Total Govt. Collapse, a what if. Currency.

[M1P90]

Just let them try that again!!!

[BmwStep09]

i guess if the government collapsed i would be screwed i cant cook



but im a pretty good shot

[fd57]

Non-iodized salt. Vinegar. Vodka. Non-GMO seeds. Corn flour. Resublimed iodine crystals.

[SONYtec]

Non-iodized salt. Vinegar. Vodka. Non-GMO seeds. Corn flour. Resublimed iodine crystals.

Why NON-iodized salt??? Iodized Salt, good way to get SOME iodine to help protect your thyroid, on a regular basis.

[fd57]

Iodized salt has a much shorter shelf life (5 years versus multiples of 5) than non-iodized salt. If you can have only one, go for the longer shelf life. If you can have both, sweet.

[oregonreloader]

This thread got my attention and I was curious about why iodized salt has a shelf life. Checking the web I learned the iodine in the salt sublimes (evaporates) over time, leaving just salt. The web says that adult humans need about 150 micrograms of salt per day (about 1 tsp of iodized salt) to avoid goiter and some types of mental degradation. Other foods have iodine naturally. They seem to be mostly seafood kinds of foods.

I know plain old salt lasts a very long time. As part of a DOE project, I visited the WIPP facility near Carlsbad, NM. At WIPP they dug a 2,000 ft deep hole into the middle of a 500-ft thick layer of salt. They have excavated huge "rooms" in which they will store long half-lifetime radioactive waste. With time, the rooms will collapse and entomb the waste. Visitors were allowed to take salt from the tailings left in various places and I did so. I still have it and it tastes just like the salt you put on your food. The WIPP salt is 250 million years old, so don't worry about salt "going bad" anytime soon.

[Bullzaye]

I don't know how many of you guys realize that the U.S. Government confiscated all the gold in the country once just look up Executive Order 6102. Just a heads up

I believe (but I'm not completely certain) that coins with numismatic value were exempted. This is one of the reasons that some people are only buying older gold coins that have numismatic collector value, and are paying substantially more for those coins above current spot values, as opposed to Eagles/Kruggerands/Maple Leafs/etc. Their logic is that if gold ownership might become illegal in the U.S. again someday, collector coins will again be exempted.

To dekew...if I came across too harshly, I apologize. My point was just that people have become so accustomed to accepting otherwise "worthless" cash, I can't imagine why people would have difficulty accepting gold/silver in a possible future alternate economy. I agree that barter will be occurring, I just believe that there will also be a place for gold/silver.

Tim

[dekew]

I believe (but I'm not completely certain) that coins with numismatic value were exempted. This is one of the reasons that some people are only buying older gold coins that have numismatic collector value, and are paying substantially more for those coins above current spot values, as opposed to Eagles/Kruggerands/Maple Leafs/etc. Their logic is that if gold ownership might become illegal in the U.S. again someday, collector coins will again be exempted.

To dekew...if I came across too harshly, I apologize. My point was just that people have become so accustomed to accepting otherwise "worthless" cash, I can't imagine why people would have difficulty accepting gold/silver in a possible future alternate economy. I agree that barter will be occurring, I just believe that there will also be a place for gold/silver.

Tim

Tim,
No hard feelings brother I guess I'm looking at this as if we are in a chaotic state without any govt. in place

[Bullzaye]

Yes, that is also the way that I'm looking at it. In a situation where the government may have collapsed, and the fiat currency has become worthless, I believe that gold and/or silver will be an alternative currency that will be used, in situations where bartering is not practical or just won't work at that moment.

Tim

[Rickky]

I don't know how many of you guys realize that the U.S. Government confiscated all the gold in the country once just look up Executive Order 6102. Just a heads up

The reason countries confiscate gold at certain times in the past is that is about the only way to back up currency when people start loosing faith in it. Our currency is only worth what people believe it is worth, all through history countries backed up their currency with gold in fact through out history the coins were made with a set amount of gold or silver even in american history (20 dollar gold piece had 20 dollars of gold in it almost an ounce ). If our currency failed the only way that the government would be able to pay the military, police, etc, would be to have currency that is backed by gold. But even so society has to be in such a shape that gold is of value and excepted by other countries. Rome went down hill fast when they couldn't pay their bills so they decided to decrease the amount of gold that was in the coins, then every everyone just demanded more coins for goods and the cycle just kept going until the armies wouldn't except their coins.