1786: Thomas Paine argued that statesmen who even so much as called for or seconded a motion to establish legal tender laws (just use gold/silver!) should be executed. https://mises.org/library/thomas-paine-paper-money … 2019: "Conservative" thinks sound money bad because he thinks it makes Uncle Sam cry.https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1153832716665643008 …
Too many "conservatives" are just trying to conserve prior "progressive" experiments (in this case the fiat currency experiment of 1971).
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@michaelmalice says: conservatives are progressives who drive the speed limit.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Statists appealing to their masters. Carry on! You guys are doing great
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"There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then...
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...to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes." T Paine 1786
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The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. — Chesterton
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“Got no privacy, got no liberty, because the 20th century people took it all away from me” - The Kinks on Muswell Hillbillies (November 1971)
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I'm shocked, shocked, that the only thing "conservatives" actually manage to conserve are socialistic government programs. Conservatives have conserved nothing of actual value. It's time to commit that ideology to history's dustbin.
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