Hi. I'm Zephyr. I look forward participating in the spirited conversations here. I just recently registered in the US as an Independent due to my absolute dissolution with most parties. While I find some sometimes have good to offer, the majority of their work is of self-interest.
- I'm not a tea-partier but I do believe we have to do something to control the ridiculous spending.
- I'm not a Republican but I do believe people need to always be looking for ways to support themselves and not rely on government.
- I'm not a Democrat, but I do believe certain people have no choice to rely on government assistance - if only temporarily.
- I'm not in the Green Party, but I do believe we need to do everything we can to protect the environment.
So what does that make me?
Thanks in advance for your help, we'll see you in the forums... :)

Maybe the value of money isn't important to you, but it sure is to a lot of us! The value of money directly causes the cost of living to rise as it's value goes down! Guess what the U.S. government is and has printed money to pay it's bills.
It's a round about way so you don't see it happening , or know where it went. You say the flow of money is the most important? The flow to where it goes sure does make a huge difference and if it goes into somebody's pocket how does that help, the nation? I don't know how many times I have to say this, but the reason the dollar was the worlds standard was that it was backed up with gold bullion. That is no longer the rule because that law was repealed several years ago, that was the reason the U.S. was the only country that could print it's own money and each dollar had a value unto itself. GOLD! Now what makes our dollar worth more than some countries dollar , Euro, peso ? Nothing!

I believe we've made two major mistakes, firstly being convinced to have private capitalists control our treasury and second getting off of backing our currency with gold.



The private Federal Reserve pays no taxes and reports to no one. Thus, John Rockefeller and his heirs and assigns, have a cash flow each year equal to a good percentage of the American gross national product and that would be enough to buy out British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell, even if Standard Oil was broken into smaller pieces.
Read more at
http://investmentwatchblog.com/who-started-the-federal-reserve/#LRB6owEi21Ek3H2i.99

I completely understand what you are saying but what is missing is that 80% of the USD is outside the US. When you make M1 adjustments to money here it effects emerging markets whos economies may be -100X's what the US economy is and taking all that cheap money away the investors scatter and leave that country in economic rubble.
Being a country of importers when you crush the emerging markets it comes back home to haunt you. The world is not contained within the borders between Canada and Mexico.
Adjusting the growth of the money supply sets off multiple reactions, some of which can come back to bite. Suppose, for example, that the taper proceeds with such a light touch that the US economy doesn't tank. But that won't be the end of the story. Stock and bond markets in most countries have been living on the Fed's money printing. The touch that's light enough for the US markets might pull the props out from under foreign markets—which would have consequences for foreign economies that would feed back into the US through investment losses by US investors, loan defaults against US lenders, and damage to US export markets.

The problem is the G20 gave a very clear warning last year that if they didn't quit devaluing that they would dump it. If they quit printing they face defalation like in the 30's. Deflation is what scares the government most because it creates a way for purchasing power to go up without tax advantages.
For example if I make 100,000 a year and inflation is working for them then it whittles away at my savings and increases taxes advantage. If deflation happens and I make 100,000 then my money buys more they get the same taxes and if dollars become more valuable people start saving again. That is the problem they are facing.
Floyd I don't believe there will be a free market till they break up the big banks but with derivatives at over 650 trillion they will do what they have to do to keep that fake money maker going.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Great idea. Sounds so sincerely political correct. I think I can assure you that it MAY work, given several decades, but it won't happen that way during my lifetime, not in your lifetime, and probably not in your grandchildren's lifetimes.

Got any ideas for NOW?

I do, but nobody wants to hear them, nobody wants to work at it, nobody is interested if it involves them having to DO something or having to PAY for it.

All we really need to do is slap the federal government silly and tell them and show them that they are not our masters, that we PEOPLE pay them to do a job and they'd jolly well better get busy doing it. We will tell them that all of our liberties are sacrosanct and that THEY WILL NOT TOUCH THEM NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE LEFT HOWLS IN PROTEST. There is no wrangling re our freedoms, our rights, no compromise - they don't own them; ergo they cannot give or promise them away. We need to force feed the US Constitution to the left and to Congress (one and the same) and make them postpone writing another single law until they can answer any question put to them about the US Constitution. We should insist any law written WILL be checked for Constitutionality BEFORE it becomes law, and no law will comprise more than one page, and it will be written in readable and understandable English. We should insist the archives be lessened by at least a ton. We need to tell them they can serve two terms, then it is OUT without retirement and without perks. We should tell them they will cut their staffs by 1/2 and everybody in DC will have his salary stuck where it is until further notice.

That would be the preamble to their service if I were in charge.

I don't know if you are talking about 2008 that is only a papering over of the still existent crisis.
If you are talking about the last near (1 of 3. 1914,1939 and 1979)collapse of the USD it was actually Swiss Francs backed US treasury bonds that were printed and backed by. The USD dropped purchasing power by half between 77-81 and inflation was 50% during those years. That is why the IMF had to come up we SDR's and flood the global market with over 12 billion dollars to give countries a trusted currency to continue global trade. This happens about once every 40 years but this time it will be like no other because the ability for the fed to print our way out of it will not work twice. They blew their shot with the over 4 trillion printed this time.