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I'm not at all endorsing Bernanke or his policies but the idea of returning to the Gold standard is absurd for a handful of reasons, just for starters:

Ron Paul does not demand or envision a complete return to a gold standard. He never has.

The United States has never had an entirely gold-backed currency, contrary to what many people believe.

Ron Paul advocates offering a gold/silver/copper currency in competition with the Fed's fiat money, not as a complete and/or immediate replacement for paper money. You might know this if you bothered to read our comments instead of scouring the St*rmfr*nt and D.U. for anti-Paul material or searching out shrimp pictures for more of your bogus earmark posts which I think you do know to be false. Certainly, your support for a FDT, a real earmarker, shows you don't give a crap about the issue to begin with but you have undoubtedly had a lot of fun stirring up the Paul-haters and FUDding away. That is, after all, your real purpose as it is with the other habitual Paul-haters at FR.

The reason is to stabilize the value of the currency and guard against the constant deflation of the currency, the periodic attempts (2002-2006) to punish anyone who won't plunge themselves into massive debt, the inevitable bank bailouts that follow (the S&L bailout of the first Bush presidency, the imminent bailout of the big banks over their insane loan practices in recent years). And that's not even including the fact that our dollar is now trading evenly against the Canadian dollar for the first time in 31 years, a devaluation of your savings and purchasing power of 30%-50%.

You might know this if you bothered to read our comments instead of scouring the St*rmfr*nt and D.U. for anti-Paul material or searching out shrimp pictures for more of your bogus earmark posts which I think you do know to be false.

Now you just crossed the line Jorge.

I defy you, in fact I *demand* that you, by the end of the day, prove that I have EVER 'scoured' websites like S-frnt and/or DU for "anti-Paul material" (which I have NEVER done) and for an encore, I challenge you to find one, just ONE 'shrimp picture' or 'earmark post' that I have made regarding Ron Paul.

Get busy Jorge, either put up or shut up.

You done stepped it in now boy.