On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 19:23, Paul E Condon wrote: > Gary Turner wrote: > > >DvB wrote: > > > > > > > >>Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > > >Where the hell do you think the money came from? If an investor can't > > > Actually, all money comes from the government, and the government uses > the banking system to distribute it. Try producing your own money. You > won't have much success.
/Cash/ comes from the government. Since we left the precious metals standard, they money the money that I get direct deposited into my bank account, and with which I write checks & use online banking to pay bills with is all hypothetical, and is based on how stable we think society is. Oh, and yes, the rules governing how numbers move between ledger sheets also comes from the government... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]