[wastoute]

A while back some FReeper posted an article about how the gold standard really wasn’t better than the fiat currency we have now. In fact the reason we have fiat currency was chicanery with the gold standard. Unfortunately, the real problem is as Shakespeare wrote ong ago, “not with our stars but ourselves”.

Samuel told the people they shouldn’t have a king but instead of the hard thing (telling Samuel that his sons were corrupt judges and doing something about it) they asked for a king. Same problem, same mistake. I am with Beck on this one. Jesus is and has always been the only answer. How we love one another is how we are known. Good or ill.

Of course He pointed out that we would need a “sword and a purse” in Luke 22. I have a feeling there is gonna be some serious zombie killing and that may have some impact on “how we are known” but I find nothing in His word that requires me to be a helpless victim.

[LibLieSlayer]

The article was wrong... the gold standard prevents printing up money or creating cyber cash and monetizing our debt... and that is why the deficit is skyrocketing... they spend money as fast as they create it... and every dollar created lessens the value of a dollar in circulation.

LLS