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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmbdii, post: 4582, member: 655&quot;]FDR prolonged the depression.&nbsp; It never ended until he finally died in office.&nbsp; We adopted an amendment to the Constitution to keep any future president from becoming ruler for life once we were finally rid of FDR.&nbsp; Buying into the FDR and Lincoln myths makes citizens ignorant so that the same thing can happen again.&nbsp; It could happen with the current frat-boy in the White House or with his Skull&amp;Bones brother who is going to run against him this fall.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FDR kept us in a depression and led us into WWII.&nbsp; He campaigned on the democrat&#039;s platform of limited government and rolling back Hoover&#039;s protectionist policies, then&nbsp; started instituting Eugene Debs&#039;&nbsp; campaign platform once he was in office.&nbsp; His socialist programs are still in place and are destroying our economy, more and more every year.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; You could start by reading the US Constitution.&nbsp; Try to find the relevant sections which grant a president the sweeping powers which Lincoln and FDR exercised.&nbsp; Both men created unnecessary war involvements for the US then seized dictatorial powers using the wars as an excuse.&nbsp; FDR used the depression as his excuse until he could get us into war on the side of Stalin.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The hobby of coin collecting has been distorted by&nbsp; the departure from the Constitutional rule of law.&nbsp; Consider that when silver and gold were the standards for coinage,&nbsp; yearly coin issues would be limited to the tens of millions per mint at most.&nbsp; With the end of the gold circulation coins and notes redeemable in gold, runs of some silver coins expanded into the hundreds of millions.&nbsp; Now the coinage has runs of billions as in the case of the 1995 P&amp;D state quarters.&nbsp; The mints don&#039;t have to melt older issues for the bullion to stike new issues, so the rarities are going to be limited to errors and special strikes not for circulation.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; This makes the hobby much less accessible to people of smaller means as more money chases fewer rare coins.&nbsp; If the hobby is to remain what it has been for centuries, a learning process which involves economic, political and social history as well as an entertaining way of satisfying the creative drive for acquisition of rarities, those engaging in the hobby will have to learn the whys behind the issuance of coins as well as the quantities issued and the various varieties of design.&nbsp; That has always been a large part of numismatics&nbsp; but now, new collectors don&#039;t care about any of that.&nbsp; They get their history from TV fairy tales and can&#039;t see the point of numismatics any longer.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Without the study of money and what coinage is supposed to mean to the economy according to the Constitution, you may as well collect&nbsp; modern plastic soft drink bottles for all the&nbsp; enjoyment there&#039;ll be in the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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