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@Dec '12 c 115 comments V 294 votes

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GuitarGuy19 voted

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HMB1114 voted

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rojopa voted

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N0rthman voted

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LEC endorsed CommonCents

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DesignerLM voted

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tomtheterrible

v Yes

This monster of inefficiency and scandal and waste needs a complete house cleaning and the re-imposing of its' limitations as spelled out in the original purpose of this independent section. The Federal Reserve is not a government agency but has put the fear of God in every adult walking this planet. Woodrow Wilson bought into this gimmick in 1913, and it has grown in corruption ever since. How does it print money when there is no value to that money, and keeps printing it over and over again??? The reserves are used up and we live on foreign nations goodwill and are in debt to all of them.

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SlimElmo91 voted

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DotsonB voted

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Bill2E endorsed CommonCents

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wde01

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The ENTIRE government should be audited! We need to know exactly what the damn liberals and conservatives did with our money!

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Obsidion voted

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DanielZ endorsed CommonCents

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jnicoise voted

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Ghost116

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pmonteen voted

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Glich

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Yea, higher some wall street firm or a group of well connected Washington Lawyers! Can we "bail out" our Federal Reserve ?

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DemonsAngel13 endorsed DAR

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Koma voted

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Carolann endorsed Jeff_Woehrle

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oldtimer2 endorsed CommonCents

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NoAmnestyEVER voted

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May 18

tomtheterrible

v Yes

This monster of inefficiency and scandal and waste needs a complete house cleaning and the re-imposing of its' limitations as spelled out in the original purpose of this independent section. The Federal Reserve is not a government agency but has put the fear of God in every adult walking this planet. Woodrow Wilson bought into this gimmick in 1913, and it has grown in corruption ever since. How does it print money when there is no value to that money, and keeps printing it over and over again??? The reserves are used up and we live on foreign nations goodwill and are in debt to all of them.

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MrGreenHerb

v Yes

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wde01

v Yes

The ENTIRE government should be audited! We need to know exactly what the damn liberals and conservatives did with our money!

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Ghost116

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Yes

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Glich

v Yes

Yea, higher some wall street firm or a group of well connected Washington Lawyers! Can we "bail out" our Federal Reserve ?

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harold_lloyd

v I'm not sure

I want someone to tell me how you would go about auditing the Fed, and what you would be looking for. It sounds so good to say it, but doing it, not so easy.

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JTHEM

v Yes

This is just common sense.

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007Sword

v Yes

Americans should revolt and get this done. I can't believe we are selling out our freedom and allowing it to continue; since when did secrecy become our way of working, and since when do we have a government that does not work solely for its people - something went terribly wrong somewhere and we need to act now.

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Apr 29

Prime_Meridian

v I'm not sure

Just who the heck would perform the audit? The General Accounting Office? They've got their hands full as it is not only auditing federal agencies but political subdivisions of states to ensure proper spending of federal grants, requests for grants, etc. How big do we want the federal government to get?

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TheHandsomeOne

v Yes

The Fed has been audited over a very narrow window of time, less than 5 years of it's 100 years of chartered operation, and over 16 trillion dollars was discovered GONE and recommendations to bring criminal charges and revoke their charter are with the report hosted on .gov site. http://preview.tinyurl.com/6pr7n6e This is old news, dated 2011 http://preview.tinyurl.com/7tjtug4 and how about from 1934 for those who slept through history class http://hiwaay.net/~becraft/mcfadden.html No, they don't really need any more auditing, they need revoking and prosecuted, the queen be damned and all of the UK can kiss the USA's azz. GTH IMF and UN too. You wanna come fight ...

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Apr 29

pkeis2u

v Yes

Anyone learn how the Secretary of treasury paid huge corporations and wall street out of their complete debacle. They were supposed to correct their wrongdoing, but they pocketed the money laughing all the way to the bank. He should never had any say in this matter or influence. If there were strict policy in place. Or had to answer to tax payers. Many families would have stayed in their homes. Credit card debt would have been corrected. It was praying on vulnerable citizens.

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Apr 28

Keyjo

v Yes

Yes, right along with all of Walk Street and Mutt Romney!

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Apr 28

Slowmo

v Yes

Well hell yes. A lack of accountability in our governmental agencies is one of the biggest injustices being committed against the American people.

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Apr 26

4PeteSake

v No

This is right-wing comspiracy stuff

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Apr 26

Companion101

v Yes

Why is this even a question?

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Apr 25

Aftermath

v Yes

At least once a month. Same as any criminal. Check them out and they cannot harm us as bad.

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Jan '13

cpier14

v Yes

Stupid question of course. then it should be abolished

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LikkerdySplit

v I'm not sure

whats an audit? and why do i care?

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Jan '13

Rapn21

v I'm not sure

While it should be accountable and transparent, most of the people calling for the audit are extremist conspiracy theorists who expect to find Freemasons, Nazi gold, Obama's real birth certificate and proof of imaginary crimes committed by the government

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TSS1970

v Yes

Ron Paul is right. The Federal Reserve should be audited.

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CommonCents

v Yes

Another government entity without any oversight, no wonder we are financially in disarray.

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DAR

v Yes

Well, since the first audit of the Federal Reserve in 100 years took place this year, I suppose the question is really "should the Federal Reserve be FULLY audited". The recent audit by the Government Accountability Office was only of the Federal Reserve Board's emergency authority which permits them to authorize broad-based programs and financial assistance to stabilize financial markets. The audit showed that $16 trillion had been given out to failing banks and failing corporations around the world (Scotland, France, U.K., Switzerland, Germany) at 0% interest. Alarmingly, the 266 page audit showed that the Federal Reserve's policies did not prohibit employeesâ inve...

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Dec '12

Bobolinsky

v Yes

Pulling back the curtain on the Wizard of the Fed is only the beginning of what we should do to the Federal Reserve.

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Dec '12

Jeff_Woehrle

v Yes

Sure, audit away! The real question would be what entity is doing the auditing? Will it be an outside firm with objectivity, or another agency of the government?

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Dec '12

Romney2012

v Yes

They are a private business, not a Federal bank

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Everyman

v Yes

Bernanke and Greenspan should also be flogged in public. But that's not going to happen either. Not with Barry Benghazi in the WH

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Dec '12

shawnyc36

v Yes

Scary what we might find!

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Dec '12

Dan_Tien

v Yes

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." ~ Woodrow Wilson (who signed off on creating the damn thing)

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Sonny

v No

Hey, its a "private entity" above and beyond the control of our government. The people running the government, at the time of its inception, should have thought of that before they gave away that kind of power to the private sector...Now this is what you get when you allow the "free market" to run our monetary system...Yet those one the right want to have it both ways...They want their "free market to run every aspect of our lives"---but when those private concerns show their true colors--and only support the greed of the banks and markets, and their profits---everyone wants to start whining and crying...HELL NO!...You want corporate control----YOU GOT IT!!!... Leave t...

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