Hamilton's Debt Legacy and Jackson's Opposition

Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? And did he lock America

into permanent debt from day one? The answer, of course, is

yes. New research from a University of Oklahoma

professor says yes, and his research will shock you.

Alexander Hamilton's mother converted to Judaism to marry a

Jewish merchant, and she raised Alexander in the Jewish

faith.

Alexander attended a Jewish school and grew up surrounded by Jewish

merchants in the Caribbean sugar trade.

Later in life, as the Secretary of the Treasury,

Hamilton forced the

federal government to assume massive war debts, then created

the first Bank of the United States in seventeen ninety-one, giving

private bankers control over the nation's money from day one.

He openly argued that national debt was a good thing, saying

permanent debt would tie wealthy investors to the government and create

a stable financial class that lived off of interest payments

forever. In other words, Hamilton wanted to create a permanent

ultra-wealthy class of individuals who would maintain their wealth

simply by collecting interest payments generated by American

citizens paying their debts. Firms like BlackRock,

Vanguard, and the largest Wall Street banks

are the result of

Hamilton's vision. But a man named Andrew Jackson saw the

threat for what it was. He called the central bank a hydra

of corruption and swore to destroy it.

Jackson pushed back relentlessly, famously declaring, "The bank is

trying to kill me, but I will kill it." And he did exactly

that, destroying the second Bank of the United

States.

Although Jackson had destroyed the second bank, the core system

Hamilton created survived, leaving us with what we

have today. Jackson later survived an assassination

attempt when a

gunman attempted to shoot him at point-blank range, but

both pistols misfired, so Jackson beat him

relentlessly with his cane. Andrew Jackson was the true

hero who stood up to the bankers, while Alexander Hamilton

was the man who sold us out from the very beginning.