The so-called "Plan A" is the gun target proposed by Scrooge in the previous negotiations to deny the red necks in the Midwestern states of the United States. After such a long time, of course, this mention has long been prepared. As such a proposal, it must be reasonable enough to build consensus, but it must also be controversial enough to attract all the appeal of the red necks.

Just about three weeks after the discussion of the central bank, several Republican senators and representatives from New England unveiled a draft reform of the U.S. banking system. In this draft, they put forward some basic ideas like this.

First, the new proposed Bank of the People's Bank of the United States will no longer be directly involved in commercial activities. That is, this bank will no longer accept deposits directly, but will lend directly to users. In this way, the banks of the states do not have to worry about the new central bank coming back to rob them of 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 all banks in the United States, including regulating the amount of money issued, the collection of currency, the benchmark interest rate for deposits and loans of commercial banks, the inter-commercial bank lending, and the reserves of commercial banks.

Third, the new proposed People's Bank of the United States would be directly supervised by the U.S. Congress and the U.S. federal government. Foreign capital is prohibited from investing in it.

Of these key principles, the first and second are used to unify consensus, and the third is designed to provide controversy, so that the states, and the red necks, can see the so-called "conspiracy" and provide ammunition for the Democrats to jump up against it and then perform a tear-up war for everyone to see.

As Scrooge had predicted, the plan was immediately the subject of controversy, and the focus of the debate was the third principle.

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

"I don't understand how those guys came up with the idea of putting the federal government in charge of the central bank. Do they still think that the federal government is not powerful enough? Think about it, a monster that can control the politics and economy of the whole country, once such a thing appears, what else 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 lose control more and more. They will use the power in their hands to constantly expand their rights, because it is the nature of any institution or individual with power to constantly expand their rights. In the next step, they may stipulate that we can no longer mint dollars in gold ourselves; In the next step, they also learned to go one step further and simply issue a large number of waste paper tickets to us, which are actually of no value, and cheat all our money; In the next step, they may go further and accuse us of the right to defend ourselves with weapons, prohibit us from owning guns, disarm us and the states, or make our armed forces completely incomparable to the federal army; Then there was the creation of a unified police system throughout the country that was above the states, and then in the name of patriotism, began to censor our speech, violated our freedom of speech, and even used secret services to monitor our movements and check our correspondence. There will come a time when we will find that every one of our qiē will be controlled by this monster. This monster, which was supposed to serve us, became the master of the country, and we, the original masters, became slaves under the control of the monster.

One of the greatest things our forefathers did was to put damn public power in a cage, and now? The Republican guys want to open the cage door and release the man-eating monster. We can't expect this monster to be like the fool demon in One Thousand and One Nights, and if he's coaxed into it, he'll go back into the bottle. The only thing we can do is stop the fools who try to open the seal of the bottle before it is opened! ”

This view of the New York Times basically represents the opinion of the Democratic Party. As this article was published, more rebuttal articles popped up one after another. Newspapers in the states of the Midwest have also said that such a design will infringe on the sovereignty of the states and is absolutely intolerable.

Yes, with the phrase "violation of sovereignty". Because, unlike the ordinary republics with which we are familiar, the United States is not a republic, but a United States. To be more clear, in the beginning, it was just a confederation of thirteen independent states. U.S. states shouldn't be called states technically, it's just a habitual translation error. Strictly speaking, each state in the United States should be translated as "state" or "country." The struggle between state and federal power continues into the twenty-first century. In the 21st century, there has also been a story in the red-necked state of Texas where the governor ordered the state's National Guard to monitor federal troops conducting military exercises to prevent federal troops from invading Texas in the eyes of our Chinese.

Of course, the Republican Party will not stand and be scolded and not retaliate, and of course they will also ridicule each other. For example, the ridicule of democracy is, of course, unfounded. In their words, the president is elected by the people of each state, and the senators and representatives are allocated according to the proportion of each state, and their power itself is derived from the power of the states, and if the people are not satisfied with them, they can be elected, and the political structure of the United States is the most advanced structure of the separation of powers in the world, if such a structure is not credible, then who else can be trusted? The Democratic Party is simply drawing a ghost to scare the people.

However, compared to the propaganda of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party's justification pales in comparison. In short, in the months that followed, the Democrats had a rare upper hand in the offensive and defensive battles on this issue. This is evidenced by opinion polls conducted by various institutions. The American people are still apprehensive about a central bank controlled by the federal government.

……

"Dad, look, here's the result of the latest poll." Greystone handed a copy of the essay to Scrooge.

"Well, I'll see." Scrooge took the text and looked at it.

"Most Americans are still very resistant to Plan A." "But they seem to be putting all their vigilance on the federal government." ”

"Yes, my son. You have to remember that there is a weakness in human nature, and that is that their attention is always easily diverted from key issues. Therefore, in many cases, the loudest place is often not the key, but the means used to cover up the key. Scrooge seized the opportunity to educate his son.

"So Dad, is it time for the Democrats to take out Plan B?" Gladstone asked.

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

……

After being ridiculed by the Democrats for a long time, the Republicans finally launched a strong counterattack, no longer trying to justify the problems in their Plan A, but asking the Democrats: "Do you have any good solutions?" ”

And the Wall Street Journal naturally provoked the task of provoking this round of trends again. On October 5, 1897, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled "People Who Do Things Are Always Wrong":

“…… Needless to say, the Republican Party's plan does have a lot of problems, but I want to ask, do Democrats think that the United States does not need a central bank, and that the United States should become a pig farm for international financial speculators as it is now? And at any time, anything, it's always easiest to pick a thorn. Even a great man like President Jefferson would pick out things like black bastards from him. There are no perfect people in the world, no perfect plans. But are we just not doing anything because of that?

These days, we've noticed that Republicans are constantly tweaking, refining their plans, trying to get as close to perfection as they can, and what about Democrats? What else did they do besides the thorns in the eggs? They accuse Republicans of making a lot of mistakes, and that's true. Republicans do make a lot of mistakes when it comes to how to set up a central bank to keep our people safe from plunder. In contrast, the Democrats are innocent and have nothing wrong. Why is this so? The reason is simple, because they didn't do anything! If you don't do anything, you can't go wrong.

But I still have to praise those Democrats, they have a very good quality, which is that they are very self-aware. Why don't they do anything? Because they know they can't do it well. They know that if they don't do anything, where else can they pretend to be smart, and once they are allowed to do things on their own, their incompetence will immediately be seen through by the American people. That's why they won't come up with a way to expose themselves. For this kind of gentleman who never makes a mistake, the author has only one sentence for them, that is: 'You can do it, don't talk nonsense if you can't!' ’”

The article, of course, drew angry protests from Democrats and their supporters, but the phrase "you can do it" immediately weakened the accusations. Democrats know that if they want to turn things around, they have to really come up with something. R1058