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To: soccer_linux_mozilla

"Specie is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war." --Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:430

"Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1788. ME 7:36

"Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1791. ME 8:208

"It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie, is a good or an evil... I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin." --Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:409


4 posted on 11/27/2004 10:33:39 AM PST by nanak (Tom Tancredo 2008:Last Hope to Save America)
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To: nanak

A wet bird doesn't fly at night, folks. This piper will be paid. Do the math. Follow the money. The velocity of raw materials marginalizes the endogenous variables.

Until the Congress wakes up and the people demand accountability, what goes up must come down. The founding fathers never heard of M3. They would be spinning in their graves if they knew we even had M2. If you bought a suit with a Roman denarius in 45 BC, you could still be wearing that suit today. Because you'd be dead!

It was all spelled out by Heckel and Jeckel. The bankers are like magpies. Whoever has the gold makes the rules. We're doomed, I tell ya. When all the food is gone and the Chinese are passing out chopsticks, don't say you weren't warned. Depreciation of the currency is like the marginal utility of hamburgers, and we won't even have those. Look it up... the Federal Reserve isn't even in the phone book.


38 posted on 11/27/2004 12:04:36 PM PST by Nick Danger (Want some wood?)
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To: nanak

Good hard-to-find quotes. Thanks for posting them.


96 posted on 11/27/2004 2:50:26 PM PST by snopercod (Inflation, it's how wars are paid for.)
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