Which Reminds Me

Yes, I do remember overhearing Grandpa Calkins lamenting the loss of the gold standard as it was supposedly used to establish the value of the dollar in ancient times sort of. (He was born in maybe 1906?) Yes, I suppose that may be one of the few things that one or another uncle also remembers hearing him say, at least that if nothing else. Also looks like someone has been busy making really obnoxious jokes about how I am not the gold standard to which the currency is affixed and thus I am not convertible to gold bars upon demand. Ok, fine. Whatever. The monetary system is very complicated after all and I was never the smart aleck who claimed to know it all. This is why we have the motto on our coins, "In God We Trust," because, anyway, without God in the mix there is just nothing. But as long as we trust in God, we know the economy will continue to function more or less, the sun and moon will continue to rotate around the earth, the seasons will come and go as usual. So we really don't need to worry about that. We really don't need to write silly poems expressing this point when we already trust in God, never mind about other some confused people who don't quite get it.