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To: headsonpikes
'certificates of guaranteed confiscation'

I just did a google search on that quote. "Dr. Franz Pick" comes up on a whole raft of gold bug and old Y2K panic exploitation sites. Pick argues that anybody who buys gummint bonds is "paying the government for the privilege of spending the taxpayers money." He advocates liquidation of all government assets to clear the books of all debts and obligations. So do communists. Nuff said.

69 posted on 04/30/2002 7:34:12 PM PDT by Harrison Bergeron
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To: Harrison Bergeron
Good detective work! Finding Dr. Franz Pick, I mean.

If we are looking for the match of monetary opinions to 'modern' ideologies, we need look no further than a Mr. Vlad Lenin, who opined (and I paraphrase), 'comes the Revolution, the only use for gold will be in public toilets'.

I do not think that this was mere idiosyncrisy on his part. Such hostility to any objective, non-socialist means of preserving and trading wealth is common to all the modern Totalitarianisms.

That will include Euro-Socialism, American Socialism, Chinese and other 'Communisms'.

The arguments against gold as money are illusory. Take a look at your allies in this quarrel: hordes of tax-eating gubmint trough-lickers, alarmed at the prospect of facing any real limits to their appetites.

Paper tokens would work well if only mankind were not human, 'all too human'. Place your faith in agents of the State, if you will, but don't expect others to share your touching naivete.

77 posted on 05/01/2002 7:39:31 AM PDT by headsonpikes
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