Doesn't $500 Billion Deserve an Audit?
The nation's entire money system has been placed in the hands of a private, unaudited Federal Reserve (FR). Interest on the national debt is around $500 billion per year. The case can be made that this payment is neither necessary nor legitimate and the sooner this is addressed, the sooner the average person's mortgage can be cut nearly in half, not to mention the hundreds of billions of dollars in reduced taxes. The supposed purpose of the FR is to regulate the economy. Although China grew at 15% for years, to no detriment, we are told that if a Republican president has an economy above 4%, the FR is needed to increase interest rates and thereby throttle back the economy, to prevent inflation. This in itself would be innocent enough except that this FR mandated interest rate is assigned to FR provided 'loans' requiring a half a trillion dollar a year in interest payment from the government to the FR. If in fact the FR was needed and a decreasing of financ...