Friday, February 11, 2005

Coming soon?

"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start
by destroying money, for money is men's
protection and the base of a moral existence.
Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a
counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all
objective standards and delivers men into the
arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values.
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of
wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth
that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at
those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a
check drawn by legal looters upon an account
which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the
victims. Watch for the day when it bounces
marked: 'Account Overdrawn'." --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged