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| The Road to Rediscovering America’s Identity ~ XXIV
BORN RIGHT^© - Sep 05, 2025
with Josh Allen Flowers : josh@portervillepost.com

BEFORE THE SCAM ~ How Americans Used to Bank Without Banks ~

Before the IRS had its claws in your paycheck...
Before the Federal Reserve hijacked our economy...
Before money became a joke printed on demand ...
Americans knew the meaning of value. Real value !!!
The kind you could hold in your hand, bury in your backyard, or pass down to your kids without a ledger full of debt and interest.
This is the story of how we used to live before 1913 — and what we lost when we gave it up.

A Time Before the Parasites Took Over

✪ Imagine an America where the average person didn’t have a credit score because they didn’t need one. Where families bought homes without mortgages, where gold and silver were money — not some speculative asset your cousin trades at 2am.
✪ This wasn’t fantasy. It was normal.
✪ People stored their wealth in tangible assets: precious metals, land, livestock, tools, and goods.
✪ They were their own banks. Need a loan? Maybe a neighbor would help — with trust, not interest. Communities operated on mutual respect, not revolving debt.
✪ And here’s the kicker: We didn’t have inflation. Your dollar in 1800 was still worth about the same in 1900. That’s right — a hundred years of stable purchasing power.
Try finding that in today’s economy where your paycheck evaporates before it hits your account.

“1913” The Year America
“Got Robbed” in Broad Daylight

Then came the Trojan horse in a three-piece suit: the Federal Reserve.
Sold to the public as a way to “stabilize” the economy, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was the financial equivalent of a coup.
A private banking cartel gained control of our currency, and with it, our future.
They didn’t take over the banks. They became the bank.
Now instead of holding gold, your money became a promise printed on paper - a promise backed by... absolutely nothing.

From Value to Vapor: The War on Wealth Begins

The moment the Fed came into power, it set in motion a silent war on your savings.

● 1913: Central bank is born.
● 1933: FDR makes it illegal to own gold.
● 1971: Nixon severs the dollar from gold entirely — game over.

Since then, the U.S. dollar has lost over 96% of its value. Read that again. What a dollar could buy in 1913 now takes more than twenty. And every year you work harder... for less. This isn’t just theft — it’s engineered poverty.

Fractional Reserve Banking: A Legal Ponzi Scheme

$ Let’s pull the curtain back further.
$ The banks you “trust” don’t actually have your money.
$ Thanks to fractional reserve banking, they’re allowed to loan out 90% or more of your deposit — often many times over.
$ You deposit $10,000. The bank lends out $90,000 based on it.
$ Then charges everyone interest on money they never had.
If you or I did this, we’d be arrested for fraud.
$ But when the banks do it? They call it “monetary policy.”

We Traded Freedom for Convenience and Got Neither

Think of what this scam has done to daily life:

● Homes that used to cost 2–3 years’ salary now take 30-year debt sentences.
● Two parents have to work just to survive — no time to raise their own children.
● Debt is normalized. Credit cards are a lifestyle. Most Americans are one paycheck from disaster.

And we’ve been taught this is progress? No. This is slavery with Wi-Fi.

But There’s a Reason They Had to Change It

The old system was dangerous — to them.

↪ Because when people own real money and have no debt, they can’t be controlled.
→ You can’t sanction gold.
→ You can’t freeze land.
→ You can’t censor a chicken coop or a cash box under a mattress.
↪ So the global elite needed a system where they create the money, and you beg to borrow it. One where inflation keeps you running — but never getting ahead.

Welcome to 2025. Land of the fee. Home of the debt.

The Good News:
We’ve Been Here Before And We Can Go Back

🂡 This isn’t the first time in history a nation got hijacked by bankers.
🃁 But it’s also not the first time a people woke up and took their freedom back.
🃑 We don’t have to invent anything new. We just have to remember who we were before the system softened us.
🂱 Before convenience became a chain. Before debt became a birthright.
🃟 Before we forgot that real wealth doesn’t come from Wall Street — it comes from work, wisdom, and independence.

Next Up: The Great Heist

⇾ In Article 25, we’ll expose how inflation isn’t an accident — it’s a feature.
⇾ You’ll see exactly how the Federal Reserve and the political class used currency manipulation to steal the American Dream... and how we let them.
⇾ The biggest transfer of wealth in history didn’t happen in one night. It happened in your lifetime — quietly, legally, and systematically. And the bill is coming due.

What you are not changing, you are choosing.