FLAHR in, the name of a gold coin first made in Florence in the 1200's. The name comes from the Latin word for flower. The florin bore the imprint of a lily on one side, and the figure of Saint John the Baptist on the other side. The first English florin was issued as a six-shilling gold coin in the reign of Edward III (1327-1377). A Silver English florin worth two shillings was first coined in 1849.
[The World Book Encyclopedia]
A USA Silver ten cent coin, bore the imprint of a lily on one side, and the figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA Pres. 1933-1945) on the other side (Dime).
Thomas Sowell, National Review Online.
One of the many slick tricks of the Obama administration was to insert a provision in the massive Obamacare legislation regulating people who sell gold. .This had nothing to do with medical care but everything to do with sneaking in an extension of the government’s power over gold, in a bill too big for most people to read
Gold has long been a source of frustration for politicians who want to extend their power over the economy.
When the amount of money the government can print is limited by how much gold the government has, politicians cannot pay off a massive national debt by just printing more money and repaying the owners of government bonds with dollars that are cheaper than the dollars with which the bonds were bought. In other words, politicians cannot cheat people as easily.
But what is clear is that the Obama administration sees people’s freedom to buy and sell gold as something that can limit what the government can do.
Freedom in general cramps the government’s style.
But, at every turn, they find the freedoms granted by the Constitution of the United States hampering the Left’s agenda of imposing their superior wisdom and virtue on the rest of us.
Sneaking a provision on gold purchases and sales into massive legislation that is supposedly about medical care is just one of the many cynical tricks used to circumvent the public’s right to know how they are being governed.
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This is a comment made to the Kid's post: Open Letter to Imam Abdul Rauf.
Now you know why (as if you didn't) there was such a number of events (Some so hart tugging). The push after such a long time of trying to condition the people to get away from the idea of having a gun. We were supposed to have been unarmed by now. It was supposed to be easy to take over the infidels. Now they have to use the mind game technique.
I don't believe they have a chance-once we all get on the same page.
Example:
Bill O'Riley interviewed a Imam; and the Imam said that he was "working for a society we want".
Bill O'Riley, should have said, We already have the society we want-we were here first!
The Constitution, ain't all we have- The Bill of Rights-untouchable by any Government; by The World Court, The U.N., The U.S. Government; and especially Islam!
You can't kill the Bill of Rights-They are here Not Reachable by any tricksters.
The Kid's comment:
We should push for a constitutional amendment that makes Sharia law illegal in the USA.
Totally illegal.All the framework is there throughout the constitution, let's just put this on in plain sight.
Read the Kid's Blog. HERE...
It serves always to distract the public councils and feeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves with in their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."
…George Washington’s Farewell Address…
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