And only idiots with zip for brains are pooh-poohing this article as well as rendering the Founder's visions as folly.
I think they already knew the propensity of Govt's to play games with currencies to their own advantage,
Gold back currency denies them this trick.
It's why a whopper, fries and a coke no longer can be bought for less than a dollar.
Ron Paul is a TRUE patriot in the mold of the Founders. One of the few who would like a return to a pre-FDR constitution since corrupted by socialists.
And FWIW, cold and silver coins were "shaved" and adulterated in other ways, in colonial America, as well ad after we became a nation. While America's currency was backed by gold and silver, there were panics and depressions and inflation beyond your ken. History doesn't back your opinion.