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To: Rarebird who wrote (57476)	8/20/2000 11:32:51 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 116764

What I am saying is that your naive to think that the government will ever give the same treatment to gold as it does to fiat. Moreover, why should the government do so? I can hear Jame Earl Jone's voice in my mind's ear as: I SENSE "THE FORCE" IS GROWING STRONGER IN THIS ONE... <VBG>

To: Rarebird who wrote (57476)	8/20/2000 11:57:13 PM
From: The Vet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

<<What has Gold ever done to make life more efficient, productive and responsive to the telecommunication needs of the World? Absolutely Nothing!>> Rarebird - please unplug the little plug from your telephone jack (either end) and look at the wire connections inside. You will find that like the billions of other connections of the same type they are coated with gold! Also like the billions of others it is very unlikely that your telephone connectors will ever be recycled in any way - they will just become landfill. That's part of the 15% of the gold that's being dug up that will be lost. Hey just check your facts before you shoot your mouth off please....

To: Rarebird who wrote (57476)	8/21/2000 1:05:55 AM
From: Zardoz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

with the possibility of a recession in 2001. What ever happened to stagflation that you once spoke of? Hutch

To: Rarebird who wrote (57476)	8/21/2000 5:50:43 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

Rarebird, The answer to the question you asked was contained in the sentence prior to your question where you made an observation that everyone knows why governments want an unrestricted fiat paper funny money flowing off the printing presses limited only by the supply of trees and ink. Sure, any kind of gold backing would limit the quanity of funny money printed, and if i can remember correctly a commentary i read at the Le Metropole Cafe then a gold backed currency would put out of business the GSEs Government Scandalized Enterprises so that they can not create unlimited credit that appears in the economy as an additional money supply. Yes, a government that functions as you presented you comment and question has been well documented as a government that puts at risk the financial health of itself, leading to servere harm to itself as a nation. By the way, you seemed to have decided not to respond to my request of you helping me understand what was contained in this url. From: michael finsterwald Sunday, August 20, 2000 gold recommendations Message 14240907 Troubles me since it was not of a GATA gold rambling but of those topics you seem to speak with strong determination about, and this url seems to me to go against your views. Please view it, or if not then i will do a cut & paste and i will identify my take on what it says and add to that you take as i understand your views. Good stuff there. <<... your naive to think that the government will ever give the same treatment to gold as it does to fiat. Moreover, why should the government do so? Rarebird>> doug