Would liberty president "discredit" liberty? 2012, Ron Paul

[IsaacKarjala]

@:10, jesus fucking christ, don't scare the shit out of me like that.

[IFknHateUTube]

cool conspiracy theory, faggot

[dallasgoldbug]

hot for words

[P0LICEstateWATCH]

I have thought about this alot, being as monopoly capitalists do support libertarian financial policy. SO-called Libertarians at the CATO Institute have argued for private prisons and decriminalizing insider trading, both of which are terrible ideas in my opinion. I sometimes wonder if a truly free republican society is just as utopian as a truly fair socialist society. The establishment will always seek a 2nd set of rules for themselves, but at least we have a roadmap based on our Constitution

[EpicDude86]

JESUS! Why would you scare me with that picture of Empress Palpatine in the beginning, Ridley? That's a cruel, cruel thing to do to someone.

[RidleyReport]

if he could be turned, he would become a powerful ally.....

Young SKY walkah

[DaNunn]

I have been thinking this for awhile. The underlying fundamentals of the economy are so bad that if the correction we desperately need takes place as a result liberty candidates getting into office and making the proper long-term policy decisions this whole thing could backfire in our faces ... it's definitely a sticky situation.

[jmelkis]

I really like what you have to say here. It does make me wonder. We can't just question the people in power making the mistakes; we have to question EVERYTHING....

[fczwartek]

Ridley's idea of a "relatively pro liberty candidate" is a "sound money type guy...a republican, perhaps in the Reagan mode."

Reagan; a sound money type guy and "relatively" pro liberty! Hilarious!

Capitalists are greedy,,,, they wouldn't be doing their jobs if they weren't.  The unconstrained search for profit leads to the repression of people's rights and lives.

[fczwartek]

How was Reagan anything close "sound money type guy" by any objective standards?

He nearly tripled the debt, raised taxes at least seven times on the middle and working classes so that the rich elite could get a tax cut on their dividend payments, all in the name of supply side economics.

Trickle down supply side voodoo economics is an unmitigated failure.

How many trillions were wasted on "star wars"?

Are you better off now than you were before Ronald Raygun?

[RidleyReport]

reagan, and to some extent carter, had what folks used to call a "rush of brains to the head." which was personified by Fed Chairman Volcker... they stopped inflating the money supply so fast and the monetary crisis was delayed until now. 

Sure Reagan was bad but by Federal standards, you could do worse.

[fczwartek]

Reagan fired Volker (after Volker's 2nd term) and hired Alan Greenspan- who as the leading economic policy maker of this country for 20 years is probably more responsible for the economic crisis than any other person.

Reagan's economic policies and instincts were crazy.  How can you do worse than crazy?

[RidleyReport]

Though bad, you can do worse than Reagan's record of 60 percent fed growth over 8 years. It's happening right now.

[UnoRaza]

Good thinking Ridley.

[unclesamsbastardson]

A liberty friendly GOP?!? Yeah Beck would love to have you believing that. Kinda like thanking Palin for hijacking the tea party circus.

WHAT THE DEMs ARE GOING TO BLAME REPUBLICANS???!? Like this isn't already expected... lol

[CRAPCANNONS]

intelligent analysis and probably correct

[soundmoneyfan]

there won't be enough liberty candidates will be in office for them to take all the blame, but good thought

[darrellmellissa]

Where is the birthcertificue and the rest of the records of his shady past.

[slewofdamascus]

The politicians we have are, frankly, not as smart as you are, RR, I doubt they could put that sequence together. The real power today exists in the secrecy of the fed, the secrecy of the CIA and the power of their executant in the White House (who has enormous executive power at his disposal to implement "the plan") and other executants accross the globe who sit in positions of power. Jmo, of course.

[darrellmellissa]

The state department are the real leaders of the nation.

[fczwartek]

The state department? You gotta be kidding? Tell me that was a joke....

The state department is a subordinate of the Pentagon.

[jmelkis]

@slewofdamascus Don't underestimate them either. You can't maintain power in any country without having some kind of intelligence....

[haze42082]

awesome video dave! Its hard to trust anyone or anything these days!