i heard the personal attacks against PMs start today

[chad]

Chad,

I think you should play along and respond to this Marxist wannabe as follows:

I don't understand what you're saying. Why do you want to take these people's silver and gold? They are just metals, archaic relics of the past. They have no real value like a college degree or coupon for a Starbucks Latte. You can't create a job with them. You can't grow food or educate someone with them. Why do you care if some deluded fool has silver and gold? What would you do with it?

he-he, maybe i will. they are very pissed off at anyone who does not at age 45, work at subway, drive a rusted out car, and struggle with rent. main activities seems to include going to indie rock shows at some bar every night + thinking about the next tattoo. oh, and trying to find 'green jobs' is up there as well.

[cortez]

i'm digging through all of the replies. here's another gem:

I have read lots of stories that this is how they avoid paying taxes. They buy Gold coins instead of having money in the bank to pay taxes on. Drug cartels do this a lot in Mexico. Read up on it. Come to think of it there's not a lot of difference between criminals and Rethugs.


most of the rest of them are profanity laced rants against anyone who disagrees with obama.

can you post a link or if its facebook share so that i may respond? or private message me

[chad]

can you post a link or if its facebook share so that i may respond? or private message me

can't post a link to it since it's on cia book. i posted in the thread, so it's obvious who i am, plus you could just scan my friends in it and figure out who i am in 2 seconds. that crosses the line of internet creepiness for me.

[chad]

between 40 and 44. i'm the young end of the spectrum (40 in january). we all graduated college together around 1994.

[chad]

mamboni has got me thinking. i'm going to continue going stealth, throw a few blase 'questions' here and there and see what i get. thinking about writing a piece to submit to zero hedge.

[Veni, vidi...evigilavi!]

Yeah I would write to zero hedge...play along with them as far as you can like mamboni suggests

[ximmy]

Only evil doers own gold...

[VX1]

Tell 'em we need to push for a more progressive tax system. All I ask is I get a picture and a letter from all the poor unfortunate souls with big rims I voluntarily support with their television and baby-making habits. Aid-4-Africa at least gives you that.

[oldmansmith]

I'm 50 and my "friends" are the same. My real friends acknowledge that I'm right, but gold and silver are "too expensive' right now.

Right now the US dollar accounts for 85% of international trade. What do you think the price will be when it is 50%? 25%? 0%?

[Golden]

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. In his native country he had been shot while fighting communists who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked:

"Do you know how to catch wild pigs?" The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.

"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax cuts, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.

One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email. But God help you when the gate slams shut!