Competing Currencies and Ron Paul – Mismatch or Monetary Heaven?
from The Daily Bell
Legalize Competing Currencies … I recently held a hearing in my congressional subcommittee on the subject of competing currencies. This is an issue of enormous importance but unfortunately few Americans understand how the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department impose a strict monopoly on money in America. This monopoly is maintained using federal counterfeiting laws, which is a bit rich. If any organization is guilty of counterfeiting dollars, it is our own Treasury. But those who dare to challenge federal legal tender laws by circulating competing currencies − at least physical currencies − risk going to prison. Like all government created monopolies, the federal monopoly on money results in substandard product in the form of our ever-depreciating dollars. – Ron Paul, August 14th column at The Daily Bell
Dominant Social Theme: Competing currencies are impractical and just a way for the Rothschild-driven free-market movement to dodge the issue of paper money perfection. Money worked better anyway when women solely managed it, as Ellen Brown has pointed out.
Free-Market Analysis: Here comes Congressman Ron Paul pounding the drums for competing currencies. He’s been called a dreamer, a schemer and worse but long ago we arrived at a somewhat similar vision.
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2012-08-15 07:46:17
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