text:  So you cannot have a welfare state or an international empire like we have, and you cannot have deficit spending when you are tied to a metallic-based currency. That's true. So fiat money is the buried reason, if you will. It's the original sin of big government. Do you know who the president was? Originally it was Woodrow Wilson, then FDR helped, and then Richard Nixon closed the door. I always say Nixon was impeached for all the wrong reasons.