"The purchasing power of the dollar has shrunk by almost 95 percent since 1913 because of the takeover of the money supply by the Fed;"

Actually, the figure currently stands at approximately 96%. So, what's the difference... one measly percentage point? At 95%, the ration of current dollars to 1913 dollars was 20:1. At 96%, the ratio is 25:1. When the ratio hits 97% (and it will), the ratio will be 33:1. If it hits 98%, the ratio goes to 50:1, and at 99% the ratio jumps again to 100:1. If you are interested, 99.9% is 1000:1, 99.99% is 10,000:1. You don't want to know what 100% is. The process starts very slowly and increases until become noticeable, then noteworthy, followed by concern, followed by frightening. Then things become frantic. We are in the beginning of the frightening stage.

I do believe you are wrong on the assertion that if we held to a strict money standard (backed by gold or other metals in coin form) "our country would fall apart"! If we held to that, it is easy to realize that everything would be much more stable and would severely limit the ability of greedy people (including government) to manipulate the value of currency! The bottom line is this; normal, everyday, hardworking, blue collar folks, have no problem dealing in stable currency (coins) to mediate trade. We could go back to basic trading of say, potatoes for beef please, but the coins help make every transaction easier. The printing of any fiat currency leaves all hard working people vulnerable to con artists and elected officials. The desire of mentally elevated (egotistical) people, to play games with money is massive. The problem is when they do that and lose, we, the worker bees, are required by the people that write the laws to repay it! Our government is for the most part, a rogue government! We must end them, move them to an island that they already own, somewhere, and let them feed off of each other like the vampires that they are! I DON'T WANT TO BE A SLAVE ANYMORE, PERIOD........ And yes, unless you are a sellout to the establishment, we need you to do some more thinking, and join the movement of truth to help us get our country back!

We can do what Ron Paul has proposed or we can wait for an economic collapse that is under way. If we do what Ron Paul recommends we will have balance and the Rule of Law. If we wait for the criminal class in the White House, Congress and Wall St. to act, we will have total panic and chaos. That is inevitable. The end result will be that we will use G&S again any way, but we could prevent the chaos if we accepted Ron Paul's legislation. The Congress and the White House are too stupid to do this and it does not fir into their Marxist agenda. Wall St. is too greedy to do it. In the final analysis we are screwed because Ron Paul's legislation will not be passed.
Enjoy your servitude.
Death to Tyrants and Corrupt Politicians.

If anyone is aware of any legislation that can help all Americans more than this Resolution, you had better spread the word. In the mean time this is the only chance the USA has of righting the ship. Most commitees have web forms you can fill out for comments. The Judiciary Commitee only takes snail mail and faxes. The fax number is: 202-225-7680

Mr. Paul has been pushing for these changes almost as long as I have been alive. The man is right and knows what he is talking about. However, most people are either too stupid to understand, or too gutless to care.
In the mean time, I will continue to position myself for the inevitable crisis that will ultimately unfold. Then when the system finally cuts the balls off of almost everyone--and its too little late to save--I will giggle a little

Look at the situation in Europe and the reluctance of investors to purchase the bonds of even Eurozone countries like Greece, Portugal and Spain. At the same time the Chinese defend the Rhumbi vigorously and keep it undervalued against the dollar. Are we at the edge of the abyss that will bring in a new world order. Add to the economic and financial turmoil the pressure of religious extremists and we could be on the brink of a world problem that could make World War II look like a minor disagreement. A return of fiscal sanity would possible help, but would not in and of itself solve the problem

Just about Zimbabwe's case the introduction of U$S dollar as currency stops the hyperinflation but the cost is going to be the country itself because Zimbabweans will have to pay in U$S dollars for everything and they will be never be paid in the same currency for anything they may export or provide. Then everything inside Zimbabwe is going to be expropriated by the ones who are providing the initial amount of dollars to start the process.

This item is not backed by gold, it contains it!
It is the Future of Money itself.
It is money literally re-invented.

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Stimulus money (dollars) which will raise the consumer confidence will in turn raise the profitablity of companies. These profits will for the most flow into the pockets of the very rich people which will reinvest their money mainly outsite the USA reducing again the amount of money in circulation.

"Stimulus money (dollars) which will raise the consumer confidence..." So why is consumer confidence falling?

"...will in turn raise the profitablity of companies." So why is profitability falling?

"These profits will for the most flow into the pockets of the very rich people..." Which benefits us how? (Answer: It doesn't)

"...which will reinvest their money mainly outsite the USA..." Again, which benefits us how? (Answer: It doesn't)

"...reducing again the amount of money in circulation." For now. What happens when the chickens (money invested outside the US) comes home to roost? (Answer: Hyperinflation)

RP,
I have to be more specific:

Stimulus money will promote work, so as well consumer confidence(not falling)

So the companies will earn more, profitability is rising (not falling)

These very riche people have high percentages stakes of compamies all over the world.

These people, which number increases up to now, will not return the earnings of their investments to the USA because of the expectations of a possible hyperinflation over there.
In the meantime goverment may start again a stimulus package. It is a spiral development.

I think Ron Paul should hammer this topic home until he gets some attention. As things go to hell in a handbasket there will be some who remember his fight to get currencies stable. We might even change once the dust settles so as to avoid making the same mistake over and over again.

"H.R. 4248 was introduced in early December and as yet has no cosponsors. It probably won’t see the light of day as it is buried in several committees -- Financial Services, Ways and Means, and Judiciary .."
This shows and the Global Financial Crisis showed that POWER is in the hands of a few in the USA.Wrecking the Constitution is the idea of the Globalists and is taking place in India too at present.The Oligarchs are fully in Control in the USA and Oligarchy is being introduced in India too,stealthily.

A downward spiral. Dolf Dieudonné says consumer confidence is rising. It's not. Locally (which is economically the least depressed in the county and the county is economically the best in the state), sales are down in the stores. Some companies have closed completely. The mall has many empty stores. Other companies are downsizing, laying off people, and closing some stores. New business startups are low. Where there has been expansion, the scale of expansion has been reduced or the expansion delayed.

The number of rich people is decreasing. The middle class is shrinking, the poor class is expanding.

The dollars invested off shore are being converted to gold and at some point those dollars WILL come home.

The government is following the same failed policies of FDR and expecting different results. The country survived the New Deal because of a large industrial base. That industrial base has evaporated.

Spending your way to prosperity has never work for individuals or corporations. It won't work for government, either.

Since the Constitution empowers the Congress to coin money of gold and silver, and the states can not make any thing but gold and silver coined money as legal tender, the so-called national debt is bogus because money has not been borrowed, only notes have been borrowed, and the notes are not redeemable, hence they are fraudulent

I like Ron Paul greatly, and I do think that he's is finally, despite the media, despite the bipartisan politics, trying to lead the country to sanity. I voted for him for President, when the country was voting for magic tricks.
However, I do hope and pray and wish that someone, somewhere will WAKE UP! While these monsters are posturing and trying find a way to suck more out of the poor, WE THE PEOPLE are starving and freezing to DEATH!!!! This is not something that you can put off for tomorrow. This is right NOW, in this country. Please, can someone get a way to send someone to find some SOLUTIONS! I've been rhetoriced and politicalized to the point of mind-bending stupidity. LISTEN, for your diety's sake, this money that we have printed is NOT flowing to the bottom. Capitalism doesn't mean that we have to stick a knife in our neighbor's back. We have a MILLION, yup, I'll say that again, we have a million "nonprofits" that are doing NOTHING, but sucking money from the poor. We have a maze of agencies that have the only agenda is supposed to "help the poor" or to "help the disabled", and even more to come, that are doing nothing but shoveled paper around. WHERE IS THE HELP? You can find million dollar CEO's all over the media and all over the internet, but where are the people that are being helped? We have spent trillions "for the poor". Ask the us where their share is. We have laws that contradict themselves to the point where no one in this country is law abiding. We have police that do little more than harrass the poor. Roll your sleeves up and find some solutions!
I don't need mandated drugs, mandated tests, mandated vaccinations, and mandated invasive procedures (to enrich the monopolic, overbloated medical industry) - this fluff and governmental hate and stupidity is killing us.
I need a way to survive.