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Now, in case you don't know, you don't go after the Federal Reserve unless you're President Trump. Reagan tried to do it and it didn't go well. It didn't go well for President Reagan, but President Trump may be a different animal entirely. He is going after the Federal Reserve with the doj. And they filed against the Federal Reserve and said, we're going to start looking into this palace that you're building. Now let me give you an update on just the palace that they're building. They're like a billion dollars in overruns right now. Now let me ask you, if you got a loan and you were $1 billion overrun, do you think the bank would have a problem with that? Do you think the bank might say, you know what, I don't think I'm going to give you another loan because you're $1 billion in cost overruns. I think the bank would have a problem. This bank doesn't have a problem with it. There's no, no bank calling Them going, hey, what are you doing? The President is the one having to call them and say, what are you doing? Because for some strange reason, this is a private corporation, and you, the taxpayer, are paying for their new. Their new palace. That's the best I can describe it. It's a palace, you know, with fountains in the lobby of the chairman and. Oh, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. And you. The great thing is, is you'll be able to see it when you go into the Federal. Oh, wait, you don't go into the Federal Reserve. I don't go. Who goes into the Federal Reserve? Well, the elites are really going to enjoy it. They're going to love it. Billion dollars in cost overruns. The President has a problem with that. He's bringing it up to them and saying, you know, maybe we should look into this legally. Maybe there's some things going on. Oh, no, no, no, no. You can't check the books from Colin Powell. You can't check the books of the Federal Reserve. Hmm. Really? Well, President Trump is going to check the books on the Federal Reserve. Now, I want you to know that that's not really what this is about. Yes, there are a trillion or a billion dollars in cost overruns. Yes, they're out of control. Yes, you can't check their books. But that's not what this is about. What this is about is Donald Trump doesn't think the Federal Reserve, a private corporation with all this secrecy, should be the ones making the decisions on what your interest rate is. Now, I'm gonna go a step further and say, I think the free market should decide. Yeah, yeah. You see, when you take all of the big banks and you put them together and you call them the Federal Reserve, that's what I like to call a monopoly. Not the game. But just as frustrating, the banks have a monopoly. The banks are the ones colluding to decide what are they going to charge you for interest. And by the way, inflation. That's not a bug, that's a feature. Inflation is planned. Now, let me ask you, if I said to you, hey, how much money should your dollar lose every year? How many pennies on every dollar should you lose? Should you lose 2, 3, 5, or 8 pennies on every dollar every year? You have it in savings, you're spending it. It. How much would you like it to go down? Now, I'm a weirdo. So I say, no pennies. It should not lose value. In fact, I'd like it to gain value. But that doesn't happen. Why? Because the Federal Reserve has decided that 2% inflation is the right number. So you should lose 2 cents. Wait, every year on every dollar. And we're losing much, much, much more than that. I was doing calculation the other day. I'm charging, when we announce, you know, that the, that the torch is up for, you know, subscription, I'm charging you 999. And for the first month that we offer it, it will be inflation proof for the rest of your life. Okay. As long as you hold your subscription. If you have, if you were one of the founding people that came in, I will never raise the price on you. Now is doing some calculations. 999, we're gonna call it now. This is crazy. We're just gonna say it's 10 bucks because that's what 9.99 is. But anyway, you put 10 bucks in. That's what I charged when we first put the blaze together. I said it's 9.99. Do you know how much 9.99 is worth today in $2011? This will show you how much money, how much money your money has lost. How much is 999 today? If you had 20, 10, $2011, that's actually like $6.70. Your dollar has lost over $3. I mean your $10 bill is now worth about $7. That's how much money you've lost since Obama was in. That's not a bug. That's a feature of the Federal Reserve. And most people don't even know what the Federal Reserve is because you're not taught about it, not because it's secret. You know, books have been written, hearings have been held, transcripts have been preserved. But you don't, you don't teach it to anybody because, well, I mean, it's inconvenient. It doesn't exactly flatter power. It actually, if you start looking, looking at it and you realize what it really is, you're like, I don't think I like that at all. No, no, no, it's the Federal Reserve. They named it the Federal Reserve for dopes like us. So we would always say, well, it's a federal institution. It's part of the government. No, it's not. It's a private corporation. If you had to read one book this year, I would suggest you read a book called the Creature from Jekyll Island. It's by G. Edward Griffin. When I first read this, I didn't know who G. Ed G. Edward Griffin was. And so I started doing my homework on him because I'm like I don't want to read this if he's some crackpot. Well, he's not some crackpot. And I actually did an interview with him the last year at Fox. Some people say, see, Glenn Beck had G. Edward Griffin on, and that's why they fired him. They didn't fire me. And it had nothing to do with it. Or did it? Um, but it is uncomfortable. Nobody wants to talk about this. But what he does in this book, he doesn't start with conspiracy. He begins with history. The banks had been wanting a federal bank forever. They wanted to control the money supply. They wanted to be the ones to print the money and control the money. And I'll get into why here in a minute. But it was a small group of men. It was senators and bankers and financial architects, and they slipped out under assumed names and got onto a private train and went to a private retreat on a place called Jekyll Island. There was no press, no public record. There were no voters. This was all entirely secret. And they. They were not drafting a bill to be debated. They were designing a system to be accepted. And what emerged from that island was not a government agency, at least in the normal sense. It was a mechanism. It was a reason why it's creature from Jekyll. And it's a hybrid. It's a hybrid creature. It's public in its appearance. It's private, unbelievably private, like illegally private in any other business and completely shielded from all accountability. Tell me another structure like that besides what the CIA armed with power, power that no free society should ever hand to any unelected body, ever. And the creature is the Federal Reserve. And it's not a department like the US Department of Finance. It's not that that. It's regional banks privately owned by member banks. Remember when they said, oh, you know what? The banks are too big to fail. What does that tell you we should do with the banks? This is what people said in 2008, they're just too big to fail. That would mean, okay, then maybe we don't let them fail. I mean, not in my opinion. But this is what the argument was. We don't let them fail this time. But then what do you do after you save them? Reason and logic would say I make them smaller so I'm never in this position again, right? They didn't. They made them bigger. And yes, governors are appointed, but once they are seated, they have extraordinary independence. And the President can't do anything about it. You know, the president, when he selects a. I'm Going to select a new chairman of the Federal Reserve. Do you know where he gets the names from the Federal Reserve? He can't say, you know what I'm gonna put in charge, Rand Paul. He can't do that because they wouldn't allow Rand Paul to ever get near the Federal Reserve. I don't even know federal. I don't know if he's even been allowed to walk into the Federal Reserve. So the President can only pick from the people that he wants. You know what that is? That's the Soviet Union and the way they used to run elections. That's the way Putin runs elections today. That's the way they run elections in Iran. The people can choose just from these pre approved people, okay? And the consequences are not abstract to you. They have the power, the only ones that have the power to create money out of nothing. They can just type it in with a keystroke and we're printing more money. It sets the interest rates which decide what you can do. Can you open a business? Can you afford a home? Are your savings, remember, because of interest rates and because of inflation, Are your savings rewarded or you punished? If I've been saving money since 2010, look how much money I had, a hundred thousand dollars in. It's now worth 667 thousand because it's lost money, it's lost the value of it. It still says I have all that money, but it's actually only worth about $67,000. What are you doing? Why would we do this? Why would we allow this institution to do this to us? They are privately stealing from us and telling us it's for your own good and your own safety. It also decides liquidity, a word that nobody really pays attention to. What a liquidity means is do the banks have enough money? Do we need to print some more money so the banks have more money? Because the banks, the banks, if, if liquidity dries up, then you know, you can't get a loan. So we got to print more money which will come cost us more. And then, because that's a really, really bad idea, usually printing money the way we've been doing it, it's going to cost me on top of it because then you're going to have to raise my interest rates to unbelievable levels to be able to suck all that money back in. Who is, who is, who thinks this is a good idea, by the way? This is not regulation. This is command. They have command and control. So what is this really all about? What is the President really doing and what is The Fed really doing. I want to try to explain just with this argument on the Fed. I'll explain what they're arguing about here in a second and then I want to show you what the Fed really is and how. This is a really brilliant master move, master stroke of genius if you are trying to control the world. Remember progressives. The word progressive, what does that mean? Means we make progress little by little, right? We're making progress. Progressivism is progress a little bit at a time. Why a little bit of a time? Why don't we just go for it? Why don't we just make these changes? Why wouldn't progressives state what their goal is and then make those changes? Because they know you don't want what they're selling. In the early 1900s, progressivism is just translated. If I may. Slow Communists. They didn't want the riots in the street. They didn't want the bloodshed. They don't want the banks overthrown and the economy. They'll just do it slowly by taking a little bit more power and a little bit more of your stuff every day. You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more. Check out the full show podcasts anywhere you Download podcasts. Monday, January 12 by the way, Stu has the week off. God, this guy never worked. You know what it is? The Eagles just had a very bad. Had a very bad weekend. And I'm gonna be honest with you. Stu got involved in some rioting in Philadelphia. He's in jail. We'll bail him out. Don't worry about it. But he will be. He'll be back next week and he is, for those of you who have been paying attention, he is starting his own business and he's gonna be leaving us shortly. Trader and just couldn't get the job done. You know what I mean? Is it done yet? Is the job done? No. We saved America. No, I quit anyway. We have a really nice. We have a nice send off for him at some point when he gets. We're gonna do some nice things because, I mean, he's one of my best friends and we've worked together for 27 years. It's really. It's weird. It's weird like the marriage gone bad. Except we like each other still. I think we might even like each other more when we're away than we do at this time. We really like each other. I mean, Tanya may have some competition. I'm just saying, Tanya and Lisa just. Okay, let me tell you about the Federal Reserve and what's, what's going on now. Trump and Powell are going back and forth. Powell came out with this extraordinary statement last night where he said, you know, the President is going after us. And I'll tell you what really is happening here. He just wants control of the interest rates. And I was listening to it and I thought, you know, who are you? You unelected. You unelected bank guy? Who gave you the power? Well, I know who gave you the power. The Senate did and the Congress did and the President did under Woodrow Wilson in 1913, but the people didn't. I would much rather have an elected official or people that would answer to me. But think about the Federal Reserve. They don't answer to anyone but themselves, okay? The President can't fire them. The President has to pick the replacement out of the replacements they suggest. We can't audit their books. We don't know what they're doing. It's completely secret. There is no. The CIA has more oversight, I believe, than the Federal Reserve. And they're not a federal organization. They are not part of the government in the traditional sense. Who. Who in their right mind thinks this is a good idea? Let me show you what the founder's idea was, okay? The founder's idea, like it or not, was that God gives man rights. Before it was God gave certain people Kings, etc. Etc. God gave rights to those people, and those people had rights over you to tell you exactly what to do, how to live your life, what land you could own, you know, what you had to do with your money, what you had to do with your whole life. They could tell you everything about your life. The founders came along and said, I don't think that's the way it should be. I think God gives the individual rights, so the individual is more powerful or as powerful as any king. And the people can decide what to do with their business, what they can do with their life, who they can marry, how they live, where they live, what house they could buy, what land they could own. Before those. All those decisions were made by the king. You couldn't own property. The king or the Lord and the lady had to give you that land, or you had to negotiate it. How is a pauper going to do that? How is it. How is somebody who's at the bottom of the barrel going to be able to buy land? Couldn't. They couldn't. And everything, including the banks were controlled by the king, okay? Founders came along and said, that's got to stop. Because people are their own sovereign. You're the sovereign over your own life. And governments, says in the Declaration of Independence, are instituted among men to protect those rights. So the first thing is, all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. And Governments are instituted among men to protect those rights. So the first thing that government comes into is the people saying, I need somebody to be a guardian over my rights, over my property, over, you know, business. If I'm in business and somebody's being unfair, I need somebody to come in and go, hey, hey, hey. These are the rules. You're wrong. You're right. But these are the rules. And if you guys don't like the rules, you guys can change the rules. I'm just here as a referee, okay? That's the government's role. Is that their role now? Now, we did that for a while. Then around the turn of the century, progressives came into the play. Progressives, like I said earlier, are just slow communists. And I'm not. That's not a cute turn of phrase. That is really what they are. They believed in a collective power. They believed in the elites. So it became fascism or communism. But progressives didn't want to have the bloodshed in the streets. And so they thought they could just build it piece by piece because they knew, knew it would take a revolution to do it. And they had to separate you from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. Woodrow Wilson hated the Declaration of Independence. Ask any real progressive and they'll tell you that the Declaration of Independence plays no role in anything anymore. It's an old, dusty document for a different time. I'm here to tell you it's a. It's a document that is for this time, the future, and the past. It's who we are. It's our mission statement. So we developed when we said all men are created equal, governments need to be instituted to protect those rights. We came up with a government that checked on itself. We had Congress, the president, and the court system. And they all ran checks and balances. Even in Congress, the purse strings. The only one that can start spending your money is Congress. So your congressmen, you have to vote them in every two years. Why doesn't that seem ridiculous? Every two years you have to go vote for your congressman? No. The founders knew they controlled the spending. And so if you didn't like what they were spending, if they were raising taxes and spending too much, you could vote them out every two years. So they didn't have this long control. They were given the keys to the purse, to the safe. They don't anymore. You know, we haven't had a budget since 2008. Progressives finally got rid of the whole budget process. So it doesn't matter who starts it because all they do is they just add on to what they've already had. We're going to expand this, going to crack this, and they can move the money. Okay, so you've lost that control over your money. Also the, the Senate was set up to be able to check, be the check and the balance on the federal government versus the state government. Remember, states are more important than the federal government. That's what they believed at the founding era. But we need the federal government to settle arguments, just to play a referee. And also if there's a war, wage war. Okay, so our. We were so afraid that the federal government would get out of control and there would be a big deep state that the, the founder said all of the senators are voted on by the state houses. So you could send a senator but the state house would vote on that. They did that because they felt that the senator would be loyal to the state. If it became an election, then other states think of this. Why do you care about Chuck Schumer? You care about Chuck Schumer because he affects you. Because his loyalty is no longer to New York. It's to the federal government. They work for all of us instead of their state. That's not the way it was set up. And that's part of the problem. Then the president. The president didn't have enough control because they remember progressives wanted bean counters. They wanted somebody that could control everything, that wasn't necessarily elected. They were just the best in their job. And so let's get these experts in to do an administrative state. And so they grew the administrative state, the deep state, they grew all of these administrative arms. The department of this, the department of that, that. You don't even know who runs those things. Well, if you have to deal with one of those, go ahead, deal with the Bureau of Land Management. Go ahead, deal, deal with the Department of Labor. Who do you vote out? You don't agree with what they're doing. Who do you vote out? You can't. They're not responsive to you at all. They're barely responsive to the President because they're trying to get rid of the president being able to fire any of those people. So they are completely unelected and now approaching unfairable. Then you have the courts. And around 1920, the progressives again decided they need to make case law law and not constitutional law. So stop Looking at the Constitution and reading it the way the founders wanted it, read it caseloft. We could get one case to say this, then it builds on that, and then suddenly the Constitution doesn't matter anymore. So they completely rotted all of the ideas that governments are instituted among men to protect those rights that you have. They rotted all of that.
