We should get rid of the Fed and begin returning to the gold standard. Bring back silver certificates and begin exchanging them for the worthless reserve notes. But we will not.
While we're at it let's get rid of the IRS and the income tax and get rid of slavery.
Free banking=free people.
Money, of all types, is too important to be in the hands of government, and the elite.
The world trades everything. There are near two hundred different government moneys. No problem.
There is no reason there couldn’t be two hundred, or more, or less different money in the US.
How many different credit cards, different debit cards, store cards, bank cards are there? And, they work and are accepted. So too with private bank money, like we used to have in this country, before the Fed.
The only thing is big government Democrats, Socialists, Mercantilists, Republicans want a central bank, with federal power OVER us. Not US over them, as is the case now.
I have yet to have someone explain to me how returning us to the gold standard will prevent asset bubbles.
I agree and I think that’s what Dr. Paul would do if he were elected president. we need to support him in his 2012 run.