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Occupy SF Protester Wants a Country Where ‘People Have the Right to Print Money’

What do the people at Occupy Wall Street really want?

According to this SF woman with the bullhorn, their demands are simple and very clear:

“We need democracy in this country… And not democracy that is run by politicians that are bought by corporations.”

“We need a democracy in this country where the people have the right to print money… and not a nebulous Federal Reserve.”

(Note that despite the presence of a bullhorn that allows everyone to hear what is being said, the crowd continues the zombie-like call and repeat chanting that has become the trademark of Occupy Wall Street speakers. The woman appears to roll her eyes at the crowd’s reaction to her message, especially the spontaneous laughter heard after she made the comment about printing money.)

H/T Opieradio.com

 

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:21am

    They WANT THEIR FREEBIES AND THEY WANT THEM NOW.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:17am

      Yea, why work when you can print money at home and buy whatever you want. Why not just use monopoly money, it’s already printed.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:43am

      Its like kids on Halloween knocking on a door, they get one piece of candy, then stand and stomp their feet demanding more, more candy. Some things need to be protested – Obama and the bailouts, Obama on no jobs – Universities for very, very high tuitions, unions and their taxpayer funded healthcare and pensions, Senate for their “no bills passed” by Reid and their overpaid salaries, healthcare and pensions, etc., etc. Get it right protesters and go to the White House and put tents on Obama’s lawn and fertilize his lawn!

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:47am

      occupy the damn whitehouse!

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    • for-what-its-worth
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:21am

      …“we need to take this opportunity to educate ourselves”…

      NO KIDDING!!!

      That’s the one thing I can agree with her about.

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    • db321
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:50am

      Correction – printing money sounds like hard work hard – let’s change it and allow the government to print the money and deposits in our checking account. That would work better. I’m too busy growing pot to stop and print money.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:06pm

      Technically though, I do have the right to use whatever I wish as a trade unit, as long as the party I’m trading with agrees to the exchange. Remember, greenbacks were forced on us a long time ago and at the time people were not even vaguely fond of the maneuver, preferring their gold and silver.

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    • Tom50
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:18pm

      Watch video…
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwqaKAUjhxc

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    • Who would Jesus bomb?
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:48pm

      If you LOOK like an idiot and you make idiotic statements, chances are you ARE an IDIOT. I am looking at the picture of the moronic protesters by the way, not talking about anyone’s post.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:04pm

      “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.”
      - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

      You can print your own money. You just have to convince the majority of Americans why your buck has better backing than the fed, and get them to use it. Good luck with that.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 3:51pm

      she ‘slept’ with someone to get the bullhorn right?

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    • slimster
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 3:59pm

      She doesn’t want freebies. she wants the privately owned bank known as the federal reserve to not be given any more freebies at our expense…

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    • TheFrogger
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:58pm

      Yeah, because the USA is the only country where the Central bank is owned by the banks AKA private shareholders and the rest of the world the government decides amount of needed money.
      That’s why Bush and Obama had/have to suck up to Bernake and friends to bail out America
      The comments under this article proves that most people in the USA have no idea where the USA stands compared to the rest of the developing world

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    • lapua338shooter
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:52am

      I have an uncle that’s still doing time for printing money…

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    • Tyson
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:20am

      Is that not what the Federal Reserve does for the US govt. Print money with no value and says it has this or that value?

      You can print pretty pictures on toliet paper and call it money but like Federal Reserve Notes they both end up being as worthless as the paper they are printed on.

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    • US_SOLDIER
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 9:34am

      -Cut Congresses pay to $75000/yr x 535= $40,125,000 in savings (roughly though its actually more)
      -End the War in Afghanistan= $450,000,000 in savings per year
      -Completely end the War in Iraq and stop with the lies= $800,000,000 per year
      -Cut the Presidential salary to $200,000 per year= $800,000 in savings for a presidential term
      -Abandon Obamacare= $2,000,000,000 in savings
      Thats already $3.3 trilliion in savings on just 5 programs, How freaking hard is it for the unconstitutional “Super comittee” and I didnt even go near the sacred cows like medicare, ss, and the other entitlements
      Im all for ending the Fed but when are people going to start bringing up the fact that if you serve one term in congress you recieve a salary of roughly $150000 per year for the rest of your life yet I have to serve 20 to hopefully (if they dont cut it like theyre planning) to get 80% of a measly estimated $48,000 salary. Guess thats what naturally happens when you get to vote on your own pay raises. My solution would be to keep the military benefits the same, im not greedy at all, but cut congresses pay to no more than $80000 per year and when they leave or get booted out theyre done. No more money, goodbye

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 9:48am

      I guess some of these ignorant twits really are cute. I saw 3 in that clip. Ignorant twits but cute.

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  • wbalzley
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:20am

    The title of this article is misleading. The OWS statement does not say that “people should be able to print money”; it says “THE PEOPLE have THE RIGHT to print money” an obvious constitutional reference often used by RON PAUL.

    Although I do not agree with many of the statements made by the OWS crowd, this one I firmly stand behind. It is the RIGHT of THE PEOPLE to issue the nation’s money–NOT private banks. For more information on the subject, I recommend watching “The Secret of Oz” on YouTube:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIhDdST27g

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:01am

      The Blaze using rhetoric? Say it ain’t so!?!? /sarc off

      Seriously, I appreciate the Blaze running stories that other media outlets won’t. That’s why I come here. However, the rhetoric is getting a little insulting to the intelligence lately. Case in point? This article. Didn’t Glenn say he hired people from MoveOn or HuffPo or something like that to work on the Blaze? I seem to remember him saying that. If so, it seems that their stripes are coming through lately. Spin and rhetoric are increasing around here.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:19am

      First off, the constitution doesn’t say the people get to print their own money. Congress is supposed to be in charge of legal tender. I agree the Federal Reserve is a private company, out for profit, but if you’re going to complain, get it right. The average Joe Public can’t be printing money in his basement and using it to buy things. It would be even more worthless than the paper money we have now.

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    • Joe1123
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:27am

      You’re out of your mind … and so is Ron Paul

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:30am

      Lorainn,

      That poster never said that “people” should coin money. S/He said “the people” have the right to coin currency. I‘m sorry if you can’t see the difference. But, if you’re gonna call someone out at least “get it right”.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:31am

      Brilliant post by Joe. /sarc off

      Seriously, at least try to formulate an intellectual argument when you are taking someone to task (in your own mind).

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    • turkey13
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:35am

      This is my kind of person. Just think – print money from 7 to 7 each day. Have a dump truck back up to your door and load it up on friday – go to store and hopefully you can buy a loaf of bread. Nope that won’t work because the baker is printing money also. Well at least the people making the printing machine will get rich because they will only take silver or gold for payment.l

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:40am

      @Turkey,

      Do you not see that this is happening right now? Substitute printing with digitizing and substitute store with bank and you have what is happening right now? Private companies are creating money and putting it on their own balance sheets. Does that bother you?

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    • COFemale
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:53pm

      Roth go peddle your lame arguments on Democratic Underground or MoveOn. Corporations uses the same money the rest of us use. They don’t print their own money. You are as clueless as that twit with the bull horn.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:01pm

      LOL @ Cofemale. Riddle me this serf….WHO is the Federal Reserve? Who owns it? Does it make a profit? Who get’s the profits? The TARP (didn’t end up being called that) procedes…where did they come from? Where did they end up?

      Man, no wonder the Fed gets away with this? Sheep like you make it easy. Tell me, can a dollar buy more or less than it did 5 years ago? 20 years? 50 years? Since 1913? Nice work sheep.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:18am

    Read the Constitution AGAIN. It doesn’t say that government has the sole power to print currency.

    It says it can coin money and regulate the value thereof. Currency is another subject entirely, and is not regulated by the Constitution.

    And then study history. Coin money and currency are two wholly different animals.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:28am

      I disagree. That is an enumerated power. It is the same as Immigration laws. The states or individuals can’t make laws that supercede or negate those created by congress. Thus the responsbility for currency lies “solely” with congress. The Federal Reserve act of 1913 was unconstitutional (on a few levels).

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    • wbalzley
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:33am

      Please explain the difference between MONEY and CURRENCY as defined in the Constitution.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:40am

      To pick up WB’s point. The advent of fiat currency in the US came well after the constitution was written. Many of our founders (and subsequent) cautioned loudly about the evils of fiat currecy. Fiat paper money was in no way part of what they wrote into the constitution.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:16am

    Actually we need a republic where people are free to print money. Yes, folks, the right to our own currency exists! This is not a lie. When the Fed prints their monopoly money, the only reason we accept it is because the government made us do it, and we have forgotten our history.

    We reject monopolies of other commodities, why do we allow international banking cartels to print fiat money in America? Tradition?

    Money is essential but that doesn’t mean we have to live under a Federal monopoly – there have been many currencies in the history of America. It has happened before and it should happen again.

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    • bandi9
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:18am

      you sir, are a moron.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:31am

      @ Band,

      At least explain before you start namecalling. Tell us the merits of a unregulated, unaccountable fiat monetary system that is in colflict (in my opinion) with article I section 8 of the Constitution.

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    • freedomweiner
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:31am

      Yes…………….Do some money homework and then call names. 1913.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIhDdST27g

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    • wbalzley
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:32am

      For research purposes, please name a few examples of currency issued outside the federal system (legally) that has been used in everyday commerce.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:49am

      @WB,

      I have read recently about communities using their own currencies. I’m not aware that there is anything in the law that says commerce HAS to be done in greenbacks. I think I saw in Utah(?) where they are using silver. Anyway, here’s a wili link to community currencies in use outside of the dollar.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_in_the_United_States

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    • Joe1123
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:28am

      I agree with the other comment. You are a complete moron.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:32am

      Well, let’s just go to a barter system. I’ll buy your chocolate bar with a tampon.

      /sarcasm off

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:32am

      @ Joe

      So says the poster who has yet to complete an intelligent thought. Yeah, name calling shows you’re smart Joe.

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    • YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:42am

      @Roth I know some on that list are nothing more than gift certificates (Chamber Bucks) to be use at participating business’s in the community. The business agree’s to take part in the program the Chamber of Commerce will sell the the bucks, you use them at the business and the Chamber reinburses the business. Just my opinion, but I wouldn’t count that as currency.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:50am

      @ guns

      I agree. I’m not defending the list. Just used it as an example. I think my stronger point was that people are using gold/silver as exchange now and municipalities and states have started to acknowledge that or in some cases use their own currency.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 5:45pm

      oth I know some on that list are nothing more than gift certificates (Chamber Bucks) to be use at participating business’s in the community. The business agree’s to take part in the program the Chamber of Commerce will sell the the bucks, you use them at the business and the Chamber reinburses the business. Just my opinion, but I wouldn’t count that as currency.”

      That is all “money” is. A gift certificate that people agree has value, though it really has none. The chamber of commerce ones are just local accepted, but if they got other communities to accept them as well, and to not accept dollars, that would in fact be currency and the feds would swoop in to punish them.

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    • wildbill_b
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:52pm

      5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

      Money as here used means gold, silver, and copper coins.1 ” To coin money” is to mould into form a metal lie substance of intrinsic value.2 The power was created for the purpose of making and preserving uniformity and purity in the standard of value.3 The power to regulate the value of money is exclusive in Congress,’1 and without limitation or restriction 5 as to coining and punishing for the production of a false imitation.0 It is in the discretion of Congress to make gold and silver, or anything else, a legal tender.7 The legal tender acts do not “fix a standard of value, or regulate money values, or ***make that money which has no intrinsic value***.s The grant of power to coin money is not an implied prohibition against making treasury notes a legal tender; ”> the power to coin and the power to declare anything a legal tender are distinct powers.10 The grant of power to coin does not make that coin of necessity a legal tender at the fixed standard.11 The power to fix the standard of weights and measures is exclusive in Congress when exercised.12

      Guide to the US constitution by the United States government circa 1881
      http://books.google.com/books?id=J0YLAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA83&ots=FQjsAFB0yi&dq=ex%20parte%20knowles&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q=ex%20parte%20knowles&f=fal

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:15am

    I guess they learned that from Obama.

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  • Censored_by_the_Illuminati
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:11am

    You can print money twerp. Just don’t try to pass it off as government currency. Of course you may have a little trouble getting people to accept your money.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:17am

      Right, because government currency is soo valuable. Bernanke can print money without accountability but YOU can’t. By rejecting her comment you MUST make sure you don’t de facto accept the status quo.

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  • usmc1063
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:09am

    How stupid can any one person get? Let alone a crowd of people. This is a product of our government funded educational system. Bet her parents are really proud of her. To tell the truth if I was her parent and saw this. She would immediatly find that her ATM and Credit cards would be cut off, I’d change the the locks on my doors along with all my phonne numbers. Toss all of her stuff into the street and let her go and print her own money. Once again it goes to show you these idiots have no clue to the value of anything let along the hard work thats to make a life..

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    • Neal
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:33am

      You forget that she is probably being paid very well to do this.

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  • Hickory
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:03am

    This is a perfect example of what we are turning out in our university system. These stupid twits are blowing this dumb crap about making everyone rich by allowing them to print phony money. You just can’t make this stuff up. Show me a young person with an advanced degree from a major university, and I will show you an illiterate fool. They can’t read, they can’t write and they can’t think. The dumbing down of our kids is in full swing. Obama is soooo proud of all this mess. He yearns to implement tribal law.

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    • ilovetheusa1
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:10am

      just remember this, these stupid kids have parents. where are the stupid parents that should be telling the stupid kids that this is a stupid movement.

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  • scuba13
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:01am

    Hey look, it’s Encinoms girl friend Monicne.

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:09am

      HAHAHA now that’s funny!

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    • bandi9
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:20am

      havent heard from that leech lately. maybe his parents cut off his internet access.

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  • Mutex
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:59am

    There should be nothing wrong with people printing their own money as long as none of us are forced to accept it. After all, money is a perception of value. If her own printed money is viewed as worthless, it’ll be discarded for use in monopoly games. Right now though if it’s actually worth something like a Liberty dollar, she’ll be thrown in prison.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:11am

      I don‘t think she is saying everyone get’s to print their own money. If you read the constitution the coinage of currency is expressly the responsibility of Congress. Congress (in theory) should be “the people”. The Fed absolutely has NO CONSTITUTIONAL right or authority to print money. CONGRESS does. And congress SHOULD BE a reflection of us. Are they?

      The Occutards are just that. BUT, you can’t let your disgust for them make you take intellectual stands out of spite.

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  • iac
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:59am

    I see two stupid adults in the still phot with apx 6 child rabble.

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  • Square Dancer
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:58am

    These people vote. Now that’s a scary thought.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:22am

      Actually, many don’t. That’s kinda sad too. The system is completely broken. Now, the occutards are not the solution. You must be careful that your rejection of the occutards doesn’t force you into a defacto support of status quo. Our system is very corrupt. We don’t get to vote for our best leaders because the two party system parades these goof balls in front of us because the “play ball”. Ike saw this 60 years ago. Even Wilson had deep regret on his deathbed about what he had done.

      We can agree with the Occutards that something ain’t right in the US. We can fundamentally disagree on how to fix it.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:41am

      @Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      I will agree with you on this point and from what I’ve read this point only.

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  • GeneTracy
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:56am

    “We have the right to print money.”So it will be as worthless as the occupy movement.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:00am

      No, it won’t be as worthless as those fake Federal Reserve notes, especially if it is backed by ANYTHING except AIR…like FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:50am

      Almost there isn’t it?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:56am

    Right for people to print their own money? Anarchist and a call for countefeiting…criminal offense for the latter.
    http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (cat folk gallery)

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:16am

      So when you read the Constitution and see “we the people” what do you think that means? “We the people” are the ones who have the responsibility for coining currency through representative government…NOT an unaccountable and corrupt FED. If you really want to get picky, then yes you ought to be able to print money. I ought to be able to decide if it’s worth anything. This is the whole point of why fiat currency is SOOOO ridiculous. If we used gold/silver could you not coin your own currecy? Could you not use bullion? Heck you could pan/mine it yourself and go buy a car. It has INTRINSIC value.

      I’m telling you. Just because the occutards are so disgusting don’t lose sight of right and wrong just to oppose them.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:41am

      Snow doesn’t think the Federal Reserve are private counterfeiters, and that Federal Reserve notes are fake money.

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  • Tired-of-fools
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:53am

    OMG, are these people all as stupid as they appear? I’m sure the Obamunist is in agreement with her as far as printing money is concerned. What these idiots need is a reallity check. My suggestion to them is, go back home, get a job, clean up your act, and most of all, TAKE A SHOWER! PLEASE!

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:51am

    And i want a 48 foot cabin cruiser with twin engines…. I just dont wanna work for it !!!

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    • Tired-of-fools
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:03am

      If you print your own money you won’t have to work, or worry about the fuel.

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  • kcr630
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:47am

    Another product of our inept public education system.

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    • YoungBloodNews
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:50am

      The best weapon the progressives and enemies of freedom have had over the last few decades is utter control of the indoctrination centers, er I mean schools… Get rid of the DOE!

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  • BONETRAUMA
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:45am

    future targets.

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  • demint.disciple
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:43am

    Mental as the day is long..

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:40am

    HEADLINE: and the crowd continues to chant, ZOMBIE LIKE. their brains have been Occupied.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:40am

    Go to Afganistan… there is no real Law there… and Barter is the Economic System.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:37am

      I don’t think this debate is one that should be conducted via bumper sticker rhetoric. Your little Afghan reference uses hyperbole to construct a strawman that only addresses 1/2 of the issue. Modern capitalism (assuming you support that system) has is roots in philosophy first. It is unique in that capitalism is reliant upon economic AND political freedom. Go read Bentham and follow the thinking into Locke, Smith, Friedman and praxeology.

      I really wish people would stop with the “well if you don’t like X then you must want Y”. Seriously, stop.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:18pm

      @Rothbard

      Unfortunately folks tend to be rather binary. Not just here, not just this time in history, but throughout history.

      I do see and agree with your point about “the people” being the government, hence, falling back on Constitutional authority to issue currency, as opposed to a private bank system. As a stringent libertarian, I also have no problem with people using whatever they wish as an exchange medium, as long as all parties are consenting in the transaction, which is not technically related to the article, but still, I have no issues with it.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:39am

    Yeah, OK, so I have a double head printing press in the garage at the ready…sheesh, what bozo…full of sawdust.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:39am

    How OLD is this child???? 4?

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  • zurie
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:38am

    So she thinks we are a Democracy…and not a Republic?

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    • cloudsofwar
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:42am

      so do many members of congress and Obama. GOD help our republic.

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    • Perspective
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:46am

      I’d say 99% of the protesters don’t know this. They have been programmed by the public school system and leftist college professors. All of us who know realize that true democracy is mob rule and could give a damn less about the individuals rights.

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    • Tom K
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:16am

      Thank You ZURIE ! We are a Representative Republic not a Democracy, YET. Didn’t Ben Frankin say it too – ” We have a Republic, IF we can keep it “. And hey Federal Reserve, stop the presses !

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:37am

    What can you say about or to this person? These people are alien to logic and reality. I really think they will destroy each other but we need to be prepared to stop them as well.

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    • YoungBloodNews
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:47am

      Tron tron tron
      They are correct that the Fed is the enemy, and their printing of money is wrong. If by ‘the people’ they mean America takes back control from the PRIVATE fed then they are spot on. If they mean ‘the people’ as in our elected reps in congress control the flow and issue of money as it says in OUR Constitution then again they are right. If they want the masses to control flow of money then I fail to see how this would work, do I just start up my ink jet and print out some fresh $100′s lol

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:43am

      @YoungBloodNews
      They want option C.

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