PURPOSE OF GOLD AND SILVERDanilo wrote:What do you want to do with Gold and Silver?
Buy some land/ground if you can. Plant trees, vegetables, fruits. Look out for water in the ground.
Before Fiat (paper money and cheap metal coins) there was the use of
things like Gold and Silver to deal with the exchange of goods and
services. Before Gold and Silver, you had a barter system, which was
simply a deal on deal basis with what was on hand. Did you know that
19 states here in the USofA have passed bills allowing Gold to be used
in payment of things? They recognize that the dollar has lost an
incrdible amount of value, and is losing more every day. But there is
not enough gold to go around, and the price of gold is up so high that it
is overvalued for small purchases. Hence the return to the era of the
silver coin (90% silver before 1965, and still up to as much as 40% silver
until about 1972). Diamonds have an exageraged value, controlled by
a monopoly, but there are other commodities that have good value.
They just aren't common, so use in trades or buying is a lot less certain.
A CHICKEN IN HAND?
With paper currency out of the picture, how do you expect to pay for a
visit to the doctor? Or cover your taxes? Or provide for yourself and your
family year around? We are not living in the times where the nearest
neighbor lives three ridges over, or where we have a flock of geese or some
dogs to raise a ruckus if someone suddenly is on our property. We aren't all
armed to the teeth against intrusion, where we can lock ourselves in and
keep the world at bay, and where we can just do without water, sewage, and
electricity. How are you going to keep someone from raiding your garden or
doing worse? Like I said, its going to be rough times. We see the beginnings
of it already with a rise in carjackings, home invasions, driveby shootings,
and the loss of hope for jobs, meaning they have to find another way to get by.
YOU MAY THINK I AM BEING AN ALARMIST
but I was subject to a home invasion a few weeks back. I saw it as being only a
matter of time. I was here, but even if I had realized they were in the house
with me present in the back, I could not have stopped it. They got away, the
police came when I called, they did what they could, and they left. What's
to keep if from happening again? A neighbor, five houses over, had a break-in
just the week before. To me, as the dollar fades and becomes harder to get,
such events will only increase.
I watch THE BIG BANG THEORY show on TV some nights. I find it entertaining.
But I also note that the doors into those apartments have sheets of metal bolted
across the inside of the door. That's because they are reflecting life as it is in
some areas. I've even seen interior shots of places where they may have five
deadbolts and chainlocks on the inside of the door. It's not that bad here, at least
not yet. But it could be just a matter of time. We can't all live in gated communities.
