Sanders Speech Before Bernanke Confirmation Vote

Sen. Bernie Sanders went to the Senate floor to explain why he opposed the nomination of Ben Bernanke for a second term as Fed chairman. While Bernanke was confirmed later in the day, 30 senators opposed him, far more "no" votes than the previous most for a Fed nominee (16 against Paul Volcker)

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[TheTruePooka]

Actually, Bernanke wasn't just incompetent. He was willfully criminal at stealing taxpayer money and giving it to the bankers.

We all now know that what he did was not necessary. At the very least, the manner he did it wasn't necessary.

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"Hey Bailout Bankers! We Want Our Money Back!" petition.

[kryptoart87]

Sanders/Kucinich 2012!!!!!!!!!

[Meade556]

America is a conservative country my rear.

[mit26chell]

@IcedEarth426 Point being, when you realize the extreme lengths these six men actually went to, to travel to Jeckyll Island, GA, in order to secretly draft up this plan, you quickly see that their actions alone should have been criminal. For God's sake, they didn't even go by their real names on the train, took a private car on the train, were instructed not to dine with one another the night before their departure, were instructed to pretend like they didn't know one another at the station, etc

[mit26chell]

@IcedEarth426 These two public officials, knowing well at the time that there was a strong distaste for ANY type of central bank throughout the country, especially among liberal democrats like William Jennings Bryan, purposely met in private with the Money Trust of the nation. The people were seeking legislation AGAINST the money trust, so the money trust, with the help of two public officials, disguised themselves in the Federal Reserve Act, lied to the public & Congress, and enslaved the ppl.

[mit26chell]

@IcedEarth426 It's a system, created by6 men, only 2 of whom being public officials. The others were: Frank A Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York (most powerful bank in 1910) & representative of William Rockefeller & the international investment house Kuhn, Loeb, & Company, Henry P Davidson, a senior partner of J.P. Morgan, Benjamin Strong, head of J.P. Morgan's Bankers Trust Co, and Paul M Warburg, a representative of the Rothschild banking dynasty in England and France.

[mit26chell]

@AwesomeBeatles This is a key characteristic of fiat money and inflation. They are literally designed to cause a vast transfer of wealth from the poor/working middle class to the upper, wealthy class. Inflationary monetary policy *always* erodes, then completely destroys, the middle class of civilizations.

Allowing unregulated competition in money by repealing the legal tender laws would significantly help restore the poor-working middle class, & aid in competitively eliminating the Fed.

[mit26chell]

@TheTruePooka It's not even 'was,' he's STILL robbing the taxpayers and this country, day by day, and in broad daylight!

[AwesomeBeatles]

Business as usual. The rich get much , much richer, and the middle class and poor pay for it.

[OptOutAffiliate]

Bernanke and everyone who recieved our money ought to give it back. It obviously wasn't needed, as several top members of AIG and Goldman Sachs recieved huge bonuses. We want our money back, and we want our government to stop disregarding the US Constitution, our HIGHEST LAW, that was written by the men who founded this great nation. They are supposed to do as We the People tell them to do, not the other way around.

[slowmanEF]

Good words from Mr. Sanders!

[carlxmorales]

GO,GO Bernie, we got your back.