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That a raise in income taxes on the poor is an anathema is ridiculous. The cited example of $10k a year is no better, as those people enjoy subsidized housing, food, child care, education, etc. The cash they make goes to their TVs, their XBox, their cable, cell phone, air conditioning, and on, and on, and on.

I say f'uck them and their cell phones & video games. I shouldn't have to pay higher taxes so they can live in a shack with boarded up windows hiding the 60" flat screen television playing Halo.

If the US Federal Reserve folds, we'll likely all be trading goats & sheep anyway and gold will be something handy to throw at marauding wolves.

I like your idea that caters to people that want to live in a certain state. It's brilliant and allows for compromise on the issues if it ever happened.

As for the money, it's already losing value right this second. It's obvious because of our debt ceiling and the billions we borrow from China for our illegal wars. Federal spending does need to pull back, but the first step is to pull out of all these foreign countries. No more Korea, Iraq, Germany, Poland, Afghanistan, Japan, Kuwait, and anything else I missed. People think this is a radical idea, but the truth is the US can defend itself just fine. Dictators like Iran's president just want to left alone and ***** their people over. The US's main problem should we pull out on all fronts would be the illegal problem in our southern states.

As for nukes and other attacks, the US has safeguards in place already. Allies like our European countries aren't about to lose their number 1 trading partner. Haarp can be used as a weapon and can deploy to any place on Earth right now. There is just no reason to waste so much money fighting all these illegal wars when our country is in dire straights.

Are you retarded? Gold and silver fluctuate like any other commodity. They're popular because they're a fad.


It's not like you're going to be happy with a response that isn't "invent the replicator and replicate gold so we can have a tenable gold standard then"

Edited, Sep 20th 2011 1:56pm by Sweetums

A currency that slowly loses value over time sounds like a great way to encourage people to do something with it; rather than just sticking it in a mattress or something.

For the European Horde!

Are you suggesting that no economy based on the gold standard has ever defaulted (or gone bankrupt, or whatever the equivalent would be)? Spain during the colonial period is an obvious example since in their case they actually collapsed specifically because of their dependence on gold. The idea that economies which used gold backed currency never fail is absurd. Of course they do. For pretty much the exact same reasons economies based on floating currency fail: They forget that productive output is the real valuation of an economy and *not* how much of whatever you use as your currency you have.

Damn it, Talk like a Pirate Day was yesterday.

Look at all that terrible stability and predictability on the right side of the graph. So annoying when the value of your currency doesn't jump all over.

I could have increased my value by siting on my butt and doing nothing!

That isn't so much the bottom line as it is the starting problem, one which I think most of us can agree on.

I think if you understood the value of gold/silver, you could of answered this yourself. The gold standard is what kept our value of the dollar balanced. Ever since the gold standard was taken away, hyper inflation has run rampant. There is obviously a direct correlation between gold and the dollar.

As for your question, gold has endured for six thousand years. Sure a country here or there might make some bad choices, but the standard didn't go away. Our federal reserve is a total scam. They print money based on their profit margins so they can loan out more or give money to companies for bailouts. Either way, the people get taxed and suffer a drop in quality of life. Why do you think the GOP want to cut social security, medicare, education, the FDA, and other programs? It's because the bankers(Fed) blew all the money on these failures and now we have to tighten the belt on our common citizens.

It's ironic how much of a tax break oil companies get and how it's taboo to tax large corporations even though it's small businesses that hire most people in a strong economy.But they will cut ever program that benefits struggling Americans and continue to bail out these crooked companies.

This is where I look away as someone sucks the necrotic **** of Ron Lawl.

I mean, I gave you pictures and everything! There weren't even any hard words!