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Freshman Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, is carrying a bill that would establish the Texas Bullion Depository, a secure state-based bank to house $1 billion worth of gold bars owned by the University of Texas Investment Management Co., or UTIMCO, and stored by the Federal Reserve.
Last edited by HappyTexan; 03-24-2013 at 06:13 PM..
That gold is long gone, Texas should have insured it against theft.
Wait!
No, that wouldn't have worked, either.
And of the effectiveness of gold standards what does this say? Let the yellow metal do its work and go to sleep? I would rather have Smaug audit a fiat money system over a sleepy trust in gold.
Andrew Jackson warned us and fought physically against, what is happening now.
A Progressive Congress filled with bankers and big money Rockefeller's, created the fed.(remember Fascism was the rage in Europe)
It will take a Constitutional Conservative Congress to end it.
That gold is long gone, Texas should have insured it against theft.
Wait!
No, that wouldn't have worked, either.
Germany wants theirs back too...... I agree with you it's all long gone....... My best guess is what we seldom get to see is lead bricks with a few mils of gold on them. Gold clad leaden bricks.........
I think it was a year or two ago India was taken with the same ploy, and got gold clad lead bricks.
I'd hate to think how bad it would be if the Fed were Constitutional.
I think a public money system might be necessary, but how to make it a distributed one with citizen oversight? The FED as is has destroyed state power.
Germany wants theirs back too...... I agree with you it's all long gone....... My best guess is what we seldom get to see is lead bricks with a few mils of gold on them. Gold clad leaden bricks.........
I think it was a year or two ago India was taken with the same ploy, and got gold clad lead bricks.
We(our government) gave China all our Gold Reserves. We(our government) have now let them mine minerals here, free of charge.
There is nothing at Fort Knox. Nothing.
Fiat money is coming to an end.
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