E. Archer, I couldn't have said it any better. My "five star" vote goes to you.

Say no more!!!

The Federal Reserve Bank is no more "Federal" than you or I. Its a "private" banking conglomerate that artificially create a situation to force nations to borrow money and keep it indebted to these banks indefinitely. Their biggest "customer"?.... Good old USA. The land of the free. Free slaves who'll work their asses off, and gladly pay a portion of their earnings in the form of Federal Income Tax to pay the "Federal Reserve Bank" for the country's debt.

Anonymous Reston... "for services rendered" really? You're a typical victim of media brainwash. and if you've paid attention in your history lessons that the income tax system was implemented to pay for the war effort at the turn of the 20th century, but then the financiers saw a windfall and kept the wars going and and the taxes enforced, like J Carlton wrote "at gun point". I don't call that "for the services rendered"

I wonder if the Bush Government has read Hitler's Mein Kampf autobiography? Obama just got caught in the aftermath of the Bush debacle and is now starting to learn the standard government lies to protect the banks and corporations who really control the country. The real war mongers are the corporations that manufacture weapons and corporations who profit from war and the banks who finance these wars, even if they have to stage a war against an invisible enemy the "terrorist", or lie to the public and invade a country to wipe-out so called terrorists. It will always be the citizen who will ultimately pay the price in taxes and/or their health/lives. All the talk about "peace" doesn't give governments, corporations or banks the "profit and control" they're looking for... that's the bottom line.

I've always been skeptic with the news media propagating government lies. As an example the Bush Government has lied to the world, just as Hitler did before WW2 when he burned down his own parliament building and blamed it on the Communist Terrorist so he could justify his creation of the Gestapo. Home Land Security ring any bells? Taking away everyone's freedom a little at a time under disguise of "security" just as the Gestapo did.