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-=> IB Joe wrote to Ron L. <=-

 RL> You can only do that with fiat currency.  One of the bad things we did
 RL> was come off the gold standard.
 RL>

 IJ> And when they did that we were told to trust the government!!!

 Just think what would have happened if we`d said we couldn`t afford an
 incursion into Indochina... China would have increased its sphere of
 influence, but we`d not have a reason to leave the gold standard and
 wouldn`t have taken the black eye that was Vietnam.


 
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