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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmbdii, post: 3962, member: 655&quot;]You&#039;re tendering several fallacies here.&nbsp; One, is that silver and gold were considered precious simply because someone said so.&nbsp; that isn&#039;t true.&nbsp; they are precious metals because of their properties and scarcity.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Another of your fallacies is that if our curreny was tied to precious metals, the fluctuation would be too much to keep up with.&nbsp; The truth is that while our money was precious metal, prices remained stable for such long periods of time, advertisers would paint ads on the sides of buildings at great expense and those ads would have prices listed.&nbsp; Prices even of the precious metals stabilize when they are the basis for monetary systems.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Another fallacy you&#039;re putting for this that the constitution was changed to make the current situation lawful.&nbsp; It was not.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Your statement that &quot;we the people need governed&quot; is certainly not the attitude of the people who established the ideal of government by consent of the governed.&nbsp; The ratification of the Constitution was the consent of the people and unless it is changed by amendment, it&#039;s still the supreme law of the land.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; That law established that gold and silver coin is our money and that Congress has no power to deviate from that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;m trying to pass on a little knowledge about the coinage that is the basis of this hobby and you and the moderator are taking offense at it.&nbsp; Why is that?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I don&#039;t see how my pointing out obvious facts from our history which have to do with our coinage is bothering the two of you so much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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