Daily Paul readers. I need your help please. spare a minute?

I almost always like your posts. You seem very open-minded.

I disagree with most of the advice I've read so far. I don't see $200 as an adequate amount of money to invest in metals, be they gold, silver or cold steel (weapons).

If a survival hedge is your intention, I'd use that $200 to buy food. Freeze-dried is pricey, but essentially lasts forever packed in cans, so you don't have to rotate it, and it travels light, so you can take it anywhere with you over time.

I would not buy MREs. "Everything the military buys is low-bid" is an old expression, and that goes for their food as well.

If you were living in a suburban home or on the farm, I would recommend buying institutional-sized cans of vegetables, dry wheat, beans and rice, and rotate the canned goods every two years in a pantry, Mormon-style. But since you are a young man in college, I think something that doesn't require fuss, that's fairly permanent, like canned dehydrated and freeze dried foods, would be a good investment for your $200 bucks.

I wouldn't buy the survival food canister they sell at Costco. I recommend buying food from this food dealer in Texas--Internet Grocer. They are nice folks and very reputable:

http://www.internet-grocer.net/

They also stock interesting food items like canned butter and cheese.

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Just hold it for when you need it. It's a hard asset. Some people freak out on here whenever the price falls. I never looked at it as a substitute for the stock market. It's a way to protect wealth against a possible destruction of the currency. Plus, it helps you to save money you might otherwise not. And . . . it's fun!

Anyway, I DO believe in God, so thanks! And God bless you as well, and good luck in everything.

All the best,

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