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To: BHI2025
" Though you’ve probably never heard of it, the paper money crisis is the reason we have the Constitution

If you know where the phrase "Not worth a Continental" came from (I do), then you have heard.
3 posted on 12/10/2025 5:55:44 AM PST by Pythion.net
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To: Pythion.net

Totally different thing. That paper money was printed all over the place as a wartime essential.

The paper money crisis that gave us the US Cons. was NOTHING but a bunch of poor farmers, endowed by the power of unchecked democracy, asking their reps to print paper money for no reason other than their desire to steal, at the point of a government gun, money from their creditors.


4 posted on 12/10/2025 6:00:05 AM PST by BHI2025
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