Everyone I know is having some form of economic hardship (wages, taxes, etc). Some blame politicians, others capitalism, and some terrorism and the uncertainty of national security. Some just consider “the economy” a super-natural being that’s guided by some mysterious force of which we’re in a continual struggle to find the “economic answer.”

Whatever your target, the real problem it that most really only look at patching the problem, masking with more legislation, more social programs (universal health care), more war (Iran). What if, just what if, we all turned our heads toward the source of the problems instead of trying to legislate or bomb them away? What if we all realized that it is too much government involvement (and I’m not advocating an anarchist society, but a small government, limited in power, that enforces the Constitution to maximize personal freedom) leads to big government, which leads to a lessening of economic, physical, and mental freedoms.

That, of course, would require us to educate ourselves, rejecting bullshit news organizations like Fox News or CNN or MSNBC, who’s “reporting” is politically motivated and geared towards entertaining us, rather than informing us. After all, they are in the business of television ratings, competing for the same air time as MTV’s Jackass and Paris Hilton’s My New BFF.

So, this is your homework, the friends and family I care about:
Read the following, to start, and the rest I leave up to you. If you have any questions, please ask me, and if I don’t have an answer I can help you research:

The Big Takeover(Rolling Stone Magazine) by MATT TAIBBI
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover

President Jackson’s Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States; July 10, 1832
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ajveto01.asp

THE STATE OF THE NATION by Andrew Jackson
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/jackson/jack~1.htm

The Creature from Jekyll Island by Edward Griffin
http://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve/dp/0912986395/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

End The Fed
http://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193/ref=pd_sim_b_2

And for those interested, contact your representative to support HR 1207 – Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1207