Re: Variance
If you want to break down government policy into "economic" and "social" issues, I would say that the "social" issues borderline on irrelevent compared with the former. Cut the economic tyranny, and you have just cut off the government's ability to fund social tyranny; in other words, cut their funding and they simply can't do anything bad.
As it stands, monetary expansion is the primary method of funding the government. Notice how Bush has blown more money than a drunken Paris Hilton with daddy's credit card, yet hasn't raised taxes? Where do you think the money came from? As it stands, the population is doped into thinking that the gold standard created te great depression and that central banks are necessary to prevent economic chaos. They do not understand how or even that this form of funding (which doesn't become apparent until well after it has taken place, unlike taxes which must gouge you before they are spent) actually takes place. Most people really don't get the fact that the Fed is allowed to and does print money out of thin air. Shift to a gold standard and the government has to risk a taxpayer rebellion every time they decide to go through with ridiculous goverment projects.
What good is addressing the War on Drugs or the prison systems or military reform if you're not going to stop the government from having the ability to implement them?
Gold is also a huge boon economically. It is incredibly close to the perfect form of money. It doesn't tarnish, it is very scarce and therefore portable, it has very few consumable purposes that would lead to its destruction, and rarely is it ever being found in nature. Civilization couldn't have been built as fast as it was without it. Fiat money creates economic catastrophes like inflation and irrational real estate explosions.
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04-29-2007, 04:02 AM
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