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Title: Paul Joseph Watson: The Truth About 'Sh*thole Countries'
Source: TruthRevolt
URL Source: https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/pa ... -truth-about-shthole-countries
Published: Jan 13, 2018
Author: PJW
Post Date: 2018-01-13 16:33:42 by Tooconservative
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#3. To: Tooconservative (#2)

Don't toot your all-mighty dollar to me, that makes America GREAT. It is collapsing world-wide.

buckeroo  posted on  2018-01-13   21:35:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: buckeroo (#3)

Don't toot your all-mighty dollar to me, that makes America GREAT. It is collapsing world-wide.

In your dreams.

Always remember: we don't have to be all that good. We just have to be better than any likely coalition of our rivals. By that measure, America is very strong.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-01-13   22:26:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tooconservative (#4)

Why the rise of world wide crypto-currencies, then? Even Venezuela has entered the ring.

buckeroo  posted on  2018-01-13   23:15:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: buckeroo (#5) (Edited)

It's a bubble more ridiculous and irrational than the dot-com bubble of the late Nineties. It cannot end well.

Only a few of these cryptocurrencies will be around in a few years. I think it will come down to the two main Bitcoin currencies and Monero.

The idea of Venezuela going crypo is just laughable. They're eating animals like storks. Soon they'll be eating each other.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-01-13   23:32:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Tooconservative (#6)

But you have to ask yourself, "why?" Why do otherwise rational people invest thousands upon thousands of dollars in crypto-currencies? I think the answer is staring us in the face: the US dollar is about to tank, particularly because the US federal debt continues to rise unsustainably while China rises with economic wealth already transferred into their coffers.

All around the world, there just isn't much faith in the good ol' USA anymore.

buckeroo  posted on  2018-01-14   1:40:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: buckeroo (#7)

All around the world, there just isn't much faith in the good ol' USA anymore.

Yeah, it's a good thing you got out before America went down the tubes entirely.

Keep telling yourself that.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-01-14   7:09:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: buckeroo (#5)

Why the rise of world wide crypto-currencies, then?

It's called a "honey pot". Crypto-currencies allow the CIA, Surete, MI-5, Mossad, etc., to keep their hands on the controls of the money flow for existentially threatening crimes, while permitting common crime to proceed unimpeded as a mask for their control over them.

Nations cannot directly let drug lords launder money because drug lords do bad things and lots of people die. But they're not existential threats. The money channels that drug traffickers use are also used by people who want to put nerve gas in the subway systems - and it's important to stop THEM.

So therefore governments have created, with plausible deniability, a means by which criminals can conduct criminal transactions with impunity - but not without monitoring and tracing. We let the drug traffickers do their thing, and the human traffickers, so as to be able to detect the nuclear weapon and nerve gas traffickers.

And we never prosecute those people - our agents go out and kill them, and nobody is the wiser.

Of course, having the hands around the money flow means that the drug and human traffickers can be forced to pay their tribute as well - but not directly through the cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin is a honey pot. Do you REALLY believe that the US, France, the UK, Israel, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea, and Germany, just let a whole new currency develop independently, and can't control it?

You can't possibly believe that. It would be INSANE.

China is very unsettled by bitcoin, because some of those activities that the rest of the world tolerate being funded through it get right to the marrow of control in a country that doesn't really face terrorism, but where control of everything is paramount, so the Chinese world may be the one that wrecks Bitcoin, et al, for their own national sovereignty reasons. We and our allies SET IT UP to be the honey pot that it, in fact, is.

Really, if you just think about it, you know this. It's OBVIOUS.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-14   11:37:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: buckeroo (#7)

US federal debt continues to rise unsustainably while China rises with economic wealth already transferred into their coffers.

China has huge amounts of US treasuries and currency in its coffers. They send us stuff. We send them dollars that we print. If the dollar goes up, we have the stuff, they have worthless paper, and they have nowhere to sell their stuff. We go, they go. The reverse is not true.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-14   11:40:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Vicomte13, y'all (#10)

US federal debt continues to rise unsustainably -------

China has huge amounts of US treasuries and currency in its coffers. They send us stuff. We send them dollars that we print. If the dollar goes up, we have the stuff, they have worthless paper, ----

;The question remains, -- how long can the US federal debt continue to rise unsustainably?

How long can we continue to print paper money without the rise of hyperinflation?

tpaine  posted on  2018-01-15   10:09:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: tpaine (#11)

As long as the rest of the world accepts dollars. Which is a long time.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-01-15   10:11:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: tpaine (#11)

;The question remains, -- how long can the US federal debt continue to rise unsustainably?

How long can we continue to print paper money without the rise of hyperinflation?

The question that has to be answered to answer those questions is: "What is sustainable?"

The current deficit is probably sustainable on a permanent basis.

We start to get into dishonest rhetoric when we speak about these things, akin to the liars who claim that "50% of the people pay no taxes", pretending that the only taxes are the federal income tax. That is so far from the truth as to damage the integrity of the person asserting it.

There are not all that many people who really want to have an objective conversation about economics. Those who do, recognize that running a deficit, even forever, is not a dire thing if that deficit is within certain parameters.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-15   10:18:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Vicomte13 (#13)

The question remains, -- how long can the US federal debt continue to rise unsustainably? ----- How long can we continue to print paper money without the rise of hyperinflation?

The question is ---- "What is sustainable?" ---- The current deficit is probably sustainable on a permanent basis.

---- running a deficit, even forever, is not a dire thing if that deficit is within certain parameters.

We can control inflation by avoiding a rise in our deficit beyond current averages?

Sounds good, but put me down as having little faith..

I'll keep my faith in gold...

tpaine  posted on  2018-01-15   11:08:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: buckeroo (#1)

Buckaroo: You might not live in a shithole, but you are a shithead.

Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.

IbJensen  posted on  2018-01-15   11:16:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: tpaine (#14)

Don’t put your faith in gold. When things get too desperate, governments confiscate it. Put your faith in farmland.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-15   17:49:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Vicomte13, tpaine, have a cigar (#16)

gold. When things get too desperate, governments confiscate it. Put your faith in farmland.

Most of the tobacco farmers in Cuba that did that in 1959, are now in Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic.

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Hondo68  posted on  2018-01-15   18:11:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Vicomte13 (#16)

Tell that to the white farmers in Africa.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-01-15   18:29:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Tooconservative (#6)

It's a bubble more ridiculous and irrational than the dot-com bubble of the late Nineties. It cannot end well.

Agree. Told the same to the fellas at work. They were all in a giddy lather before the new year and I told them if they remembered the dot com bubble and also the real estate bubble.

One guy still has a bunch of homes he bought and can't get rid of them. He is basically a mid level slum lord now.

redleghunter  posted on  2018-01-15   18:48:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: redleghunter (#19)

Agree. Told the same to the fellas at work. They were all in a giddy lather before the new year and I told them if they remembered the dot com bubble and also the real estate bubble.

I saw a quote of Warren Buffet saying he can all but guarantee that none of the cryptocurrencies will be around in 5 years.

Conventional but the odds are with him.

People can bitch about traditional currency all they like but those dollar bills in your wallet don't require monthly software updates, internet access, easily-stolen online "wallets", etc.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-01-15   18:52:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Vicomte13 (#10)

China has huge amounts of US treasuries and currency in its coffers. They send us stuff. We send them dollars that we print. If the dollar goes up, we have the stuff, they have worthless paper, and they have nowhere to sell their stuff. We go, they go. The reverse is not true.

Some people never see that these trade deficits leave our biggest competitors holding our (devaluing) currency in large quantities, thus subsidizing the petrodollar.

We have about as much hold on them via this debt as they have on us.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-01-15   18:55:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: hondo68 (#17)

How many Cubans actually got out with their gold?

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-15   20:12:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Tooconservative (#21)

We have a much bigger hold on them than they on us. Truth is, we don’t really NEED any of the consumer goods we import. We would be less comfortable, and life would be less stable, but we don’t have to import anything. If China cut us off, our standard of living would fall because the cost of cheap goods would rise. We might do without cheap socks for a week until we started buying the from Vietnam. We get luxury goods like cars from stable permanent allies. Nobody NEEDS a Mercedes, but Germany’s never cutting us off either. If we have a trade war with China, nobody here starved, or freezes, or goes without transportation or clothing or medicine. Prices go up and life is less sweet for the Wal-Mart class, that is all. But China has a revolution

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-15   20:19:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Vicomte13 (#23)

We do need them and all our foreign trade partners just a bit more than you admit. I think you know this. Still, you are largely right. Any disruptions in trade would be brief. However for things like lithium batteries and other items that require rare earth metals, China has made itself pretty indispensable.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-01-16   8:08:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Tooconservative (#24)

However for things like lithium batteries and other items that require rare earth metals, China has made itself pretty indispensable.

Yes, for a little while. Like Saudi Arabia and oil.

Every rare earth that is in China is in America's vast soil and throughout the oceans. In a war, China would cut us off and we would have to make do for awhile with the reserves we have.

And then American production facilities would come on line - either quickly because of massive government expenditures to rapidly develop a strategic resource, or more slowly as private actors bring the rare earths equivalent of fracking onto the scene. The oil embargo was in 1973. It took awhile to replace Saudi Arabia as the world's leading oil producer.

Americans with financial interests want their profits NOW, so everytihng is always breathless and dire. Truth is, a flat-stop worldwide trade embargo would leave a lot of countries starving and revolutionary in a hurry. Not us.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   8:45:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: Vicomte13, faith in government, asset forfeiture, thievery (#22)

Put your faith in farmland.

How many Cubans actually got out with their gold?

NONE got out with their farmland.

Some may have gotten out with their gold, at least it's portable. You can't take farmland with you when evil government begins confiscation. That was some dumb financial advise that you gave!

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Hondo68  posted on  2018-01-16   9:07:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: hondo68 (#26)

Dumb advice?

Do you know what's really dumb? Living your life as though you're going to be a refugee at any moment, investing all of that time, effort and fear into the belief that the American world is on the verge of falling to pieces.

It isn't. It isn't, and those people who spend their time worrying over the impending apocalypse would be far better served learning, first, WHY the American world is not really coming unraveled, the self-interest or insanity of those who say that it is, and also what is really likely to happen if it comes unraveled - how it REALLY would (sudden total meltdown and anarchy have never happened anywhere in the world, not anywhere - for civil society to utterly collapse, as in places like Somalia, takes decades of warfare and oppression and real evil, in a place where there is nothing - now name me a place in Europe or anywhere in Latin America - the places where Americans almost all come from - that has degenerated to anything like Somalia or the post holocaust apocalypse that preppers are looking forward to.

And now consider: you've survived the holocaust, the Zombie Apocalypse, etc. That just means you've survived the first wave of it. Sure, you might go on for a few years, in misery, at the margins of life, eking out an existence, but soon enough after that you're going to succumb to disease, famine, exposure, random violence or just plain old age.

The best prepared preppers and the wealthiest kings all end up in the grave also.

So, if you're REALLY going to be prepared to "get out", focusing on the inevitability of death itself, and figuring how you're going to prosper in the "what comes after death" period is a whole lot more beneficial (not to mention uplifting), then figuring out how you're going to manage to cling to a miserable three or four extra years of life in the ruins of a holocaust ravaged world in which everything you had and everybody you loved (if you're capable of loving people at all, that is) has died a grim death and is lost.

Ultimately we all lose to death. Preparing for THAT - and what comes next - is more worthwhile, because that WILL come - is more worthwhile, not to mention uplifting, then manically preparing for an "end of America" that is never going to come in your lifetime, and in the process letting real life and what you can do to advance your and your heirs status in the real world that actually is.

Gold is a pretty bad investment, all in all. The problem with it in the American world is simple enough:

It has no intrinsic value, only the value that a market will give it. You cannot eat it. You cannot fight with it. You cannot live in it. You cannot clothe yourself with it. You cannot use it to generate more wealth other than by spending it.

Because it is a physical object, you have to take physical possession of it and actually guard it physically. If you don't, it will be stolen and you will have nothing at all. In a functioning world, the existence of government, police and law and order act as a strong guard against anybody trying to steal your gold. And if they do anyway, you can buy insurance to get some of the value back.

Of course, if the law is strong enough to keep your stuff in your house basically safe, it is also strong enough to take your gold itself in times of economic crisis, which is what this American government already did. In 1933, the government confiscated the gold, and didn't let Americans legally own it again until 1972. The government can do it again. Between 1933 and 1972, you could not legally store your wealth as gold bullion. You had to engage in various subterfuges.

So, to be very clear, the gold hoarders during that long period - the folks who kept their wealth in illegal gold to preserve themselves from the collapse of America that never came - had to hide their wealth their whole lives, still faced having it stolen (as in all ages), could not readily USE that wealth to buy anything - holding it was illegal so converting it was hard. Earned no rate of return on it, and did not participate with that wealth in the active economy, where they could have earned much greater returns...by buying farmland, or by buying stocks, or bonds, or just about any other active, positive, dynamic, legal, open thing.

Essentially, they took their talent of gold and buried it in the ground, and still had a talent when the gold was finally legalized. Did they make some money on the first spike? Sure. But they ended up behind. Had they invested the original amount of money in 1933 in stocks, bonds, land - you name it - they would have had a lot MORE money in 1972 than they had when they no longer had to hide their gold.

Today, as long as the American system stays up, that remains true. Stocks, bonds, land, private business - active investments - they all pay better than gold. If you stuck it out in the stock market through the recent crash, or you bought lead - guns and ammo, or stock in the companies that make them - active things with a use - you made a lot more money than you did buying and holding gold.

The disadvantages of gold go further than that. The tax on long-term capital gains is 20%. The tax on qualified dividends is 20%. The tax on tax free municipal bonds is 0%. The tax on gains in gold is 25%. So, when you cash out of your gold, or when your heirs liquidate the position, you're going to give a quarter of your profit - or your heirs are going to give up to 40% of their inheritance.

Also, you can't spend gold. You have to convert it to dollars. You pay a premium for each conversion.

So, with gold, what've you got? An inert physical asset - a shiny rock - that you have to guard - that you pay a premium to buy and a premium to sell, and a tax if it grows in value. It more or less grows in value with inflation, while stocks and bonds and real estate beat inflation over time.

It's the ultimate passive activity. It treads water with inflation, nothing more.

By buying farmland, you are buying an asset that will produce profits every year, year after year, that can't be destroyed or stolen, that you can use yourself to grow food upon in the event of calamity, and that is taxed at a very low rate. It is easy to rent. It can't be "hacked" or stolen by fraud. And short of a French, Russian, Mexican, or Chinese-style full-on revolution, nobody messes with it.

If America falls apart and you're sitting on a piece of land you owned, farming it, you have food, and nobody to contest title other than with guns - and the land itself is not something easy to "steal". But your pot of gold is easy to steal in a lawless society, also by guns, and is much more desirable to the men with guns.

My advice was sound for all scenarios other than the very narrow one: you're a Jew, with gold coins, living in organized operating states that want to kill you. You have gold you can use to bribe the border guard. But you could have done the same thing with Reichsmarks or dollars too, and the gold is heavier to carry.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   11:03:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Vicomte13 (#27)

By buying farmland, you are buying an asset that will produce profits every year, year after year, that can't be destroyed or stolen,

You ignored my comment about the white farmers in Africa.

Their land wasn't stolen was it?

Land is easier then gold for the government to confiscate. Far easier.

That doesn't negate your comments on living your life like the appocalypse is happening soon. Which I find pretty much spot on.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-01-16   11:10:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Vicomte13 (#27)

The Decree on Land, written by Vladimir Lenin, was passed by the Second Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies on 26 October 1917, following the success of the October Revolution. ... According to the Decree on Land, the peasants had seized the lands of the nobility, monasteries and Church.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-01-16   11:15:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Vicomte13 (#27) (Edited)

Want some seized land in the usa here is your link.

https://www.justice.gov/actioncenter/find-sales-seized-property

So cut out the bullshit about land not being able to be seized. The govern,ent knows where it is and you can't hide it or move it.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-01-16   11:17:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: A K A Stone (#30)

So cut out the bullshit about land not being able to be seized.

If you're a criminal, including a tax cheat, of course the government can seize your land. It can also come into your house or go into your safety deposit box and steal your gold. What's your point?

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   13:13:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: A K A Stone (#29)

The Decree on Land, written by Vladimir Lenin, was passed by the Second Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies on 26 October 1917, following the success of the October Revolution. ... According to the Decree on Land, the peasants had seized the lands of the nobility, monasteries and Church.

A similar decree should have given the freed black slaves possession of the lands their former masters had forced them to work.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   13:18:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: A K A Stone (#28)

You ignored my comment about the white farmers in Africa.

Their land wasn't stolen was it?

It was stolen by the government, yes.

You missed my comment about it being America, a highly advanced part of the Western world we're talking about.

There hasn't been farmland seizure in the Western European world since the French Revolution.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   13:20:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Vicomte13 (#31)

What's your point?

Come on you're not stupid. My point is you said land cannot be stolen. Then your position has to be that hitler didn't steal any jew land. Lenin and Stalin never stole anybody's land. Mugabe or whatever his name was didn't steal any white farmers land. So quit playing dumb.

Also are you so dumb to think the only place to put your gold is in a safety deposit box or your house. Is that how they think in Connecticut? Or wherever you are. Because that is really silly thinking.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-01-16   13:54:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: A K A Stone (#34)

Come on you're not stupid. My point is you said land cannot be stolen. Then your position has to be that hitler didn't steal any jew land. Lenin and Stalin never stole anybody's land. Mugabe or whatever his name was didn't steal any white farmers land. So quit playing dumb.

Also are you so dumb to think the only place to put your gold is in a safety deposit box or your house. Is that how they think in Connecticut? Or wherever you are. Because that is really silly thinking.

If you want to secede from the economic growth on the nation, bet against the survival of America and, more seriously, buy your gold undocumented on the black market, leave it uninsured (because whatever is insured, is easily traceable), engaged in structuring to avoid financial reporting (itself a crime), and then evade the 25% commodities tax on sale, you can go ahead and commit all of those various criminal offenses to have and profit from your invisible, illegal gold. But if you're going to break the law that far and that fast, you may as well just sell pot. You'll make more money at it.

The prospect presented, against which I reacted strongly, was the silly notion that owning gold is going to protect you against the apocalyptic meltdown of the United States.

My answer is...what I already wrote. I don't need to repeat myself.

As is characteristic of you, you're going to seize on a sentence and try to make a federal case out of it, suggesting that I'm...a string of epithets you like to use that question my intelligence, honesty, sincerity, etc.

It's not interesting to me. What I said was common sense and true. Yes, OF COURSE men can do anything, anything COULD happen, and some government could structure itself in some way to take your farmland but leave you unmolested with your hidden basement full of gold.

But it's all silly.

Truth is, farmland has been a reliable, durable, low cost and really low risk way to rack up and maintain good inflation-protected returns for decades. It's hard to commoditize so there's only a few venture capital funds that try to do it, but as an individual investor, you're strong.

Also, there's nothing at all that prevents you from owning your farmland in Norway, or Switzerland, or Finland, or Japan, or some other rock-solid place that is less likely to confiscate your land than a collapsing apocalypse now USA.

You could, maybe, sneak some amount of gold out of the American apocalypse. OR you could just buy your farmland OVER THERE NOW, so that your wealth is ALREADY located in an arch stable country.

Yes, yes, a meteor could take out Norway, I suppose, or a mega-volcano could swallow a continent. Then again, a huge volcano could open and spew such a vein of molten gold that the gold supply doubles and the price of gold inflates away to something less than it is. Likewise, new gold discoveries, or economical seawater synthesis, could dramatically increase the volume of available gold.

The notion that gold is magically and permanently, even divinely-ordained secure is not true. It's a lot less secure than a plot of farmland in Switzerland.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   16:18:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: A K A Stone (#28)

Land is easier then gold for the government to confiscate. Far easier.

Not really. You're forgetting political ease. The US government DID confiscate gold, in 1933, and kept private ownership illegal until the 1960s. People had jewelry, yes, but they didn't have bullion amounts. The government was largely successful in hoovering up most of the gold, by decree.

Let the government try to go out there and mass confiscate land, and see if they can do it without a Bundy-style revolution.

Also, just on a basic level, if gold was so much better than dollars, why is it that huge companies like Goldline and Swiss-America exist with multi-million dollar advertising campaigns to get you to trade YOUR supposedly worthless, inflating-away, fiat paper currency dollars for THEIR supposedly precious, stable, eminently worthwhile hunks of shiny rock?

Are those guys in those companies just all stupid? Do they not understand their own advertisements? Here they HAVE the gold already - and they're telling you that it's going to be valuable real soon, and that dollars are going to be inflated away to worthlessness - so QUICK! Let them have those useless dollars, and they'll sell you this valuable gold!

Seems like strangely obtuse behavior for people who sound like they value the gold a lot more than the inflating, "worthless" fiat currency paper money.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   16:24:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Vicomte13 (#36)

Not really. You're forgetting political ease. The US government DID confiscate gold, in 1933, and kept private ownership illegal until the 1960s.

They did exempt collections of extremely rare gold coins with historical value or that were highly collectible. There are still a lot of the Saint-Gaudens 1 oz. double-eagles in existence. Everything else got melted down but these are still around in considerable numbers.

So you can easily buy these old collectible gold coins who escaped being melted down by FDR.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-01-16   16:40:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Tooconservative (#37)

They did exempt collections of extremely rare gold coins with historical value or that were highly collectible. There are still a lot of the Saint-Gaudens 1 oz. double-eagles in existence. Everything else got melted down but these are still around in considerable numbers.

So you can easily buy these old collectible gold coins who escaped being melted down by FDR.

Yes, they did.

But honestly, do people really believe that they're going to survive the meltdown of America because they've got a coin collection?

I...I...I just can't.

If America's melting down, none of us is going to save himself. We're all going to get sucked into the vortex and our lives as we knew them will be over even if we linger on for a few more years before malaria, typhoid or pinworms get us...unless the violent crazies do it first.

If people are really worried that the apocalypse is near, they'd best spend their time getting right with God, and trying to forestall it by working with their fellow Americans to make things better.

Movies like "Fort Apache: the Bronx" and the like are entertaining to watch, but the actual desire to live through that all and the belief that with some sort of neat pocket knife, cans of dehydrated water, and stocks of ammo, cigarettes and porn "a country boy can survive" is...is...I just can't.

It seems to be a real thing too. Old armchair commandoes who would NEED some sort of apocalypse to change the direction of their lives, I guess they can dream about such things. If we ever get to "live the dream", they'll be carrion within a month.

Why does Goldline eagerly advertise gold as the solution to hyperinflating currency? Why do THEY want all of that hyperinflating currency? Just mine the gold and keep it, right? Oh, wait, what is that? "A sucker is born every minute?" Yeah, that's the expression.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   17:11:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Vicomte13, didnt inhale, A K A Stone, Tooconservative, Connecticut Shade Leaf cigars (#36)

Holy smoke! Pope BANS sale of cigarettes in Vatican – but cigars are ok...


Pope Francis has issued an order to ban the sale of cigarettes on the Vatican's territory in 2018, Curia spokesman Greg Burke said on Thursday.

According to him, the sale of cigars in the Vatican will be allowed at least for a while because their smoke is not inhaled.

http://www.novinite.com/articles/185077/Pope+Francis+Bans+the+Sale+of+Cigarettes+in+the+Vatican+from+Next+Year

You want to conquer the cigar market with your Connecticut Shade Leaf Wrapper tobacco farms?

What's Pope Francis' cut?

DACA Shithole Dreamers - Make America Great Again?

Hondo68  posted on  2018-01-16   18:11:50 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: hondo68 (#39)

Tobacco isn't a sin.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-01-16   19:58:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Vicomte13 (#40) (Edited)

Tobacco isn't a sin.

Thanks for the confirmation on that, as I puff on my cigar along the highway to heaven.

DACA Shithole Dreamers - Make America Great Again?

Hondo68  posted on  2018-01-16   20:16:32 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: Vicomte13 (#38)

But honestly, do people really believe that they're going to survive the meltdown of America because they've got a coin collection?

Who knows. I was merely correcting the idea that FDR confiscated and melted down all the gold coins in 1933. Clearly, he didn't since they are still on the market and have been legal all along.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-01-16   21:55:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: All, --- vicomte13 (#14)

Vicomte13 claimed that we can control inflation by avoiding a rise in our deficit beyond current averages..

--- Put me down as having little faith.. --- Because even through your theory sounds good, the USA cannot control the opinions other nations/people have of the soundness of our financial system.. -- And fiat paper money is nothing but an unsupported promise to pay..

I'll keep my faith in gold, (or any other PToPay backed by portable collateral). .. ---- tpaine

--- The prospect presented, against which I reacted strongly, was the silly notion that owning gold is going to protect you against the apocalyptic meltdown of the United States.

Even in a total meltdown, gold, silver, gems, guns, ammo, etc --- would remain valuable to the holder..

Land is only valuable to those who can hold it through the use of one type of force, -- or another... Many other people must agree with you that you 'own' it, before you actually use it, --- and that 'ownership' can change in a political instant...

tpaine  posted on  2018-01-16   23:12:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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