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Originally Posted by Robbie
He didn't say that FDR took us completely off the gold standard. What FDR did was change the value of money and the gold standard. It was the beginning of the end.
"The US left the $20/oz. gold standard in 1932 and changed the it to a $35/oz."
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Originally Posted by acrylix
He's not talking about taking us off the gold standard. He's talking about an Executive Order from FDR forcing all Americans to hand over their gold to the "banksters" at the Federal Reserve for $20.67 (per ounce) of paper money. After getting hold of all that gold, the Treasury promptly raised the price to $35 an ounce. 
Executive Order 6102: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Supposedly, this gold is still in Fort Knox. But to my knowledge, no audits have ever been done to check how much (if any) is still there. As of today, gold is worth $1655 an ounce, so I'd say they did pretty well with that little gold grab back in 1933. |
And it was Theodore who put us on 20 year (trial run) of the central banking system naturally ending during his cousins future term. Because it was so successful (except that minor bump called the Great Depression) Franklin here made it eternal. He also gave us the ponzi scheme also known as Social Security and being the first President to tax individuals. Remember recently the big hoopla about corporations essentially becoming persons? Corporate personhood? Well back then Roosevelt made Persons become corporations. Think Person Corporatehood. because prior to this only companies paid income taxes. And it was sup[pose to be "temporary" because of the manufactured mentioned earlier.