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bedub1 wrote:Do you have a picture to backup the title of this thread?
saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
Timminz wrote:Yo mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
MeDeFe wrote:captain.crazy, you know there's not nearly enough gold in the world to cover for what the economy needs? The gold standard would put us in never-ending deflation.
Seriously, a currency based on work-hours would be better than the gold standard, which incidentally did not keep the US from overspending even while it was still in place.
captain.crazy wrote:MeDeFe wrote:captain.crazy, you know there's not nearly enough gold in the world to cover for what the economy needs? The gold standard would put us in never-ending deflation.
Seriously, a currency based on work-hours would be better than the gold standard, which incidentally did not keep the US from overspending even while it was still in place.
Then our economy is artificially inflated. Having an economy that is artificially inflated with worthless paper money only makes the vast corruption of our politicians and their handlers exponentially troublesome.
Frigidus wrote:captain.crazy wrote:MeDeFe wrote:captain.crazy, you know there's not nearly enough gold in the world to cover for what the economy needs? The gold standard would put us in never-ending deflation.
Seriously, a currency based on work-hours would be better than the gold standard, which incidentally did not keep the US from overspending even while it was still in place.
Then our economy is artificially inflated. Having an economy that is artificially inflated with worthless paper money only makes the vast corruption of our politicians and their handlers exponentially troublesome.
But what is gold worth exactly? It's just a shiny metal. Basing your technically worthless paper money off of something else technically worthless isn't any more theoretically sound than the current system. No matter what, if you have a system of currency based off of anything that doesn't have a definable value (and, frankly, I'd prefer we don't go back to the cattle standard) it is a system based off of trust in that system.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
captain.crazy wrote:I don't think that you could be more wrong! Stop and suppose for a moment that there were to come a president that took it upon himself to do away with the laws in this country that made it possible for government agencies to perform surveillance and arrest people for not more than wild suspicion without warrant. Okay... you don't have to imagine to hard, because that is called the patriot act, put in place by the most phony of Republicans that ever walked the earth. Now imagine that just a few short years later, through the constant division and dumbing down of the people that put candidates into office, that we elected a tyrant that actually did want to seize power of our country and change it into a dictatorship, going even so far as to eliminate term limits on the presidency (after all, we don't have them for Congress.)
captain.crazy wrote: If you think about that kind of situation, you can pretty quickly see how a highly powerful federal government should be resisted at all costs. there is much power already at the top.
captain.crazy wrote:
I am selling my house, I have a lease lined up for a nice place in the mountains, there is a Farm in walking distance to the house. I have guns and a lot of bullets. I can hunt, and fish. I also don't have any qualms about killing someone that thinks that they are going to "tread on me" so to speak. With all of these things that are happening in our country, and infact, our world, these days, I see that it is clear to me that the Revelation of Peter is upon us.
captain.crazy wrote:War and rumors of war... Israel and Iran are close to slugging it out... it will be Armageddon, whether you are a subscriber to that or not, it will happen.
captain.crazy wrote:My advice to all of you... Get out of your cities... move to high ground and learn some basic survival skills... Failure to do so could mean the difference between life and death. I know that you think that I am crazy, I guess that my user name doesn't help with that, but as the events unfold, I see ever clearly that they have been foretold.
You have been warned.
bedub1 wrote:Frigidus wrote:captain.crazy wrote:MeDeFe wrote:captain.crazy, you know there's not nearly enough gold in the world to cover for what the economy needs? The gold standard would put us in never-ending deflation.
Seriously, a currency based on work-hours would be better than the gold standard, which incidentally did not keep the US from overspending even while it was still in place.
Then our economy is artificially inflated. Having an economy that is artificially inflated with worthless paper money only makes the vast corruption of our politicians and their handlers exponentially troublesome.
But what is gold worth exactly? It's just a shiny metal. Basing your technically worthless paper money off of something else technically worthless isn't any more theoretically sound than the current system. No matter what, if you have a system of currency based off of anything that doesn't have a definable value (and, frankly, I'd prefer we don't go back to the cattle standard) it is a system based off of trust in that system.
Nothing is actually worth anything. An item is only worth as much as you can find somebody willing to pay for it. Water is worthless to a man on a lake, but priceless to a man in the desert. a heater is worthless to a man in the desert, but a man trapped outside in the snow would pay you anything for it. Gold is worthless to me, but beer is priceless. We need to get back to the beer standard.
thegreekdog wrote:I went to public school (shocker of shockers) in the same general area as Player's children. I would love to take a poll on who goes to or went to a private school and who is publicly educated. It's been my limited experience (I know gotonkaed hates this kind evidence) that private school children are more educated. For example, my wife and my brothers-in-law went to private schools and were much more prepared for college than I was. But, I also think part of the onus on learning should be on the student and/or parent. I have confidence that Player's children will turn out well because she cares about their education. When parents and/or children lack interest in education, it doesn't matter what school they go to (see, for example, President George W. Bush - sure, he was president, but he's pretty freaking dumb). So, even though I went to public school in Pennsyltucky, I turned out okay because my parents made me care about educating myself. I think the educational system in the United States has more to do with bad parenting and bad children than bad schooling or bad teachers... but, that's based on personal evidence more than empirical evidence.
In any event, the reason you don't hear about vouchers is that public school teachers have a union. And that union is one of the strongest in the country. And that union largely supports Democrats. And if private schools get government money, that means less money for the union. Therefore, no one in the Democratic party is ever going to talk about private school vouchers, much less support them.
captain.crazy wrote:Why not just tell the truth? Why not just tell us that he supports massive government and will always throw the bones to the union dogs.
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