You may be familiar with a service called Dollars 4 Gold or another service like it. The service they offer is rather simple. They will send you a kit in which you can mail them any unwanted gold jewellery and they will send you a cheque back as payment for the gold you sent them. Below is the commercial that is shown often where I live.
This ad drives me crazy. It starts out by preying on the cancerous consumerist mindset that is ruining our world. The premise of having some old junky jewellery lying around and then paying bills and getting shoes is absolutely terrible. I’ll elaborate as to why further on into the post. Then the rest of the commercial is full of classic over-salesmanship and lame testimonies by paid actors and actresses.
There are all the superficial reasons as to why I dislike the ad, now for the root of the matter. I have a feeling that this is a large scam being perpetrated on the public. Not in the fact that you may not get the “money” value of your gold but by the very fact that we are being enticed get rid of our gold at all.
If there is one thing you come to understand about money it has to be what its real value is. The real value of money is nothing. At the end of the day money is merely paper or a number in a computer. When you hand your gold over for money you are trading it wilfully for paper or digits. While that may all seem fine and well because your paper and digits can get you other things you want, like shoes, I don’t think it is going to be that way forever.
We have just been through a major economic earthquake where we have seen the value of currency get shaken very easily. Gold’s value however continued to climb through all of it. Please understand that gold and precious metal always holds its value. That’s why back in the day money’s value was determined and managed by gold reserves. But that’s a long time ago and things don’t work that way anymore.
My concern is founded by the fact that the people in charge of things are always a couple steps ahead so we need to look at what is happening now to try and make a good guess as to what is going to happen down the line. Let me explain where this line of thinking is coming from.
A number of months ago I watched a documentary on TV called “House of Cards”. The show focused on the very housing market bubble that caused the aforementioned economic earthquake. Before this turmoil started there we’re tons of advertisements on TV offering the services of refinancing mortgages to unlock equity that people had in their homes so they could expand their shoe collections, or whatever other useless consuming they wanted to do. The ads offered ideas like getting pools, cars or shopping sprees. The commercials were basically financial traps broadcast into our living rooms. After these ads ran for the better part of a year and millions of people had put themselves in a precarious financial situation the trap were sprung and many families homes we’re stolen via variable rate mortgages that saw the interest rates skyrocket.
To me that is a very deliberate ploy. Now I will concede that no one was forced to use this service but if you dig a hole and cover it with a blanket and put a toddler on one side and you stand on the other side waving a lollypop it doesn’t take much brain power to figure out what the result is going to be.
So let’s keep moving. My point is that there was a rash of commercials that offered something promising and attractive then shortly afterwards millions of people felt the pain of their decisions. So how does Dollars 4 Gold fit into this? Gold has worth, paper doesn’t. I have been reading that with all the fall out of the housing market governments were forced into more borrowing to get out of the mess. This in turn has created a new bubble, a bailout bubble. It is much bigger and much worse than the housing bubble was. How long is it before that one bursts and creates a bigger problem?
If the dollar went bunk and was no longer accepted anywhere gold and other precious metals could be used to trade for food and other necessities. Wouldn’t you wish then that you had kept your gold instead of getting some paper?
You also need to know a little history here to be wise and well prepared. After the original stock market crash and ensuing great depression in the 1920’s gold was seized from the public forcefully under the law. Before then there was a gold standard amd the US dollar used to say redeemable in gold on it. Afterwards the dollar was labelled as legal tender. Meaning it was recognized as tradable money good for buying things and paying taxes. As a side note there was a time in history where a kingdom used sticks, called tally sticks, with notches cut out of them to denote its value as their legal tender. Any person today would think thats crazy, but isn’t paper just as ridiculous?
People in high places that make the rules know where the value is and they want it for themselves so that we are left in a desperate spot. The whole thing is about leverage. They want your gold so you won’t have anything of value. The larger scope, which will be reserved for another post, is the motivation for a world government with world banks. Mark my words; this will be sold to us after the next crisis as the answer to the problem. A public that is poor and starving will be happy to accept whatever is offered that will get food on the table and a new currency in their pocket. At the end of the day the ploy is about leaving people desperate so they will accept whatever alternative is offered to them.
You need to protect yourself. Keep your gold. It may be the only thing that will get you through an economic disaster that sees the dollar worth its weight in paper. Lets also not forget that the Bible warns us that the love of money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10). In times like this and in the face of all this information, does that not ring loud and clear as truth?
Below is a preview of the documentary House of Cards. It was all I could find online. If you can find it on DVD or it gets reaired, watch it. Also check out the other posts in the money catagory on my site. Thanks for reading.
