D. Stewart Armstrong
Introduction
America is being hammered by a financial tsunami of enormous historical proportions. Americans have only been exposed to the tip of the iceberg and I often wonder how many of us truly believe all of the “creative” (dis) information being swept across the airwaves and major media outlets like tumbleweed across the Nevada desert. It is something to behold, isn’t it? But, does all this disinformation pass the common sense test? Does it pass the “smell test?” On balance it does not.
You are part of a very small portion of Americans reading these types of articles, and at least endeavoring to acquire the truth, and that, my friends, is a great part of the problem. We need more Americans understanding what is really occurring (to them) in their own Country. That is the reason we need to expand the base! Americans know something is terribly wrong, they just don’t know what it really is or where to begin to fix it. There are not enough people trying to discover the “real deal”.
Americans hear about interest rates, the Dow, and the debt and not necessarily in that order.
But listen, I hate to sound crass but there is something in it for you! The greater the number of investors involved in the precious metals complex, the greater the probability that demand will increase, which will ultimately push the PM prices higher. If you are holding gold, silver or PM stocks, you wll benefit!
Finally, you will be doing your country a favor—even if it means saving the politicians from themselves. The more gold and silver tucked away in places where governments can’t “appropriate” it for their own needs, the stronger your country will be. And let us never forget that our founding fathers wanted physical gold and silver to be the “coin of the realm”.
What is the Real Deal?
Over the past seventy years we’ve gone from being the greatest manufacturer of goods on earth to being the beggars of the world; er, I mean the greatest consumer of goods in the world. We’ve gone from being one Nation under God to being one Nation under Goldilocks (and the three branches aka :Legislative, Executive, and Judicial). Americans are constantly suckered by the likes of Enron, Washington lobbyists, Madoff and the Federal Reserve. Greenscam “really got us good”; so good, that even Congress was left in shock and awe. I wish it were GOLDdilocks.
So one generation at a time we’re slowly moving away from what the Great Generation fought and died for. That is the real deal. Is that too harsh? On a daily basis, we need a billion dollars of foreign capital to keep the US doors open—but wait, foreign capital doesn’t want any more to do with the US. They’ve been hoodwinked enough. They’re taking their chickens somewhere else to roost. So from where comes the money to keep the doors open? We make it up! We print it.
And thats the real deal.
Everybody wants it—Everybody’s don’ it.
No, it is not more sex, the hula hoop, or the IPOD. What is it? It is a bigger portion of the pie, a greater audience, a larger market share, which equates to more money, influence, impact, and leverage. Uncle Sam wants you(!) really means they want a larger part of the young men and women of this country to fight the war on terrorism. Uncle Sam wants a larger part of the demographic which ultimately comprises the Armed Forces!
But then so does Burger Boogie, the NRA (National Rifle Association) and every newsletter from here to tin buck two. The gold community wants you (or at least they should) and so does the SPCA, ARRP, NSA, and the ABCD. Isn’t it nice to be wanted? Everyone wants to Expand Their Base! They all want you—so choose wisely my friends. Or is that drink wisely? I get Madison Avenue and Uncle Sam mixed up on occasion.
Why the Gold Community?
Destroy a Nation’s Currency and you effectively destroy the Nation. The Germans did it to the Brits in WW II. Our gold community in the US is rather smallish. We want to make it biggish. That is what Bill Murphy and Chris of GATA (Gold Anti Trust Action Committee) have been doing for close to ten years. They’ve been trying to expand the gold community by offering empirical evidence that the gold market is not a free market–it is manipulated. They’ve done a pretty good job. But don’t take my word for it–don’t take their empirical evidence. Do your own research and after reviewing gold charts, ask yourselves if this trades like a free market or a managed one? FYI, Bill Buckler of www.the-privateer.com has offered up the axiom that “gold is a political” metal.
But lets keep our eye on the ball. We need to expand the gold community because gold is the only asset which can serve as both wealth and as a currency. Governments don’t like it because you can’t just print it and call it wealth.
The reason we want to expand the gold community is because this community is closer to the truth than the average bear. Goldwelacks knows this and that is why she and the three bears constantly demean and allow the management of these markets. Gold aficionados otherwise known as “whackos or gold bugs” understand that a strong national currency is tantamount to a strong Country. The Gold Community needs to expand their base. But so does the Republican Party!
But Why?
You expand the base in order to have more US citizens cognizant about what is happening to our once great Country which was the Beacon of Light the world once aspired to emulate. Again, the Gold Community has always been the bridge between real wealth and a strong National Currency. You burn that bridge down, you destroy it in some way, and the average citizen has no place to go in order to purchase and save real wealth for the future. The average American is stuck and becomes as broke as the US government!
The alternative is to store barrels of oil in your back yard or in the laundry room of your condo. Oil, after all is a commodity that does represent real wealth. But you will need a lot of detergent to get that oil out of the clothes in the hamper! It’s a wash! (You know, boxes of detergent vs barrels of oil)
But How?
It doesn’t take much to expand the base. Really, you’re half way there if you’re reading this. Now comes the part where you either go out and purchase a little physical gold, or silver, a few gold stocks, or support organizations and websites that support gold. This is the point where you teach your kids the difference between wealth and money. This is the point where you do one little thing that helps to sustain the country we all love—the one with warts and all.
Expanding the base of any organization is the most critical thing one can do to assist in its survival. It’s time to get involved America. Little baby steps—the longest journey begins with the first step. Let’s get moving.
Remember that a capitalistic society needs to expand in order to survive. It is the nature of capitalism. Businesses need to expand to survive. And so it is—the gold community needs to expand to survive.
Until next time
D. Stewart Armstrong
Sorry but D. S. Armstrong has nothing to sell currently but would recommend most of the writers on www.lemetropolecafe.com There is a website called www.seacoast-consulting.com that needs work! But little baby steps.
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