Posted on 02/08/2016 1:26:57 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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Now that Cruz regularly polls toward the top of an ever-shrinking field, his early tenure bears closer scrutiny. Cruz has gained fame as a social conservative and an unwavering opponent of Obamacare. In his first major leadership role, however, he developed economic policy as the director of the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Policy Planning...
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I’m with you there. Sadly, a lot of people on here have become the republican version of Obama voters.
Austrian Economics is much older than Milton Friedman. Ted studied "Austrian Economics" when he was 14 yo.
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Seniors; Cruz wants to cut your Social Security benefits:
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/31/this-presidential-candidate-wants-to-cut-social-se.aspx
Also Google his college days. I’m finding few liked or trusted him and even complained about his body odor.
After election season this would be a good subject for a discussion thread.
Was not one dollar defined as 271.5 grains of silver?
What rate did they use to exchange for gold?
Thanks for picking up this duty Triple Gee!
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In what year? Up til about 1865, the ratio was 15:1 silver to gold. Somewhere in there it was increased to 16:1. But silver mines kept out producing gold do that by the mid 1870s it was 17:1.
Yep, Comstock Nevada, forever changed the Gold to Silver Ratio. 1859-1874
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