Banking

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." -- Jefferson letter to John Taylor 1816-05-28

[ Emilie notes : We now have both standing armies - which require funding on a scale that dwarfs anything Jefferson could possibly have imagined - and banksters that have repeatedly proved that Jefferson totally underestimated them. The swindle is complete. ]