Don’t Return To The Golden Age

Half a century of John Duncans in congress has resulted in a Tennessee congressman who wants to return the United States to the gold standard.

There are other, more ancient kinds of money he could consider. From Wikipedia:   “Rai, or stone money (Yapese: raay), are large, circular stone disks carved out of limestone formed from aragonite and calcite crystals. Rai stones were quarried on several of the Micronesian islands, mainly Palau, but briefly on Guam as well, and transported for use as money to the island of Yap. They have been used in trade by the Yapese as a form of currency. While the monetary system of Yap appears to use these giant stones as tokens, in fact it relies on an oral history of ownership. Being too large to move, buying an item with these stones is as easy as saying it no longer belongs to you. As long as the transaction is recorded in the oral history, it will now be owned by the person you passed it on to—no physical movement of the stone is required.”

The last sentence in the above quote is telling. “no physical movement of the stone is required.” When gold is used as a standard, the gold typically stays in Fort Knox and “As long as the transaction is recorded in the oral (computer memory) history, it will now be owned by the person you passed it on to—no physical movement of the stone (gold) is required.” There could be an empty gold vault or a plaster replica of a Yap stone and the money system would continue to work.

Our money today is numbers in bank computers and those numbers have value because the United States government declares they have value. The dollar is legal tender in the United States. The value will remain as long as the United States government exists (and no longer). As a bad example the Confederate States of America dollar value disapeared along with the Confederate States of America. The key to managing the United States (and the world) fiscal problems resides in how numbers in bank computers are handled.

My question is this “Are there creative ways to take advantage of modern computer technology to move our country into a new financial era that will result in steady vigorous economic growth without the cycles of inflation and recession and with adequate money for government services?”

The answer to my question is a resounding “NO!” if our US Representatives are trying to move our financial system back into a past of heady booms followed by devastating long term depressions.

The answer to my question is a resounding “YES!” if we elect congressmen with intelligence, creativity, foresight and willingness to change. Bob Scott, congressional candidate, is a member of Mensa, full of new ideas, bought Apple computer number 11401 and a 2003 Honda Civic hybrid and left the chemical industry at age 40 to go into teaching.

Please help me overcome the financial, name recognition and inertial advantages of my opponent by spreading my messages on the internet. I believe an unhindered internet will insure the future of democratic elections- can it start now?

Bebob’s Rolls Recipe

The Democratic Chemical Engineer Congressional Candidate Roll Recipe
(Better Known as “Bebob’s Rolls” )

I, Bob Scott, asked my mother, Katherine for the recipe for the wonderful rolls she made when I was a boy and she couldn’t remember it but she said it came from an All-Bran cereal box. My mother quit making rolls because they took a lot of work (hand kneaded) and her children ate them voraciously.
So I experimented with making dough in our bread machine. I wanted fat free and sugar free rolls- so I added no fat and relied on the yeast to eliminate the sugar. I am a chemical engineer so I didn’t mind adding a non-nutritive sweetener (my wife of 53 years, Julia told me the amount of sweetener to use- I respect her opinion about sweetness since she is my sweetheart). To get fiber in the bread I did what my mother had passed on to me and added All-Bran cereal. Since I have worked in chemical laboratories for years, I measured everything with a scale and I measured in GRAMS! This is where most cooks turn to another recipe- teaspoons and cups were what Eve used after she left the garden.
My friend Fred said that in baking school everything is measured by weight so I am in the forefront. When you buy a scale get one that measures negative weights as well as positive and use the gram scale. There are some good inexpensive scales available but some of the kitchen scales do not measure negative weights.

Putting aside the preamble, here are the instructions:

I put the breadpan on the scale and set the scale to zero ( push the tare button)
honey 38 grams
set the scale to zero
water 380 grams ( yes, I weigh the water )
set the scale to zero
All-Bran 54 grams +/- a few grams
whole wheat flour 100 grams +/- a few grams (total is now154 grams)
bread flour to make a total of 540 grams of flour and All-Bran
add some salt (I put some in the palm of my hand and toss it in)
add about 1gram of stevia ( a little less than a level teaspoon?)( I formerly used Splenda)
add a package of yeast ( actually half a package really works as well)

I set the bread machine for dough and roll out the rolls when the machine is finished ( you can see that I sometimes have help).
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I make about 40 Parkerhouse rolls and let them rise for an hour in our warming drawer on a cookie sheet. If you don’t have a warming drawer (or never use it) you have to find a warm place for the rolls to rise. In the days before warming drawers I used an oven turned down VERY low.

I cook the rolls at 350 degrees for 12 minutes and then let my wife, Julia, decide if they need to cook a little longer. Since Julia is not always available, you may have to make the call yourself. ( I have a tendency to overcook the rolls- I call it thoroughness.)

The rolls are famous as “Bebob’s rolls”. My name is Bob Scott and one day my young grandson Calvin called me “Bob”. I said “Calvin , you can call me grandfather.” Calvin said “No, grandfather you will be bob.” So I am still Bebob to some of my favorite people.

I have grandchildren who consider the rolls a delicacy to be gorged on just like I considered my mother’s rolls so many years ago ( pardon my teary eyes).

I, Bob Scott, am a candidate for U.S. Representative in the Second Congressional District in Tennessee and my well financed opponent’s dynasty has ruled the seat for half a century. My opponent feeds the multitudes barbecue but I say “feed a person barbecue and they will be filled once but teach them to make rolls and their cook will keep them fed for a lifetime.”

I m am reposting this with a picture of the process.

The Democratic Chemical Engineer Congressional Candidate Roll Recipe
                        (Better Known as “Bebob’s Rolls” )

I, Bob Scott, asked my mother, Katherine for the recipe for the wonderful rolls she made when I was a boy and she couldn’t remember it but she said it came from an All-Bran cereal box. My mother quit making rolls because they took a lot of work (hand kneaded) and her children ate them voraciously.
So I experimented with making dough in our bread machine. I wanted fat free and sugar free rolls- so I added no fat and relied on the yeast to eliminate the sugar. I am a chemical engineer so I didn’t mind adding a non-nutritive sweetener (my wife of 53 years, Julia told me the amount of sweetener to use- I respect her opinion about sweetness since she is my sweetheart). To get fiber in the bread I did what my mother had passed on to me and added All-Bran cereal. Since I have worked in chemical laboratories for years, I measured everything with a scale and I measured in GRAMS! This is where most cooks turn to another recipe- teaspoons and cups were what Eve used after she left the garden.
My friend Fred said that in baking school everything is measured by weight so I am in the forefront. When you buy a scale get one that measures negative weights as well as positive and use the gram scale. There are some good inexpensive scales available but some of the kitchen scales do not measure negative weights.

Putting aside the preamble, here are the instructions:

I put the breadpan on the scale and set the scale to zero ( push the tare button)
honey 38 grams
set the scale to zero
water 380 grams ( yes, I weigh the water )
set the scale to zero
All-Bran 54 grams +/- a few grams
whole wheat flour 100 grams +/- a few grams (total is now154 grams)
bread flour to make a total of 540 grams of flour and All-Bran
add some salt (I put some in the palm of my hand and toss it in)
add about 1gram of stevia ( a little less than a level teaspoon?)( I formerly used Splenda)
add a package of yeast ( actually half a package really works as well)

I set the bread machine for dough and roll out the rolls when the machine is finished ( you can see that I sometimes have help).
.
I make about 40 Parkerhouse rolls and let them rise for an hour in our warming drawer on a cookie sheet. If you don’t have a warming drawer (or never use it) you have to find a warm place for the rolls to rise. In the days before warming drawers I used an oven turned down VERY low.

I cook the rolls at 350 degrees for 12 minutes and then let my wife, Julia, decide if they need to cook a little longer. Since Julia is not always available, you may have to make the call yourself. ( I have a tendency to overcook the rolls- I call it thoroughness.)

The rolls are famous as “Bebob’s rolls”. My name is Bob Scott and one day my young grandson Calvin called me “Bob”. I said “Calvin , you can call me grandfather.” Calvin said “No, grandfather you will be bob.” So I am still Bebob to some of my favorite people.

I have grandchildren who consider the rolls a delicacy to be gorged on just like I considered my mother’s rolls so many years ago ( pardon my teary eyes).

I, Bob Scott, am a candidate for U.S. Representative in the Second Congressional District in Tennessee and my well financed opponent’s dynasty has ruled the seat for half a century. My opponent feeds the multitudes barbecue but I say “feed a person barbecue and they will be filled once but teach them to make rolls and their cook will keep them fed for a lifetime.”

In making a bread loaf I cut the amounts, make dough in the bread machine, transfer the dough to a bread pan, let it rise in the warming drawer and cook for 35 minutes at 350 degrees after the dough has risen above the top of the bread pan.
Honey 34 gams
Water 342 grams
All-Bran cereal 48 grams
Whole wheat flour 90 grams
Bread flour to total of 486 grams of All-Bran and flour.
Salt
Stevia
Yeast