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“Are we willing to look, recognize that the path we are on leads only to destruction and poverty and are we willing to embark courageously on a new path. To those who say that this is naïve, I ask has the strategy of military intervention which took us and keeps us in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya made us any safer? The muscle-bound “with us or against us” mindset which passes for statecraft has placed us on a march of folly that in the past decade has left America with thousands of dead young soldiers, over a million dead innocents in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the surrounding region, a new generation of terrorists and trillions upon trillions of dollars in debt. As poverty and war are twins, so are peace and prosperity….This lawless interventionism spurred on by an unaccountable NATO which violates United Nations Security Council resolutions with impunity, this attempt to use force to bring others to subjection in the name of democracy actually has become a device for control over the wealth of other nations and the squandering of our own wealth and the spreading of poverty here at home…..We can no longer afford participating in this "war game of nations"….Money for war, but no money for jobs?…. Am I advocating isolationism? Certainly not. We need to strengthen the United Nation’s peacekeeping ability and blunt NATO’s war making capability. We must stop NATO from going rogue. We need a counter-terrorism strategy which brings people to justice, not which dispenses justice from 10,000 ft., with the help of Predator Drones. It is the predatory interventionism which must stop. We must stop intervening for the benefit of oil companies or other corrupt corporate interests…..We cannot be the policeman of the world and lay off police and firemen in our own nation. We cannot continue to bomb bridges in other countries and say we do not have the money to build bridges here in America. We must stop pretending that America can solve all the problems in the world when we can’t solve our own problems here at home. How can we bring democracy to other nations when we are losing it at home?……

This month I am going to be introducing a bill which will be aimed at addressing our structural economic problems directly. It is called the National Employment Economic Defense act - - the NEED Act.. ….We have to reclaim our Constitutional power to issue money into the economy, unburdened by debt. Last Congress I introduced legislation to do just that, and I am reintroducing it next week. Here is what the legislation does:

1. It ends the Fed’s unaccountability by putting it under Treasury.

2. It ends fractional reserve banking, ending banks’ ability to control demand in our economy.

3. It empowers our nation to issue money directly into the economy to create jobs to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, unhindered by debt and interest payments - - creating millions of new, good paying jobs. It gets the money to where it is needed the most. It gets the economy going and keeps it going……It avoids debt and deficits. It primes the pump of the economy. It enables us to regain control of our destiny as a nation……This is also a way to save the free enterprise system from self-destruction. The American people know what is going on in our economy. It is run by Wall Street for Wall Street. It is run by banks for banks. Unless we look at serious structural reforms we are headed for a two class society…..” 

Die komplette Rede ist hier. Eine vergleichbare haben wir im deutschen Bundestag bisher nicht gehört.