Push to audit Federal Reserve gains steam

I, and many others here, have long called for Ben Bernanke to be tarred and feathered and driven out of town on a rail, along with Henry Paulson, Treasury Secretary, for their total lack of due diligence in protecting the financial well-being of the United States.

But I have learned a lesson here from this debacle, one we all have always known, but frequently forget -- which is why we need the Fed audit -- people in positions of authority first ask themselves," What can I do to successfully address any given situation while saving my rear-end?" It doesn't matter in the least whether the answer to that question results in the total melt-down of our economy, or placing a tremendous financial burden on all taxpayers, their children and their children's children. It doesn't really matter if their actions are successfully or not, as long as their own rear-end is saved. It is through this prism we all must look through in judging the actions of any leader.

We all are human. We all make mistakes. It is now We, the Peoples' responsibility to all those who will have to bear this financial responsibility in the future to at least insure that the right decisions have been and will be made now, in the present, in their absence as much as it is humanly possible to do so. We owe them that much.

My only note of caution is: I really haven't been able to find out just what kind of an additional audit Ron Paul is talking about performing on the Federal Reserve. To my knowledge, the Fed is audited by Congress annually. But I assume Ron Paul and the rest of his 25 co-sponsors know what they are talking about when they call for an audit of the Federal Reserve.

ex animo

davidfarrar