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Originally Posted by sikeston34m
"@Sik:
Why can't you print money? Because its not your currency. You have no authority. The $ is legal tender of the Federal Reserve. You have no more right to print $ than you do Euros, pesos, pounds, rand, rubles, or rupies etc. Printing any of those is fraud, to state the obvious."
NO SH!!!T
But we don't EVEN know what the FED has been doing. We only have a rough idea and it isn't good. To power up the printer and control people's lives. That seems to be what our glorious government is doing.
"You can print money all you want. You just have to do it in YOUR currency.
If the FED allowed people to just issue their own notes, then there would be no integrity of the currency, and it is just paper then."
I think ALOT of the problem IS our Money is becoming only just paper.
Whatever happened to the days when a Man could make a living for his family on his income?
Meanwhile, back at home, there was alot more time to spend being a parent, by the wife?
In this Scenario, the average "Soccer Mom" can't afford the Soccer Ball or the Gas to go to the games.
Where does this leave our Children?
I see this Government as being self serving to the Rich and the special interests, and themselves!
We have laws upon top of laws, and new ones are created all the time. Ignorance of the law is no excuse! They are laws and we are to follow them!
We also have regulations that I believe are created to be self-serving to the Governent. Why? Because they don't have enough money? I think not.
When it comes down to a society that operates and functions with Greed and Corruption being more than tolerated, we dip into an era where it's going to catch up to us. This is where we are now.
Just remember, the Constitution was written with "We the People of the United States" in mind. Our founding Fathers had a vision I believe to be God inspired.
When we trample on the Constitution, we WILL pay!
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Sorry man, that wasn't meant to be said in a snarky way. Just a statement of the obvious to a retorical Q.
I agree with most of what you said. Life has changed dramatically. I'm 34, and its a very different America than the one my parents raised me in.
Compared to my M&D, my wife and I have to work way more hours (ie two jobs) after having to go to school much longer for way more money, we will likely pay higher taxes, see lower retirement benefits to pay off all the debt that was racking up before we really even started working.
Our house is smaller and more expensive and is falling in value, medical costs are rapidly growing, oil prices are much higher (no muscle cars for us..) and our generations wages as a whole are stagnating. That's if you are lucky to still have your job.
Its a right mess, and most of it was set-up before we even had a chance to really start voting on it, and it seems like it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
I just differ in what to do all about it. I don't want to go to the European-style system as its working even worse. I think the core of what we have works well, but has managed to get hijacked and forgotten who's interest they are working in.
As far as the Fed goes, I see alot of what they are doing as a last resort to save the economy as Congress is completely disfunctional and unable to solve even the most simple of problems. They are fairly poorly equipped to do so, but they are the only ones even trying. The idiots in Congress just barely managed to not actually default on the debt they already spent and send the country into a depression. Its sad when a "win" in Congress is
only having your credit rating downgraded.