You are absolutely mistaking. The dollar goes down when more money is issued by the Fed as more money is in circulation. This is called inflation because the money supply is inflated. As more money is printed, the dollar holds less value because it is now competing against all the other dollars that were newly issued simply by printing them (the dollars that came into existence without actual real work). And since these Fed notes (dollars) haven't been backed by anything since 1971 the criminals can print as many notes as they want and inflate the money supply as much as they want and the sheeple absolutely love it. They can't get enough of it because they understand neither money nor history. And what have we been doing the past year? Printing (actually it's just digital) more money than ever before.
This doesn't even take into account the fact that is is mathematically impossible to pay off 1 Federal Reserve Note issued with that exact same note due to interest. We can't pay off the debt, we have more debt than ever, and the people (well the sheeple) are cheering on more debt. Couple this with the fact that we pay interest with our real money that we worked for on fake digital money that never existed and you have a bunch of sheeple ready to get a taste of Nazi Germany and the Fall of the Roman Empire. But that's okay, basketball is on and that's more important than reading a book.
To say that the dollar was lower in 1995 is to not understand the dynamics of purchasing power. There is a reason that gold goes up on a weak dollar and gold goes down on a strong dollar. And it has to do with reality vs fiction.
Compare 1995 to 2009:
There's obviously a lot more to it, but this is a basic, and fairly accurate, indicator. BTW, an ouce of gold used to be $20/ounce. Talk about losing value.
But w/e, everything is fine, Peter Schiff is an idiot, history is fake, the government loves us, and everything will be okay. After all, being a slave is easy.