"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. This issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of the moneyed corporations which already dare to challenge our Government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country" Thomas Jefferson, 1791<http://quotes.telemanage.ca/quotes.nsf/quotes/ca2ac7879413d78d8525687a007678b4>
*About 44 million in U.S. lived below poverty line in 2009, census data show * * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091602698_pf.html *
