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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JoeSmith, post: 725296, member: 18021&quot;]Ok, here&#039;s why you&#039;re wrong.&nbsp; When I was working in high school (1964), I could &quot;buy&quot; a mercury dime for 10 cents.&nbsp; I made about $20 for working about 10 hours, so I could work an hour and buy 20 mercury dimes.&nbsp; Five years ago, I made about $20 per hour after taxes, but mercury dimes were about .80, so I could work an hour and buy 25 mercury dimes.&nbsp; So, even though I paid less for silver when I was in high school, I could buy more 5 years ago.&nbsp; I remember vividly the first time I saw my savings account top $1,000.&nbsp; At that time, a new chevy impala was $2,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe most people, including people here, are &quot;dollar centric&quot;.&nbsp; I think most people visualize dollars as paper dollars, because they believe they could withdraw their bank account and receive paper dollars.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think this is useful.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The numbers on your bank statement don&#039;t represent anything.&nbsp; You say sure they do, I could write a check for some silver.&nbsp; Yes you could, but until you do, you haven&#039;t &quot;locked in&quot; the value of your &quot;money&quot;.&nbsp; As silver climbs, your money is eroding, so why are you all cheering?&nbsp; You have some silver, and (probably) some money.&nbsp; Your money is eroding, but you&#039;re happy because NOT ALL of it is eroding.&nbsp; Your silver is still the same silver.&nbsp; When silver goes down, you still have as much silver, but now your dollars are worth more because they can buy more.</p><p><br /></p><p>No matter what happens to the price of silver, it will always buy 10 cups of coffee, 4 gallons of gas, or 25 postage stamps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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