“The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks.”

Follow the money, and do the math. Ignorant fools the populace be...

YES! More Mullins! - the man whom Edward Griffin stole most of Creature from Jekyll Island from and barely acknowledged. Get a free copy of Mullins' vastly superior Secrets of the Federal Reserve (The London Connection) here:
http://www.barefootsworld.net/fedsecrets_00.html

"went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks."
... and NOT to building roads and schools and hospitals the way far too many people think the tax money is used. End the Fed.

The true robber barons!

And now that the Federal Reserve is militarized, the stolen booty seems secure.

It's nice work if you can get it.

A quote from Secrets of the Federal Reserve on Wikipedia no less (link below):
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The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system, but rather, a criminal syndicate. It is the product of criminal syndicalist activity of an international consortium of dynastic families comprising what the author terms "The World Order". The Federal Reserve system is a central bank operating in the United States. Although the student will find no such definition of a central bank in the textbooks of any university, the author has defined a central bank as follows: It is the dominant financial power of the country which harbors it. It is entirely privately-owned, although it seeks to give the appearance of a governmental institution. It has the right to print and issue money, the traditional prerogative of monarchs. It is set up to provide financing for wars. It functions as a money monopoly having total power over all the money and credit of the people.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Mullins

PS - John Kaminski presciently wrote probably the best eulogy to Eustace about 3 months before Eustace passed on - February 2nd 2010.
http://www.johnkaminski.info/pages/mullins/eustace_mullins_at_86.htm

Thanks for that Jimi. I'm always looking for ways to explain this to people.