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MickBurke | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 What is the US dollar backed by? 
It's backed by the promise that we, and our children and  grandchildren and great grandchildren will be salves.
Plain and simple.
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TheBitcoinBattery | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 "No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence."
- Credited to either George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. Not clear which one said it, or if either really did but it's still a good hard hitting quote regardless.