How Right-Wing Libertarians, John Birchers and Conspiracy Freaks Are Trying to Hijack OWS

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26. I was responding to the poster's "sweetly" condescending tone of voice.

I don't need to be lectured to about the Federal Reserve. I have a degree in economics and wrote a term paper on the Federal Reserve for one of my economics classes. I wrote to the Fed (this was before the Internet), and they sent me a package of propaganda about the wonderful ways in which they served the public.

I took their propaganda at face value and wrote the paper accordingly.

Along came the 1980's, and having followed the economy with the economics background I now possessed, I saw inconsistencies and contradictions between what I had learned in college, and what was happening in the "real" world.

I decided to follow the advice of a computer genius who said about a famous software company (I paraphrase): "Don't listen to what they say, look at what they do!"

My posts explain what is going on in the economy based on reality, not propaganda.

People toss about terms based on propaganda (such as "free trade&quot without a clue as to what they are talking about. His response questioning my concerns about the economy, rather than him responding to my posts, was a subtle ad hominem attack.

Normally I subscribe to the adage about flies, honey, and vinegar. However, after spending a lot of time and thought framing an appropriate response that non-economists could understand, I found the poster's patronizing attitude a bit too much.