by Nick Giambruno
With over $30 trillion in debt and counting, it’s hard to believe the United States government was ever debt-free.
But it happened once—in 1835—thanks to President Andrew Jackson. He was the first and only president to pay off the national debt completely.
One biographer says the former president viewed debt as a “moral failing,” a sort of “black magic.”
When he became president, Jackson was determined to rid the US of its national debt. After all, debt enslaves you to your creditors.
Jackson knew that being debt-free was essential to independence. This outlook resonated with many Americans back then.
With that in mind, Jackson attacked the institutions and powerful people who promoted and enabled the federal debt. This included the banking elites and the Second Bank of the United States, the country’s central bank at the time and precursor to today’s insidious Federal Reserve system.
While campaigning against the evils of national debt and central banking, Jackson miraculously survived an assassination attempt when an assassin’s two pistols both misfired. Shadowy interests tied to the central bank were almost certainly behind the effort.
However, Jackson survived and went on to “End the Fed” of his days. He successfully bested the central bank—and the powerful interests behind it—and shut down the Second Bank of the United States.
He also repaid the federal debt in full, which was no easy task.
Jackson couldn’t squeeze the American people with a federal income tax to repay the debt. It didn’t exist at the time and would have been unconstitutional.
He also couldn’t simply print currency to pay off the debt. Perpetuating such an insane fraud—which the Fed does on a massive scale today—likely never entered his mind.
Instead, Jackson had to rely on tax revenue from other sources, mainly import tariffs and excise taxes, to pay down the debt. He also drastically cut federal spending and frequently vetoed spending bills.
Jackson’s determination worked. By January 1835, the US was debt-free for the first time.
Unfortunately, it didn’t last much more than a year. After that, the US would never again be debt-free—not even close.
Revenge of the Central Bankers
After Jackson succeeded in ending the Second Bank of the United States, anything associated with a central bank became deeply unpopular with the American public. So, central bank advocates tried a new branding strategy.
Rather than call their new central bank the “Third Bank of the United States,” they went for a vague and boring name. They called it “the Federal Reserve” and managed to hide it from the average person in plain sight. As a result, over 100 years since its founding, most Americans have no idea what the Federal Reserve is or what it actually does.
Ironically, Jackson’s face has been on the $20 “Federal Reserve Note” since 1928. So in a sense, this symbolic move is central banking advocates giving the middle finger to one of their most steadfast opponents.
After all, the Fed is really the “Third Bank of the United States.” No doubt, Jackson would have been disturbed at having his face on its fake confetti money.
In any case, most Americans today have no idea who Jackson is, what he did, or why he did it.
To the extent he is ever mentioned, the media, academia, and the rest of the establishment unjustly besmirch him as—you guessed it—a “racist.”
That’s exactly what the Deep State—the permanently entrenched bureaucracy—wants. It doesn’t want the average citizen to understand why Jackson shut down the central bank and (temporarily) freed Americans from national debt bondage. Doing the same thing today would be a mortal threat to their power.
This is one of the reasons the establishment will try in the coming years to replace Jackson on the $20 bill with the more politically-correct Harriet Tubman… pushing Jackson further down the memory hole.
Trillions and Trillions
You often hear the media, politicians, and financial analysts casually toss around the word “trillion” without appreciating what it means.
A trillion is a massive, almost unfathomable number.
The human brain has trouble understanding something so huge. So let me try to put it into perspective.
If you earned $1 per second, it would take 11 days to make a million dollars.
If you earned $1 per second, it would take 31 and a half years to make a billion dollars.
And if you earned $1 per second, it would take 31,688 years to make a trillion dollars.
So that’s how enormous a trillion is.
When politicians carelessly spend and print money measured in the trillions, you are in dangerous territory.
And that is precisely what the Federal Reserve and the central banking system has enabled the US government to do.
It took 146 years after Jackson fully paid off the debt in 1835—or until 1981—for the US government to rack up its first trillion in debt. The second trillion only took four years. After that, the next trillions came in increasingly shorter intervals.
Today, Congress has normalized multi-trillion dollar federal spending deficits.
The US federal debt has gone parabolic and is over $30 trillion.
If you earned $1 per second, it would take over 950,640 YEARS to pay off the current US federal debt.
And that’s with the unrealistic assumption that it would stop growing.
The US federal government has the largest debt in the history of the world. And it’s continuing to grow at a rapid, unstoppable pace.
The debt will keep piling up as the US government continues to pay for political promises. It’s virtually inevitable.
The federal debt also represents an outrageous crime inflicted on the next generation. They are the ones who will be stuck with this massive unpaid bill from today’s spending, and it will turn them into indentured serfs.
It’s doubtful Congress considers this even for a second. They are always eager to send scores of billions to faraway foreign lands or the latest boondoggle.
Of course, this is not a groundbreaking revelation. People like Ron Paul have warned Americans about the dangers of the federal debt for a long time.
It’s just that nobody has heeded these warnings. And no one has taken serious political action to address the problem. Nor is anyone likely to.
In short, the US government is approaching the financial endgame and can no longer disguise its bankruptcy. The Fed cannot stop its extreme money printing, nor can it raise interest rates in any meaningful way.
If we step back and zoom out, the Big Picture is clear.
We are likely on the cusp of a historic shift… and what’s coming next could change everything.
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– Thomas Jefferson, 1803
Jefferson was a Democrat. Buggerman no likey Democrats. He like him some Republicans though.
Central Banks are the bane of modernity. Eliminate central banks and you return the economy to the making of products rather than the financialization of the nation. Ultimately central banks destroy the economy, and, themselves. Unfortunately the country’s citizens bare the major consequences of this immoral state of affairs.
“…rather than the financialization of the nation.”
^^^^^
Now tell us about those bankers.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-11-30/ty-article/u-s-federal-bank-reserve-a-jewish-story/0000017f-f42c-d47e-a37f-fd3cdd110000
Great link, showing the same propaganda that put us in this sinking ship in 1913. “Recused the US banking system in 2008”, my aching ass!
It’s amazing to me that so many countries have for so long had anything to do with the $. I guess they had no choice. It makes total sense, to me, why the BRICS would work toward their own economic/money system. About time.
The Petro Dollar is a World tax levied by Israel on every man woman and child on the planet and everything on and below the earth. Enforced and collected by their owners. Every man and woman and child in the US.
Who are the people incorrectly called Jews or Khazaris or Ashkenazi. They are the Serpent Seed, Spawn of Satan through heterosuperfecundation in the garden with Eve, Adam and Satan in the form of a human/reptile. Beguiling and or Seducing Eve and cucking Adam in the process. Hence Able would have been the first born but Cain in the womb with him pulled an essauesque trick and came out first.
Nobody ever notices Cains lineage is not listed as Adams geneology and it ends in 6 generations whereas the true replacement son Seth, continued on to today. The serpent seed are the Tares. Sethites Israelites are the Wheat. Written with capitals to denote personhood instead of grain.
I believe that. They seem to see God’s children, and it is uncanny. Without me doing anything but noticing they are there and going about my business, I get this piercing stare from them, like they know.
Half of them try to corrupt me and the other half seem fearful. Again without me having any prejudice, this was before I came into my own.
Jesus didn’t tend to cast out demons, just because they were there. That seems significant.
What’s coming next could change everything. Ya think?
I remember visiting President Jackson’s Hermitage and taking the tour. The tour guide earnestly explained that the United States had a central bank at the time, which meant there were no local branches and everyone had to travel to Washington D.C. to deposit or withdraw cash. Half the exhibits in the man’s own house were about what a monster he was.
This is in the revenge of the central banks section for the reading averse and or impaired.
In any case, most Americans today have no idea who Jackson is, what he did, or why he did it.
To the extent he is ever mentioned, the media, academia, and the rest of the establishment unjustly besmirch him as—you guessed it—a “racist.”
That’s exactly what the Deep State—the permanently entrenched bureaucracy—wants. It doesn’t want the average citizen to understand why Jackson shut down the central bank and (temporarily) freed Americans from national debt bondage. Doing the same thing today would be a mortal threat to their power.
This is one of the reasons the establishment will try in the coming years to replace Jackson on the $20 bill with the more politically-correct Harriet Tubman… pushing Jackson further down the memory hole.”
All the weight and money in the world to bring down on him and you are surprised his own museum keepers hate him.
I see on Gab people passing around the origin of “racism”, but I am not sure the reach of Gab. Before I was I was Saved, I am not sure I would have been turned on by it, but it is a Christian haven. i.e., preaching to the choir has limited benefit.
Your post is dead on, which is why I listen to you carefully, when you relay more esoteric information.
I can’t sleep because the pollen is kicking my ass, because of an experimental nasal flu vaccine in the army that was memory holed. 2 surgeries later it is better, but it still sucks.
I think Gab has become a boutique site catering to us. Good place to get memes.
I understand the sinus deal. Every morning mine run like a faucit without let up unless I take sudafed.
Saline rinse is your friend.
I tried them multiple times in different strengths hoping they would work.