The American Wisdom Series

Presents
Pamphlet #333

A real stacked deck!
An account of financial wrongdoing

They met at their favorite meeting place called the Federal Reserve Café.

They had their cards with them, and decided on a game of poker.
However, at this café, rules of the house stated they must buy poker chips
(medium of exchange) from the tapster,
in return, each of the players must agree to ample security.

The clerk pledges his uniforms,
the baker pledges his utensils,
and the farmer pledged his tractor
and the retailer pledges one-day receipts.

The tapster does not venture chips in the game however,
and house rules state that every 30 minutes
the bartender removes 10% of all chips on the table, as the Café share.

As the game goes on,
the amount of chips in the possession of each player will go up or down with his luck.
Nonetheless, the total chips available to play the game (carry on business)
will decline quickly

The venture will run low on chips, and some will run out.

If they continue to play, they must buy or borrow chips from the tapster.

The tapster will bargain (lend) them only if the player signs a mortgage
agreeing to give the tapster some real property (car, home, farm, business, etc.)
if the borrower cannot make periodic payments
to pay back all of his chips plus some extra ones (interest).
The payments must be made on time,
whether he wins (makes a profit) or not.

It is easy to see that no matter how skillfully they play,
eventually the tapster will end up with all of his original chips back,
and except for the best players,
the rest, if they stay in the game long enough,
will lose to the tapster
their homes,
their farms,
their businesses,
perhaps even their cars,
watches,
rings,
and the shirt off their backs!

In a poker game none is forced to go into debt,
and anyone can quit and keep whatever he still has.

But in real life, even if we borrow little ourselves from the bankers,
the local, State, and Federal governments borrow billions in our name,
squander it,
then confiscate our earnings from us
and pay it back to the bankers with interest.

We are forced to play the game and none-can leave except by death.

We pay as long as we live,
and our children pay after we die.

If we cannot pay,
the same governments send the courts to take our property and give it to the bankers.

The bankers risk nothing in the game;
they just collect their percentage and will win it all.

In Las Vegas and other gambling centers,
all games are rigged to pay the owner a percentage,
and they rake in millions.

The Federal Reserve Banker’s game is also rigged
and it pays off in TRILLIONS of dollars!

In recent years bankers added real cards to their game.

Credit cards are promoted as a convenience and a great boon to trade.

Actually, they are ingenious devices
by which bankers collect 2% to 5% of every retail sale
from the dealer and 10% to 29% interest from the buyer.

A REAL STACKED DECK!

Horace Greeley said: "While boasting of our noble deeds,
we are careful to conceal the ugly fact
that by an iniquitous money system
we have nationalized a system of oppression which,
though more refined,
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery."

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