Double Bad Form:  1) responding to my own post, and 2) being  
flagrantly off-topic.  Here goes:

On Apr 20, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Ken Barber wrote:

> Uh huh.  It's fine.  All I want to know is "why"?  Why do people  
> want to abolish the Fed?

Okay, it didn't really take that much Googling, my bad.  Short,  
inaccurate answer:  It's a Ron Paul thing.

Longer answer:  It's coming from the people who want to restore the  
Gold Standard (i.e., currency backed by real gold), which in turn  
appear to come mostly from the Austrian school of economics (Mises  
Institute, etc.).

Or, as the investment community calls them, "gold bugs".

I posted some related thoughts last night here:

http://nashville.craigslist.org/rnr/1130574415.html

So now we can return to our regular, on-topic flamethrowing.  Yay!

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"NLUG" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to