Re: RELIGION: Re: POLITICS changed to State of the Economy

[Guest guest]

On 7/22/08, haecklers <haecklers@...> wrote:

> Personally I'm against buying gold and silver for environmental

> reasons after reading about the use of arsenic to dissolve the gold

> from the ore and the leaks and contaminations and deaths caused by

> modern mining.

At least for me, I don't a substantial enough amount of wealth for

purchasing gold to have even the most remote impact on the operations

of the gold mining industry, and I suspect that's true for most people

even who have lots of savings, unlike me.

But in any case if you're uncomfortable with it, it would probably be

best to put any savings you have into capital investments related to

community and self-sufficiency. For example, you could invest in

solar power machinery, or in a chicken tractor, in seeds, canning

equipment, a dehydrator, a wood-burning stove, laying hens, books on

survival skills, and so on. I think it would make much more sense to

purchase knowledge and material capacity to yield future goods that

you and your community will need and will potentially be limited in

much leaner times than to save cash whose value could be decimated

over the next few years.

Chris