The Wizzard of Oz

[Charles]

Having recovered from getting drunker than Cooter Brown, I thought I might as well celebrate my return with a new thread. I found this video interesting, but it doesn't take much to entertain me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swkq2E8mswI

Be forewarned, it lasts for a while. Make of it what you wish.

And for the lowbrow fans with short attention spans, such as the Kansas City mouthpiece (I love you too Don) and myself, a little variation on the theme. You might want to get the kids and the little lady out of the room before viewing this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zny-_h7If8

Take care,

Chas

[BlueStreak]

So, the problem is commercial banks and the gold standard?
And the answer is cheap, fiat currency made and distributed by the government?

(I am responding as I watch the film.)

Dave

[BlueStreak]

The use of Gold, controlled exclusively by the Plutocracy, (Unelected, incredibly wealthy people. What we would call today---Corporatists.), is what killed Rome, the British Emipire and, eventually,.....us?

I can only agree.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Now, the Constitution is "defective" because of Article 1, section 10?

[BlueStreak]

And people called me all sorts of names for suggesting that the "corporatists", as I like to call them, deliberately tank the economy to manipulate the money supply and who controls it................Them, or Us...."Oh, NO, Dave! That's Class Warfare!" Damn square it is. And if you don't start fighting back, you will lose.

You have know idea how much that pisses me off.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Wingnut Co-worker--"If we could only get the government off of the backs of the rich, there would be all kinds of money in this country."

Me--"Yep. And only a handful would have it."

[BlueStreak]

G. Gordon Liddy----Shilling gold on FoxNews, anyone?

Dave

[BlueStreak]

"Elect Bryan (D) and all of the factories and mills will be closed."

A familiar sounding threat, I'd say.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

".....who should issue it? The bankers? Or the people themselves, through their elected government officials...."


Dave

[Charles]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

G. Gordon Liddy----Shilling gold on FoxNews, anyone?

Dave

Gold is a commodity, at least that's what the local broker told me. He also told me not to buy Williams Communications and I should have listened. Fortunately I didn't buy as much as my buddy...he's still pissed off. He's no longer on speaking terms with the stockbroker he went to college with.

Buncha crooks down there in Tulsa.

As far as the G-Man shilling gold. He's pushing physical gold, which I would guess is safer than paper gold. Provided you didn't buy gold plated zinc.

Wish I had his job.

It's a big crap game really, they'll pull the rug out from under the gold bugs eventually...it's happened before.

The interesting part of the video is the premise that a return to the gold standard would actually give the plutocrats even more control of the money supply than they already have. The conclusion I drew from the video is that we're all bent over the bar.

But I'd arrived at that conclusion a long time before. And while we're mean mouthing the banks, let's not forget the insurance companies...two rotten peas in the same rotten pod.

Bastards.

Chas