Morning Platt, <snip>
P > Excellent, Mel. Inflation (caused by government printing money unbacked by > silver or gold) is a hidden tax used to pay for programs considered by > government to be for the "public good." In the U.S., the currency was > partially released from the gold standard by Roosevelt in the 30's, then > completely released by Nixon in 1971. You have well documented the > insidious effects of this legalized robbery of the general public. Another > effect is that up until the mid-50's in America, a working husband with a > wife at home raising kids produced a decent standard of living (and decent > kids). Now, it takes two parents working to provide the same standard of > living and the kids -- well, check high school and college drop out rates. m Thanks. You are right about how much more it takes to support a family than used to be the case. That is one of those long-view insights that many are unaware of. thanks--mel Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
