Termyn8or
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The way I see it, no matter who issues the money, if the government spends it like water, we are going down the tubes. I would say already have. For example take an issue of capital punishment. Argue until you are blue in the face, but it is all after the fact, the victim is dead. If you can embrace the metaphor, in this case the victim was our economy. Now just like a family in which the pricipal wage earner has been murdered, the rest need to figure out how to survive. It doesn't matter how the perpetrator is punished, nor even if he is found and convicted. The dead remain dead. That's my slant on it, and I don't accept precious metals as a solution. Unless you are going to trade internationally it will still need to be converted back to currency to be used. Otherwise we will have to try to eat silver sandwiches deep fried in crude oil. What I am saying is that even with the best hedge against inflation, if the goods and services you need simply aren't available, you are just as fucked. I believe we will see times like this. It takes money to transport these goods. Trucking companies will go belly up bevause they are being squeezed from every angle. Insane, stifling regulations, the high costs of fuel and other taxes and a few other factors are going to make it very difficult to get things, any things. Everything you own came in on a truck, even your truck. The issue of demand is not an issue, it is extant and shall remain so. A medium of exchange isn't all that insurmountable. However the big problem is going to be supply. So what are we talking here ? Solar panels and home farming ? It seems the only way at this point, mooting all others. As war pundits speak of bombing somewhere back to the stone age, it seems what goes around comes around because that looks like our direction for the future. That to me would be a better fixation upon which to dwell rather than what pretty much amounts to laying blame. Oh sure I would like to string these MFs up and let them die in the sun, even crucify them for effect. But that still doesn't solve the problem. T
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