The first mistake was allowing the federal reserve to exist. Here's Jefferson on the topic [1]: "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishment

The first mistake was allowing the federal reserve to exist. Here's Jefferson on the topic [1]: "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150711012438/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj110172) https://web.archive.org/web/20150711012438/http://memory.loc...)