I can show the shallow thinking of Thomas Jefferson in another way by merely showing what he should have said, which is, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have, and that is exactly what it will eventually do because that is what it must eventually do if government is going to pay higher and higher bills as inflation in the money supply translates into inflation in consumer prices, and like a giant leech from Outer Space it will sink its fangs into you and suck you dry of financial liquidity, either in taxation or inflation (but usually both), and that is why I, Thomas Jefferson, and all the other Founding Fathers, put into the Constitution the requirement that money can only be gold and silver, which is to make sure that the government can't produce extra money and credit and ruin everything with that boom-bust crap!"
The Mogambo Guru recommends you buy gold, silver or other commodities in order to have a hedge against inevitable inflation. It's too bad Thomas Jefferson is not around to debate Mogambo - it would be a lively discussion.
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