That dollar in you pocket is getting smaller as time passes.  Inflation is a subtle unofficial form of devaluation of the currency, and we are in for Mucho Grande inflation. 

  

It wouldn’t be the first time in history. 

  

Following the First World War, Germany suffered unimaginable inflation in the 1920s as it printed Marks without restraint around the clock to pay off the tremendous burden of war repartitions imposed on it by the Treaty of Versailles.    

   

The clever Weimar (pronounced Viemaar) Republic, Germany’s first attempt at a democratic government, in effect unofficially devalued the Mark through flooding the economy with paper bills.  It did this to meet its obligation, imposed by the treaty, with increasingly plentiful but increasingly worthless currency.  By so doing, it paid off the obligation, which was a set amount of Marks with no explicit definition of the actual value of those marks, in record time.    

  

However, this ploy on the part of the Weimar Republic was instrumental in its downfall, and the subsequent rise of the Nazis under Adolph Hitler.  The inflation that resulted from the unofficial devaluation of the currency was catastrophic.    

 

There are many stories.  For example, folks had to bring a wheelbarrow of Marks to buy a loaf of bread.  Or people in a restaurant would pay for the meal when they ordered it because by the time they finished dining the price would have gone up.     

  

Following our ungodly expensive invasion and occupation of Iraq and the tremendous burden imposed on us and generations to come by the Wall Street Bailout and other unforgivable fiascos perpetrated by this bunch in DC and their masters in the military-industrial-corporate ruling troika, the clever Wieners in DC will in effect unofficially devalue the U$D through flooding the economy with paper bills.  It will do this to meet its obligation, imposed by its prolific borrowing from the Chinese, Saudis and others, with increasingly plentiful but increasingly worthless currency without officially devaluing the Dollar.   

  

However, this ploy on the part of the Wieners in DC may be instrumental in …

  

… but need I continue?