The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. – Theodore Roosevelt
All of that is way too difficult. The only thing that the US needs to do is to allow citizens to redeem their dollars for gold or gas certificates or what have you, as we could do before Nixon.
David Zweig is a clueless statist idiot who needs to learn history. He doesn't even fully understand what fractional reserve lending is.
It does need to be outlawed though. It debases a currency just like a central bank with fiat currency does, even with a gold standard. Which is why we had booms and busts before we went off the gold standard and created the fed.
I change with the times- but like silver coins found in your change I stay the same. ***************** The United States of America started out as the new Republic of Rome.
Will The United States of America end up as the New Imperial Rome?
I agree. This guy is pretty naive. He assumes that everybody will register their wealth, technology will never let us down and the state will never abuse its power. I was waiting for him to say, "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."