Real reason Ron Paul likes that mellow yellow: “Gold is the standard of civilization and Christianity”…”Turn your eyes to the countries having the silver standard alone—Mexico, South America, Asia—and those having the gold standard and there is no room for argument. The latter countries are prosperous, intelligent, and progressive; the former embarrassed, poor, and ignorant.” [HT: Martin] - By

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Real reason Ron Paul likes that mellow yellow: “Gold is the standard of civilization and Christianity”…”Turn your eyes to the countries having the silver standard alone—Mexico, South America, Asia—and those having the gold standard and there is no room for argument. The latter countries are prosperous, intelligent, and progressive; the former embarrassed, poor, and ignorant.” [HT: Martin]

www.common-place.org -- In 1889, Harvard economist Francis A. Walker described the "social effects of paper money" that ranged from bad taste—"wanton bravery of apparel and equipage"—to dangerous consumer desires, which undermined the father’s authority. Paper money, Walker observed, led to the "the creation of a countless host of artificial necessities in the family beyond the power of the husband and Father to supply without a resort to questionable devices or reckless speculations." Not only driven to recklessness, these fathers adopted "humiliating imitations of foreign habits of living." Paper money undermined "that fit and natural leadership of taste and fashion which is the best protection society can have against sordid material aims." And it elicited "manners at once gross and effeminate," which led to "democracy without equality or fraternity, and exclusiveness without pride or character."