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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1178459, member: 22143&quot;]It&#039;s as, as always, people looking to make money from nothing.&nbsp; Paper money allows for all kinds of promises that can&#039;t be kept.&nbsp;&nbsp; This article is proof enough that even as recent as 1968 people preferred the real metal over the paper representing it.&nbsp; This was the last generation to understand.&nbsp; See the photo. </p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>On the day before the final deadline for redeeming silver certificates (dollars) people waited for hours outside the New York Assay Office.&nbsp; They came from as far as Texas and camped overnight in their cars.....</i></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ST8EAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PA53&amp;ots=oOqR5NaS3w&amp;dq=silver%20certificate%20redemption%201968%20long%20lines&amp;pg=PA54#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ST8EAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PA53&amp;ots=oOqR5NaS3w&amp;dq=silver%20certificate%20redemption%201968%20long%20lines&amp;pg=PA54#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=ST8EAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PA53&amp;ots=oOqR5NaS3w&amp;dq=silver%20certificate%20redemption%201968%20long%20lines&amp;pg=PA54#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>By this point however the forced conversion to fiat was almost complete.&nbsp; Even Life joined in the propaganda, like most of the US media, and refereed to it as bygone era despite the fact it&#039;s own photograph shows otherwise.&nbsp;&nbsp; The brilliant thing about the current obfuscation of currency over the last century is it proves that people can be made to convince themselves not to believe what their eyes are telling them.&nbsp; Remember this is the US government telling its people that it will no longer honor the promises made on the currency it printed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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