Warned by Jefferson two centuries ago

Two centuries ago, the third President of the USA Thomas Jefferson warned us about the global economic crisis we are facing nowadays. His words were so prophetic that I am surprised we couldn't avoid such a slump:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

Ya decía Thomas Jefferson hace dos siglos que una nación no podía esperar ser ignorante y libre al mismo tiempo. Puesto que la crisis económica pone en duda nuestra absoluta libertad, no me queda más remedio que considerar seriamente nuestra ignorancia, aunque me avergüence de ello.

Sus proféticas palabras van más allá a la hora de referirse al caos financiero que nos asola. Juzgad por vosotros mismos.