Hot Potato

Remember, as a child, playing the game "Hot Potato?"  I see our economy, in virtually, the same way now.  These worthless dollars just keep getting passed around while more and more of us are being eliminated from the game.  One of these days the music will stop and the current system we are still counting on, will have no value.

I've seen many people suggest investing in gold and silver, and to be honest that is what drove the gold prices up, as the Stock Market plummeted a few years ago to get the upper Middle Class out of that game.  Those disappointed, downhearted folks then invested their severely dented portfolios into gold, driving up that price, artificially.  Keep in mind, it was the same people who just 10 years earlier had watched their mutual funds collapse.  Politics aside, tripling the national deficit through the 80's built this false foundation that is crumbling now.  We all played, and we are all now scrambling to not be holding the hot potato when the music stops.

Sadly, though, it's like we've combined two childhood games with similarity, just to add to the confusion.  It's as if we're playing hot potato and musical chairs, and every time the music stops, twice as many lose, because one is holding the potato and another has no seat.  A large group of folks saying, "it isn't fair" simply doesn't mean much at this point!  That seems pretty obvious by now.  On the other hand, there is a group of us, a small group who have simply moved on and said, "I got no time for this game!"

When the entire mess finally does collapse, there will probably be a window of time in which gold and silver will be valued, but for those with gold, I have no idea how you plan for someone to make change!  It won't take long for panicked masses to know who's holding the silver and gold, and our government has already had a call to surrender gold in the 30's, so . . .  Then once there is no buying and selling without the mark of the beast, gold and silver won't make any difference and you can't eat it!

I'm hoping and have even prayed about it, that the tax man will hopefully take gold and silver for a time, even after the collapse and the mark is established.  We all know, paying taxes is certainly not buying and selling, in that taxes purchase absolutely nothing . . . Taxes are simply money paid on what you've already earned or what you already own.