Jake Towne at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 11/22/09 END THE FED!!!

Jake Towne's speech on the Federal Reserve at the Constitution rEVOLution Tea Party event in Philadelphia on 11/22/2009.

Towne is an independent candidate for US Congress (Pennsylvania's 15th district) in 2010. You can learn more about his thoughts on the FED here. http://towneforcongress.com/platform-...



Transcript the above video can be read here.

Later that day Jake Towne delivered a thirty minute talk on how the transition to sound money could be accomplished. Transcript of that speech can be read here.

USA: The Iron Fist of Fascism (IRS and healthcare)

The Washington Examiner is reporting that the proposed healthcare bill the Democrats are pushing would have the Internal Revenue Service (yes that IRS, the tax collectors everyone so fears) enforcing the reforms. Read about it here.

There is no mistaking this for anything but a naked power grab. Please consider the points this author made in "How Dare You Want To Know What "Your" Government Is Doing!". We now have the same principle expanded in our private affairs. The government is already way too intrusive and way too secretive. More and more we live under an elected dictatorship. As Thomas Jefferson warned us:

"When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

It's Raining Pork! Hallelujah!

Here in Pennsylvania our governor, Ed Rendell, is spending $22.2 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The program is called PA Conservation Works! and it is "a new grant program for local government and non-profit entities seeking to conserve or reduce energy use. PA Conservation Works! will provide up to $250,000 for individual projects and $500,000 for joint projects designed to increase energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption and reduce energy costs by at least 25 percent."

(Read the press release here.)

No doubt the government will succeed at reducing energy consumption the way they have succeeded in reducing drug use, illiteracy, poverty, crime, unemployment, teenage pregnancy....I could go on, but I'm sure you get the point.

No wonder we have a recession going on, we're drowning in pork! This kind of spending only aggravated and prolonged the great Depression and is only hurting us now. When will they learn?

Obama Wants To Lock'em Up, No Trial

According to the New York Times President Obama is considering using “preventive detention” with terror suspects. It is not definite, only talk at this point, but very scary talk none the less. Given the government's propensity to abuse its powers and the broad definition of what makes one a terror suspect this can't be allowed to happen.

If this is truly Obama's view it is obvious that he doesn't understand his job and it is time for him to resign.

Stupid Politicians

When I read this part of their letter quoted below I thought that John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon must have had a crystal ball and seen what our politicians today are like! The more things change, the more they remain the same:

They are therefore stupid politicians, who would derive advantages from a distinction which is manifestly without a difference: It is like, however, that they may improve in their subtleties, and come, in time, to distinguish between corrupt corruption and uncorrupt corruption, between a good ill administration and an ill good administration, between oppressive oppression and unoppressive oppression, and between French dragooning, and English dragooning; for there is scarce any other new pitch of nonsense and contradiction left to such men in their reasonings upon publick affairs, and in the part which they act in them.

Cato's Letter No. 94
Against Standing Armies.
John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon (Saturday, September 15, 1722)