You hit the nail on the head but perhaps we can add to part of the equation in the excellent timeline and result you have laid out. The question of those lucky few might be, "What if I'm a business owner or can grow food to become a business inside the collapsed economy?"
During the Crusades, the small businesspeople who survived the years of thrashing back and forth
in between the massive war battles, did so rarely but they did. This space is too small to give examples but that Gold, Silver and bartering items need a way to safely exchange for products. And then there is the problem of storage of wealth for the businesspeople after the exchanges. Perhaps one could also study how the economy of the Colony of Pennsylvania worked it out, before the King came in and blew it apart by confiscating the Gold and Silver. PA, expanded quite nicely before that with shopkeepers acting as bankers from everything from Goods to Real Estate.
They built their own currency system, backed on Gold and Silver to make loans for expansion of Farms and trades.
Later on as a new nation, the farmers and ranchers, also made their own currency, which, you could get into by way of trade or purchases.
All of those variants are why the new US, added the creation and controlling of "money" to the Constitution. It was no accident.
I know you remember the McDonald's motto of "Feed a family of four for under a dollar." Not more than two years after Nixon stripped the Dollar of its actual backing, in order to pump up the War machine in Vietnam; McDonald's changed their motto. In 1973, it became "Feed a family of Four for under Four dollars." That lasted a couple of years and then inflation passed it by in the late 70's under the Carter expansion, so Mac's just dropped it to, "McDonald's is your kind of place." Remember those days Matt?
I think your graphic with the Home description is also spot on. The earth will become void of old people and children by the end of that proposed timeline, and that's exactly what the rulers of this world want and it is all steeped in Sociology, which for those who don't know, was built by Karl Marx. Yep and that's how people like John Dewey showed up with it to destroy our nation through the destruction of education. So, get educated! To survive and thrive is your victory now, no matter who comes for you in the future.
Thank you, Vince, outstanding comment. Silver and gold will carry us through the transition period that begins with barter, until more sophisticated financial arrangements are required for complex deals taking place over time, such as the construction of new buildings, the repair of waterworks and electrical grids, etc.
And history repeatedly shows that the new monetary/financial systems may begin with the best of intentions, but the owners of honest gold and silver depositories eventually find ways to become banks and then slide back into fractional lending, and the entire Ponzi pyramid is built up again over a period of decades.
But that is for future generations to grapple with. Our immediate problem is surviving a financial collapse without entering a new Dark Age of walled villages and pillaging warlord armies.
So well said sir! Thrive and Survive is out victory. Our founders went down a very dark hole before they came back out of it. They too, were forced there by a ruling class. Hopefully, it won't be ruled by the current revolutionaries. The collapse is "when" not "if".
Here is a description that many don't know of and perhaps should become more familiar with and that is "Fireplace Crane". People might want to look up how food that was not "canned" or processed for long term storage, was stored in Colonial times. There is or are, videos out there (at least there used to be) how people created cool storage in their yard in a separate building. Just a path of thinking for all.
As you and Jack Lawson always point out, and that is after the turmoil, law and order will return. It may not be the kind we want, but it will return and as you have just said, that is for the Future Generations to figure out.
Excellent piece CL! There are a few things in that early history you might want to look into. First one would be the Continental Dollar came about because the King (Parliament) confiscated Gold and Silver. The Farmers expanding PA, had already been using paper to extend credit. They treated as credit but it was always backed by the purchase value itself. Never like today's madness.
Second, take a real close look at the Whiskey Rebellion. Look in places other than Wiki though. There is deep history there and it also involved "free speech" and not just rioters.
Great piece by you and thank you for sharing it CL! I shall become a follower over on my page, The Public Weal. https://thepublicweal.substack.com/
Yours in liberty,
Vince
ps. take a look at this patent. It's the real deal and we aren't crazy
I found that out from other yesterday. Go to the USPTO Public Patent Search and lookup patent number 20030085296 Then be sure to get past the pictures down to page 8 and 9. A small note to me was that the application was pushed by a law firm that is basically close enough to the USPTO HG that you can spit on it. It may have been hand delivered at that. Let me know if you can't find it and then I'll email it to you. I saved the pdf. Oh and be sure that if you do search it, to scroll down a little to see the results of the search as for some reason, the PTO site doesn't like to make the search results so easy to see. Ciao Paison!
The ink had hardly dried on the Constitution when Washington was CONvinced by, I believe Madison if my reading memory serves me to “get those recalcitrant farmers! And he did. It was OBVIOUSLY a case of outright THEFT. The rulers are always suspect psychopaths. This one is a real eye opener when you have NOTHING as money. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/a-caveat-against-injustice-bcb
Good memory! My recollection is that it was Hamilton who pushed him to act out on his own people. Those were the good old boys from Carlisle, PA! One of my favorite places in the nation. That's where the infamous Col. Thomas McKean (a.k.a. President of the Continental Congress and PA Supreme Court Justice) tried to put two "reporters" away for their speech against him. The first one got away but I believe the second one was sent to prison and that was right after the Constitution had been ratified without a bill of rights.
Free Speech...I think it only exists here these days.
Great article. Working during high school at a local pizzeria for .75 per hour in 1966 teaches the value of a real silver dollar. Then, you take a cut in pay to join the military.
Keeping your discussion in mind, I recently traded a collection of federal reserve notes for a beautiful four-acre piece of agricultural property in the Four Corners area (treed, waterfront with irrigation and older dwelling). I would suggest readers consider getting rid of their notes soon. After all, it's just paper.
One of the tricks they used on us was meanings of words. There is no such thing as a "silver dollar". Any more than there would be a "chicken ounce". It's actually a DOLLAR of SILVER. The weight is a "dollar", the substance is silver. And I'm only saying this to help folks understand. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/blood-running-in-the-streets-mobs
Where do you get that ratio? Think harder. $45 is the worth in today's spot price melt value of 5 silver quarters in 1964, (when gasoline was .29 cents a gallon and a cheeseburger was .15 cents.)
How do you get gasoline at $14 a gallon in 2025? It is still $3 to $4 a gallon. The difference is the theft of our purchasing power by inflation, with the wealth transferred to the already wealthiest by the Cantillon Effect.
The day I got my license, gas was .26 cents, just weeks after Nixon closed the Gold Window. One takeaway from this discussion is how increased efficiencies and modern techniques have lowered some costs. Gas is more or less $3 which is a 66% decrease in the equivalent price from 54 years ago based on yesterday's short-lived $50~ spot price.
To add insult to injury, those with access to the Fed Window (Carlin's "Big Club you ain't in") can go and get a pile of freshly created fiat. Supposedly, if one of these luminaries fails to repay it, the Fed is not required to tell anyone they have not paid.
"The Federal Government, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve, has the inherent power to create money--almost any amount of it." ~ The National Debt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, p. 8
ALMOST? Why only ALMOST? What keeps them from creating ALL they want? You? Me? Your dog? A full moon? The only reason for taxes at the federal level is to make you "believe" they need them and to impart value in your mind on fake fiat currency. Did it work?
Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who, will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized THEFT.
"...Keynes argues that inflation is a 'method of taxation' which the government uses to 'secure the command over real resources, resources just as real as those obtained by [ordinary] taxation'. 'What is raised by printing notes, ' he writes, is just as much taken from the public as is a beer duty or an income tax.' "
- 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 10
"All the paper money issued today is Federal Reserve notes. The real backing for the nation's money is faith in the strength, soundness and stability of the American economy."
~ The Hats the Federal Reserve Wears, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, pg 4
Faith is what backs our monetary system. YOUR faith. Do you still have faith?
"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
~ 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 6
Isn't confiscation of the wealth of the citizens a nice way of saying STEALING?
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." ~ John Locke (1690)
If the money you earn has no value and you are forced through fiat paper legislation to take it for your labor, are you not having your property (labor) destroyed and are you not being reduced to nothing but slavery? Is not the state at war with the people?
5th Plank Communist Manifesto: Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a “national bank” and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marxist or socialist nation.
"The writers of the constitution knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote in Article I Section 10 paragraph 1 'No state shall... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. ' People able to barter with gold and silver coin control government and are free. Loss of the right to trade in gold and silver coin enslaves people to the creators of psychological 'money.'": -Merrill Jenkins, Sr., Money - The Greatest Hoax on Earth
Matt, this is happening fast and it's why I made the suggestion that people of business, need to figure out how to take silver and gold asap to clear debt and make purchases. It is an incredible market.
Prescott Arizona up near old route 66 barter system infrastructure has been in place for a long time now. Cheap land for the independent type. See you there
These reminders from you help me to refocus.I have 3 of your books and they are great. I'm at my wits end trying to convince my husband of 30 years to buy metals instead of s&p500, taken things into my own hands.
So what are you going to do? Say, I need 10 gallons of gas. Will you take a piece of one of my livestock? Gold and silver are for BARTER. That’s why Judge Roger Sherman made sure it was in the Constitution that is ignored all the time. Our monetary system TODAY is based on the 5th plank of the communist manifesto. You can’t barter with land too easily OR livestock. Use some common sense. You need some thing tangible to barter with. Ammo would be a barter item. Whiskey, ANY THING that is small and easy to divide. And are you going to spend 24 hours a day guarding your livestock if the SHTF? Because people will EAT them.
I have meat, milk and eggs. You want to eat. What do you have to trade?
A dozen eggs, a gallon of milk and a roast or two is small enough to divide. You do realize that dividing up a carcass is how one turns animals into meat, right? That people "take a piece" of someone's livestock from grocery stores every damn day of the week? What planet do you live on?
And people have been protecting their livestock from predators (including the human variety) for as long as these animals have been domesticated.
You have to be a city boy to think anyone is going to give a rat's ass about Judge Sherman if and when the shit hits the fan and there's no more food in the grocery stores.
And it will be the guy who has a family and they are hungry that will kill you and take what you have to feed his family. It won’t be nice no matter how you look at it. I get your point, but perishable goods can only have so much in utility as barter. It you look historically, going all the way back to even bible days, gold and silver coin was the barter system that was used. Up until 1913 it was used in the US as well as the rest of the world. Why do you think Nixon closed the gold window? Because the French had sent warships to get their gold that the federal reserve notes were allegedly connected to. We were never supposed to have money backed by gold and silver. We were suppose to have gold and silver as money. If a local establishment won’t take gold or silver I can always trade in those 5 quarters for 50 fed notes to pay the bill.
Food storage is good for YOU and your family and other people need to do the same. That way you won’t be so hungry as to go out and kill to feed yourself or your family.
Ammo will also be a good barter item and I suspect main street bazaars as in many other countries will pop up quickly where people will trade amongst each other. The treatise by Judge Roger Sherman is for education so folks can understand the intent of the framers of the US Constitution on the money issue. The FED is a total violation of it and is establishes the exact form that the 5th plank of the Communist manifesto does.
You don't think someone might not kill you for your gold? And where are you going to get the food to store? Or other raw materials? Gun powder doesn't grow on trees.
Great post Matt! So simple even the commie left can understand it, but they won't.
Spot on Matt! Spot price-Spot on...hah!
You hit the nail on the head but perhaps we can add to part of the equation in the excellent timeline and result you have laid out. The question of those lucky few might be, "What if I'm a business owner or can grow food to become a business inside the collapsed economy?"
During the Crusades, the small businesspeople who survived the years of thrashing back and forth
in between the massive war battles, did so rarely but they did. This space is too small to give examples but that Gold, Silver and bartering items need a way to safely exchange for products. And then there is the problem of storage of wealth for the businesspeople after the exchanges. Perhaps one could also study how the economy of the Colony of Pennsylvania worked it out, before the King came in and blew it apart by confiscating the Gold and Silver. PA, expanded quite nicely before that with shopkeepers acting as bankers from everything from Goods to Real Estate.
They built their own currency system, backed on Gold and Silver to make loans for expansion of Farms and trades.
Later on as a new nation, the farmers and ranchers, also made their own currency, which, you could get into by way of trade or purchases.
All of those variants are why the new US, added the creation and controlling of "money" to the Constitution. It was no accident.
I know you remember the McDonald's motto of "Feed a family of four for under a dollar." Not more than two years after Nixon stripped the Dollar of its actual backing, in order to pump up the War machine in Vietnam; McDonald's changed their motto. In 1973, it became "Feed a family of Four for under Four dollars." That lasted a couple of years and then inflation passed it by in the late 70's under the Carter expansion, so Mac's just dropped it to, "McDonald's is your kind of place." Remember those days Matt?
I think your graphic with the Home description is also spot on. The earth will become void of old people and children by the end of that proposed timeline, and that's exactly what the rulers of this world want and it is all steeped in Sociology, which for those who don't know, was built by Karl Marx. Yep and that's how people like John Dewey showed up with it to destroy our nation through the destruction of education. So, get educated! To survive and thrive is your victory now, no matter who comes for you in the future.
Again, excellent work Matt!
Yours in liberty,
Vince Agnelli
Thank you, Vince, outstanding comment. Silver and gold will carry us through the transition period that begins with barter, until more sophisticated financial arrangements are required for complex deals taking place over time, such as the construction of new buildings, the repair of waterworks and electrical grids, etc.
And history repeatedly shows that the new monetary/financial systems may begin with the best of intentions, but the owners of honest gold and silver depositories eventually find ways to become banks and then slide back into fractional lending, and the entire Ponzi pyramid is built up again over a period of decades.
But that is for future generations to grapple with. Our immediate problem is surviving a financial collapse without entering a new Dark Age of walled villages and pillaging warlord armies.
So well said sir! Thrive and Survive is out victory. Our founders went down a very dark hole before they came back out of it. They too, were forced there by a ruling class. Hopefully, it won't be ruled by the current revolutionaries. The collapse is "when" not "if".
Here is a description that many don't know of and perhaps should become more familiar with and that is "Fireplace Crane". People might want to look up how food that was not "canned" or processed for long term storage, was stored in Colonial times. There is or are, videos out there (at least there used to be) how people created cool storage in their yard in a separate building. Just a path of thinking for all.
As you and Jack Lawson always point out, and that is after the turmoil, law and order will return. It may not be the kind we want, but it will return and as you have just said, that is for the Future Generations to figure out.
God bless and be safe sir!
Vince
Please read this one to add to your knowledge! https://www.courageouslion.us/p/blood-running-in-the-streets-mobs
Excellent piece CL! There are a few things in that early history you might want to look into. First one would be the Continental Dollar came about because the King (Parliament) confiscated Gold and Silver. The Farmers expanding PA, had already been using paper to extend credit. They treated as credit but it was always backed by the purchase value itself. Never like today's madness.
Second, take a real close look at the Whiskey Rebellion. Look in places other than Wiki though. There is deep history there and it also involved "free speech" and not just rioters.
Great piece by you and thank you for sharing it CL! I shall become a follower over on my page, The Public Weal. https://thepublicweal.substack.com/
Yours in liberty,
Vince
ps. take a look at this patent. It's the real deal and we aren't crazy
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/api/pdf/downloadPdf/20030085296?requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiI3YTAwNzdjNi0wMTYxLTQ3NWItYjg2ZC1jZWJjOTQwM2RjYWQiLCJ2ZXIiOiJjZGI5OWFiNi03ZDVmLTQyZTUtOTQ2ZS02ZDFhYjhmZWU4ZWUiLCJleHAiOjB9
PDF link doesn’t work. If you want, send it to my Email address listed at the bottom of my homepage.
I found that out from other yesterday. Go to the USPTO Public Patent Search and lookup patent number 20030085296 Then be sure to get past the pictures down to page 8 and 9. A small note to me was that the application was pushed by a law firm that is basically close enough to the USPTO HG that you can spit on it. It may have been hand delivered at that. Let me know if you can't find it and then I'll email it to you. I saved the pdf. Oh and be sure that if you do search it, to scroll down a little to see the results of the search as for some reason, the PTO site doesn't like to make the search results so easy to see. Ciao Paison!
The ink had hardly dried on the Constitution when Washington was CONvinced by, I believe Madison if my reading memory serves me to “get those recalcitrant farmers! And he did. It was OBVIOUSLY a case of outright THEFT. The rulers are always suspect psychopaths. This one is a real eye opener when you have NOTHING as money. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/a-caveat-against-injustice-bcb
Good memory! My recollection is that it was Hamilton who pushed him to act out on his own people. Those were the good old boys from Carlisle, PA! One of my favorite places in the nation. That's where the infamous Col. Thomas McKean (a.k.a. President of the Continental Congress and PA Supreme Court Justice) tried to put two "reporters" away for their speech against him. The first one got away but I believe the second one was sent to prison and that was right after the Constitution had been ratified without a bill of rights.
Free Speech...I think it only exists here these days.
Yours in liberty
Vince
Well done, Matt! Gold and silver won’t make anyone rich, but they’ll prevent you from being poor.
Great article. Working during high school at a local pizzeria for .75 per hour in 1966 teaches the value of a real silver dollar. Then, you take a cut in pay to join the military.
Keeping your discussion in mind, I recently traded a collection of federal reserve notes for a beautiful four-acre piece of agricultural property in the Four Corners area (treed, waterfront with irrigation and older dwelling). I would suggest readers consider getting rid of their notes soon. After all, it's just paper.
One of the tricks they used on us was meanings of words. There is no such thing as a "silver dollar". Any more than there would be a "chicken ounce". It's actually a DOLLAR of SILVER. The weight is a "dollar", the substance is silver. And I'm only saying this to help folks understand. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/blood-running-in-the-streets-mobs
Another excellent post, Matt!
Ok. $45 / hr wage. Then we can pay $14 for a gallon of gas and annual auto insurance of $5,100 per car. We’ll be having real fun then won’t we ?
Where do you get that ratio? Think harder. $45 is the worth in today's spot price melt value of 5 silver quarters in 1964, (when gasoline was .29 cents a gallon and a cheeseburger was .15 cents.)
How do you get gasoline at $14 a gallon in 2025? It is still $3 to $4 a gallon. The difference is the theft of our purchasing power by inflation, with the wealth transferred to the already wealthiest by the Cantillon Effect.
No no Matt. By 2030. I paid .17 per gallon in ‘67. Filled my Mustang and got change back from a $5.
Anyway just poking you. But auto insurance rates are rocketing regardless.
BTW, your comment prompted me to change the title and first line of the piece! Steel sharpens steel.
Bingo.
The day I got my license, gas was .26 cents, just weeks after Nixon closed the Gold Window. One takeaway from this discussion is how increased efficiencies and modern techniques have lowered some costs. Gas is more or less $3 which is a 66% decrease in the equivalent price from 54 years ago based on yesterday's short-lived $50~ spot price.
To add insult to injury, those with access to the Fed Window (Carlin's "Big Club you ain't in") can go and get a pile of freshly created fiat. Supposedly, if one of these luminaries fails to repay it, the Fed is not required to tell anyone they have not paid.
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I wonder what 5 half dollars or silver dollars would be worth?
EXCELLENT, MATT! Almost as good as mine. LOL! https://www.courageouslion.us/p/blood-running-in-the-streets-mobs People need to wake up to the reality you have revealed here. I've been screaming it for years and there are at least 7 posts of mine that are directly related. Thank you Federal Reserve is also one. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/thank-you-federal-reserve
And speaking of the commie left...
I leave with this:
"The Federal Government, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve, has the inherent power to create money--almost any amount of it." ~ The National Debt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, p. 8
ALMOST? Why only ALMOST? What keeps them from creating ALL they want? You? Me? Your dog? A full moon? The only reason for taxes at the federal level is to make you "believe" they need them and to impart value in your mind on fake fiat currency. Did it work?
Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who, will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized THEFT.
"...Keynes argues that inflation is a 'method of taxation' which the government uses to 'secure the command over real resources, resources just as real as those obtained by [ordinary] taxation'. 'What is raised by printing notes, ' he writes, is just as much taken from the public as is a beer duty or an income tax.' "
- 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 10
"All the paper money issued today is Federal Reserve notes. The real backing for the nation's money is faith in the strength, soundness and stability of the American economy."
~ The Hats the Federal Reserve Wears, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, pg 4
Faith is what backs our monetary system. YOUR faith. Do you still have faith?
"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
~ 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 6
Isn't confiscation of the wealth of the citizens a nice way of saying STEALING?
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." ~ John Locke (1690)
If the money you earn has no value and you are forced through fiat paper legislation to take it for your labor, are you not having your property (labor) destroyed and are you not being reduced to nothing but slavery? Is not the state at war with the people?
5th Plank Communist Manifesto: Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a “national bank” and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marxist or socialist nation.
"The writers of the constitution knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote in Article I Section 10 paragraph 1 'No state shall... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. ' People able to barter with gold and silver coin control government and are free. Loss of the right to trade in gold and silver coin enslaves people to the creators of psychological 'money.'": -Merrill Jenkins, Sr., Money - The Greatest Hoax on Earth
TY Mr. Matt B,
I have all your books and some I read x 2.
The devaluation of "our dollar" is truly an outrage, yet here we are.
Regards,
Suzanna
Unless private ownership.of gold is criminalized. Again.
The Fiat money loses value when the government starts printing it to pay their debts…
Matt, this is happening fast and it's why I made the suggestion that people of business, need to figure out how to take silver and gold asap to clear debt and make purchases. It is an incredible market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIcSaz0S1JE
Yours in liberty,
Vince
Prescott Arizona up near old route 66 barter system infrastructure has been in place for a long time now. Cheap land for the independent type. See you there
These reminders from you help me to refocus.I have 3 of your books and they are great. I'm at my wits end trying to convince my husband of 30 years to buy metals instead of s&p500, taken things into my own hands.
You can't eat gold and silver. Land and Livestock are the way to go, or so it seems to me.
You can't eat land either. Silver and gold are the barter system that Judge Roger Sherman set up in the Constitution. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/a-caveat-against-injustice
Maybe you missed that part about livestock... as in land and livestock. And guess what? Gold and silver doesn't reproduce but livestock does.
So what are you going to do? Say, I need 10 gallons of gas. Will you take a piece of one of my livestock? Gold and silver are for BARTER. That’s why Judge Roger Sherman made sure it was in the Constitution that is ignored all the time. Our monetary system TODAY is based on the 5th plank of the communist manifesto. You can’t barter with land too easily OR livestock. Use some common sense. You need some thing tangible to barter with. Ammo would be a barter item. Whiskey, ANY THING that is small and easy to divide. And are you going to spend 24 hours a day guarding your livestock if the SHTF? Because people will EAT them.
I have meat, milk and eggs. You want to eat. What do you have to trade?
A dozen eggs, a gallon of milk and a roast or two is small enough to divide. You do realize that dividing up a carcass is how one turns animals into meat, right? That people "take a piece" of someone's livestock from grocery stores every damn day of the week? What planet do you live on?
And people have been protecting their livestock from predators (including the human variety) for as long as these animals have been domesticated.
You have to be a city boy to think anyone is going to give a rat's ass about Judge Sherman if and when the shit hits the fan and there's no more food in the grocery stores.
And it will be the guy who has a family and they are hungry that will kill you and take what you have to feed his family. It won’t be nice no matter how you look at it. I get your point, but perishable goods can only have so much in utility as barter. It you look historically, going all the way back to even bible days, gold and silver coin was the barter system that was used. Up until 1913 it was used in the US as well as the rest of the world. Why do you think Nixon closed the gold window? Because the French had sent warships to get their gold that the federal reserve notes were allegedly connected to. We were never supposed to have money backed by gold and silver. We were suppose to have gold and silver as money. If a local establishment won’t take gold or silver I can always trade in those 5 quarters for 50 fed notes to pay the bill.
Food storage is good for YOU and your family and other people need to do the same. That way you won’t be so hungry as to go out and kill to feed yourself or your family.
Ammo will also be a good barter item and I suspect main street bazaars as in many other countries will pop up quickly where people will trade amongst each other. The treatise by Judge Roger Sherman is for education so folks can understand the intent of the framers of the US Constitution on the money issue. The FED is a total violation of it and is establishes the exact form that the 5th plank of the Communist manifesto does.
You don't think someone might not kill you for your gold? And where are you going to get the food to store? Or other raw materials? Gun powder doesn't grow on trees.