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Ron Paul is going to base the currency on Spanish Doubloons (Original Post)
sfpcjock
Jan 2012
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mdmc
(29,072 posts)1. no way!
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)2. What happened to Chile?
Oh, yeah....that was Newt!
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)3. Da Loon loves doubloons?
Go figure!
sfpcjock
(1,936 posts)4. I shouldn't even bring this up...
Uncle Milty Friedman said to replace the Fed with a computer: it produces a 3% increase in the money supply every year.
Greenspan blew it up in good times to spin the real estate bubble for Bush, but Paul doesn't seem to understand that, and doing that would have worked just fine
zbdent
(35,392 posts)5. gotta have a lot of respect for a guy whose son decides he doesn't like the name his father
gave him ...
NOT!
Wonder how renaming yourself in honor of an avid atheist plays with the conservative Christian base?
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)6. Cutting them up to make change is going to be a problem...........
pintobean
(18,101 posts)7. Sure, he's a nut, but some of his supporters
drive me nuts.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)8. More like going to base the currency on a spittoon
that's the republican way. A bucket of warm spit. It's just fucking gross.