It’s called fiat currency. You know, the bills in your wallet right now. Ever since Nixon took us off the gold standard, you and I accept the value of the dollar because we believe the US government will honor the value of the paper.

Let me say it again. Our currency works because both you and I believe our government is both stable and legitimate enough to honor the value printed on our money.

You AND I. All of us. Americans and foreigners alike.

That is how it works.

Unless you are a Republican.

Some jackhole legislator in Georgia is pushing for that state’s business to ONLY function using gold and silver.

Like not believing the President is American, or not believing gays are citizens, or in celebrating the Confederacy and slavery, this is akin to treason. Look, vote how you want to, be racist in your own home if you want to. Believe Sarah Palin is something more than an illiterate who quit her job when it got difficult. I don’t care.

But some things are real. One of them is accepting your role in keeping our country solvent. You’d think these clowns, who keep harping on how capitalism has more weight than your rights, would understand that this is how the economy works. Instead they just want to make Glenn Beck rich, even to the point of tinkering with treason.