A relative posted this on-line:

Inflation is indeed a killer. It is only the incredible productivity of even our badly-perverted and severely-damaged free market economy that makes a Quarter-pounder meal cost “only” somewhere between $9.00 and $12.00 (well, FRNs).Plus sales tax, as government rip us off for another 6-10% (between 54 cents and a dollar-twenty more). We can count our blessings that we are only paying TEN times what that same food cost a half-century ago.

(Of course, we must remember that even in 1972, a McD’s hamburger, fries and even soft-drink loaded with sugar was probably a whole lot bigger, better tasting, and more healthy that that meal today.)

Gold and silver, as Robert Kiyowsaki was fond of saying, is “God’s money.” Something that holds its value. Little green pieces of paper or a stream of electrons does not. We can blame the FedGov (and the rest of the world’s governments) and the banks for this: it is harder to lay the blame on just one man, though we cannot speak with any sort of approval for Richard Nixon. Or before him, FDR, both of whom led to this sort of pain and agony.

But the real blame perhaps can be laid at the feet of American voters, and American citizens in general. We did not (and do not) rise up in rebellion against this horrible treatment. Against these stupid actions. Instead, we meekly bow down, or kneel in front of those who we let be our masters. (Though of course, they claim they are our “servants” and doing all this for their love of us and these nations.)