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To: RSmithOpt; muawiyah

The price of things may go up over time, but the value does not. In George Washington’s time, a gold coin, about an ounce, would buy you a nice tailored suit of clothes. Today, an ounce of gold is around $675 an ounce, or about the price of a nice tailored suit of clothes............


30 posted on 05/02/2007 5:35:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: Red Badger

And a pound of BS is a pound of BS....still stinks too!


129 posted on 05/03/2007 4:41:05 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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