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> abolish the fiat soft money system,

And replace it with what?

These people always mean gold. It's not a great thing to tie the size of your economy to the size of world mining.

Anything scarce really. Anything which slows down or stops the government printing of money is beneficial.

Fiscal prudence could accomplish that. But if you look at the history of the United States, fiscal prudence is an exception to the rule.

Whatever existed before it