Esmoreit said:
The same reason that there are background checks the moment you withdraw or deposit large amounts of cash. It is more common for bankrobbers and dealers to have large amounts of cash on hand then heavy old-fashioned savers. |
There are specific banking laws that require that.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
