The first thing we should all realize is that GOLD and SILVER were the staple trading commodity for the last few thousand years, not the Dollar, not the UK Pound Sterling, not the French/Swiss Franc not the German Deutschmark.

Gold and silver.

Gold coins have been dug up in Mesopotamia and Egypt, as old as 3000 BC and even older.

Paper money is a very recent invention, and the tendency is for many nations to standardise their currencies into "currency blocs" to help internal trade.

The US $ exixts not because George Washington wanted it, but because it was the one common trading commodity within the newly established United States, for internal trade.

Similarly, the French Franc and the British Pound were extremely successful not because of stable governments bit because of the huge African/ Asian Empires which used that same currency for trade.

Word has it that the UN are studying a new, global currency called the...
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United Future World Currency (UFWC, pronounced ... well, you know  )
It was designed by Italian engraver Sandro Sassoli of the Italian Mint (the Italian Mint actually mints for half the African and Asian Nations, it is one of the most active mints in the world)


The point is, ever since Pres. reagan unlinked the US $ from the value of gold, all nations have followed suit, and the currencies are now valued by estimates of industrial power and government stability, rather than gold and silver reserves... which means one can lie and claim "my plant is bigger than your plant" and print money to Kingdom come, and then when the cards are down you really see who has ooomph and who was bluffing.

It wpould be more than sufficient to link currencies to gold, without actually having to go any further.

President Nixon, 1971, officially removed the US dollar from the gold standard.

President Reagan served from 1980-1988

LANCER wrote on 12/02/12 at 03:25:00:


Yikes !   Lancer, you're absolutely correct! How could I mess up my Presidents?  

What was I thinking ? ...   ...  

Seriously, we need to go off all current currency standards in favor of something serving global needs.   There is no reason why any one country or consortium should be able to keep the rest of the world in an economic stranglehold.   A new truly universal currency would be the answer to our global problems.  As such, I introduce the...

Future United Currency for Universal Economy,  the...    FUCUE    

Yikes,

We have been all through this gold thing once before.  For those who are interested in history, it was one of the underlying causes of the worldwide depression that lead to WWII.  Oh well, what goes around and all that.

Serowbot wrote on 12/02/12 at 12:18:48:


No, I think you mistaken buddy. A stolen chip would be like Gloria Steinman's pet fish need for a bicycle seat. An activated chips code coupled with an eye scan insures against fraudulent use, in other words, unless you want to perform really, really intricate cosmetic surgery, trying to use a bogus chip would get you instantly busted, tried, and imprisoned.....

HEY, for the record, I'm all against this "marking" at ANY cost, but it has already been determined, and forecast, and mankind will drink lustily of the kool-aid until denial provides the truth, and then the fat "gal" is on stage singing her tune, and no one is dancing, anymores....


And conversely, thank you all very much  

Investigate the Federal Reserve. Anyone who has ever stood up against them except for Ron Paul has had something horrific happen to them. Sen Charles Lindberg fought the Fed. Reserve and his child was kidnapped. John F Kennedy came out with the silver certificate which would have shut down The Federal Reserve. Four months later he was dead. Ron Paul got what was called an investigation and what was shown to them is the Federal Reserve printed 19 TRILLION of our dollars and gave it away to some of our banks, foreign banks and countries with known terrorist in control. Our biggest enemy resides right here in our country. 911 funding can be traced back to the Federal Reserve. When the results of the audit came out everyone was too busy with the election to realise what is really going on. Take the time to read "The Creature From Jekyll Island" A dollar bill is now nothing but a promise that can easily be broken. Last I heard the national debt was 17 trillion. The criminals who run the Fed. Reserve have printed 19 trillion behind our backs (that they admitted to) and gave part of it away to our enemies and no one seems to care. The election is over, its time to stop these criminals but how can you do it when they can print all the money they want to and put it in your hand.