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"And this is not just an American problem:' Donald said. "While we are
discussingin terms ofAmerican people and American finances, this problem
is being felt around the world. People are living longer, and countries from
Europe to Asia are concerned about how they are going to be able to provide
for the health and welfare oftheir people."

Back To History

In the 1930s, the German government had printed so much money that
the money nearly lost its value. One story tells of a woman who pulled a
wheelbarrow full ofmoney to buy some bread. When she came out ofthe
baker's to get her money to pay for the bread, someone had stolen her
wheelbarrow and left the money.
Hyperinflation devalues money. And while the social, political and
financial environments that enabled Adolf Hitler to be elected German
Chancellor in 1933 were complex, his rise to power was in no small part
due to the middle classhaving their savingswiped out.
Back home, the 1930s brought the Great Depression, leading to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt being elected president. Roosevelt brought in
SocialSecurity in 1935, a solution to a problem we still have to solve today.
In other words, a solution to a problem caused over 75 years ago is again a
problem today - an even bigger problem, in fact. We are trying to solve a
problem with government money,
instead of solving the real problem.
We want people to
Other government programs that
were meant to be solutions were let go of the entitlement
Medicare (1955) and Medicaid
mentality and become
(1966). Today, these problems are
much bigger problems, again because rich so they can solve
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In 1971, President Nixon took us
off the gold standard, which is exactly
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