lol

"كافر المسلح"

That's FARSI 4 "I like 2 take it up the arse!!".

Trump University graduate!

Trump University graduate!

Enjoy your new ruler... douchebag. lol

Speak

Ebonics

Any of your faggot relatives hang thenselves because TRUMP might be mean to them and he might outlaw "safe spaces? lol

I have no idea what any of my homosexual relatives are into because it's none of my business and I personally find the whole thing more than a little creepy.

BUT....let me know when you decide to formally come out of the closet and I will ask them if they are into the "leather boy/rough trade" thing to see if any are interested in becoming your "top boy".

I have no idea what any of my homosexual relatives are into because it's none of my business and I personally find the whole thing more than a little creepy.

I find you and your HOMO clan creepy as well. Suicide is a good solution. Help Mother Nature out.

Enjoy your new ruler...

Interesting terminology, don't you think?

That you refer to Trump (or any president for that matter) as a "ruler" speaks volumes about your fascist world-view.

Enjoy your new ruler...

Interesting terminology, don't you think?

That you refer to Trump (or any president for that matter) as a "ruler" speaks volumes about your fascist world-view.

Hey, GrandIsland, continue not to bother listening to the Paultard libertarian asshole….you say whatever you Damned well please. (I’m sure you will).

You, can call Trump anything you want, and I will join in with you….as long as Trump continues ruler for the next 8 years.

Kick Ass….Donald!!!

as long as Trump continues ruler...

And another fascist chimes in with a Trump worshiping post.

Hate to break it to you two imbeciles, but the President of the United States is NOT a ruler. If that's what you are looking for - I suggest North Korea would be more to your liking.

WTF - I thought you were disgusted with Obama ruling as a dictator - suddenly Trump is elected and it's fine?

This is the same mindless attitude of the Bush Bots in 2000 after GW was elected - and look at the mess he made, all because shit heads like you gave him a free pass.

Some people will just never learn I guess.

...for the next 8 years.

Why not 12...or 20?

How about "Dictator for Life"? Isn't that what you are secretly hoping for?

This is the same mindless attitude of the Bush Bots in 2000 after GW was elected - and look at the mess he made, all because shit heads like you gave him a free pass.

Yea, things were bad, probably “messy” as you say.

The only salvation and saving grace I can find comfort in….is when I look back, I can shout out: THANK GOD RON PAUL WAS NOT ELECTED PRESDENT!!!

Yea, I look back and think things could have been worse….but fortunately, the American people wanted NO part of a stupid ass libertarian as our president.

because that's what you fear most.

Seriously? I don't "fear" Trump, but unlike you cultists and sycophants, I think his actions need to be scrutinized.

Besides, why would anyone fear the asshole - he's already reneged on his promise to go after Hillary.

Trump will NOT pursue investigations into Hillary: 'If Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing'

Paul Derangement Syndrome

Paul Derangement Syndrome (PDS) is a mental condition that, though it was first detected during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, has only now been identified for the dangerous disorder that it is. Also known as “Paulophobia,” those suffering from it find themselves tortured by their fear of Texas Congressman and three time presidential candidate Ron Paul.

PDS is peculiar in that in spite of its being a contagion, there is but one segment of the general population that it is known to afflict. Even more curious is the fact that this segment consists of Ron Paul’s fellow partisans in the Republican Party. More specifically, it is neoconservative men and women, especially those with a particularly powerful proclivity for “conservative” talk radio and Fox News, who are most susceptible to contracting PDS.

PDS is known to ravage the rationality of its hosts. While this disorder indeed promises to reduce its victims’ thoughts on Congressman Paul to textbook cases of illogic, it would be a mistake to infer from this that every Paulophobe was a clear thinker prior to falling prey to PDS: In a not inconsiderable number of instances, Paulophobia hasn’t so much as caused the wild irrationality that is the most salient characteristic of all PDS victims as exacerbated the general unreasonableness with which they already lived.

Besides, why would anyone fear the asshole - he's already reneged on his promise to go after Hillary.

And your asshole choice for president didn't even have the BALLS to call the cunt CROOKED.

Shut your drug addict loving shit flapper.

And your asshole choice

hey queerbait, I made it clear from that start that I supported neither candidate.

But imbeciles like you can't understand that, can you?

Shut your drug addict loving shit flapper.

You seem obsessed with shit - I think there's a psychiatric term for that.

Also your daddy issues concerning Trump seem a little out of character for a "macho" man like you, you know - someone who enjoys the homo-eroticism of MMA and eating sushi - probably the gayest food on the planet.

hey queerbait, I made it clear from that start that I supported neither candidate.

Hey, grandchild porker, if you didn't vote for ANYONE, then you have no right to bitch. If you did vote (for Gay Johnson or Whore Stein)... then my original Statement is sufficient upon face.

Either way, shut your grandbaby smoocher.

TRUMP is now the man... hopefully you pass away during his 4 year term.

Your Paulophobia seems to be getting worse.

Great!

Thank you!!

... hopefully you pass away during his 4 year term.

Oh no....let him stay around and SUFFER through all the next 8 years.

...and then with PENCE the following 8 years.

The better thing to wish on him, is that someone steals his "Ron Paulie" doll...the one he takes to take to bed with him each night as his security shield. ...

the one he takes to take to bed with him each night as his security shield. ...

You think he takes his PAULTARD doll to his "safe space"?

the one he takes to take to bed with him each night as his security shield. ... You think he takes his PAULTARD doll to his "safe space"?

Yea...in his "hoodie jammies."

(Compliments of the Linux Fortune program.)

FUCK the gutless, wussyboy lemmings, FULL SPEED AHEAD...MUD

"MUD has become even more incoherent than Boris.."

Whatever U saY, penis-BREATH!!

Eat my MUDDY shorts, U RACIST, FASCIST PEEGlet...MUD

BTW...ROFLMAO@YOU, ASS-wipe!! )8^D!!

"...you understand Fire Island pretty well"

Damn STRAIGHT, MUD does...LOL!! And yer OKAY, too, stinkyPETE...FReegards!!

Have a SAFE and BLESSED Thanksgiving, y'all...and B careful on those highways and biways...lotta KRAZEEZ out there these daze...

"Imagine!!" (MUDZ revised version)
(2 B sung to John Lennon's "Imagine")

Imagine NO bureaucracy, Progressivism LEFT 2 DIE...
No damned IRS, leaderz HOO don't LIE!!
Imagine all GOOD PEOPLE with jobs w/ decent pay...
Ah ha ah ahhh!!

Imagine NO MORE Wacos, no booted thugs 2 rue...
Convicting Slick 4 TREASON; religious FReedom, too!!
Imagine all GOOD PEOPLE, no "village" just families...
Yoo HOO oooh!!
You may say I'm a DREAMER...
But MUD ain't the only ONE.
I PRAY someday you'll join US...
Limbaugh's WORK is far from done!!

Imagine unbridaled CAPITALISM...
Regulation on the wane!!
NO NEED 4 greed or HUNGER...
Each spending what (s)he's earned!!
Imagine ALL FREE PEOPLE, RATZ Left driven UNDERGROUND!!
YOO HOO oooh ooh!!
YOU may say, "MUDZ a schemer"...
Lookin' out 4 Number O.N.E.!!
But as a Generation Xer, the next century's OURS 2 RUN!!

Mudboy Slim (revised 13 September 2016)

BTW...TheDonald shall B Ronaldus Maximus REBORN, imho!!

Good riddance...this mass-murderin' SCUMBAG shouldda been assassinated years ago...MUD

BTW...however, I shall miss Florence Henderson (aka Carol Brady on the BradyBunch), who passed on recently as well.

A: Two. One to assure everyone that everything possible is being done while the other screws the bulb into the water faucet."

(Compliments of the Linux Fortune program.)

So true, so true...and make no mistake, both are getting paid AT LEAST a Hunnerd Grand apiece 2 B utterly incompetent...MUD

BTW...DRAIN the FRICKIN' DeeCee Swamp...NOW!!

"Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with an attorney?
A: An offer you can't understand."

(Compliments of the Linux Fortune program.)

Heh heh heh...to paraphrase Sir Willie Shakespeare d'Bard...

"First, IGNORE all duh MudduhFRickin' BigGuv'ment RAT/RINO Lawyers!!!"

Regards...MUD

"Views: 484671
Comments: 1358"

Hmmm...hey there, FeyrieBouyz, looks like a lotta folks have been watchin' yer silly li'l Lib'ral RAT/RINO circle jerk and taking notes, but not replying...ROFLMAO!!

Wonder how many voted 4 TRUMP on 8 November 2016...hmmm...)8^D!!

BWAHAHAHAHA @ y'all, FeyrieBouyz...MUD

John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946.

John Maynard Keynes is doubtlessly one the most important figures in the entire history of economics. He revolutionized economics with his classic book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). This is generally regarded as probably the most influential social science treatise of the 20th Century, in that it quickly and permanently changed the way the world looked at the economy and the role of government in society. [And it's all a buncha Progressive Marxist RAT-Propoganda...Keynes is even more EVIL than those Envirowhacko RAT-scientists who LIED about Man-Made Global Warming!!] No other single book, before or since, has had quite such an impact. [BullKRAP...consider the source...]

The son of the Cambridge economist and logician John Neville Keynes, John Maynard Keynes was bred in British elite institutions - Eton and then King's College Cambridge. In 1906, he entered the British civil service for a little while, and then returned to Cambridge in 1909.

Three life-long connections were made during this time. Firstly, Keynes would remain a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Secondly, he became the editor of the Economic Journal in 1911, a position he would hold almost until the end of his life. He also fell in with the "Bloomsbury group", a collection of upper- class Edwardian aesthetes such as Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell and Lytton Strachey, which would serve as his "life outside of economics".

His first book on Indian currency (1913) was directly related to his experience at the India office. From 1914 to 1918, J.M.K. was called to the UK Treasury to assist with the financing of the British war economy. He excelled at his job and the influence he gained earned him a position with the British delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference in 1918. J.M.K was appalled at the vindictive nature of the peace settlement, and was particularly opposed to the devastating consequences of the heavy "reparations" payments imposed on Germany. He resigned from the conference and published his Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), denouncing the Treaty of Versailles and bringing him into the public spotlight.

After returning to Cambridge, Keynes published his Treatise on Probability (1921), where he dismantled the classical theory of probability and launched what has since become known as the "logical-relationist" theory of probability. [LIES! LIES! LIES!] Keynes's work caused something of a stir, arousing the young Cantabrigian logician, Frank P. Ramsey, to outline his own "subjective" theory of probability.

In 1923, Keynes published his Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), which was his contribution to the Cambridge cash-balance theory of money, then being developed by other Cambridge economists, Alfred Marshall, Arthur C. Pigou and Dennis H. Robertson. It was also in a 1923 newspaper article that he first proposed his "normal backwardation" theory of hedging and speculation.

Throughout the 1920s, Keynes remained active in public policy debates, channeled mainly through his numerous articles in the Nation and Atheneum, a Liberal-Labour weekly magazine which he helped purchase in 1923 (it was absorbed by the New Statesman in 1931). The best of Keynes public policy writings was collected in his Essays in Persuasion (1931). He was on the forefront of the battle against returning Britain to the gold standard on a pre- war parity (e.g. 1925). This led him to author two famous pieces in condemnation of laissez-faire economic policy (1925,1926). In 1929, he wrote an election pamphlet with Hubert D. Henderson advocating the use of public works to reduce unemployment and condemning the Treasury's fear of "budget deficits". [Folks, this scumbag seems to be the ROOT OF ALL LEFTIST/PROGRESSIVE/TYRANNICAL EVIL...LOL!!] In 1929, he also entered into a small debate with Bertil Ohlin and Jacques Rueff on German reparations problem. He also found time to marry the Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova in 1925. (To the EffeteElite RAT-bastards go the spoils, I reckon...GRRR!!)

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes brought out his heavy, two-volume Treatise on Money, which effectively set out his Wicksellian theory of the credit cycle. In it, the rudiments of a liquidity preference theory of interest are laid out and Keynes believed it would be his magnum opus. His bubble was soon pricked. Friedrich von Hayek reviewed the Treatise so harshly that Keynes decided to set Sraffa to review (and condemn no less harshly) Heyek's own competing work. The Keynes-Hayek conflict was but one battle in the Cambridge- L.S.E. war.

The Treatise also led to the formation of a reading group, known as "the [Marxist] Circus", composed of the young Cambridge economists Richard Kahn, Joan Robinson, Austin Robinson, James Meade and Piero Sraffa. Kahn dutifully delivered reports of the [Marxist] Circus's discussions to Keynes, who subsequently began revising his ideas. One resulting criticism of the Treatise was that it failed to provide a theory of the determination of output and employment as a whole -- a particular pertinent question given the huge amount of unemployment at the time.

The key was provided to Keynes in a short article by Richard Kahn (1931) -- the theory of the income-expenditure multiplier -- which was to be the basis of his future revolution. Already in a few 1933 articles and pamphlets, Keynes began announcing the new idea, and began submitting the drafts of his new book to the [Marxist]Circus and several fellow economists for review and dissection. His ideas on the marginal efficiency of investment took a little longer to work out.

In early 1936, the new book finally came out with the pretentious title of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Heavily anticipated, cheaply priced and propitiously timed for a world caught in the grips of the Great Depression, the General Theory made a splash in both academic and political circles. As one American politician put it, everyone always knew that the economic policies recommended by the Neoclassical economists were bad policies; but now they realized it was also bad economics.

With the General Theory, as it became known, Keynes sought to develop an theory that could explain the determination of aggregate output - and as a consequence, employment. He posited that the determining factor to be aggregate demand. Among the revolutionary concepts initiated by Keynes was the concept of a demand-determined equilibrium wherein unemployment is possible, the ineffectiveness of price flexibility to cure unemployment, a unique theory of money based on "liquidity preference", the introduction of radical uncertainty and expectations, the marginal efficiency of investment schedule breaking Say's Law (and thus reversing the savings-investment causation), the possibility of using government fiscal and monetary policy to help eliminate recessions and control economic booms. Indeed, with this book, he almost single-handedly constructed the fundamental relationships and ideas behind what became known as "macroeconomics". [Too bad the Commie RAT-bastard got it all WRONG...IDIOT LEFTISTS/STATISTS/PROGRESSIVES!!...sheeesh]

The Keynesian Revolution split the economics world in two generations: the young climbed over themselves to line up behind Keynes; the old rallied to condemn it. John Maynard Keynes responded to his most able critics -- Jacob Viner, Dennis Robertson and Bertil Ohlin -- in a series of 1937 articles, which helped him to expand upon some key aspects of his theory. A densely-written and difficult book, it was followed up immediately by elucidatory publications by the members of Keynes's Circus, such as Joan Robinson, and young economists elsewhere in Britain, such as Roy Harrod and Abba Lerner.

Of particular importance was the 1937 article by John Hicks which introduced the "IS-LM" representation of Keynes's theory that launched the "Neoclassical- Keynesian Synthesis" that was to pervade in America (and elsewhere) as the dominant form of macroeconomics in the post-war era, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the so-called "Cambridge Keynesians" -- which included veterans of Keynes's Circus, such as Joan Robinson -- and their American cousins, the Post-Keynesian school, would dispute the "Synthesis" twist on the Keynesian Revolution. They posited up their own versions of the theory, which, they argued, was more faithful to Keynes's original message.

Keynes's health collapsed circa 1938, and, consequently, he ducked out of the debate which was then raging. When World War II broke out in earnest, Keynes re- emerged and published his 1940 pamphlet, How to Pay for the War. In that small tract, he identified the "inflationary gap" created by resource constraints during the war effort, and promoted the device of "compulsory saving" and rationing to prevent price inflation, proposals that were adopted in 1941. The 1940 piece is notable for it provided the seeds of a theory of inflation to complement the "depression economics" of the General Theory.

During the course of the war, Keynes was at the Treasury and set himself to think about the post-war economic order. In 1938, he had warmed up to Benjamin Graham's proposals for an international "commodity-reserve" currency to replace the Gold Standard. In 1943, Keynes forged his ideas for "Bancor", a proposal for an international clearing union. In consultation with the Americans, Keynes eventually relented on his idea and accepted the American "White Plan" for an international equalization "fund" held in the currencies of the participating nations. However, several essential aspects of Keynes's clearing union idea were incorporated."

In 1944, Keynes led the British delegation to the international conference in Bretton Woods where the details of the system were hammered out. The American "White Plan" was accepted, countries would retain fixed exchange rates against the dollar, while the dollar itself would be matched to gold. Two institutions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (IBRD), were created to oversee the new international monetary system.

All these exhausting official missions and work taxed Keynes's already precarious health. He died in 1946, soon after arranging the guarantee of an American loan to Great Britain."

See, I told you so...MUD

Thank ya...thank ya very much...Mudboy Slim (aka d'WiseOne aka d'RatzRinoz Worst Nightmare!!)

Quite sincerely...MUD )8^o>

19 August 1999

Letters to the Editor
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Box 85333
Richmond, VA 23293
Attn.: Mr. Ross Mackenzie
Fax #(804)775-8090

Re: "What Happened To All The Good Protest Songs?!!"

Editor, Times-Dispatch:

To quote the Honorable Robert H. Bork, "The [1968 Left-Wing] radicals, expecting stern opposition, were astounded by, and contemptuous of, the universities' rapid surrender. They learned that ours is a soft culture with a bad conscience; MORAL INTIMIDATION WORKS! (emphasis mine)" The Radical Left/Liberal Movement has arrogantly, yet disingenuously, assumed the mantle of moral superiority, and good patriotic Americans have been meekly kowtowing to their paternalistic demands for the last 35 years!

Historians will validate that the 1992 Presidential Election will prove to be the Left's most glorious triumph, as an unabashedly sexually-deviant, draft- dodging, morally-repugnant, pot-smoking fiend assumed the most powerful political office on earth. However, Bill Clinton and his Vile Administration, so utterly lacking in basic character and moral underpinnings, will prove to be the Left's Waterloo, as Slick Willie dramatically exposes the hypocrisy of the Liberal Lie to ever-increasing numbers of American voters. The Democrats have already lost both Houses of Congress and over a dozen Statehouses, long-time Democrats have abandoned the Party in droves, and Conservatives/Libertarians have been emboldened to act with a passion reminiscent of Liberals from a bygone era. All we are missing now are a few good old-fashioned Right-Wing protest songs...

Thank you, Slick Willie! Lib'ral DemonRATS, bending over backwards in defense of your corrupt Presidency, have abandoned all claims on moral superiority, exposing the Effete Elite as the self-serving Power mongers they have been all along! And the best is yet to come...for those Democrats who hold too long to the Clinton line, we will witness historic Republican gains come 8 November 2016!! Then, we get to go after Ol' Billzabubba with Impeachment II!! With all due respect, Mr. EX-President, you're soon to be yesterday's news!!

Quite Sincerely,

Mudboy Slim (08/19/1999)

"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."

HardeeHarHar...MUD (ThePrescientOne)

"Quit pinging me jag-off."

No, Ethyl, I shall NOT stop pinging YOU and the rest of the Obamabot RAT-MORON crowd...MUD

To: Badeye (#665)

"LOL...sheeesh, the RAT-TROLLS think they can come on somebody else's Forum, stir things up, then arrogate upon themselves the Power to tell other Posters not to reply to their IDIOCY?!

BWAHAHAHAHA!! RATS are braindead MORONS, they really are...MUD"

Some things--and most RAT-TROLLS--never EVER change...MUD

A widely-circulated email from a co-worker...pass it on...

"THANK GOD FOR BARACK OBAMA!!"

"He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine - Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary's Presidential aspirations - something no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!

He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty - No more Kennedy's trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!

He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!

Dennis Moore had never lost a race - quit

Evan Bayh had never lost a race - quit

Byron Dorgan - had never lost a race - quit

Harry Reid - bid for re-election doesn't look good

These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed! By the end of 2010 dozens more will be!

In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party.

In one year Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the House, if not the Senate, back to the Republicans.

He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are. Every Generation seems to need to relearn the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very well!

Liberals tax, borrow and spend - check

Liberals won't bring themselves to protect America - check

Liberals want to take over the economy - check

Liberals think they know what is best for everyone - check

Liberals aren't happy till they are running YOUR life - check

He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan

In One year he rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans

Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!

In all honesty one year ago I was more afraid than I had ever been in my life. Not of the economy but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends, strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat out wrong.

When the American People wake up, no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!

Barack Obama woke up these Great Americans

Again, I want say Thank You Barack Obama!"

WooHOOO!! The RAT-Messiah ROCKS...MUD

Still applicable blast from the past...MUD

NOW is the time...
When Right heeds our Founders' Call...
When Patriots must come together as ONE!!
LeftWing people LYING!!
NOW it's time to take a stand and FIGHT!!
Elitists MUST now fall!!

We can't go on...
Pretending RATS are SANE!!
That BARRY/DIMWIT will soon make a change...
We are all a part of...
God's great big family!!
And MUD's "TRUTH!!"...I know WISDOM'S all we need!!

[Chorus]
We are the world...
RATS kill their children!!
We are the ones who make a brighter day...
Folks, DEFEAT Lib'rals!!!
There's a choice we're making...
We're CHOOSING to LIVE RIGHT!!
Seek "TRUTH!!" We'll make a better day...
Just you and MUD!!

Sing from yer heart!!!
So RATS know they OUGHTTA be SCAIR'T!!
And Left's CRIME has been vile Tyranny!!
As MUD has shown YOU by whuppin' up his threads...
Patriots all must lend a helping hand!!

[Chorus]
We are the world...
RATS KILL their children!!
We are the ones who make a brighter day...
Let's DEFEAT Lib'rals!!
Righteous choice MUD's making...
RAT-MEDIA spreads RAT-LIES!!
Seek TRUTH!! We'll make a better day...
Just you and MUD!!

Folks, Left flouts its Power!!
There seems no HOPE at all...
But if Right just BELIEVES...
There's NO WAY we can FAIL!!
Well, well, well, well, let us realize...
That true change will only come...
When we stand together as one!!

[Chorus]
We are the world...
RATS KILL their children!!
We are the ones who make a brighter day...
Let's DEFEAT Lib'rals!!
Righteous choice MUD's making...
RAT-MEDIA spread RAT-LIES!!
Seek TRUTH!! We'll make a better day...
Just you and MUD!!

Mudboy Slim (26 March 2010)

Gracias, mi amigo...good 2 B back. I trust you had a safe and fulfilling Thanksgiving weekend...MUD

Yes Sir, a very Blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends. Thanking our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for His Grace and Peace!

Eat my MUDDY shorts, U RACIST, FASCIST PEEGlet...MUD

Eat
my
MUDDY
shorts,

U
RACIST,

FASCIST
... PEEGlet

...MUD

love
boris

In 1944, Keynes led the British delegation to the international conference in Bretton Woods

Hazlitt's Battle with Bretton Woods (Lew Rockwell)

[.....]

We might ask ourselves: why is it important to revisit this history now? As regards the details of Bretton Woods, it is extremely important to understand that this was not a genuine gold standard. It was a fake gold standard managed by an unworkable plan cobbled together by governments. It is the height of absurdity that supply-siders and others have for years been pining for a return to Bretton Woods and calling it a return to the gold standard. A new Bretton Woods would fail as surely as the first one did. It would certainly not be a step in the right direction to reinstitute Bretton Woods.

That Bretton Woods was called a gold standard was an exercise in obfuscation. It happened for the same reason that NAFTA was called free trade or the FTC is said to protect competition. The state has long used the language of liberalism and the market economy as a plow to push through its opposite. The gold standard was an early victim in this war over words.

A genuine gold standard is implemented currency by currency. It provides for domestic, on-demand convertibility. It allows for banks to fail on their own. It has no central banks. It surely has no international monetary institutions for lending bankrupt governments money. This is the only way toward real stability. Hazlitt said it in the New York Times and it remains true today.

If we want an impenetrable system of money and banking, we would follow Rothbard (Hazlitt once told me that the greatest schievement of the Mises Institute was to give Murray a "suitable platform.") and completely privatize the system, permitting private coinage of any money. This would be all the more viable in our own times, with digital payment systems and global communication. In fact, I'm quite sure that had the state not intervened, the internet would have already put together a competitive system of currency and banking that would exist completely outside the state's purview. A very viable means of reform we could undertake right now is for the state to simply do nothing. The dollar might be beyond salvation at this point, but money itself is not, of course. Money is an essential part of the market economy, so therefore let us let the market make it and manage it.

The stakes are impossible to overstate. Fiat paper money is destroying civilization right now. It has fueled the predator state. It has destabilized markets. It has wrecked balance sheets and distorted financial markets. It has wrecked the culture by leading the whole world to believe that prosperity can come as if by magic, that stones can be turned into bread. It might yet unleash a ravaging inflation that will be welcomed by dictators, despots, and cruel tyrants.

How important is sound money? The whole of civilization depends on it. We must accept no compromise. Down with government plans. Down with international commissions. Down with attempts to manipulate and control that always end in robbing us and making us poorer than we would otherwise be. We should embrace no more and no less than what the old liberals of the 18th and 19th centuries championed. All we ask is laissez-faire.

(Compliments of the Linux Fortune program.)

Always good advice, imho...MUD (btw...a Game of Thrones/George R. R. Martin devotee, as well)

"Thanking our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for His Grace and Peace!"

Dittoes, my friend, absolutely 100% in agreement with you there...MUD

"If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing !"

Hell, YEAH!!!

Regards...MUD

"How important is sound money? The whole of civilization depends on it. We must accept no compromise. Down with government plans. Down with international commissions. Down with attempts to manipulate and control that always end in robbing us and making us poorer than we would otherwise be. We should embrace no more and no less than what the old liberals of the 18th and 19th centuries championed. All we ask is laissez-faire."

Yep...Keynes is the Leftist TOOL of the Anti-Christ, imho...and the Federal Reserve is Satan's spawn...MUD

The BureaucRATS CAUSED this friggin' mess...we cannot afford to reward incompetent RATS fer being incompetent RATS!! Make taxes to pay fer the lavish lifestyles of the RulingElite VOLUNTARY to WeThePeople...we'll use a check-off if we wanna send a coupla thousand bucks each year to support those who have bankrupted America and demean the folks--calling us "TeaBaggers", no less--who are paying their outta control, sky-rocketing salaries AND RETIREMENT Golden Parachutes!!

I'm purty shore we can write this up in Constitutional Amendment Form...MUD

"Have some more tequila, drunky."

Eat my soiled shorts, penis-breath...MUD

BTW...good work, y'all...WOO HOOO!!

Defeat the Obamabot RAT-WHORES, MARXISTS, and ANTI-American PUNKS in November...MUD

Wake up, folks, DemRATS are uncouth!!
Big Guv'ment's Hope and Change is borne of HATE!!
FOOLS trust RAT-scammers, but Right knows the Truth...
BureaucRATS live to masterbate!!
Tyrants'll be swinging from the pearly gates!!
RightWing's got ALL the answers...Patriots, be bold!!
Freedom's the key, Nation...Defeat RATS' Marxist WHORE'D!!

Folks, MUD spoke of this warning...
When Slick Willie FRIED those kids.
RAT-Media LOATHES FreeThinkers...
Constitution's all but DEAD!!
We're just ordinary people...
That's why we make RATS sick!!
Folks, if Media knaves could speak the truth...
VeePeeJoe's a Marxist prick!!

RATS, I'm a sick of yer complainin'...
'Cuz YOU don't pay YER bills!!
Left, I'm sick of all yer bitchin'...
'Bout FREE HealthCare and FREE pills!!
Socialists ain't got no HONOR...
RATS HATE those who are Right!!
Still, MUD thinks RATS are just Marxist TOOLS...
Help fight the righteous fight!!
Beat DemRATS!! Left spends and taxes...Guv'ment whores!!
Beat DemRATS!! Right must fight now...it's Culture War!!
Beat DemRATS!! We gotta WHUP Dem Marxist PESTS!!
Beat DemRATS!! Right shall fight Power...Freedom's our quest...un hunh!!

(Mini-FreakJam)

Folks, I called my Congresscritter...
And I said, "Big Guv'ment's DUMB!!"
Said, "Obama's just a LIAR...
He's promoting Commie SCUM!!
Dudes, OUR Country's in real trouble...
My grandchildren shall git SCREWED!!
Nation's DEBT Obama's doubled...
RATS're LYING Marxist TOOLS!!
Barry's smokin' marijuana...
Left's led by IDIOTS!!
Lib'rals prancin' in their yacht clubs...
Grows rich on government!!
Folks, there are big things a'happenin'...
Constitution's on OUR side!!
RATS platitudes fool braindead twits...
Dem Lib'rals bitch and whine!!"
Beat DemRATS!! Left spends and taxes...Guv'ment whores!!
Beat DemRATS!! Right must fight now...it's Culture War!!
Beat DemRATS!! We gotta WHUP Dem Marxist PESTS!!
Beat DemRATS!! Right shall fight Power...Freedom's our quest!!

(BigMan gittin' off on his guitar...)

Our freedoms are endangered...
Dem Lib'rals ALWAYS LIE!!
RATS, we reject yer Marxist ways...
Sweet liberty is nigh!!
Folks, defeat Dem sons-of-bitches...
Left's vile tyranny won't last!!
So take yer BigGuv'ment, Barry...
And shove it up yer A$$!!
Beat DemRATS!! Left spends and taxes...Guv'ment whore'd!!
Beat DemRATS!! Right must fight now...it's Culture War!!
Beat DemRATS!! We gotta WHUP Dem Marxist PESTS!!
Beat DemRATS!! Right shall fight Power...Freedom's our quest...un hunh!!
Beat DemRATS!! Patriots fightin' 'gainst Big Guv'ment WHORES!!
Beat DemRATS!! Watch Glenn Beck now...FoxNews fer sure!!
Beat DemRATS!! Can't stop me now, MUD's goin' crazy!!
Beat DemRATS!! That's my idea of a good time, Barry!!

Mudboy Slim (22 April 2010) )8^D!!

(Compliments of the Linux Fortune program.)

As long as it AIN'T that BEE-ahhhtch I married--and ESCAPED ALIVE and ornerier-- I count it as "...a BARGAIN, the best I ever had."

Roger Daultry ain't got NUTHIN' on...MUD )8^D!!

CPAC's gonna kick arse in 2017...betcha TheDonald makes a showing...WOO HOOO!!

"If more of us valued food and kind herb and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
--J.R.R. Tolkien

(Compliments of the Linux Fortune program.)

My favorite author of all time...MUD

BTW..."The Silmarillion" is J.R.R.'s MasterWork, imho.