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To: TobagoJack who wrote (103024)	10/3/2013 12:00:09 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217709

We live in crazy times. There is unprecedented demand for gold but price gets hammered anyway. There is something that cannot be changed: suppression cannot last forever. How is the federal government shut-down playing overseas? I really like the idea that there are gobs and gobs of "non-essential" employees who can safely be furloughed and others who are "essential" and cannot. Why do the Feds have "non-essential" employees in the first place? The idea of a limited central government, whose only role is to defend the country from invasion, collect some taxes, build roads, protect the borders, issue patents and trademarks, issue currency and fight crime is as dead as the dodo. Instead, we have a nanny government......oh, hell, I'd best not get started, but just think how prosperous this country would be in the absence of the federal vampire squid. Your note about a cave so big it had its own weather reminded me of the place noted in the video below, which I visited as a child because my parents were friendly with the mine manager. The crystal caves had not yet been discovered but I recall being given small crystals which were miniatures of the huge ones in the video. Also recall that the manager's house had a bowling alley whose pins were changed manually by local kids at the back of the lanes. A very serious lead and silver mine. atlasobscura.com