-Caveat Lector- Try to answer this question: Since the government can create money out of thin air, with nothing "backing" it, why does it need to take money out of every paycheck you earn?
Or try this: Go to the Meat Department of the store where you shop. Ask the butcher for "2 pounds". He will look at you questioningly, waiting for you to tell him what you want 2 pounds of. He can't sell you 2 pounds....it must be 2 pounds OF SOMETHING. (Hamburger, bacon etc.) If only people could understand that the "dollar" is a unit of weight, they could then begin to understand the greatest theft and fraud in American History. Dollar (definition) http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/bgm.html \Dol"lar\, n. [D. daalder, LG. dahler, G. thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, i. e., a piece of money first coined, about the year 1518, in the valley (G. thal) of St. Joachim, in Bohemia. See Dale </search?q=Dale>.] 1. (a) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains. (b) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. Standard Units of Weight and Measure: Mention "economics" and most people's eyes immediately glaze over. It shouldn't be this way. True Economics is a facinating, important, and intriguing subject. It is however, intentially made boring so that few will be inclined to learn about it. Imagine the chaos if there were no established and accepted standards of weight and measure. Commerce would be impossible. Civilization would mostly be impossible. Imagine an architect designing a building. The dimensions of every component of the structure are carefully specified in the plans. Orders are placed for the building materials (steel beams, concete, rebar, wood etc.) But when the materials arrive, nothing fits because there are no standards of weight and measurement. An inch is whatever anyone says it is....and so is a pound or a ton. While we easily understand the absolute necessity for standard weights and measures, few people understand the importance of having a "fixed standard of value" for money. Perhaps you have heard the term "elastic currency"? This is what the Federal Reserve has give us in place of money based on a fixed standard of value. This is why the dollar you earned in 1980 is now worth only about 50 cents. The Federal Reserve was unlawfully created in 1913. Today's dollar is worth about 5 cents compared to what it would purchase in 1913. "John Maynard Keynes argues that inflation is a 'method of taxation' which the government uses to 'secure the command over real resources, resources just as real as those obtained by [ordinary] taxation'. 'What is raised by printing notes, ' he writes, is just as much taken from the public as is a beer duty or an income tax.' " - 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 10 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
