1855 United States Tycoon

The so-called "Plan A" is the gun target proposed by Scrooge in previous negotiations that was specifically used to deny the red necks in the Midwestern states of United States. After such a long time, of course this proposal has been prepared long ago. As such a proposal, if it can deceive people, it must naturally have enough reasonable places to gather consensus, but it must also have content that is full of controversy and can attract the appeal of the red necks. .

After discussing the central bank for about three weeks, several Republican senators and members of the House of Representatives from the New England region announced a "United States Banking System Reform Draft" to the public. In this draft, they put forward some basic ideas like this.

First, the new proposed People’s Bank of United States will no longer be directly involved in commercial activities. In other words, this bank will no longer accept deposits directly and provide loans directly to users. In this way, the banks of the states don't have to worry about the emergence of new central banks to directly grab their business.

Second, the new proposed People’s Bank of the United States will only be responsible for the monetary policy, deposit and loan policies of the domestic banks in the United States, including the regulation of currency issuance, currency recovery, commercial banks’ deposit and loan benchmark interest rates, and commercial banks. Inter-bank lending, commercial bank reserves, etc.

Third, the new proposed People’s Bank of the United States will be directly supervised by the United States Congress and the United States Federal Government. Foreign capital investment is prohibited.

Among these key principles, the first and second principles are used to unify consensus, and the third principle is specifically used to provide controversy, so that states and those red necks can see the so-called "Conspiracy" and can provide the Democratic Party with ammunition, so that they can jump up and oppose it, and then show everyone a double force that will force the battle.As Scrooge predicted, this plan immediately caused a lot of controversy as soon as it was released, and the focus of the controversy was on the third principle.

First of all, the New York Times in Scrooge's hands took the lead and fired the first shot:

"I don't understand how those guys came up with a good idea to let the federal government take charge of the operation of the central bank. Don't they think that the federal government is not powerful enough? Think about it, a monster that can control the country's politics and economy. Well, once such a thing appears, what can we rely on to control it? If we approve such a bill today, then, it can be expected that the federal government, or the monster of public power, will grow more and more. Lost of control. They will use their power to continuously expand their own rights, because continuous expansion of own rights is the nature of any powerful organization or individual. Next, they may stipulate that we can no longer use gold to mint dollars by ourselves; In the next step, they also learn to go a step further and simply issue a lot of waste paper tickets that are worthless to us, cheating all our money away; in the next step, they may further control our possession of weapons. The power of self-defense prohibits us from owning guns, disarms us and the states, or makes our armed forces completely incomparable with the military in the hands of the Union; and then establishes a unified police force that overrides the states throughout the country. The system, and then in the name of patriotism, began to censor our speech, violated our freedom of speech, and even used spy agencies to monitor our actions and check our correspondence. One day, we will find that everything about us will be affected. This monster controlled it. This monster that was supposed to serve us has become the master of the country, but our original masters have become slaves under the control of the monster.

One of the greatest things our ancestors did was to put damn public power into a cage, and now? The guys in the Republican Party wanted to open the cage door and release the monster that could eat people. We can't expect this monster to be like the fool demon in "One Thousand and One Nights", as long as it is coaxed, it will return to the magic bottle. The only thing we can do is to stop the fools who try to open the seal of the magic bottle before the seal has been opened! "

This view of the "New York Times" basically represents the views of the Democratic Party. With the publication of this article, more rebuttal articles appeared one after another. Newspapers in the Midwestern states have also stated that such a design would infringe upon the sovereignty of the states and is absolutely intolerable.

Yes, the term "infringement of sovereignty" is used. Because, unlike the general republic we are familiar with, United States is not a republic, but a United States. To put it more clearly, at the beginning, he was just a confederation of thirteen independent nations. Strictly speaking, the states of United States should not be called states. This is just our habitual translation error. Strictly speaking, the states of United States should be translated as "state" or "country". The struggle between state power and federal power lasted until the 21st century. Speaking of the 21st century, Texas, which is rich in red necks, has also experienced a story that the governor ordered the National Guard of the state to monitor the federal army during military exercises to prevent the federal army from invading Texas. It is unimaginable for us Chinese people. .

Of course, the Republican Party will not stand and be scolded without paying back, and of course they will sneer at each other. For example, ridicule of democracy is of course unfounded worries. In their terms, the president is elected by the people of each state, and the senators and congressmen are allocated according to the proportions of each state. Their power itself comes from the power of each state. If the people are not satisfied with them, they can They choose, and the political structure of the United States is the most advanced structure in the world with the separation of powers. If such a structure is not credible, then who else is trustworthy? The Democratic Party simply drew a ghost to scare the people.

However, compared with the Democratic Party’s propaganda, the Republican Party’s defense is relatively pale and weak. In short, in the next few months, the Democratic Party won a rare advantage in the offensive and defensive battle on this issue. Opinion polls conducted by various institutions have proved this point. The people of United States still have concerns about a central bank controlled by the federal government.

...

"Dad, look, this is the result of the latest opinion poll." Grey Stone handed a document to Scrooge.

"Well, let me take a look." Scrooge took the document and looked at it.

"Most people in United States are still very resistant to Plan A." Grey Stone said, "but they seem to put their vigilance on the federal government."

"Yes, my son. You have to remember that human nature has a weakness, that is, their attention is always easily distracted from key issues. Therefore, often the noisy and loudest places are often not Not the key, but a means to cover up the key.” Scrooge seized the opportunity to educate his son.

"Then Dad, shouldn't the Democratic Party take out Plan B now?" Grey Stone asked.

"It's not busy yet, let the Republicans fight back first, and then the Democrats..." Scrooge replied.

...

After being mocked by the Democrats for a long time, the Republicans finally launched a strong counterattack. They no longer tried to justify the problems in the ownA plan, but instead asked the Democrats: "Do you have any good solutions?"

Naturally, the Wall Street Journal once again provoked the task of instigating this wave. On October 5, 1897, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled "People who do things are always wrong":

"...Undoubtedly, there are indeed many problems with the Republican plan, but I want to ask whether the Democrats think that United States does not need a central bank, and that United States should still become the support of international financial speculators as it is now. Pig farm? And at any time, any thing, it is always the easiest to pick a thorn. It is a great man like President Jefferson, and some people will pick out things such as black illegitimate children from him. There is no perfect person in the world, no A perfect plan. But are we not doing anything because of this?

These days, we have noticed that Republicans have been constantly adjusting, perfecting their own plan, and doing their best to make it close to perfection, but what about Democrats? What else did they do besides the bone-picking thorns in the egg? They accuse the Republicans of making many mistakes. This is true. The Republicans did make a lot of mistakes about how to establish a central bank to protect our people from looting. In contrast, the Democrats are innocent and have done nothing wrong. Why is this so? The reason is simple, because they did nothing! If nothing is done, nothing can be wrong.

But I still want to praise those Democrats. They have a very good quality, that is, they are very self-aware. Why do they do nothing? Because they know they can't do it well. They know that if they don't do anything, they can pretend to be clever. Once they let them do things by themselves, their incompetence will be immediately seen through by the people of United States. That's why they won't also come up with a way to expose themselves. For such gentlemen who never make mistakes, the author has only one sentence to give them, that is: ‘You can do it, you can’t do it, don’t talk nonsense! ’"

As soon as this article was published, it certainly drew angry protests from the Democrats and their supporters, but the phrase "you do it, you go," made these accusations immediately weakened. The Democrats know that if they want to get back the situation, they must really come up with something.

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