Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?
"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Or pehaps you can tell me, for what can I redeem by Federal Reserve Notes, > other than other Federal Reserve Notes (i.e., for toilet paper as the notes > have no intrinsic value whatsoever)? And what does the Fed have to do to > create new ones? You could go buy gold bars, or a car, or a computer... Seriously, you don't really think that governments must still operate on the gold standard do you? It's really quite impractical. I would note the debate concerning the existance of a Federal Bank is virtually as old as the U.S. itself. Is it a good idea? A bad idea? Well, let's just say its always worked quite well, and continues to work better than most of the government. -Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <[email protected]> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+vorfK37Cns9gJ0gRArJqAJ0WyxbMaQRZywvriPf4A8wFSfA4+ACfRPEL ngzoTikvHbw9p58rmDDD5g8= =BgiB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.