[TheRealThing]

Rand Paul and his father before him think everything could be solved if we went back on the gold standard and adhered to a budget based on the value of whatever amount of physical gold America has. IMHO, they do not understand what money is.

Money is just an idea and it is based on the things we need to live, and the scarcity or abundance or those things. Gold, petroleum, silver, gypsum, salt, diamonds, coal, rare earth minerals and metals, iron ore and on and on and on it goes. All of these things mankind requires, God has placed ln the ground. And we mine or drill to get our hands on them. What distinguishes gold to be so much more valuable than coal? Apart from being an excellent conductor, gold is worthless as far as sustaining life goes. Coal on the other hand fueled the industrial revolution, provided the electricity and heat that made America the leader of the world. Things have a perceived value, and changes in that perception changes the value. If people were starving they'd give a wheel barrel load of god for a cup of coffee and a donut. 

THE REAL PROBLEM-
We went off the gold standard because well, money is just an idea. I mean, has anybody noticed how easily a dollar bill spends in comparison to a silver dollar which is a precious metal? It's the same. But during the Johnson Administration we decided to 'buy' folks out of poverty in this land. And since then we've managed to buy more-- than we can ever hope to pay for. Owing to the exponential nature of such foolish monetary policy we have therefore, been unable to live within our means. We called it "The Great Society Initiative.' And since that time the numbers of those who work and who are self sufficient have proportionally diminished relative to the numbers of those who do not until now, the equation is upside down. More people live on government subsidies than there are people working to pay for it all.

Compounding the issue is the inescapable fact that we have outsourced everything from energy, to food, to clothing to military hardware, to foreign lands. Trump is trying to undo the idiotics of expecting life to be door dashed to your government provided front door.

Despite the fact that all we're seeing here as far as unrest is concerned are the manifestations of the tax payer funded 'Resistance", over the next year or so we will see where all of this is going. Frankly I do not believe anybody KNOWS. I know what I am hoping.