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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1252314, member: 3011&quot;]Well, I don&#039;t want to get heavily into politics, but will offer the observation that the Constitution originally worked because it put limits on the power of the two largest entities in the society of the time -- government and churches. That was sufficient to raise individual citizens to primacy. But now we have a third and fourth -- multinational corporations and central banks.&nbsp; So a simplistic return to what is written in the Consititution just lets the multinationals and central banks run wild and stomp on the citizens.&nbsp; And modifying the Constitution is fraught with the danger of losing what rights still remain since the political class doesn&#039;t have the intellect or ethics of the Founding Fathers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no solution to this dilemma, but until modifications are made to ensure that no entity has rights equal to or greater than citizens, things can only get worse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the gold standard, I don&#039;t see the problem that others see with making gold and silver money in some form or another.&nbsp; The currency in circulation is about $2trillion now, and with a modest revaluation in gold and silver, could be backed and replaced.&nbsp; The use of computerized banking would facilitate this by allowing the metal to reside in banks while gold and silver certificates or debit cards are used for daily transactions.&nbsp; It could be done, but won&#039;t be done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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