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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;USS656, post: 177432, member: 6641&quot;]<span style="color: black">Again, I am shown I&#039;m no expert in the matter - cool - good to learn something I didn&#039;t know before I made the remark.&nbsp; Another learning experience - thank you...&nbsp; </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">I do have to wonder though what the original George W. would think now.&nbsp; When he signed the coinage law he had a lot of history he had lived through to support his position.&nbsp; Time does have a way of changing opinions and softening views based on the behavior of individuals or groups.&nbsp; </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">Back in the day it is an easy argument, but today maybe he would reconsider the position?&nbsp; He did help form the type of government that would allow the people to make changes based on the will of the people.&nbsp; With the assault on our way of life and our way of thinking, maybe the country needs to remember those who gave so much to give us our freedoms.&nbsp; I know its a slippery slope into some serious political debates and I do not want to really go there, but I do have to wonder what our founding fathers would think of the situation after WWII and more importantly the attack on our current way of life (911 and everything after).&nbsp; While I don&#039;t always agree with some of the decisions our government makes and I am a democrat by nature (which says a lot these days, although my former military experience puts me much more in the middle), I wonder how the men and women that helped form our nation would feel about the original coinage laws applied to today’s American landscape???</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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