I thought you were saying we paid the Chinese not to go to the Sea of Tranquility so they wouldn't run over all of our sh*t!
As usual the words said aren't the same ones that your brain recieves. Really this is the US we we are talking about and when have they ever told the truth about anything in the last 100 years. Don't forget to celebrate the creation of the Fed and how things went downhill after that. That is news to you also isn't it?
The Federal Reserve Bank – It's Not What You Think (Part One)
Over the early part of our history there were those who, like Jefferson, saw the danger to liberty by private banking institutions but the idea also had its advocates, for reasons not entirely clear but are ripe for speculation.
In 1811, under President James Madison, Vice President George Clinton broke the tied vote in congress to cast the bankers out refusing to renew the charter for the bankers. Unfortunately, it was President Madison who proposed a second United States privately owned Central Bank and it came into existence in 1816.
However, in 1836 President Jackson, overriding Congress, closed it commenting: "The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of the institution or the establishment of another like it." (We now have another one like it)
Andrew Jackson also said, when speaking to the bankers, "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God I will rout you out."
There were actually two Federal Reserve Systems and each lasted about 20 years; we are now almost a hundred years into the third one.
In 1913 Woodrow Wilson was elected president of the United States. Prior to his election he needed financial support for his campaign so he agreed that if elected he would sign the Federal Reserve Act, in return for that financial support.
In December 1913 while many members of Congress were home for Christmas, the Federal Reserve Act was rammed through Congress and was later signed by President Wilson.
At a later date, Wilson admitted with remorse, when referring to the Federal Reserve, "I have unwittingly ruined my country."