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bigdrov1x Wrote: Mar 02, 2013 1:42 AM

Obama is the son of the devil himself. However Mr. Nixon is the one who took us off of Bretton Woods and tying our currency to gold. This move is the real reason why we are now 16 trillion dollars in the red and increasing every day. Just look at the charts of inflation, deficits, and debt since 1971. It is a true hockey stick trajectory. That is what will destroy the country. What good are social issues when food, gas, and the necessities of living take most of peoples income now? Nobody seems to have the ability to ask why this is, they just accept that the cost of everything just needs to increase over time? That is why Nixon should burn in hell as well.

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uvuvuv Wrote: Mar 02, 2013 12:26 PM

france had lots of paper dollars and charles de gaulle demanded to exchange them for gold. this was a crisis because trucks were backing into the loading docks at fort knox to start the road to gay paree. what began in 1971actually began in 1965, with the war on poverty and the great society, launched by the the way with a war in progress and the space program. they didn't have pocket calculators back then, but any adding machine would indicate that this was unsustainable. oh in 1964 they stopped minting silver coins. this was a factor too. but you do open up a valid avenue of discussion, what if.

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Richard Milhous Obama

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