>>>>Do we have a new Amish converrt amongst us? ;-)
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>>>Nope, more of a Jeffersonian. The more I hear of how he envisioned the functioning of the Republic, and how there wasn't any room for banks in that vision, the more I like him.
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>>Just take a peek at page 346:
>>http://books.google.com/books?id=y1_R-rjdcb0C&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=adams+jefferson+banks&source=bl&ots=TthAYlejha&sig=lPrf-mO1iSuZjY0f59gOUResiuI&hl=en&ei=o0a2ScruF4_Htge21dCrCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result
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>That.
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>Of course, I'm not imagining plantation is a paradise. But anything that creates value by borrowing it, i.e. charges interest or just invents money which doesn't exist... is theft. Whenever I hear "leverage", I remember a grafitto from back home:
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>"Give me a lever, and I will move
>your kidneys"

How is charging a markup on selling an item any different than charging interest on a loan. That's pretty much how supply and demand works. You have something I want, you charge me more for that something than it cost you to produce, whether it's a loan or a chair. Doesn't that mean that all profit is money which doesn't exist?

I expect you know more about it than I do, but I assume your wife doesn't only charge for her costs for the items she sells, but actually invents money that doesn't exist and calls it profit. No?