... in response to Re: Re: Re: Don't understand, posted by Lynn on Jun 18, 2004"Did you get a good laugh when all private property rights were taken away by executive decree in 1933? You do not own anything. Not even your person. You are a natural resource plegded to the corporation."
-- Uh, please inform me as to which corporation, I would like to put in for a raise.
"And the sad part is that you are probably too pompous to admit that you don't know everything and do some research."
-- Now, now, such a pompus statement of illogic from you?
-- Money has NEVER had intrinsic value, it is ALWAYS a perceived value, such as the classic case with Dutch tulips (and today with electrons/photons). Gold, diamonds, or any product/resource is only as valuable as people care to make it or impart to it. For example, diamonds are by no means a short-supply resource nor should they be very expensive (albeit a relative term), diamonds can be picked from the ground in certain areas of Africa, however the diamond companies lobbied for laws that make it illegal to pick-up a diamond laying (lying??) on the ground (yes, you can be arrested). Why? In order to maintain upward pressure on diamond prices, and their hold on the market. These same diamond companies came up with clever marketing such as "a diamond is a girls best friend", and nowadays are trying to push the 3rd wedding/engagement ring as very "fashionable." The "desire" for, and thus cost of, diamonds today is much greater (above inflation) than they were prior to WWII.
Don't even try mixing my statement and comparing some two-bit book to the US Constitution -- you are engaging in a basic logical fallacy.
I reinterate -- the entire whining concept of the MOMS book is based upon returning to the gold standard, and how society has become more debased without it. Sure, and whenever I wash my car it rains the next day.
