"So, how come everyone says the U.S. Congress is allowed to bypass all those levels of government, including the elected representatives of a sovereign state, and reach right down into our pocketbook?"

http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo/...=431&Itemid=36

Probably because ‘everyone’ is scared @#%^less of the Fed’s big guns, and the mindless storm troopers that carry them.

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