Montana Lawmaker asks to be paid in gold

May as well get paid in hookers and booze because there won't be any businesses left to spend even your gold at...

Good for him.

All elected public officials should do this.

The Gold Standard is the only backbone economic model that makes any sense.

There is a reason why mankind always has a way of returning to the gold standard.

I hear TUNGSTEN's the next PM play!!

Seems that's how most politicians get paid anyway.

^^^THIS^^^ oh and add coke.

Yeah right like there's enough physical gold in/on Earth\ suckers...

I'll sell him veggies for gold!!! What you seem to deny is it may take awhile but it will all return (if it collapses at all) and gold will still be king it has for thousands of years it will in the future.

UNLESS we go the route of the Pharaohs and glass becomes the precious item.

That's what Alan Greenspan suggested 20 years ago, that he'd be paid in gold.

Throw in some cocaine and you're not very far off the current system.

Gold is no good in a barter world.

He should ask to be paid in whiskey.

That contract is in blood.

Now only if he asked to be paid in trident layers; my wish would be complete.

Gold is a pretty, shiny metal that you can't eat or drink and isn't used in very many industrial applications. Why do humans think it is so valuable?

is he retarded? just buy gold with the usd....and hookers and booze

weird that a "lawmaker" hasn't heard of the "legal tender" laws

We have not advanced beyond "hey it is shiny".

Paper money is ugly, dirty cloth like material that you can't eat or drink, isn't used in any industrial applications. Why do humans think it is so valuable?

shush!!!

That's easy, gold has been a valuable metal for thousands of years. If you don't think gold is used in many industrial applications, you should do a little research. I shouldn't take more than a minute to figure out the truth. Gold will most likely continue to be valuable in the future.

Depends on the time of month

We haven't had "legal tender" since 1913. Now we have federal reserve notes. They aren't backed by anything more substancial than Benny's word that it is real momey. But even Benny wont say how much it will be worth tomorrow. If he keeps the printers rolling, it wont be worth much. The money has nothing backing it, so we call it Benny's butt money.

It's because gold is largely incorruptible. It doesn't corrode, it doesn't tarnish, and it is inert. There are gold artifacts that were buried thousands of years ago that look exactly the same as they were when they were buried. Every other material that mankind worked back then rusted, rotted, or just plain disintegrated.

The combination of being easy to find, easy to work, and having permanence all made gold the most valuable metal in ancient times.

Now what I find fascinating is that in Central America, cocao beans were used as currency. You could buy livestock, slaves, good and services (even the service of a prostitute) with cocoa beans. When the Spanish arrived, Herman Cortez instantly had the idea to begin a cocoa plantation. He would then trade the natives cocoa beans for gold. Smart man, talk about a "growth" fund!

because every 24,000 years the Annunaki return to buy gold from us with green hookers and purple booze.

Joke's on the world, the lead-to-gold nut was cracked a long time ago by the elites.

Well at least no one can say you're a hypocrite !!!

Now you're just being silly. It's purple hookers and green booze.