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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 1143594, member: 19122&quot;]Thanks for posting that article, I have expected Ron Paul to make at least some waves with the turnover in Congress, nice to see that he is not disappointing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the days before the civil war, all sorts of currency was used in this nation, the spanish milled dollars especially, we even&nbsp; modeled our currency after them. A clerk back then must have had to have known a wide variety of money and their relative worth to survive. </p><p><br /></p><p>A local coin dealer once told me that a car dealer had a promotion where you took a test drive in one of their new automobiles and they would give you 5 golden dollars, for the next two weeks he had people trying to sell their sacageweas as gold. Sure it sounds like the people were idiots, but they are not really idiots, just ignorant. </p><p><br /></p><p>If they started allowing competition in money it could have some unintended coinsequences, your employer being Europe based may pay in Euros, your partners employer may pay in Yuan, your bank may want to take a little cut for the conversion, and forget about local retail stores accepting federal reserve dollars, it could make some real interesting situations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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