People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest. .But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Thomas A. Edison
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"The Money Power is willing to take any document, no matter how egregious, and call it a bond. It is a bond. It does exactly what a bond is supposed to do: It pays you back your principal plus interest. The only difference between a bond and a dollar bill is that a dollar bill doesn’t have a clause in it saying, ‘Should America ever default on her debt, all the holders of this bond shall lose their money.’"

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