Drix wrote:I second the motion. Let's take it to the floor for a vote.
..and on a more personal note I have been and will continue to curse the day we took the dollar off the gold standard. Slowly but surely since then our dollars have represented less and less.
I never really looked at that. . . no surprise really, what I haven't looked at fills encyclopedias. How do you feel about the
silver certificates? What, do you feel, would be the difference? At least they're backed by some precious commodity. . .though silver has declined in value quite a bit since it's high in 1979, so maybe there's my answer. Mr. Smith, my American History teacher, would be quite upset with me. I feel sure he had something interesting to say about all this, if I had only committed it to memory.
Isn't the economy too large to go back to the gold standard now? Maybe that's what Mr. Smith had said. 🙂
I remember someone came into the electronics store I worked at years ago, and paid with a silver certificate. One of the other guys exchanged it with a bill from their wallet of equal value, and was going to sell it. It was in really good shape.
On a tangentially-related subject, I read this elsewhere a few days ago:
Small money making secret. Ask your bank for a roll or half-dollars. Go through them carefully, usually a few are the old silver coins which can be sold for more than 50 cents. Last week I got 11 in a roll.
I haven't tried it myself, but the 1964 Kennedys have about $5 in silver in 'em(90%). . .they're probably impossible to find. Even the ones made from 1965-1970 are 40% silver though. . . should be worth about $2+ apiece.