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Because the decision to go off of the gold standard essentially just said, well, now there's no more even pretend limits on government.

You know, this is why Ron Paul, who, happy birthday to the greatest living American hero, just turned 90.

How old is he now?

And I was just at his birthday party a few weeks ago.

And- Dan, you look at you partying with Ron Paul.

Dude, that dude throws it down.

No, I'm just kidding.

It was very nice though to see him.

Tulsi Gabbard was there, which was cool.

But so essentially, right, that was the last restraint on government is that at least even then, even under Bretton Woods when we're cheating, at least there's some feeling of like, well, don't cheat too bad.

because they could maybe try to- Count the gold.

Right, exactly.

But after that, it was off to the races.

And this is why Ron Paul ran for Congress.

It was when Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard.

And then he was like, this is going to lead to big government.

This is going to be the era of big government.

So he was going to run to try to stop that.

And he was completely right.

This is what has really destroyed everything is that there is just no... And it's a big part of the reason why I'm so angry about all these wars too, because it's all related.