Jefferson on 'swindling futurity'

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 Third President of the USA

"It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life."

Lewis H. Lapham, 1935 American Essayist Editor

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Ah yes, and the White House looks and acts like a Freemason's White Lodge, too, with the Capitol Building as temple. Mumbo jumbo in the cellar?

George Bush to speak first in Calgary

Mark your calendars!

Ex-president George W. Bush is banning press and public from his first-scheduled speech since leaving office and he's exiting the US to do it. Wise move - too bad he didn't make one of those before he determined to coup the White House and bull-headedly insisted upon invading Iraq.

Yes, on March 17, our little leprechaun of war-profiteering will spread the blarney at a private event for a pro-American business group in Calgary, Canada, but I'll warn you - the above-linked article cites his approval rating as he left office as 'low 30s' yet everyone knows his nibs had dipped into the 20s (if that)!

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And here's a link to the site for downloading the full text (4 parts) of the Stimulus Act which was posted for public viewing around 11:45 pm last evening:

appropriations.house.gov