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[quote=”DavidCMurray”][quote=”johnnyh”]. . . can one go to Costa Rica and pay with 3 Silver American Eagles (current value $25-$30.00) your hotel room? :D[/quote]
We always encourage our visitors to deal only in Costa Rican colones when paying for anything while here. Just be sure to exchange dollars for colones only at a bank or to withdraw colones from one of the many ATMs. That way, you’re assured of getting the right exchange rate. Airport currency exchange booths, both here and in the United States, give notoriously lousy exchange rates. Don’t even consider using them!
Paying for something with coins which have numismatic or metal content value different from their face value would be unwieldy at best. How would a hotel desk clerk determine the value of a silver eagle, a silver dime or a Confederate dollar even if they could determine that they’re genuine? How would they make change?
And why would they bother? None of those circulate in the economy here and there’s probably no market for them. Redeeming them would be a nightmare. The same would apply to your grandfather’s watch, Babe Ruth’s autograph or most anything else of value only to collectors.
[/quote]I see your point. But doesn’t that beat logic in that people have been brainwashed to accept fiat currencies instead of real money.
There’s a you tube video where someone wants to sell a Canadian one ounce gold coin for $50.00, then $25, and so on until he was practically giving it away, and there were no takers.[quote=”davidd”]just read thru this article and am shocked at some of the stats..
crazy times for sure but i am glad i am raising my kids here.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/americans-snapping-by-the-millions/%5B/quot
The problem Davidd is that the United States is exporting inflation worldwide, and just about every nation is churning the printing presses. As a consequence politicians are more corrupt, and citizens in turn skirt the law to stay ahead.
I remember inviting friends to the Arrasti theater matinee in Puerto Limon, and we could all get in at 1 or 2 Colones each, and then go to the Acon theater and watch another movie. But this was back in 1959! The exchange rate back then was 6.65 Colones per Dollar.
If you have been following the articles by Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, The Mogambo Guru, and Gerald Celente, you can get a feel of what we are looking forward to. It just doesn’t look good regardless of what Obama and the politicians tell us.Let me tell you about my sister. She’s going to be 72 next December. Her life consists of going to bed at about 5AM after watching television. She might wake up around 4 or 5 in the afternoon. She’s a heavy smoker, and is always complaining about pains here and there. So far she’s been lucky that all her lung xrays are okay.
She complains about not having enough time, and the reason is obvious if you wake up that late? Duh, eh?The predicament she’s going to be in within 6 months or so, is that her ex husband will be retiring, and her cut that she gets from him will be reduced from $4583.00 per month, to $2500.00 per month.
Sometimes she has trouble making ends meet with those $4500.00 bucks.
She just rented a 2 bedroom apt in Ontario, CA for $1500.00. Crazy huh?
At first she didn’t pay any attention to me when I told her that maybe she should consider moving to Costa Rica, where we have extended family on my mother’s side.
We were both born in C.R. so we have the option of dual citizenship.
Anyways, lately she has become receptive after I have described the rents in Costa Rica vary between $700.00 to $1200.00 per month in barrios like Escazu.
I understand that some Ticos don’t even make $700.00 a month. So my question following this thread is how well can she live, and carry a more modest lifestyle, which would probably be the same in Costa Rica?
Obviously she is going to have to adapt to a better cheaper lifestyle, including a Tico diet.
Would she also be able to afford her 2002 Ford Escape in Costa Rica after she pays the import duties? By that I mean insurance and gas. Thanks:D[quote=”kwhite1″][quote=”vache”]I’m confused.What type of communities are you talking about? Rural compounds? I appreciate the wikipedia links provided by davidd as I had no idea that homosexuals were all child molesters.
It’s great that this forum brings people together but I just have to ask. What are you and kkkwhite taking out the kids to hunt for after church from the back of a jeep? heh..
[/quote]Vache….if your not sure what you are talking about and about whom, I would suggest you sit on the sidelines until you figure it out. I take exception to your use of “kkkwhite”. That was extrmemly uncalled for and your assumption of me being a racist. Nothing could be further from the truth, you know nothing of me and what I do and beleive in. Kindly STFU.
Something that the gay lesbian community doesn’t understand is that not being gay is okay. I have interacted with gays, and although I don’t condone their lifestyle, I believe in live and let live. I just don’t want it in my face. But now even grade school kids are being exposed to the gay agenda.
Some people are just disgusted by the gay lifestyle, but it doesn’t mean that I want to lock them up, or stick them in the oven.
But just not liking the gay lifestyle doesn’t mean you are a homophobe. And guess what, if some people or the majority of the people are homophobes, it’s their right. Right or wrong! Gays just can’t seem to understand that.Does anybody have any ideas what Hussein Obama wants to talk about? Drugs? Chinese hegemony over C.R.?
Will it be a private meeting, or a televised affair?
And now we have El Supremo, designer glasses Ortega joining in. Will Chinchilla ask Hussein to spank Ortega?
Will el morenito get everything he wants?I think the world is noticing the reckless money printing the Fed is doing. China is not only mining gold, but it is buying stealthily in order not to drive the prices higher. Yes, banks are stocking that yellow metal, and we should all take a cue.
Looks to me like most of you are aware. But the majority of the people in the U.S. is completely ignorant of monetary policy and the effects of quantitative easing in driving inflation, or even knowing what a Krugerrand or what a gold or silver eagle are!Something is coming ’round the mountain. I don’t know what, but something wicked this way comes!
Yes, I believe even Costa Rican’s don’t know about it. I don’t remember hearing about in school either.
In July 1942 the Caribbean was a beehive of German submarines, and the Kriegsmarine called it the “Happy Time” due to the enormous tonnage sunk by them.
As I recall, the San Pablo was re-floated and towed back to either New Orleans or Florida, but was sunk off Florida as a total loss.
You have to remember also why they tried to salvage it, as the Germans were sinking more steamers than were being built.
[quote=”kschnelle”]David, Suggest you look at this gold blog link:
http://blog.europacmetals.com/2013/03/remarkable-new-chocolate-bar-gold-product-video/
and this link:
http://www.hardassetsalliance.com/
Cheers!
Keith Schnelle[/quote]Thanks for posting KS! As the video shows, you can put 3 or 4 of these bars in your wallet, 10 or 20 in your carry on. You can even dip them in chocolate and put them in your shirt pocket.The possibilities are endless. And that’s how you can buy a house in Costa Rica someday. Get the picture? I sure did!
Peter Schiff is a good guy. He predicted a lot of the calamities in the economy way back, and he was laughed off. Well, he’s laughing now at all the “experts” and he is predicting more bad news for the worldwide economies.Sticking to the subject, has anyone noticed gold and silver going down? When it goes down, one buys!
[quote=”sprite”][quote=”DavidCMurray”]Yes, I readily agree that the middle class has taken enormous hits in the past forty years or so. I also acknowledge that the very existence of the middle class was made possible in significant measure, although not entirely, by a manufacturing economy.
None of that, however, supports your assertion:
[quote=”sprite”]The US stopped making things decades ago when the globalists in the government shipped our manufacturing jobs overseas. [/quote]
The manufacturing sector in the U.S., while perhaps not what it once was, has hardly gone dormant. Reports of its final demise (by you, sprite) are greatly and inaccurately exaggerated.[/quote]
David,
Statistics say I am correct as to diminished US manufacturing capacities relative to other countries.Table 2. – Manufacturing Trade Deficit Growth,
By Industry, 1989-2007Change
Item (US$ bil.)
Total -699.1
Oil & Gas -237.3
Computer & Electronic Products -109.1
Apparel -52.6
Electrical Equipment -27.4
Chemicals -18.9
Source: US International Trade AdministrationThe above graph shows that we buy more than we make for the industries listed. Much of it comes from China. If you think it is an exaggeration for me to say the U.S. is in deep doo doo for loss of manufacturing capacity, then tell me what you think would (will) happen when the the Chinese decide to dump the 1.2 trillion dollars they now own because of this trade deficit on to the world market?
I am not sure you are able to think that far ahead. But don’t feel badly. It appears that nobody in our government can either.
The Chinese are not dumping anything Sprite. They are not dumb, but they are concerned about uncle Benny and the Fed printing way too much Dollars. They are investing those depreciating Dollars all over the world, and they are buying gold like it’s going crazy.
They have a great concept Sprite: Invest in natural resources, raise the economic standards of their citizens, and at the same time look like good guys in the eyes of the “Democratic” world. We American’s on the other hand bring “Democracy” and destruction to anyone that doesn’t toe America’s hegemony. Guess who’s winning so far?:shock:Maybe he can tell President Chinchilla that he promises to talk to Meg Whitman to not send those HP jobs to India.
Is Obama getting a ticker tape parade through Paseo Colon?:shock:Corporate profits are up, specially for oil companies and food & packaging and content for the consumer is shrinking, at the same price or higher. 48 to 50 million Americans on food stamps. Fed injection of $85 billion to banks inflating the real state market. Do I hear a future pop?
Bring those suckers in and then….
No decent interest rates to us peasants…why that alone is one of the biggest red flags I can think of. It’s an economy running on pure fiat ink worth more than the pictures of past presidents. And the economy is turning around?Armeria Polini
Buy the .22caliber, more efective than the .177[quote=”watchdog”]I believe that part of the lack of impetous by the U.S. Government in particular to address the issue of illegal drug marketing and use, is based on the number of people employed in,or feed-off the Criminal Justice System that would be out of work, if some regulated use framework were established, for what are now deemed to be illegal drugs. The DEA would largely cease to exist and many prosecutors, defence attorneys, and judges would not be be required. Likewise, there would be a lower prison population with a reduced requirement for prison facilities and prison guards. The list goes on. There are other considerations in the equation of legalizing and regulating illegal drug use, but this consideration is certainly a factor.[/quote]
BINGO! 😀
