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To: untrained skeptic
I'm a constitutionalist, not an anarchist, so yes I believe that it is sometimes good that the government exercises it's authority.

Telling people they cant trade in gold or press coins goes *way* beyond what the founders imagined.

Especially when exercising it against those who are overtly trying to undermine our currency and our military during a time of war.

If you want to go after folks undermining our currecny how about starting at walmart

526 posted on 11/15/2007 1:22:53 PM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: N3WBI3
Telling people they cant trade in gold or press coins goes *way* beyond what the founders imagined.

You can trade in gold. Just don't coin your own currency out of it and try and regulate it's value.

There are likely a lot of things that the founders didn't imagine. However, it sure seems that they imagined that it would be bad is the federal government couldn't regulate currency and every state, municipality, and person could just create whatever currency they wanted and try and get everyone else to use it.

That's why one of the rather limited list of powers they gave to the Federal government was the ability to regulate our currency.

If you want to go after folks undermining our currecny how about starting at walmart

Oh yes. The EVIL Wal-Mart that does such horrible things as offering to sell people goods at inexpensive prices, and tracking what sells well enough to realize that they buy USA program they tried wasn't gaining traction with their customers who let the more expensive American products sit on the shelves and bought foreign products instead. So they dropped products that were taking up shelf space and costing them money.

The still do sell American products that are available at a competitive price, but they can't make people buy American products, and they aren't going to force their customers to go somewhere else to buy things at lower prices.

Wal-Mart's efficiency has also done a lot to keep prices low for consumers, which has kept our standard of living high, and they make a rather sizable contribution to our GDP, so I think your accusation isn't exactly based in reality.

549 posted on 11/15/2007 2:15:31 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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