[B4Ranch]

This type of article isn't even looked at by the 'true' FReeper Republicans because "The Man" can do "NO WRONG".

[nanak]

Dangers of Paper Money (quotes of THOMAS JEFFERSON)

"That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied. --Thomas Jefferson to Josephus B. Stuart, 1817. ME 15:113

"The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals... it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted." --Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:430

"Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:189

"The States should be applied to, to transfer the right of issuing circulating paper to Congress exclusively, in perpetuum." --Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:276

"The evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be removed until our citizens are generally and radically instructed in their cause and consequences, and silence by their authority the interested clamors and sophistry of speculating, shaving, and banking institutions. Till then, we must be content to return quoad hoc to the savage state, to recur to barter in the exchange of our property for want of a stable common measure of value, that now in use being less fixed than the beads and wampum of the Indian, and to deliver up our citizens, their property and their labor, passive victims to the swindling tricks of bankers and mountebankers." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:185

"Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us." --Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:276

"It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, 1779. ME 4:298, Papers 2:298

"I now deny [the Federal Government's] power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1798. ME 10:65

[proudpapa]

Darn. Does this mean more European tourist coming to our lovely shores this summer?

[MNJohnnie]

The United States’ trade deficit is soaring and the once high-flying dollar has sunk to record lows against Europe’s common currency.

"This type of article isn't even looked at by the 'true' FReeper Republicans because "The Man" can do "NO WRONG"."


No, the true Freeper realizes how completely stupid this article is. A "Weak Dollar" means imports are MORE expensive thus RAISING the price of imported goods. Thus it makes American goods MORE competitive vrs Foreign made goods. For the usual collection of chicken little Economic Isolations Freepers to hyperventilate over a weak dollar AND the trade deficit in the SAME article indicates to the intellectual Freeper that the Chicken Little's are completely ignorant of BASIC economic facts. Kind of hysterically funny that people like Sacks etc who have fought tooth and nail any Republican efforts during the 1990s to impose structural restraints on Federal Spending NOW try to posture as these great "budget Hawks". I suggest we call their bluff. Instead of wasting our time on the usual collection of DNC directed psuedo-freeper hysteric Bush hating posting, I suggest we all get busy writing letters to our Congressional Represenative demanding they reimpose the 1995 Pay as you go Budget rules!

[Sarah]

PLEASE! Do you know anything about this?
Since 2001 we've been in Europe, and I innocently assumed that after the Irak war the dollar would soar! I can't understand how this is good for america that her currency has tanked. Especially as a strong dollar has always been touted as a GOOD thing in prior years.

[rdb3]

This type of article isn't even looked at by the 'true' FReeper Republicans because "The Man" can do "NO WRONG".

Yeah. It sucks that Bush won reelection, doesn't it?

[soccer_linux_mozilla]

[Ohioan]

This type of article isn't even looked at by the 'true' FReeper Republicans because "The Man" can do "NO WRONG".

This article is the clear result of what "The Man," to whom you appear to be referring, has been doing on the spending front, the past few years--and this is before the real kicker, kicks in--i.e. Medicare Drug entitlements. The chart and article show only the low foothills of what is coming.

I know that some, both around here and in the Conservative talk show circuit, do not want to admit the reality, but the differences between Bush and Kerry were far less extreme than the differences between Bush and a real Conservative. If Bush was 10% more Conservative than Kerry, he was still at least 50% more liberal than any one who really champions traditional American values. As I stated in rejecting each of them, in the recent election, neither Bush, nor Kerry, nor Nader, would have been fit to groom George Washington's horse--nor carry ice for Jefferson's ice house. (I will admit, that I just thought of the Jefferson's ice house quip. It was not part of my denunciation in the recent carnival of moronic 30 second sound bites.)

Those who want a leader so badly that they attribute characteristics to politicians, that those politicians do not possess, need to take a long, hard look, at the unpleasant realities of our times. The real issues, such as the fate of the Dollar were largely ignored in the recent election--just like immigration and certain external, but significant unmentioned realities of this world in which we live.

We have failed in our duty to preserve what wise men vouchsafed to us, because we have allowed demagogues and ideological manipulators to create political taboos, which absolutely rule out an effective defense of that heritage.

William Flax

[RadioAstronomer]

bttt for later read

[GretchenM]

Wrong-o.

I greatly admire President Bush and I'm reading this article.

[Commie Basher]

This type of article isn't even looked at by the 'true' FReeper Republicans because "The Man" can do "NO WRONG".

That's because "The Man" is BRILLIANT and WALKS ON WATER and the GREATEST and MOST CONSERVATIVE president in US history, and anyone who doesn't think so is a HATE-AMERICA-FIRST, TINFOIL-HAT TERRORIST-LOVER.

(Of course, I'm just a loserdopian who voted for Badnarik).