About the only thing in this screed that is hard for me to understand is her problem with paper money. The price of gold would be astronomical if we still pegged our currency to it, would it not? On the other hand, a paper dollar today is still going to be worth a dollar's worth of your labor or a dollar's worth of your goods tomorrow even if it's really not "worth" the paper it's printed on.
Without the mass confidence in our nation's currency, our country would be in pretty bad trouble; but in a broken-down society, gold isn't going to feed you anyway.