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Audit would show where taxpayer money went
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Oct. 16, 2009 12:18 am
I would like to see an audit of the Federal Reserve and Fort Knox. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cannot give an account of where the stimulus money was sent. Americans have a right to know how their money was spent on this stimulus canard.
Likewise, the recent revelations on the gold futures markets and debacle with JP Chase Morgan and Deutche Bank that sold gold futures and now cannot honor their commitments, having made side deals with those they sold to and selling short in the process. We have learned that the Bank of England could not reach settlement to make this go away to those buyers that called those futures in the current economic climate. It would appear the central banks have plundered their countries' respective gold supplies to bail out their agents and friends, and I would like an accounting of what is in the Fort Knox reserve.
An audit has not been done for more than 50 years. It is time the public knew the truth of how this country has been sold out and dismantled by corporate politicians and central bankers in recent years.
Cort Stapleton
Cedar Rapids
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