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THE THREE BIGGEST SCAMS - being perpetuated on the American people.

I must honestly say since joining the Daily Paul I have learned a lot about what is really going on.

My question is - What do you think are the Top Three Biggest Scams currently being perpetuated on the American People?

In my opinion I think they are:

1. The Federal Reserve System
2. The Military Industrial complex
3. The Health Care and Drug complex

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These institutions exist because WE support them !!!

We file and pay taxes...so exists the FED.
We join and fight...so exisits the Military.
We go to doctors & take their drugs...so they exist too.

The citizen / consumer is the key...if we resist and deny
to participate...these ( and other undesireable institutions )
will cease to exisit.

Discover Costa Rica

The Fed

seems to be the primary source of power, but they wouldn't have gotten away with it for so long if it hadn't been for 2) an "education" system that's designed to keep people confused and 3) a totally owned "free" press.

I don't believe Americans

I don't believe Americans are all that apathetic..some are for sure. I believe the rigged voting system we've had since the 60's has put a lot of people in congress and kept them there regardless of what the people want.

#1..The Federal Reserve
#2. The 'free' press
#3. The 'elections'

AND...Who Is To Blame?

Excerpts from an article from Stephen Palmer, The Cause of Liberty's newsletter, The Sentinel

http://www.causeofliberty....

So who is to blame? Charley Reese, a former columnist for the Orlando Sentinel Star, once wrote his answer to that question in a piece entitled "The 545 People Responsible For All of America’s Woes" that has been circulating widely on the Internet. It's an attention-grabbing, revolution-inciting article that gets one's blood boiling and makes one want to take serious and immediate action.

So who is really to blame for our pressing problems? The millions of common citizens who aren't educated enough to elect virtuous, courageous, and wise leaders. It's the millions of American families who have failed to raise up those essential leaders in their own homes.

---It's the millions of Americans who hold their politicians to a higher standard than they hold themselves to--they sure expect their politicians to understand the Constitution, but they don't understand it themselves.

---It's the millions of Americans who complain about high taxes, yet then turn around and accept government programs and benefits in the name of "Everyone else is doing it," and/or "I'm just getting my taxes back."

---It's the millions of average Americans who claim that the Federal Reserve is evil--without even understanding how it works nor what should replace it.

---It's the millions of Americans who vehemently denounce inflation and deficits while racking up their own credit cards and consuming more than they produce on a daily basis.

---It's the millions of Americans who were publicly appalled at Bill Clinton's misdeeds in the Oval Office yet who are secretly addicted to pornography.

---It's the millions of common citizens who rage against the criminality of illegal immigration while consciously and deliberately violating the rule of law themselves on a daily basis.

---It's the millions of Americans who forcefully proclaim their willingness to fight and die for America--while being unwilling to LIVE for her by becoming liberally educated.

All free nations get the government that they deserve--the 545 people denounced by Charley Reese are nothing but a reflection of the majority of American citizens.

As John Adams wrote, "If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is because worthless men are at the tail, and the middle."

Who is to blame? Every one of us American citizens who are hypocritical, complacent, and ignorant.

Complaining about 545 people is a great way to stir the pot and incite discontentment--and a really poor way to actually get to the heart and root of our problems to start doing something about them.

A great deal of substance to ponder!

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The...

Fed

Military-Industrial Complex

Income Tax

They all started about the same time too. The military-industrial complex didn't get called such until many years later though.

Without a doubt...

1. Democracy (i.e. "mob rule").
2. Income Tax (i.e. enslavement).
3. "Federal" Reserve (i.e. outright theft).

http://groups.yahoo.com/g...

That

1) 'Head-on' really works by applying directly to the forehead.
2) 'Mighty Putty' will fix everthing
3) 'The Pocket Fisherman' catches fish

current you say?

1-the repeated use of depleted uranium weaponry.
(omni-cide)

2-fluorine/fluoride: an unsolicited drug in our food, water, pharmaceuticals, cosmetic & hygiene products.
(iatrogeni-cide)

3-processed food made from genetically modified/engineered and patented(!) crops.
(nutrigenomi-cide)

in a word: eugenics.
(eugeni-cide)

How about Income Taxes? 100+

How about Income Taxes?

100+ years ago the idea of Income Taxes was preposterous. It was illegal to levy income tax, as per various Supreme Court rulings.

Yeah, I think the income tax can be scam #4.

top three

1. religion is a peaceful means to existence
2. our vote counts
3. we have rights

..THE THREE BIGGEST SCAMS...

I must confess : Io mi sono colpevole

http://video.google.com/v...

Ciao LM

#1 The Federal Reserve

#2 the Legality of a tax on work for pay (for the average citizen)
#3 The Social Security ponzi scheme/ not to be used for identification purposes scam

Libera me, let the truth break, what my fears make--Leslie Phillips

Biggest and newest scam is

Biggest and newest scam is Dept. of Homeland Security..screw that..

You forgot

the Ponzi scheme of the social security and medicare system.

How is SSI a Ponzi scheme?

!

Here are a couple of examples.

"Just like Ponzi's plan, Social Security does not make any real investments -- it just takes money from later "investors," or taxpayers, to pay benefits to earlier, now retired, taxpayers. Like Ponzi, Social Security will not be able to recruit new "investors" fast enough to continue paying promised benefits to previous investors. Because each year there are fewer young workers relative to the number of retirees, Social Security will eventually collapse, just like Ponzi's scheme. "

http://www.socialsecurity...

"One of the biggest problems the United States faces--and one of the problems that is most often ignored--is Social Security. There's no way to put it gently: The Social Security "Trust Fund" is a fraud and it will collapse most spectacularly, and bankrupt the United States Government, if significant reforms are not instituted soon."

http://www.letxa.com/arti...

3 Biggest Scams Against The Movement!

3 biggest scams against the movement are:

1.) The notion that over powerful elitists are running the show.
2.) The notion that the best way to fight them is either head on(a la Alex Jones) or through the traditional political games.
3.) The sense of dis-empowerment so many people fall into when discovering the 3 biggest scams mentioned originally!

How to counterbalance these negative things?

Look up:

Citizens Deliberative Councils

Learn everything you can about these and start promoting and working towards them with your local groups. This goes beyond "fighting the man" to "becoming the People"!!!

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They have power, but they

They have power, but they don't control everything hence they are not running the show. Otherwise, we'd all be in chains, literally.

talk is cheap

then who is running the show? because it certainly is not, we the people.

check out the "global elders" http://www.augustreview.c...

I agree except...

for #1. If you think the bankers and corporate interests aren't behind the scenes pushing through legislation that makes it easier for them to get even more rich and powerful, you're kidding yourself.

I'm going to look up citizens deliberative councils right now.

word up.

Without the federal reserve

scam none of the others would exist. Do away with that one and all the other go away.

Ditto!!! Trade with all

Ditto!!!

Trade with all nations; alliances with none. ~Thomas Jefferson

I

agree.