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Post by firouz on Jul 14, 2009 2:03:48 GMT -5
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Post by Rongar on Jul 15, 2009 12:24:06 GMT -5
 I was saying that I didn't know why other countries are letting things rebuild themselves without to much nosying around, and why the American government seems to think more money that we don't have (at least as I've been told) will make things better.
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Post by firouz on Jul 15, 2009 19:51:22 GMT -5
Because we have this arrogant attitude that we are the best in the world and can just print more money.  After all, the U.S. dollar is the most widely held currency in the world.  |
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Post by firouz on Jul 17, 2009 14:26:48 GMT -5
President Reagan, or was it Nixon, dropped the gold standard, so our currency is not backed by gold anymore.
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Post by Rongar on Jul 17, 2009 20:06:17 GMT -5
I know...what I mean is that from what I've heard, is that most of the world leaders are inventing the money. I think I heard an accounting friend of mine using the words... "We are using ghosts to pay our children's future."
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Post by firouz on Jul 17, 2009 22:57:16 GMT -5
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Post by Rongar on Jul 18, 2009 11:57:10 GMT -5
It sounds okay, but I was never a really good fan of his work.
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Post by firouz on Jul 21, 2009 0:57:42 GMT -5
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Post by firouz on Jul 22, 2009 2:53:57 GMT -5
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Post by Sinbad on Jul 22, 2009 3:45:17 GMT -5
Totally classifies as cool. Everything space-related is totally fascinating. I remember that one solar eclipse we had here years back, I guess I was ... dunno 13 or something at the time. It was no full eclips here, but in south German it was, I think. And even at my place it went twilight-y for a while at mid day which was weird. Unfortunately it was all cloudy and we didn´t even see the sun.  |
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Post by Doubar on Jul 22, 2009 7:15:09 GMT -5
*is just popping in* Oh yeah. I've been in Austria back then. We had total eclipse there and ... wow, that was so cool. It was totally cloudy that day but right in time the sky opened and we were able to see the whole thing. So very cool it had been!  |
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Post by Sinbad on Jul 22, 2009 9:45:27 GMT -5
I just stumbled upon an article about this on my German mail provider´s homepage. But I googled and it´s in the news on English pages, too. *thinks that´s rather interesting* www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534355,00.html |
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Post by Kriss on Jul 22, 2009 9:50:24 GMT -5
I read about her yesterday in newspaper. It's amazing |
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Post by Sinbad on Jul 22, 2009 10:17:41 GMT -5
Brains are capable of enormous stuff, I´ve seen that with my dad. |
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After all, the U.S. dollar is the most widely held currency in the world. 
Still it doesn't mean we have the gold to back it all up. 
