The Liberty Dollar. Is it Illegal?

The Liberty dollar is a private currency that has been in circulation in the United States since 1998. It was created by NORFED in an attempt to provide a competing currency to the U.S. Dollar. The silver and gold pieces are made of either .9999 pure silver or gold respectively. The paper certificates can be traded in for silver or gold that is currently being stored in a warehouse in Idaho. The popularity of the Liberty Dollar has been growing in many states across the nation. This increase in interest seems to represent a desire to change back to a currency that is actually backed by something. The metal-based system is meant to be a hedge against inflation so your money does not loose its value unlike our current fiat system.

The U.S. Mint has recently declared that Liberty Dollars are illegal. In a public statement they said “The United States Mint is the only entity that can produce coins”, and that it “is a crime” to spend the Liberty Dollar. The first statement is not entirely false. The U.S. Mint is the lone coin creator of the United States, but the Liberty Dollar never claimed to be a coin. In fact, they consistently try to distance themselves from the Federal Reserve Notes. The Liberty Dollar is actually backed by something tangible. The Federal Reserve note is barely worth the paper it is printed on. The government continues to have more and more money printed and the notes continue to loose value. With every dollar they print, the amount

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Three Step Proposal to Solve the ‘Immigration Problem’

Immigration has recently become a huge problem. Mexican immigrants are coming into this country and taking the jobs of Americans and living off of our welfare state!!!! Why should we as Americans have to pay to keep those damn illegals alive? Those are the arguments I always here when people are promoting the crack down on illegal immigration. There are so many things wrong with those statements. In order to show whats wrong with these arguments I have derived my own three step plan for fixing the ‘immigration problem.’

Step 1: End All Socialist Programs, Such as Welfare

I do not want to involuntarily pay to take care of anyone. Whether they are immigrants or native citizens I do not care. Voluntary charities can give money to whoever they want. I can give my money to who ever I want. However, the government has no right to take my money and give to to who they deem needs it. That is Socialism. Are we not supposed to live in a Capitalistic Society?

Step 2: End the Minimum Wage

If you end the minimum wage it would not be as easy for illegal immigrants to undercut the American workers. With the minimum wage gone, the American workers would be able to work for a lower amount

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The Minimum Wage: A Quick and Easy Lesson in Economics

The minimum wage is a hot button issue in todays political climate, especially with the November elections just around the corner. Some candidates want to raise it to a ‘living wage’ and some think it is fine where it is. This issue hits close to home, in fact, because a law was recently passed in Pennsylvania to raise the minimum wage. The point of this article, however, is to pose an alternative and more logical solution. Abolish the minimum wage.

What happens when you need to pay people more to make a product or provide service? The price of that product or service increases. An easy way to see this is to imagine what would happen if the minimum wage were raised to $100 per hour. At first this might seem like a good idea, but take a closer look. If I own a record store and I have to pay an employee $100 an hour to work there my CDs will raise in price to an amount probably close to $300. In this case you still have to work three hours to buy a CD. Things just become more expensive.

The minimum wage is also a direct violation of our rights as employees and employers. If I, at my record store, want to pay someone $2 an hour to sweep my parking lot I should be allowed to, as long as the other person agrees to it. If you are doing a job that is worth $5.15 an hour then you will get paid that much. If you think that you are being under paid then find somewhere to work where they pay you better. That is your right.

The only entity that is helped by a minimum wage is the government. The propaganda behind it is almost ingenious. They tell the poor and middle class that the minimum wage will be beneficial. They tell us we will make more money and that we will become more wealthy, which is only a half truth. We do start to make more money, but we absolutely do not become more wealthy. We now have to pay more for goods and pay more money to the government in taxes.

The minimum wage is a free-market nightmare and needs to be stopped. If we abolished the minimum wage and returned to the gold standard this countries economy would be in a lot better shape. These ideas, however, would be detrimental to the government so I doubt we will see them implemented anytime soon.

Wii Are the Champions?

Although this blog is primarily for politically based articles, I feel the need to share this experience.

This passed weekend the Nintendo Fusion Tour stopped by the University of Pittsburgh. Via word of mouth I discovered that they had a few Wii’s available for people to play. The first thought that crossed my mind was, “How can I get away with stealing one of these things.” That thought quickly passed however, after I realized they had large bouncer esque bald men sitting at the entrance to the booth. Nintendo was prepared for me.

On a more serious note, I waited in line to play Excite Truck for about a half hour. The game was amazing and the ‘Wiimote‘ was implemented very well. For those of you who are not video game nerds the ‘Wiimote’ is the controller for Nintendo’s new video game console Wii. It is a motion-sensor controller and is held similar to a television remote control. It is also a lot smaller and more comfortable than I expected it to be. For the game Excite Truck, you hold the controller sideways (horizontally), in both hands and you turn it like a steering wheel to control the vehicle. The ‘2′ button on the controller is the acceleration and the up direction on the D-pad provides your truck with a boost. These simple controls provide for an extremely fun game at least from what I could tell with the one race I was allowed play. The controls were so intuitive that I was able to secure second place by the end of the game.

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From what I could tell from the game I played, the Wii is going to be a HUGE success. If the ‘Wiimote’ is implemented this well in other games for the system, Nintendo may just have a winner on their hands. Let the console wars begin Nov. 19th.