Title: Web of Debt - REVIVE LINCOLN�S MONETARY POLICY: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Headings: REVIVE LINCOLN�S MONETARY POLICY:
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

REVIVE LINCOLN�S MONETARY POLICY:
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Lincoln�s Monetary Breakthrough
Building on a Successful Tradition
The Perennial Inflation Question
A Wake-up Call

Content: This letter is therefore meant to remind you. President Obama, we are now met on another battlefield of that same economic war that visited Lincoln and the Founding Fathers before him. For you to finish the work Lincoln started would be a poetic triumph no American could miss. The fate of our economy and the nation itself may depend on how well you understand Lincoln�s monetary breakthrough, the most far-reaching �economic stimulus plan� ever implemented by a U.S. President. You can solve our economic crisis quickly and permanently, by implementing the same economic solution that allowed Lincoln to win the Civil War and thus save the Union from foreign economic masters. Lincoln�s Monetary Breakthrough
The bankers had Lincoln�s government over a barrel, just as Wall Street has Congress in its vice-like grip today. The North needed money to fund a war, and the bankers were willing to lend it only under circumstances that amounted to extortion, involving staggering interest rates of 24 to 36 percent. Lincoln saw that this would bankrupt the North and asked a trusted colleague to research the matter and find a solution. In what may be the best piece of advice ever given to a sitting President, Colonel Dick Taylor of Illinois reported back that the Union had the power under the Constitution to solve its financing problem by printing its money as a sovereign government. Taylor said: