Man how awesome would it be if Ron Paul was our next president. Except if he did the FED would have him offed just like JFK and Lincoln who tried to end the FED. Good post!
The tyrant Lincoln did not try to "end the fed". The Federal Reserve was created in 1913.
At the Time Lincoln was president there was no central bank in These United States. The "2nd bank of the United States" (The central bank that preceded the fed) stopped performing as a central bank in 1836 when congress chose not to renew its charter.
Lincoln did a lot of harm to the republic's monetary system with his unconstitutional "green backs". His "green back" were the Republic's first fiat currency. (post Constitution) He used this fiat currency to fund a war of aggression and invade a sovereign nation.
Even with the monetary issues aside, Lincoln was probably one of our republic's most tyrannical presidents ever.For starters he suspended habeus corpus, he jailed newspaper editors, he threatened supreme court justices with arrest, and he pushed for and got congress to approve the first "income tax". He was an imperialist and a tyrant.
With JFK I assume you are referring to executive order 11110. The fact is that the executive order did NOT "order" the printing of silver certificates. EO11110 simply authorized the treasury to do so. Before the order, the president was able to order the printing of certificates. EO11110 simply delegated that power from the president to the treasury. Only a small number of silver certificates were issued after the order. JFK also signed legislation to authorize the Federal Reserve to issue small denomination notes. If anything JFK's actions increased the power of the Fed not decreased it.
