

[mcgrawtim123]

Bernanke is lying!

[NYredwhiteandblue]

wow, what a liar.... we cant see what is really going on...

[MplsMafia]

Hey there Ben and Jim.... Your done. Be graceful and bow out, your just pissing' We The People off! The curtain has been ripped down by education, our Professors, people like Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Peter Schiff, Gerald Celente... The Emperor named Oz has no clothes and is a ugly lil naked old man kinda like David Rockefeller. We young and strong and will kick your ass if we have to. Back off! Your FIRED!

[Carlitos1010]

Why does the Fed need to be independent again? ... second question, why does it even exist all together?

... corruption.

[jcliffb1]

uh... uh.... uh... Listen to that shaky voice, too. How dare congress try to have anything to do with monetary policy, since that's one of the few things that the constitution grants it the authority to do. In 1913, though, a handful of traitors in the house of reps and senate, along with woodrow wilson passed a bill when the most of the congress was on break (only majority required then) handing over power of monetary policy and loans to the government to their friends who own the fed.

[michaelpshipley1]

his voice is always shaky like that from what ive heard.

[fortsmith1]

What is The Fed hiding? These FU*KERS ned to be audited then abolished and all their assets giving back to the American People. Criminal indictments should also be brought aginst those found to involved in illegal activities. Then their buildings demolished and shooting ranges put in their place or a park.

[11pepperoni11]

jeeze ...how short do these morons think our attention spans are?

[Arginine88]

No the bill will look at all the money being laundered to other central banks and banks here in America, hence your corrupt monopoly game would be OVER!

[bob733333]

ok. lets just abolish the federal reserve. let's move forward.

[klard]

Hey I think Bernanke finally stumbled into what is going on here. Americans don't want his Federal Reserve to be independent anymore.

[potentiallywasted]

We are gonna expose those bastards and he knows it. The rein of the fed is coming to an end.

[Ishpeck]

Bernanke misrepresents the bill. The audit would take place post-facto of the monetary policy decision. He's grasping at straws.

[LeandroCenturion]

DAM HIM AND HIS JEW CLAW.

[MandrikSG]

The SHOULD be able to audit monetary policy decisions. We need to know WTF you are doing with OUR money, you asshole!

That f*cker is sweating this bill. Look at that idiot squirming in his chair. You know we're all doing something right when a Fed chairman is doing interviews & "town hall" meetings. This is unprecedented. Keep it up, people!

[TABOOVSKNOWLEDGE]

Only Dead Men Are Independent!

[GenXFuturist101]

The "dingleberry" doesnt seem to realize that ONLY CONGRESS HAS percisely that authority.

XD

"Independence" of independent non-govenmental power-brokers who currently hold every industrialized nation by the crotch-hairs.

The FED is SO done!

[darktoadthesticky]

he is so lying

[shoeman3434]

The crooks at the FED have no souls. All they do is lie, cheat, and steal. Oh wait, so do the criminals in D.C.

END THE FED and KICK THEM ALL OUT! (except Ron Paul)

[FreeganGleaner]

For starters, the amount of makeup on Bernanke makes him look like a pumpkin.

Ron Pauls's Bill, HR 1207, has the Fed scared shitless.

And you can hear this fear in Bernanke's voice as it trembles most notably @ 0:45

The only ones who fear audits are those who have reason to fear them; those who have something to hide.

I for one would honestly like to know just how much Gold the United States has. Ron Paul's legislation would do just that : tell the People how much Gold they have & where it is

[macdaddi88]

robtopazz, ur SO right....he is so smooth normally.....and he looks "terrified".....u said it all with ur comment....i watched 30 secs - read what u wrote in ur paragraph and HAD 2 comment now...now ill watch and enjoy....peace

[eurohim]

Yeah, we should just end the Fed.

[lostinthemix]

Executive Order 11110 was signed into act by JFK in the summer of 63 in Nov of that same yr JFK was murdered by the FED RES. BTW that Excutive Order was to shut the FED RES down!

[macdaddi88]

JFK was ALSO shot b/c he didnt want isreal to have nukes...google mike collins piper, yo....! : )

[SuperNinjah333]

Help! Is it Hot in here? Ooooh My tummy doesn't feel good,I need my mommy....Barney Frank where are you with your magnificent gavel of authority... Hey Ben the quiver in your voice states that Congress was duped by Banksters and SHOULD be making monetary policy,remember the Constitution? Now you are going down as probably THE VERY LAST fed chairman,America wants our money back and Freedom of Debt/Slavery

[macdaddi88]

ha ha....VERY good.....the gavel line too.....werd up, bro..... prothink dott oorg

[Bankingcartel]

The central bank isn't authorized in the Constitution. The Constitution says monetay policy is that gold and silver be legal tender.

We will kill the bank.

[hailholyghost]

Hey BERNANKE

consistency with independence is irrelevant. Your organization is not consistent with the constitution, therefore it shouldn't exist.

btw there would be no inflation if we followed Article I, section 10 of the Constitution and made gold and silver the only legal tender LIKE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE.

What happened to government for and by the people? Why should you and your fellow banking oligarchs be able to govern people's lives without their consent?

RTFI, END THE FED

[ExomatrixTV]

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

~ Thomas Jefferson

[ExomatrixTV]

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit.We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

~Woodrow Wilson 1919

-The President who signed the Federal Reserve Act into Law !!!

!!! please read this at least TWICE !!!

[Justgetout]

That Woodrow Wilson quote is fake. He was actually proud of creating the Federal Reserve, and a tyrant like him would never say something so honest.

[psxwarrior]

I wonder why he didn't try to get congress to change the federal reserve act? After all, they are the ones that voted it into law. He could have gotten them to repeal the law. Of course, he may have ended up going to jail along with the rest of the fed croonies.

[boots920]

I would be more convinced but Ben seems to have a quiver in his voice.

Audit the destruction of the US, why that's insane we must have full independence as we destroy the country.

[LeandroCenturion]

lol with tax payers money why should the the federal reserve be independent?

[eurohim]

Heck, it is even worse. It is everyone's money that get affected by what they do. I mean, they created at least 9 trillion this year. That will turn into 81 trillion through fractional reserve banking. Imagine your current dollars being able to only buy a dime's worth of stuff...and that's being conservative with the inflation.

[psxwarrior]

It's not even tax payer money at all. It's fed money. It's debt. All that money is owed back to the fed. The money in our wallets isn't even ours at all. When you get down to it, we are all debt slaves, every single last one of us. When we pay our taxes, we are really paying back what the fed has created to lend out to us. It's not our money at all. Heck, according to the Constitution, it isn't even money. Gold and silver is, not worthless paper.

[michaelpshipley1]

why do they always say its tax payer money? the fed has no money. it literally just counterfeits it. the effect is to make prices go up, making current dollars worth less.

people don't believe it. they think its a "conspiracy theory." but its true.

when people finally see the truth, all hell will break loose. they will demand an end to the fed. THATS what the fed is afraid of.

[psxwarrior]

You're exactly right. Those dollars are supposed to represent the actual goods produced. We produce less, yet have more money. The money being printed by the fed is counterfeit money.

[justamomforjesus]

LIES  LIES LIES LIES AND MORE LIES

[truthfreedom4all]

We understand much more than you think asshole. Hang the bastard high!

[tstark172]

The Fed is UNCONSTITUTIONAL (period)

[greatgatsb90210]

IS HE shitting himself?

[hellsunicorn]

You bet your ass I want congress running monetary policy Bernanke, because that way if they start manipulating the money supply to increase their power over others I can vote their asses right out of power.

Auditing the FED isn't going to be enough, some of these bastards need some jail time.

[mejesus]

Our government was the 'monetary policy' untill than, for more than 130 years.

[Mauro1002]

Ben Bernanke LIES!

[mejesus]

The fed came more independent? The fed was absolutely independent in 1913.