Posted on 08/14/2021 3:01:42 PM PDT by srmanuel
A couple of articles I read today.;
https://lawliberty.org/fifty-years-without-gold/
https://lawliberty.org/the-bottom-up-gold-standard/
Thanks and interesting.
It was also the Nixsonian era that gave us baseline budgeting in via the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(budgeting)
This has built into the budget provision to double the national budget about every 8 to 10 years automatically. Until this time there was no “spend it or lose it” in giverment agencies.
We have been governed by fools and crooks for a long time.
Indeed. That's why gold is considered a storage of wealth. The government can't tell you that the one ounce gold coin in your hand now only weighs one-half ounce.
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