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Carson Dugal
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Anyway I thinking we are not over the hard times yet. As long as there are people inside and outside of the country able to print up whatever amount of money it takes to get their way we will be enslaved by their spending. I think it is high time to once again have the honest dollar have a voice in the way we do things.


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If they double the money supply by counterfeiting, the dollar becomes worth half as much. You could recreate the same inflation by printing up twenty-six times the money we had at the baseline.

I sort of figure inflation is more like 8%. Here is how.

If you take the $5.00 as a base figure and double it you get $10.00. That is a 100% increase.

If you take the $10.00 as a base figure and double it you get $20.00. That is a 200% increase from the original $5.00.

If you take the $20.00 as a base figure and double it you get $40.00. That is a 300% increase.

If you take the $40.00 as a base figure and double it you get $80.00. That is a 400% increase.

And you still have a ways to go. All of that has happened in about the last 50 years.

So like I say, "I sort of figure inflation is more like 8%."

If you go to a bank website and use a calculator to see what the change is it comes out to over 500% and 10% a year. I figure what is a couple of percentage points like 2% a year; UNLESS IT'S A 2% THAT IS A FLAT-OUT LIE.

If there had been any truth to their 2%-a-year inflation the gasoline that was 17 to 25 cents would now be running at about 34 to 50 cents a gallon after fifty years.

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