South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency
Yesterday I attended a “meet and greet” for Mark Udall in Grand Junction. He had to walk the gauntlet of anti-government protestors to get into the meeting. They even had a huge sign saying, “Impeach Udall” mounted on a pickup truck, which was parked on and blocking the sidewalk. Many of them were senior citizens protesting “socialized medicine.” They simply can’t be thinking straight. All of them either were receiving socialized medicine from the local Veteran’s Administration, or single payer health care from Medicare, or semi-socialized medicine from Marillac Clinic.
I laughed out loud this morning when I opened an E-mail saying that a South Carolina Lawmaker wanted his state to go back on the gold standard. Why is it that the right wing is so determined to cling to the old policies of the past that didn’t work then and couldn’t work now? As I read the story, I imagined all of the transactions processed in just one day within the Federal Reserve Bank System. I was wondering how many truck loads of gold and silver it would take to exchange trillions of dollars, or even if that many truckloads of gold and silver have been mined in the history of gold and silver mining. It could help employment numbers, considering the number of guards it would take to transport that much gold and silver.
Yesterday I also met an amazing woman who has been working on developing peer reviewed science about the danger of chemicals from plastics seeping into our bodies, especially Zygotes and Fetuses. She said that these chemicals, which have now endangered the internal chemistry of our bodies for four generations, literally change the way that our brains work. She hypothesized that is what is wrong with the current political thinking about almost every issue. I think she was kidding, but I’m not laughing now.
Homework:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/17/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6217403.shtml ßstory about going back to gold standard.
http://marillacclinic.org/ßlink to Marillac Clinic webpage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Colbornßlink to biography of female scientist with a sense of humor.
Yesterday I attended a “meet and greet” for Mark Udall in Grand Junction. He had to walk the gauntlet of anti-government protestors to get into the meeting. They even had a huge sign saying, “Impeach Udall” mounted on a pickup truck, which was parked on and blocking the sidewalk. Many of them were senior citizens protesting “socialized medicine.” They simply can’t be thinking straight. All of them either were receiving socialized medicine from the local Veteran’s Administration, or single payer health care from Medicare, or semi-socialized medicine from Marillac Clinic.
I laughed out loud this morning when I opened an E-mail saying that a South Carolina Lawmaker wanted his state to go back on the gold standard. Why is it that the right wing is so determined to cling to the old policies of the past that didn’t work then and couldn’t work now? As I read the story, I imagined all of the transactions processed in just one day within the Federal Reserve Bank System. I was wondering how many truck loads of gold and silver it would take to exchange trillions of dollars, or even if that many truckloads of gold and silver have been mined in the history of gold and silver mining. It could help employment numbers, considering the number of guards it would take to transport that much gold and silver.
Yesterday I also met an amazing woman who has been working on developing peer reviewed science about the danger of chemicals from plastics seeping into our bodies, especially Zygotes and Fetuses. She said that these chemicals, which have now endangered the internal chemistry of our bodies for four generations, literally change the way that our brains work. She hypothesized that is what is wrong with the current political thinking about almost every issue. I think she was kidding, but I’m not laughing now.
Homework:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/17/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6217403.shtml ßstory about going back to gold standard.
http://marillacclinic.org/ßlink to Marillac Clinic webpage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Colbornßlink to biography of female scientist with a sense of humor.
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