Posted on 07/11/2004 9:26:00 PM PDT by goldstategop
Well, isn't that nice.
sounds pretty good. although Santorum ain't conservative enough for me =o)
I hear there isn't enough gold in the world to support it. Like my own personal savings will devalue by 50-fold.
You may not live to see a 75% tax rate, but your kids and grandkids certainly will.
The incredible growth in domestic spending virtually guarantees it. There is no other way out of an 8 trillion dollar deficit.
If you don't pay the price, your kids will.
We need to stop the insanity NOW...and that means holding our so-called "conservative" leaders accountable. If they won't reduce spending, they deserve a little pain at the ballot box.
If they don't EARN your vote, don't waste it on them.
If this country became bankrupt and poor like Argentina, it might be enough to get people to wake up to the fact government handouts don't come from trees. They have to be exacted from every one who works. Government produces nothing, it can only take.
You may not live to see a 75% tax rate, but your kids and grandkids certainly will.
The incredible growth in domestic spending virtually guarantees it. There is no other way out of an 8 trillion dollar deficit.
If you don't pay the price, your kids will.
We need to stop the insanity NOW...and that means holding our so-called "conservative" leaders accountable. If they won't reduce spending, they deserve a little pain at the ballot box.
If they don't EARN your vote, don't waste it on them.
Yeah. Live with it. :)
Inflation caused by the Federal reserve is a terrible thing for the country. There is probably a way to move to a real money system without causing catastrophe. We did it before, didn't we?
Owens-Santorum would work for me. But--could they WIN? The best candidate in the universe means nothing if they can't convince the mushy moderate fence-sitters to vote for them.
You may not live to see a 75% tax rate, but your kids and grandkids certainly will.
The incredible growth in domestic spending virtually guarantees it. There is no other way out of an 8 trillion dollar deficit.
If you don't pay the price, your kids will.
We need to stop the insanity NOW...and that means holding our so-called "conservative" leaders accountable. If they won't reduce spending, they deserve a little pain at the ballot box.
If they don't EARN your vote, don't waste it on them.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
Santorum did support Scotty Spector. Aside from that brain fart, Santorum is a very principled conservative and pragmatic politician.
I guess if the "value" was set to gold in a way that reflects current wealth, it could "freeze" things essentially. We wouldn't personally all lose our a$$es but the future would work out correctly. I dunno much about that, I was a marketing major...hehe.
When 2/26/93 happened we survived quite well. This war of attrition by Muslims against Jews and Christians was happening long before Bush was Pres. We've had numerous acts of terror perpetrated against this country over the last half a century. It took a Bush and Ashcroft to exploit those lunatics actions into a curtailment of all our freedoms. Why do you think Clinton didn't try to push a Constitution shredding Patriot Act on the American People after the WTC was bombed in 93. You can be sure he had it on his desk.
Clinton was to busy doing unimportant things. Anything he considered important was just for him.... She was probably on his desk as well.
Okay.
Okay.
It is encouraging to read this thread and see some common sense consdervatives still exist. I was really beginning to lose hope. Far too many Republicans are distracted by the fireworks in Iraq and ignore the fact that Bush is growing the bureacracy more than Clinton could have ever dreamed.
I wonder how many people will happily pull the "R" lever when the federal budget (at current growth levels) hits $3 TRILLION ($3,000,000,000,000.00) in 2006?
Thats Gramm, btw =o)
The price og gold would skyrocket, for a long time.
Oops. Phil Gramm.
When the president can say, as he has, that "if someone is hurting it's the government's job to be there," he is actually saying there is a free lunch, that government has inexhaustible resources from which to draw, and that government's beneficence should be showered on the "hurting." This is the nonsense talk of someone who has never thought seriously about economics, someone who doesn't understand why Hayek and Friedman were right and Keynes and Marx were wrong.
GWB hasn't thought seriously about too many things I'm afraid. He's entirely too shaky in too many areas and it's really beginning to bug me.
We could go to a gold standard immediately if we choose. Simply peg the dollar to the price of gold. The old exhange rate was around 35-1 I believe. Now, they simply need to calculate the number of dollars in circulation, divide it buy our current gold inventory, and lock the value at a certain number of dollars per ounce.
The value will be stable. Every dollar you earn today will buy the same amount of goods 20 years from now as it buys today.
No more stealth taxation (inflation).
It will encourage good habits (saving and investing).
Most importantly, government will be FORCED to cut spending across the board and will have no choice but to make tradeoffs (increased defense = fewer entitlements)...rather then printing more little green rectangles to pay for everything and making what you have saved worth less.
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