Posted on 03/31/2010 8:23:49 AM PDT by William of Barsoom
Is it really wise to own gold? The government has banned it twice before -- if I have my facts right. It could be simply confiscated or driven underground. It could become especially heavily taxed. These things could happen on very short notice -- "Stroke of the pen, Law of The Land... Kinda cool," as was said by R.E.
Kinda scary, too... That they think that fast and loose.
So, what about the probability of a general confiscation of gold precisely to prevent anybody from having a port in the storm, and forcing us all into a common and vulnerable boat?
I met a guy once who thought about this, and purchased many crates of bars of soap. He thought to use it as barter-money, "because people always want to be able to get clean." Soap is fungible. Each element of it is cheap, unlike a $1,000 coin -- where are you gonna "break" such a coin for a tank of gas? Ammo is fussy as a barter medium. Too many kinds. It seems to me that barter "money" ought to consist of cheap and universally useful "things."
Buy what the wealthy buy - “Collector Coins” and not bullion, maple leafs, or Krugerrands.
ST. Gaudin (Spelling?) are (or were) protected in earlier seizure of gold.
Musket balls!
I went to Hunter Safety Class last fall, and they brought in a bunch of replica black-powder guns (we didn’t get to shoot them, just look at them). I just loved the wheel-lock - it’s like a Zippo that shoots.
Well, son, in thess pahrts, we all done buried it in ouhr back yahds after the wahr.
“buy lots of lead...”
Can be bartered for gold.
Rahm Emanuel didn’t say “Stroke of the pen...” It was Paul Begala, pro-abortion Catholic in the Clinton administration.
Rahm Emanuel didn’t say “Stroke of the pen...” It was Paul Begala, pro-abortion Catholic in the Clinton administration.
Wishing something would go away has not historically worked out well.
Preparation for the obvious is a more intelligent response.
Thank you. I stand corrected. I knew it was then, but confused the “who” of it.
“None of my reloading manuals has data for silver bullets.
I guess we’re on our own working up loads.”
Watch a Lone Ranger movie and see if his gun bellows out smoke. You would know then if he used black powder. I’d nearly top off a case with Goex FFF and press the silver bullet in to the crimping groove.
During, surely, so's the bluebellies wouldn't steal it.
Sell your gold, buy junk silver (quarters, dimes, etc). More "spendable" than trying to cash a 1 oz. gold coin at today's prices. 1/10 oz gold is available, which would help somewhat, if you wanted to stay with gold.
Author Pat Frank, who wrote the nuclear war novel “Alas Babylon”, later wrote a manual for surviving in a barter economy. He observed that,
“The day may come when a pound of tobacco is worth more than a pound of gold.”
Food for thought?
Well, it was more worrisome to deahl with them cahrpetbahggers.
if we go further into crisis I think it'll be the extras that will make life better...the olives, the spices, the herbs, the liquor, etc...things that may not be essential but are very enjoyable...
Some years ago, one of the gun mags had an article about silver bullets. They cast some silver bullets and shot them.
My vague recollections: Not too good results, harder than lead, trouble cutting sprue, maybe didn’t fill out the bore, not sure if they came out of the mold at the right size. Accuracy suffered.
“Perhaps this will identify me.”
What do you think we fertilized the back forty with?
You can buy it in vacuum-packed foil-bagged bricks. I have a few extra, I keep meaning to round up to a dozen which I think would last a year.
LOL!
LOL!
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