Just in case you didn't know the Federal Reserve is a private company of bankers with twelve branch banks that confiscate our money and they have been doing this for almost a hundred years, this time! They are not part of the United States Government. Yet today they collect hundreds of billions of dollars from American taxpayers every year.
As of March 6, 2006, the national debt stands at 8.2 trillion dollars. The American taxpayers have paid the FED banking system $173,875,979,369.66 in interest on that debt in just five short months, from October, 2005, through February, 2006. Since the economic meltdown, a few years after this article was written, that figure has risen dramatically (over 10.7 trillion dollars) and will continue to rise. The United States will never even be able to pay the interest on the loan, let alone the principle. So, in actuality, the Federal Reserve owns the United States and our elected officials are beholden to the bankers, not the American people. The Feds are the unseen "shadow government", they are the ones who are governing our once great Republic. They control both houses of Congress and also the President, and no-one dare oppose them. They are all powerful because they control the money supply. No con artist or group of con artists in history has ever perpetrated a scam that even approaches the scope of this one.
