caregiverken
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Half the reason they got ride of the gold standard was countrys would take american dollars for payment from other countrys, Then come to us and demand gold for the papper they had, They would have drained fort knox if we didnt get rid of the gold standard.
Gold and silver have been the best investment you can make, And i always look at from the point of view that the price of gold and silver are not going up. The papper money you have is going down in value, so dont sit on papper.
As far as cash for gold being used to sieze gold is not true, all that gold goes to refiners who melt it down and reslae it back to the public, If anything the goverment releases gold and silver threw coins like american gold eagles. More people or opening there eyes to the value of gold, and im willing to bet that the amount of gold held by the public is increasing everyday, not going down.
Never occurred to me, but if it were true, then wouldn't it become more difficult to buy 22K & 24K jewelry? That's what I do, get the best deal based on weight, kinda old world-stylee.
all real wealth is being consolidated, this is one piece of the puzzle
you raise a good point.
what is real wealth though? the value of gold is no more real than paper or plastic. it's still a value we assign to it. we create value and hence wealth. it's not an inherent trait of gold itself.
neverbreak
You can head down to the Mokelumne River (or the Cosumnes, Tuolomne, American, or any river draining out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley basin) with nothing more than a small shovel and a pan and get you some gold. If you're more enterprising, then you can get yourself one of those flume dealios that fits over a 5gal bucket and get you some gold. There are people who plan their entire summer vacation around gold-mining up here.Actually it would be less now, gold prices are down about 8 bux today, lol. But your right prolly more gold out there now than before.....
You can head down to the Mokelumne River (or the Cosumnes, Tuolomne, American, or any river draining out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley basin) with nothing more than a small shovel and a pan and get you some gold. If you're more enterprising, then you can get yourself one of those flume dealios that fits over a 5gal bucket and get you some gold. There are people who plan their entire summer vacation around gold-mining up here.
Hell, my sister and brother-in-law took my nephew up to a friend's place in San Andreas and they spent a few hours 'panning' for gold through a small flume/placer unit, using trucked in water and the dirt from the road their friend had scraped, and ended up with a few grams of gold. Just from the road scrapings!
So, let's say the government *is* using Cash 4 Gold to try to get everyone's gold. What are they gonna do about what's left up in these here mountains? We Americans haven't entirely forgotten what cloth we're cut from, either. Not entirely.
real wealth has to be something that can't be taken away. we have to value its inherent traits. It created us.
We do have free will to value God over everything else. and thats the fork in the road or y theory.
not trolling or trying to argue with you nb just using my knowledge of words.
if i had to choose from gold paper or plastic... how about you give me the gold bible.
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Wealth, in my mind, is in itself a symbolic idea. It seems to me the concept of wealth is a symbol that one's genetic information will continue to have material representation in future generations. The more wealth one acquires, the more likely it is he/she will continue to procreate and offer security (another symbol) for those offspring in a way that ensures future representation/evolution of those genes is successful. Is there any other reason to acquire "wealth"?
In a way I agree with the statement that gold is a material substance with only applied value- but that doesn't make it any less a symbol of real wealth than that of "owning" fertile land, in regard to the terms I laid out above. In human terms "gold=wealth" has been a reality as long as we have been social architects of symbolic structures. I suppose my stance is that gold is a symbol of wealth, whereas paper money is a symbol of the notions we associate with wealth- the main difference being that having a room full of gold and the ability to manipulate it in a marketplace is a much stronger sign that your genetics will have physical manifestations in this world after you die, than that of having a room full of paper money with the same ability to manipulate it in the same marketplace.
Funny how the ONLY candidate talking shit about it does not get the support he needs to change it huh?I thought in 1913 when they created that abomination they call the Federal Reserve, this country was to never see a depression? Well there sure seems to be one every 20 to 30 years since it's inception! Hmmmmm?
So... you guys are wanting to go back to a 100% barter system..?
Got land?
So... you guys are wanting to go back to a 100% barter system..?
Got land?
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