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After months of fulminating from afar, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) on Thursday finally got to grill a top executive of a gold coin company whose paid endorsers include Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham and Fred Thompson.

Weiner grew red-faced while slamming Scott Carter, executive vice president of Goldline International, for inaccurately portraying the value of the gold coins the company sells to its customers, many of whom hear about the company from its ads on Fox News and conservative talk radio shows. Several of the ads include the show hosts themselves explaining why buying from Goldline is a good investment.

Weiner released a report in May accusing the company of profiting off the fears of conservatives who worry that President Barack Obama’s administration will destroy the American economy. He and Beck have traded shots over the company’s practices, with Weiner saying Beck should be “ashamed of himself,” while Beck, on the O’Reilly Factor, challenged Weiner to call him to testify before Congress.

Santa Monica, Calif.-based Goldline girded itself for the hearing before the Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, hiring a well-known Washington lobbying firm and a top communications firm. Carter said the company gives its customers enough information to make informed decisions.

That information includes a summary of a 1933 executive order that required citizens to send their gold bullion to the Federal Reserve because President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was worried that people were hoarding the precious metal and further hurting the economy. The order, which was enacted into law as the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, allowed collectors to keep coins of numismatic value.

“These are uncertain economic times,” Carter said. “Our training is that if the executive order were reenacted as it was in ‘33, that coins with collector value were excluded from confiscation.”

Weiner lambasted Carter for promoting fear of the federal government.

“The fundamental question is this: Should you be doing this? Should you be exploiting people this way? Should you be implying to people that a confiscation order is in place that hasn’t been in place since my father was born? That’s just wrong,” Weiner said.

Actually, the ban on private ownership of gold remained in effect until Dec. 31, 1974, when Weiner himself was 10 years old.

Weiner showed off a camera-savvy prowess that would make Beck proud, at one point naming and gesturing towards Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) to reject his defense of the company, even though the congressman wasn’t actually sitting in his seat.

No word yet if Beck himself will make an appearance before Congress.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42656.html#ixzz10Pcn2soB

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That information includes a summary of a 1933 executive order that required citizens to send their gold bullion to the Federal Reserve because President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was worried that people were hoarding the precious metal and further hurting the economy. The order, which was enacted into law as the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, allowed collectors to keep coins of numismatic value.

lying leftist nonsense spotted.
First the US DEFAULTED on gold debt to foreign nations, arbitrarily marking down the value of gold vs dollar, and then made gold ownership illegal, taking it at the arbitrarily lower value.

It is not "exploiting" people to tell them to invest in the most secure investment, rare metals.
Saving money is not "hurting" the economy, only a statist ignorant leftist who thinks economies are run by "consumers" would think that.



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