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Copernicus, Galileo and Gold. Part II

- Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com

I did not get as old as I am by running around making stupid arguments, thinking everyone would blindly accept my arguments as fact. How anyone can claim on one hand that they stack PM's yet at the same time argue against its usefullnes as money just flabergasts me.

Vox your arguments are about as sound as someone arguing that rubbing cow manure on your face will keep the flies away. But since you won't use common sense in your argument, allow me to try to convince you with another approach.

In the Bible, God said, I give you gold, as value. Yet for thousands of years, the nations of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon and Persia had no knowledge of the Hebrew God yet they all used gold as money. Did the authorities of those nations ever devalue gold ? No. Nor did they devalue silver or copper. If they had, the would not have risen to become the powerful nations that they were.

Greece was the exception in that gold mines were scarce but silver minds produced more than enough for their monetary needs.

It was only when government authorities got it into their heads that they should dictate what the value of gold and silver should be, that those nations began to fall.

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