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Essay: I don’t watch ''Secret Millionaire'' (view source)
Revision as of 04:45, March 7, 2011
, 04:45, March 7, 2011Let's get the dollar standard.
From the trailers, ''Secret Millionaire'' seems to be another anarchist show trying to get the private sector to do the government’s job.
On the show – according to the ads I’ve seen – millionaires dress up as hobos to gloat at real poor people and then write a check to a non-government run charity, maybe owned by someone in Timbuktu.
First, welfare should not be a transfer payment, whether voluntary or from taxes. The reason is the government creates money by fiat – or ''should''.
Second, because of all the inflation caused by bank loans and people going bankrupt, a million dollars isn’t what it was when the Beverly Hillbillies became millionaires.
Maybe in the show when the millionaire says to the real bum, “I’m a millionaire” the bum answers “So am I. I can’t afford a place to stay on without spending it.”
The show preempted ''Extreme Makeover Home Edition'' tonight. I do not intend to watch it ''Secret Millionaire.''
If I were a millionaire, I would lobby for the dollar being worth something because of it being a dollar.
I wonder if that would that be called the dollar standard.
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On the show – according to the ads I’ve seen – millionaires dress up as hobos to gloat at real poor people and then write a check to a non-government run charity, maybe owned by someone in Timbuktu.
First, welfare should not be a transfer payment, whether voluntary or from taxes. The reason is the government creates money by fiat – or ''should''.
Second, because of all the inflation caused by bank loans and people going bankrupt, a million dollars isn’t what it was when the Beverly Hillbillies became millionaires.
Maybe in the show when the millionaire says to the real bum, “I’m a millionaire” the bum answers “So am I. I can’t afford a place to stay on without spending it.”
The show preempted ''Extreme Makeover Home Edition'' tonight. I do not intend to watch it ''Secret Millionaire.''
If I were a millionaire, I would lobby for the dollar being worth something because of it being a dollar.
I wonder if that would that be called the dollar standard.
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