I’m an Evangelical Bible Teacher and I don’t disagree with what you said about the Bible and charity. With that being said, I don’t have a problem with the current welfare system in our Country. If the American Church wanted to take the lead in taking care of the needy, they could, there is nothing stopping them. We reformed welfare back in the nineties. There are now work requirements and time limits. Less than five million out of three hundred and twelve million Americans are on welfare.
@MaxBerean, To say that you "don't disagree" with what I said about the Bible and charity and then to say, "I don’t have a problem with the current welfare system in our country" is a contradiction. You will need to provide detailed evidence from the Bible in order to justify government run welfare/healthcare. It's not an issue of numbers or statistics. It's about right and wrong, good and evil. I'm willing to engage in debate if you are.
Everything he is saying in these videos just makes so much sense that I'm amazed we still have this big government stewards of our society who call Ron Paul crazy for these ideas. The state has done a fine job of brainwashing us.
The system in place in the US would not take care of the "least of these". Churches spend less than 1 penny of every dollar on charity to the poor. There are few jobs that pay a living wage that poor people can find. We do have a problem in this country, but Paul's "free market", "the strongest survives" would enable further demonization of the poor, and the increasing numbers of poor that have been preyed on by the greedy already. I want to hear specific JOB creation ideas for the poor.
@peopleATL You don't understand economics, at all, and as a result you think that the government can create jobs for the poor. They can't. Further, their anti-poverty initiatives have stopped the decrease in the level of poverty in America - something that was decreasing from very high levels down to the level it has remained at since the "War on Poverty" started with the Great Society programs. In addition, the poor and middle class are most harmed by the inflation tax caused by the Fed.
@mtanousable The government at present rewards companies for off-shoring jobs that should be available to Americans. You can talk all day about the "level of poverty" and what has caused it, I want to hear what Ron Paul's plans are to bridge the availability of jobs with the increasing poverty levels in our country. Ignoring the reality or depending on the "market" to take care of it will lead to our country moving to a 3rd world economy even faster than it is at present.
@peopleATL How can you recognize that the problem is government rewarding companies for doing things that don't help, and then not recognize that the market IS the alternative. What forces jobs overseas are government regulations and those same rewards - subsidies and tax breaks. Eliminate those, and the market itself will bring the jobs back. The economics are clear - government hurts job creation, and the market is what is needed - a truly free market, allowed to create jobs at will.
@mtanousable The "market" demands slave labor, or have you not investigated the conditions of workers in these offshore "industries". Is that what Paul wants -- a return to mill villages, unlimited and oppressed labor whose energies are spent creating wealth for the elite?
@peopleATL The conditions of workers in these offshore industries are far superior to the local market conditions there. As people become wealthier, that wealth is used to attract better labor - competition between workers rises wages. Government cannot mandate this. Every time it tries - through government backing unions and minimum wages - the result is better wages for some, and unemployment for many others. If I'm wrong, why not raise the minimum wage to $100/hr?
@peopleATL "Churches spend less than 1 penny of every dollar on charity to the poor." Government is even worse. Filter through the bureaucracy, and our nation allocates only 0.17 percent of its budget to help the poor. Churches and private charity are far better, despite their perceived flaws. Allowing private enterprise to flourish (instead of hamstringing it with excessive regulation and taxes) also reduces the number of poor by creating employment. This is the best anti-poverty program.
@mtanousable Unregulated capitalism is a recipe for creating even more wealth disparity. I'm not interested in a nation that rewards the greedy vultures at the top and preying on the desperation of the poor. Ayn Rand's world is not workable. She wrote fiction and her novels should remain in the realm of fiction -- total, unleashed selfishness is not a world Americans want to embrace.
@peopleATL That is a myth that is so difficult to correct when blind sheep like yourself believe whatever some idiot told you. Capitalism does not "reward the greedy vultures at the top and prey on the desperation of the poor". Never has. The Federal Reserve, on the other hand, DOES precisely that by creating new money and giving it to rich bankers to make loans, which devalues the money you and I have as well as the rest of the middle class and poor.
@mtanousable Yes, capitalism always creates greedy vultures at the top -- the ones you "admire" and would likely bend over to lick their boots in adoration. Once again, Ayn Rand is a FICTION writer -- she was a selfish, insane person. Get over it, the world she longed for is a selfish, brutal one that is IMMORAL.
@peopleATL My points have nothing to do with Ayn Rand, and you keep bringing up her fiction as somehow proof that the other people I often refer to (who often disagreed with Rand on philosophy) - economists like Hayek, Rothbard, and von Mises are wrong. Your version of capitalism is a fever dream used by politicians to distract from the fact that it is NOT capitalism, but government-sponsored corporatism that we have had in America for the last few decades.
@mtanousable Where in the Bible does it endorse "creative financial instruments" that now form a shadow economy looming over the entire world, making us all debt slaves to the 1%? Is there a video here on what Ron Paul is going to do about those?
@peopleATL What are you referring to? The "creative financial instruments" pushed by the government, through the Community Reinvestment Act and the GSEs like Freddie Mac, and the Fed to "help" people buy houses they couldn't afford? It's quite clear that Paul wants to end all of that, including the Federal Reserve, and in fact he wants a 100% reserve banking system that would stop most of these loans. Corporations, on their own, are not a problem - only with government help can they be one.
@mtanousable You probably have never heard of Credit Default Swaps. Ha! I tell you, the worship of unregulated capitalism is frightening -- your lack intellectual inquisitiveness in what has really happened to this country will lead us directly into corporate oligarchy.
@peopleATL Credit Default Swaps are not some kind of new, scary thing that was solely responsible for the crash. Credit default swaps have existed since the early 1990s, and still do. The problem was not that they existed, but that they and sub-prime loans suddenly skyrocketed to ridiculous proportions. Why such malinvestment? The easy credit from the Federal Reserve. And the Federal Reserve IS a corporate banking oligarchy - one that could not exist with a small federal government.
@mtanousable Yes, Credit Default Swaps are very scary things considering the investment in them outweighs all the wealth in the world. Paul's "free market" mentality will allow the vultures who control this shadow economy to fulfill their goal of being a controlling oligarchy -- with the majority of global citizens indebted to the 1% forever. Abolishing the Federal Reserve will not abolish these evil instruments designed to enslave us.
@peopleATL For everyone that uses a CDS as insurance on a loss, someone else is willing to pay it - thus betting the opposite. The Federal Reserve system allows this to distort the economy - rather than be a net zero - because it bails out banks that made bad bets, so they make more bad bets, and get bailed out again, etc., etc. The CDSs would not be a problem without the Fed backing the system. In reality, the free market would destroy the 1% oligarchy that ALREADY EXISTS in the Fed.
As i dont believe that the gov't should be responsible for determining the curriculum for education i just want to say that Thomas Jefferson viewed public education to be for the purpose of producing well-educated and informed active participants in their gov't or active and responsible citizens in order to keep the gov't as servants to the people and making sure they didn't overturn the checks and balances put in place by the constitution
@Kartikeyan2012 The US government has contrived with corporations to dumb-down American education for the past 30 years with the high-stakes testing -- a "secret" test created by a corporation -- in order to create the current crisis in education. And why? In order to TAKE OVER education -- not to educate, but to suck at the trough of our tax dollars. In our system, the wealthy are always decades ahead of us in planning their next "profit" scheme. Education is a $500 billion "opportunity".
I’m an Evangelical Bible Teacher and I don’t disagree with what you said about the Bible and charity. With that being said, I don’t have a problem with the current welfare system in our Country. If the American Church wanted to take the lead in taking care of the needy, they could, there is nothing stopping them. We reformed welfare back in the nineties. There are now work requirements and time limits. Less than five million out of three hundred and twelve million Americans are on welfare.
MaxBerean 1 week ago
@MaxBerean, To say that you "don't disagree" with what I said about the Bible and charity and then to say, "I don’t have a problem with the current welfare system in our country" is a contradiction. You will need to provide detailed evidence from the Bible in order to justify government run welfare/healthcare. It's not an issue of numbers or statistics. It's about right and wrong, good and evil. I'm willing to engage in debate if you are.
cutwithouthands 6 days ago
Everything he is saying in these videos just makes so much sense that I'm amazed we still have this big government stewards of our society who call Ron Paul crazy for these ideas. The state has done a fine job of brainwashing us.
jpete3027666 1 month ago
where is video 7?
Spez718 1 month ago
@Spez718, youtube .com / watch?v=4JjpdT1aShQ
cutwithouthands 1 month ago
Wow! Just a great video.
MrLibertyLover 1 month ago
"Forced charity it not true charity." Fine statement. Thanks for the video series!
MrLibertyLover 1 month ago 2
@MrLibertyLover Oh wow, I'm glad someone finally understands that!
fromero69 1 month ago
FIVE STARS!
PatHenry4RonPaul 1 month ago
The system in place in the US would not take care of the "least of these". Churches spend less than 1 penny of every dollar on charity to the poor. There are few jobs that pay a living wage that poor people can find. We do have a problem in this country, but Paul's "free market", "the strongest survives" would enable further demonization of the poor, and the increasing numbers of poor that have been preyed on by the greedy already. I want to hear specific JOB creation ideas for the poor.
peopleATL 1 month ago in playlist The Bible & Ron Paul, 13-part series
@peopleATL You don't understand economics, at all, and as a result you think that the government can create jobs for the poor. They can't. Further, their anti-poverty initiatives have stopped the decrease in the level of poverty in America - something that was decreasing from very high levels down to the level it has remained at since the "War on Poverty" started with the Great Society programs. In addition, the poor and middle class are most harmed by the inflation tax caused by the Fed.
mtanousable 1 month ago
@mtanousable The government at present rewards companies for off-shoring jobs that should be available to Americans. You can talk all day about the "level of poverty" and what has caused it, I want to hear what Ron Paul's plans are to bridge the availability of jobs with the increasing poverty levels in our country. Ignoring the reality or depending on the "market" to take care of it will lead to our country moving to a 3rd world economy even faster than it is at present.
peopleATL 1 month ago
@peopleATL How can you recognize that the problem is government rewarding companies for doing things that don't help, and then not recognize that the market IS the alternative. What forces jobs overseas are government regulations and those same rewards - subsidies and tax breaks. Eliminate those, and the market itself will bring the jobs back. The economics are clear - government hurts job creation, and the market is what is needed - a truly free market, allowed to create jobs at will.
mtanousable 1 month ago
@mtanousable The "market" demands slave labor, or have you not investigated the conditions of workers in these offshore "industries". Is that what Paul wants -- a return to mill villages, unlimited and oppressed labor whose energies are spent creating wealth for the elite?
peopleATL 1 month ago
@peopleATL The conditions of workers in these offshore industries are far superior to the local market conditions there. As people become wealthier, that wealth is used to attract better labor - competition between workers rises wages. Government cannot mandate this. Every time it tries - through government backing unions and minimum wages - the result is better wages for some, and unemployment for many others. If I'm wrong, why not raise the minimum wage to $100/hr?
mtanousable 1 month ago
@peopleATL "Churches spend less than 1 penny of every dollar on charity to the poor." Government is even worse. Filter through the bureaucracy, and our nation allocates only 0.17 percent of its budget to help the poor. Churches and private charity are far better, despite their perceived flaws. Allowing private enterprise to flourish (instead of hamstringing it with excessive regulation and taxes) also reduces the number of poor by creating employment. This is the best anti-poverty program.
mtanousable 1 month ago
@mtanousable Unregulated capitalism is a recipe for creating even more wealth disparity. I'm not interested in a nation that rewards the greedy vultures at the top and preying on the desperation of the poor. Ayn Rand's world is not workable. She wrote fiction and her novels should remain in the realm of fiction -- total, unleashed selfishness is not a world Americans want to embrace.
peopleATL 1 month ago
@peopleATL That is a myth that is so difficult to correct when blind sheep like yourself believe whatever some idiot told you. Capitalism does not "reward the greedy vultures at the top and prey on the desperation of the poor". Never has. The Federal Reserve, on the other hand, DOES precisely that by creating new money and giving it to rich bankers to make loans, which devalues the money you and I have as well as the rest of the middle class and poor.
mtanousable 1 month ago
@mtanousable Yes, capitalism always creates greedy vultures at the top -- the ones you "admire" and would likely bend over to lick their boots in adoration. Once again, Ayn Rand is a FICTION writer -- she was a selfish, insane person. Get over it, the world she longed for is a selfish, brutal one that is IMMORAL.
peopleATL 1 month ago
@peopleATL My points have nothing to do with Ayn Rand, and you keep bringing up her fiction as somehow proof that the other people I often refer to (who often disagreed with Rand on philosophy) - economists like Hayek, Rothbard, and von Mises are wrong. Your version of capitalism is a fever dream used by politicians to distract from the fact that it is NOT capitalism, but government-sponsored corporatism that we have had in America for the last few decades.
mtanousable 1 month ago
@mtanousable Where in the Bible does it endorse "creative financial instruments" that now form a shadow economy looming over the entire world, making us all debt slaves to the 1%? Is there a video here on what Ron Paul is going to do about those?
peopleATL 1 month ago
@peopleATL What are you referring to? The "creative financial instruments" pushed by the government, through the Community Reinvestment Act and the GSEs like Freddie Mac, and the Fed to "help" people buy houses they couldn't afford? It's quite clear that Paul wants to end all of that, including the Federal Reserve, and in fact he wants a 100% reserve banking system that would stop most of these loans. Corporations, on their own, are not a problem - only with government help can they be one.
mtanousable 1 month ago
@mtanousable You probably have never heard of Credit Default Swaps. Ha! I tell you, the worship of unregulated capitalism is frightening -- your lack intellectual inquisitiveness in what has really happened to this country will lead us directly into corporate oligarchy.
peopleATL 1 month ago
@peopleATL Credit Default Swaps are not some kind of new, scary thing that was solely responsible for the crash. Credit default swaps have existed since the early 1990s, and still do. The problem was not that they existed, but that they and sub-prime loans suddenly skyrocketed to ridiculous proportions. Why such malinvestment? The easy credit from the Federal Reserve. And the Federal Reserve IS a corporate banking oligarchy - one that could not exist with a small federal government.
mtanousable 1 month ago
@mtanousable Yes, Credit Default Swaps are very scary things considering the investment in them outweighs all the wealth in the world. Paul's "free market" mentality will allow the vultures who control this shadow economy to fulfill their goal of being a controlling oligarchy -- with the majority of global citizens indebted to the 1% forever. Abolishing the Federal Reserve will not abolish these evil instruments designed to enslave us.
peopleATL 1 month ago
@peopleATL For everyone that uses a CDS as insurance on a loss, someone else is willing to pay it - thus betting the opposite. The Federal Reserve system allows this to distort the economy - rather than be a net zero - because it bails out banks that made bad bets, so they make more bad bets, and get bailed out again, etc., etc. The CDSs would not be a problem without the Fed backing the system. In reality, the free market would destroy the 1% oligarchy that ALREADY EXISTS in the Fed.
mtanousable 1 month ago
As i dont believe that the gov't should be responsible for determining the curriculum for education i just want to say that Thomas Jefferson viewed public education to be for the purpose of producing well-educated and informed active participants in their gov't or active and responsible citizens in order to keep the gov't as servants to the people and making sure they didn't overturn the checks and balances put in place by the constitution
Kartikeyan2012 1 month ago
@Kartikeyan2012 The US government has contrived with corporations to dumb-down American education for the past 30 years with the high-stakes testing -- a "secret" test created by a corporation -- in order to create the current crisis in education. And why? In order to TAKE OVER education -- not to educate, but to suck at the trough of our tax dollars. In our system, the wealthy are always decades ahead of us in planning their next "profit" scheme. Education is a $500 billion "opportunity".
peopleATL 1 month ago