Reply #25: The fed is not government. It is a private bank.

[emcguffie]

In a way it is part of Wall Street. The folks who own the Fed are definitely in the 1%. They make a tremendous amount of money off of us, and it comes out of our taxes.

Both Lincoln and Kennedy started to issue money -- which was an important shift, and one not too popular with the banking families -- not too long before they were assassinated.

The same group of bankers worked for a very long time to get the Fed established. And their descendants are the most wealthy and powerful bankers on Earth, I think.

Edited to add: I think undoing Kennedy's executive order was one of Johnson's first acts as President. He knew which side his bread was buttered on.