You need to read “The Creature from Jeckyll Island”, the definitive hx of the Fed. The fed was created by bankers, mostly international, to gain a banking monoploy. That it was to dampen the business cycle and moderate banking crises was a well planned ruse. The fed has totally failed in their (official) mission to stabilize the economy, reign in inflation, and prevent currency crises. They have completely succeded in their real mission to enrich bankers, at the expense of taxpayers.

“But even more important, why get rid of the central bank?”… is it really a Central Bank?

“Considering the financial turmoil that we experienced after the Second Bank of the United States’ charter expired, who really wants to live through that again? That seems like a game of financial Russian roulette.”…. Was that really worse than the turmoil we’ve lived through under the Fed?

I believe that it is important to view policy decisions made today in a larger historical context, otherwise we can’t use the wisdom of the past to improve the present day. The situations that I included in my post reflect a lack of respect for workers on the part of employers, and there is no reason to think that tomorrow will be any different. So I must disagree with you that looking to the past is ridiculous.

Finally, I ask you: if owners are allowed to freely associate and negotiate as one entity named “management”, then why shouldn’t workers be allowed to do the same? You call yourself a Tea Partier, does that mean that you are opposed to oppression? Doesn’t the ability of workers to organize and collectively bargain help balance power and prevent oppression?