Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 02:40:36 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <3930E994.4DDACD83@mindspring.com> References: <20000528024515.8BB9137B746@hub.freebsd.org>
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"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > > I worked for two years at the Board of Governors of the > Federal Reserve System. During that time, I was able to meet and > observe the work of several members of the Federal Open Market > Committee. Based upon that experience, it is clear to me that your > statements are unencumbered by having to face reality. They are some > of the most careful and dedicated people that I have met. > > jmb > Hi Jonathan, I was half-joking :-) On the other hand, there are reasons one might have valid concerns about such a concentration of power and the enormous potential for abuses of the same. Here are a couple of dissenting viewpoints on the Fed grabbed at random from a quick Yahoo search: http://webbindustries.com/spotlight/f_fr_art001.html http://www.seidata.com/~neusys/colm0046.html No claims made to support the accuracy of these articles, but it does show that I am not alone in possessing a distrust of the Federal Reserve Bank. Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com "If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied." - Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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