> While I do not disagree with the sentiment expressed below, it was
> > pointed out to me that the term "deflation" was not yet coined during
>
> > Jefferson's time. I have a computer database of a large number of > old
> > American documents and histories. The term "inflation" shows a few > hits
> > while searching them but the term "deflation" receives none. It > would
> > appear that the sentiment, however valid, does not belong to
> Jefferson.
>
> Abbott the new detaxer) Could it be the hopelessly gullible MoRon found
> the phrase at one of the anti-taxes web sites he haunts by way of an
> (un)education and failing to check the passage's context or
> authenticity simply passed to on as real?
>
> Hey, MooooooooRon wanna buy some swamp land? . .LOL!!!!!!!!
Could it be that Jack doesn't have a legitimate response? Whe faced with facts that point in an opposite direction to his pro-tax slavery agenda, Jack tends to spew nothings to make it appear he has a valid counter point.
Jimmy
> >
> > R> > >
> > > "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the > issue
> > > of their currecy, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks
> and
> > > the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the
people
of
> > > all property until their children wake up homeless on the
continent
> > their fathers conquered." ~ Thomas Jefferson
> > >
> >
> > --
> > /s/ Timothy I. McCrory
> > mailto: snipped-for-privacy@spammyyahoo.com
> >
> > "Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen."
> > William Cobbett
> >
> > "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely
> > believe they are free."
> > Goethe
> >
> > "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose
> > its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or
> > money that it values more, it will lose that too."
> > Somerset Maugham
> >
> > "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
> > In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains
> > seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
> > must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
> > lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
> > Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas