Posted by
novelator on Monday, January 26, 2009 7:27:02 AM
Barney Frank must be one of the laziest, most anti-American members of Congress. After his wonderful track record in royally screwing up the economy, he's come up with a "brilliant" idea to give even
more power to the Federal Reserve, if the story in the Washington Post is to be believed.
The Federal Reserve is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Created in 1913, the Federal Reserve was nothing but a bill of goods sold to the People as a way to ensure economic stability after a series of bank failures had the national economy in a tailspin (sound familiar?). Congress then voted to allow a consortium of privately-held banks to take over their constitutionally mandated job of creating and printing the money. But anyone who's actually read the US Constitution knows this was never what our forefathers intended. However, this may have been the first rather egregious example of Congress making less work for themselves. And successive Congresses have been emulating this example ever since. We get less and less work out of our elected employees every year, and less willingness to take responsibility for what they do to us and take from us on behalf of themselves, their pockets, and their corporate benefactors.
Now Mr. Frank would have the members of Congress do even less work for the exorbitant salaries we the People pay them. Oversight of the Federal Reserve and the banking industry? That's apparently too difficult a task for poor Mr. Frank and his pals. He probably doesn't understand simple math anyway. How much he was paid by the Federal Reserve to propose this legislation is anyone's guess, but the fact that he is on their dole couldn't be any clearer.
There ought to be a law. Oh wait, once there was a whole herd of laws called the Constitution of the United States of America. Maybe Mr. Frank needs to go home and study this fine document. Perhaps all the members of Congress, up to and including the President and Vice President, should be required to pass an entry level exam on this and other important documents--the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights--prior to taking their oaths of office. Nowhere in any of these finely-crafted instruments where each word was weighed and measured does it say that the duty of US Senator or Representative is to hand off their work constantly, repeatedly, to private corporations like the Federal Reserve, which itself exists in defiance of the US Constitution.
Mr. Frank needs to go home and learn what an American is, what hard work is, what the Constitution actually says, and then perhaps run again for office when he understands that we the People aren't paying him or any other member of Congress to continuously pass the buck on their responsibilities to us. And he can damn well take the Fed with him when he goes.
I suppose though, being as uneducated as he apparently is in all things American, including the history of our fine country, Mr. Frank and his Fed compadres will eventually have to learn the hard way, just like the British King in 1776. To my way of thinking, we could save ourselves a lot of time and expense and taxes if we simply bought them all a ticket to England now.