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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1409018, member: 4381&quot;]Yeah - the government is not you personal check book and it doesn&#039;t NEED fiscal responsibility.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t make a profit.&nbsp; It is not a business.&nbsp; it can not go broke.&nbsp; What it needs sound economic policy.&nbsp; If the government wants to raise the value of the dollar.&nbsp; It can do that overnight by raising taxes, tarrifs and fees.&nbsp; Then poof goes the dollars and up goes their market on the world currency exchanges.&nbsp; Whether that is sound economic policy or not is another question.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the gold standard is totally nonsense and the the proposal that we need one is paramount to an acid trip.&nbsp; Gold is such a lousy means of money that a few thousand crazy investors world wide have tripled its value in a few short years.&nbsp; Be darn glad the dollar ins&#039;t attached to that roller coaster.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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