On April 20, 1997, I published an article in The Washington Post, entitled “Debt is Making Us Poor.” As a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and former Member of Congress, I said that every citizen has the right to know the real cost of government, and I converted the annual budget of the U.S. government into an easy to read and understandable credit card statement. I wanted to make the point, loud and clear, that we are living on borrowed money and on borrowed time. The last

Is the current US monetary system Constitutional? Is it corrupt? What can be done to make it more honest or effective? Constitutional or not, from a technical legal point of view, the question should be, “Is it working?” Let me begin by saying that I do not believe that the Federal Reserve is corrupt, but I do believe that it can be made more effective. I am neither a lawyer nor an expert on our Constitution, but I do have a perspective on this. One of the most important aspe