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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot
If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to
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Gold Standards and Paper Money-Putting It Straight
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For centuries - even before Christ - gold, manufactured in coin form, often
by private minters(banks), served as the preferred "money" of the world. It
has only been in this century that nowhere in the world is a country's paper
money redeemable in gold or gold coin.
Why is gold the ultimate "money"? Over the centuries there have been
hundreds of substitutes, but none possess the characteristics of gold:
1. Easily divisible 2. Universally recognizable 3. Cannot be easily produced
,requiring toil 3. Durable 4. Scarce, and 5. Portable. Anything performing
a function of "money" must possess these characteristics to be desired by
individuals. As such, silver and other metals have often been substituted,
as lesser denominations, but always with the realization - and TRUST - that
these other substitutes could be exchanged at will, for gold. Even today,
the US copper cent's core is not copper, but zinc. For some counties even
zinc is too "valuable" to be used as money, preferring instead aluminum,
bronze, and just plain paper. When all US silver coinage was removed from
circulation in the Sixties, President Johnson proclaimed: "Silver is now too
valuable to be used as money!" An absurd statement, to be sure, but illus-
trates a far more sinister underlying belief that Government is best suited
to determine and manage a country's medium of exchange. Of course silver was
too valuable - it was driven out of circulation by the issuance of too many
paper substitutes - Gresham's Law: Bad Money Drives Out the Good! Gold, of
course, had ceased to circulate since the Thirties with Roosevelt's confisc-
ation of the private holdings of Americans. European Kings and Emperors of
centuries past accomplished the same thing by "shaving" or "clipping" a
little gold off each gold coin for their treasuries. This ancient practice
of theft accounts for the reeded edges on our dimes, quarters, and halves of
today. The terms "shaving" and "clipping" still have derogatory delineation
in our present day vocabularies.
So where are we today?
Circulating gold and gold coin, privately held, served the citizens very
well as a self-regulating mechanism, disappearing from circulation when its
"substitutes"(paper) were issued in abundance and out of proportion to the
gold - gold was hoarded. Internationally, foreigners and their central banks
preferred gold for their paper and demanded redeemability from our Treasury.
Governments eventually became the monopolists in the issuance of gold coin
putting their "full faith and credit" forth to enhance trust in their
paper issuances. It would be unpatriotic to believe otherwise! With the gold
reserves being siphoned-off to foreigners demanding redeemability, in the
past govts would reduce their paper issuances which, in turn, would restore
confidence in their paper & the gold would return to the Treasury. People,
again, would dishoard their gold and accept paper as a trusted substitute.
Under the Bretton Woods Agreement the US Dollar was understood to always be
redeemable in gold to foreign central banks, meaning that foreigners accept-
ing our paper for their goods would turn our dollars in to their banks for
their own domestic currencies. This whole procedure is analagous to the
whole world giving us a blank check! No central banks ever demanded the
physical redeemability - that would have been rude to distrust the United
States! Until - the breakdown of the London Gold Pool in 1967 which exclaim-
ed to the world that the US Treasury did not have adequate gold reserves to
redeem all its paper. Central banks, led by France and Charles deGaulle,
lined-up with their dollars, but President Nixon fearing a complete exhaust-
ion of our remaining gold reserves, slammed the "gold window" shut, in
effect saying: "Go away, we no longer have enough gold to exchange for all
the paper money we gave you!" That was 1972. The world has been hostage to
our paper ever since, piling up huge amounts as "reserves" in their coffers
as monetary bases for their own domestic issues. "Dollar Imperialism" had
arrived - and with it - worldwide inflation, an experience never before
witnessed on such a grand scale. The US had pulled off, for awhile, the
greatest fraud in the history of the world, exchanging a paper with declin-
ing value for the products and services of a trusting world.
What to do?
We are now pitted against each other - class against class, race against
race - sex against sex - overweight against the trim - old against the young
- parents against children - tenants against property owners - consumers
(aren't we all) - against business, and many, many, more I'm sure you can
think of. All our value systems have been distorted; we've become a
liability-conscious citizenry, families deteriorating and turning their
backs on God, a nation demanding their government "do more" and give them
ever more paper to chase those goods they value more than virtue. Reward,
without toil, is indeed a vice, and our government feeds it to ensure their
reelection. We are a ship adrift desperately seeking a moral monetary anchor.
Very few of our citizens, I warrant, have read our Constitution yet they
loudly proclaim they have "Rights" granted by it - not true - our Rights
are God-given, they are endowed to us by our Creator - the Constitution
simply reiterates this, our Rights granted by God are a "given" and cannot
be circumscribed by any entity. Get a copy, read it, study it and cherish it
- and demand your elected representatives live by it. They swore an oath to
uphold it - YOU make 'em keep that promise!
You'll come across Article I, Section 8....."only gold and silver shall be
used as money for all debts......" Surprised? You shouldn't be -our Founders
stood fast for individual liberty, knowing full well that gold in the hands
of its citizens meant freedom, and government paper meant debt and slavery.
Eventually, and soon, some country will return to gold to save its sovereign-
ty. I'd like to believe it'll be Mexico, but with our government giving them
our tax dollars, I see this as only perpetuating their misery. Maybe the
brave country rediscovering gold will be somewhere in Eastern Europe. Who
can say, but those citizens taking the moral high ground of private gold
ownership will be a beacon of hope and individual freedom to the entire
world.
Bill
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