The Heartland Institute

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Score!

Pete

Not really when the Ohio Valley looks like the Mojave or gawd forbid, Texas.

[piece-itpete]

LBJ Texas or GWB Texas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVXFEsHnbc

But I ain't on the river anywho! That's for them there southern folk. I's up in rust town

Pete

[ebacon]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

What is the difference between printing money or creating any other type of currency? I mean you can print it, stamp it out of metal, use shiny pebbles or whatever. I really don't see the difference. Precious metals? Is there really enough to go around? Or will we have to grossly inflate the value of the coin causing rapid deflation? A new car would now cost $12, but you'd still have to work for two years to raise the funds? I know that's a gross exaggeration, but that's how I see it.

Look at it this way; People wax nostalgic about prices being so much lower way back when. Heck, I remember going out to see a movie in the early eighties for $3. It's $9, now. But, I also made $3.50 an hour then. I make almost $30 an hour now. So, realistically: Why should I give a shit? In that example, I'm actually ahead of the game.

Dave

It's not the money. It's what the money is spent on. And the more money one has the more opportunity there is to spend it making a mess, climatological or otherwise.

Is climatological a word? Whatever. I used it.

[BlueStreak]

Are you suggesting income caps?

[ebacon]

No. Income caps don't matter when people can pool through corporations.