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The press has spent endless hours debating on how to deal with pirates
lately. It is obvious that they do
not respect our private property rights and want to make a living from
plundering others. It should be
obvious that we can not allow them to keep their plunder that was obtained
through treachery. Piracy is
simply thievery of other people’s private property because opportunity
favors the pirates at the moment.
Of course the pirates normally wait and set up that opportunity to
ambush their unsuspecting prey before they pounce upon them. And in this case there had to be some
collusion with the government because they were fully aware of what was going
on and made no attempt to even try to stop it. Some have suggested that their
government is even sharing in the ill gotten gain and therefore have a vested
interest in allowing the piracy to continue. I for one think a naval blockade might
be effective.
However, I doubt if the US Navy would place their warships in the
Hudson River and protect the rest of the United States from the Wall
Street pirates. While I am not
insinuating that the US Navy is in collusion with the Wall Street pirates, I
have grave suspicions about everyone else in Washington DC.
Oh, and the Somali pirates, they are easy to deal with. Just mount a couple of 50 caliber
machine guns, issue a few RPG’s as well as a dozen sawed off shotguns
for close up work on all commercial ships in the area and that problem will
go away. It may take a couple of
weeks training for the crews but it will be worth it to keep them safe. What a solution! Use individual initiative by taking
responsibility for your own safety.
Just blow them out of the water if they get too close. Maybe even give crews a cash bounty
for every pirate ship blown out of the water. Extra pay for good marksmanship could
also be awarded.
But the Somali pirates are just an annoyance and a side show. They only ask for a measly million
dollars every now and again. Why
that amount could easily fit in a single briefcase. The Wall Street pirates are making off
with 10 trillion or so dollars.
That is enough treasure to cover multiple acres six feet deep in $100
bills. (see the link at the
bottom of the article.)
The Wall Street pirates, I am afraid, are going to be a lot harder to
repel as they seem to have already boarded and made off with much of our
treasure. They have even
infiltrated our ranks and are now serving as the Secretary of the Treasury
(of course they have been doing that for years). I am sure that there are others of
them among us and it is our duty to root them out and repel them one by
one.
Fight for our rights, our treasure and our very lives. Break open the arms lockers, issue
arms and repel all boarders.
Prepare for a full broadside.
Let’s make them walk the plank instead of our grandchildren.
In the meantime get some of your assets out of the crooked system
before it is too late. Buy gold
and silver and take possession while you still can. Refuse to participate in the corrupt
federal reserve system. Take care
of your own treasure matey.
Arrrg.
Larry Laborde
Silver Trading Company
www.silvertrading.net
All
articles by Larry Laborde
Larry lives
in the occupied South with his wife Puddy and sells precious metals at the
Silver Trading Company. Larry can be contacted at llabord@aol.com.
You can view his web site at www.silvertrading.net.
To order
advance copies of Larry’s new
book, “Investing
Without a Net” just go to his website at www.silvertrading.net and scroll down to the middle
of the home page and click on the link.
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What does a Trillion Dollars Look Like ?
Source : Deliveriesgalore : http://deliveriesgalore.com/2009/03/18/one-trillion-dollars/
Have you ever wondered what one
trillion dollars looks like? With all the talk about bailouts and stimulus packages - a million
here, a billion there - it’s pretty easy to lose track of exactly how
MUCH money they’re talking about.
$100
Let’s start with a
simple $100 bill - nearly everyone has seen one, and most have used one at
some point:
Ahh,
hello Mr. Franklin…
$10,000
Now, lets take it a step
further - a packet of $100 bills is less than 1/2 inch thick and is worth
$10,000. This can easily fit in your pocket and can be used to buy a cheap
car or a year of your kid’s tuition:
Vegas,
here we come!
$1,000,000
This little pile of cash can easily fit into
any backpack and weighs just about 22 lbs. Just in case you
didn’t believe that those
criminals in the movies couldn’t fit a million bucks in those
briefcases,
it’s very possible! You’re not
likely to ever see this amount of cash in one place unless you work
in a bank or are a high-level drug
dealer:
What,
you’re just gonna stand there? Get the money!
$100,000,000
Here we have $100 million - neatly fits on
any standard pallet, weighing in at a little over one ton.
You could stash this away in your bedroom and never work
another day in your life. No one
will ever see this kind of money in one place except Britney Spears and other
celebrities:
That
money isn’t going anywhere without a forklift…
$1,000,000,000
Now we’re talking big bucks… $1
billion - ten pallets worth of cold, hard cash. This is more than
some countries’ GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
You
wouldn’t even know what to do with this kind of money…
$1,000,000,000,000
Finally, here we are - one trillion dollars. That’s twelve
zeros, go ahead and count ‘em! One MILLION million, or one thousand
billion… This is just an obscene amount of money - the dollar value is
more than all that are currently in circulation:
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