And the Plot Thickens!

Have you ever read the famous Mark Twain Story that helped put Angels Camp back on the map?  The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County.  If not here is the plot...

The narrator is sent by a friend on an errand to visit an old man, Simon Wheeler, to find an old acquaintance of his friend, Leonidas W. Smiley. The narrator finds Simon at the "decayed mining camp of Angel's" The narrator asks the fat, bald-headed man about Leonidas. Simon responds that he doesn't know a Leonidas Smiley, but he knows of a Jim Smiley. From there Simon tells the story of Jim.

Jim Smiley loves to bet. He bets on anything from the death of Parson Walker's wife to fights between his bulldog pup (named Andrew Jackson) and other dogs.

Once, Jim caught a frog and named it Dan'l Webster. For three months, he trained the frog to jump. At the end of those three months, the frog could jump over more ground than any other. Jim carried the frog around in a box. One day, a stranger to the town asks Jim what is in the box of his. Jim tells that in the box is a frog that can outjump any other frog in Calaveras county.

The stranger looks at the frog and responds that the frog doesn't look any different than the other frogs of Calaveras county, so he mustn't be the best. He tells Jim if he had a frog, he'd bet him $40 that the frog he had could beat Jim's.

Jim agrees to bet, and he gives the box to the stranger to hold while Jim was to catch another frog for the stranger. While Jim is catching the stranger's frog, the stranger pours lead shot into the frog's mouth.

When Jim comes back, they set the frogs up ready to begin. They aligned the frogs up evenly, and on the count of three let them loose. The freshly caught frog (the stranger's) jumped off, while Dan'l Webster didn't budge a bit.

Jim was surprised and disgusted. He gave the money to the stranger and the stranger giddily left. Jim wonders why Dan'l looks all of the sudden so plumpy. He takes the frog and tips him upside down. The frog coughed out handfuls of shot. Jim set the frog down, and chased after the stranger. But the stranger was long gone, and Jim never caught up to him.

At this point in the story, Wheeler is called away by someone on the front porch, and tells the narrator to keep seated. The narrator realizes that Jim Smiley isn't the least bit related to Leonidas W. Smiley, and starts walking away. Simon catches the narrator at the door just before he leaves, and starts telling him another story, about Jim's one-eyed cow. The narrator excuses himself and leaves.

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New Tax Takes Money Out of Your Bank Account - No Authorization Required!

The Cyprus Bank Bail Out: Could It Happen In The United States?

Take Money From Bank Account as a Deposit Tax

This weekend, the Eurozone was greeted with the specter of a something it had hoped was behind it: the dreaded bank run. Cyprus, a small Eurozone state, agreed to terms on a 10 billion Euro bailout that included an immediate tax on all bank deposits (a smaller but non-negligible tax on accounts under 100,000 Euros and a larger one on accounts above that threshold). That means when banks next open – if the plan goes through – everyone is going to have less money in their bank account than they did on Friday. To facilitate the plan banks are closed and electronic money transfers have been suspended, although in an interesting technological twist of fate ATMs are open, thus allowing the specter of a bank run to hover over Cyprus without actually allowing people to get most of their money.

By announcing an immediate tax on all bank deposits, every Cypriot citizen with money in the bank knows exactly how much money they have just lost. Emmidiately effecting a significantly large portion of the population. Moreover, since the act of responding to this impending tax has been made public by the fact that wire transfers are prohibited, every citizen of Cyprus gets to see just how upset/worried her fellow citizens are.  

Could this ever happen in the United States?  Well we are facing a 16 trillion dollar nation debt.  President Obama has already proposed buying our 401K's and has taken over health care.  There was a gold recall in 1933.  We operate on a fiat currency backed by nothing (just air) as a promissory note.  Our dollar bills are not National Treasury Notes but instead Federal Reserve Notes, we devaluate the dollar daily by printing 10 billion a day.   The more we move towards being a socialized nation the more we run the risk that the government would just reach into our bank accounts and levy a tax based on the amount in those account.

Where are you putting your money.  Thought about buy gold and silver?  Just remember "The Only Just Currency, Is a Tangible One!"  Gold and Silver have proved themselves for thousands of years and yet not one fiat (paper currency) has survived more than a couple hundred.  Think about it why did we start with gold and silver coins.  Coinage prior to 1964 was 90% silver now it contains none.  

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