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O B O M B M A is right we have run out of time. We must impeach him now and slow down the Federal Reserve, they have pushed the agenda ahead because they are afraid of Ron Paul. No time for an election America is in grave danger.
Go Ron Go
Wake up people I hope we are not too late. If we are God Bless you all.
I have a lot of respect for Ron Paul, but I don't agree with drawing a line in the sand. Right now people of America are desperate and funded or not they deserve some respite. Find a way to fund unemployment. It's not our fault that we are unemployed. We didn't do anything wrong except for being unlucky.
@reverenceforall less government funding of stuff like that is better. the people in DC aren't smart enough to run the economy. the market would sort itself out alot quicker than stumulus money
@brownspottedbanana Some can't wait for the market to sort itself out. Today someone on the street asked me for money so she could eat something. I see the homeless holding signs for help. Unfortunately the markets are not perfect and some intervention is necessary. Markets can't do everything that is necessary for a human society to function. They need some oversight. Both the government and the markets have a role. Right now the government is controlled by the market. therefore, ineffective.
@reverenceforall Lol if you or i ran our personal spending habits like the government does, we would have to declare bankruptcy, and QUIT spending money that you dont take in. the government can get away with it and just print money. it worked for a little while, but if wealth can just come by printing money, all 320 mil people can just sit at home all day - obviously that doesnt work. there is still hella wealth here and running water and food - there will be plenty for years to come.
@brownspottedbanana If you read carefully I am talking about a well run government not one controlled by the big corporations. The result of the country being run by the current "free market" are self evident and require no argument. If you are saying that a government can never be run efficiently then that is your opinion and you may keep it while I keep mine.
jus look @ the new bill they're tryn 2 pass through the Senate now, SR10, makes it illegal to grow your own fruits and vegies...They want us 2 depend on them..
What bothers me is the power Elete can discredit him by using the scandal tactics, to get the people against him,But quite honestly I don't C N E thing happening 2 help this country, the Bible makes it clear, there will be a 7 year tribulation period where war breaks out all over the world, famin, pestilence will run ramped, a new religion will form, and there will be a 1 world dictator, called the anti Christ...I believe if you wanna survive give your life over to Christ, the only chance we hav
@MrChuckd40 The Bible is full of shit and it starts from the very first page....Religion was cr'eated to oppress the people and give them false hope and a way to get the people to give them they're money
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I would like to invite this guy to come to the UK and Europe to run our countries.
A person with common sense among idiots is easy to notice.
The USA debt is like computer memory, 1 byte, 1 MB, 20 MB, 1 GB, 20 GB, 1TB, etc. it is all the same we have no notion of these magnitudes - they are all the same.
It is like your computer has more memory than mine, so what?
Ron Paul saw it before time-A person with a vision!
I'm surprise that there is out-there still some-one that make sence!
Jews run this this country and change is commplitly diffrent meaning!
Do you think-Aipac-Adl OSEH & and all other E. Europians & Italia-Russians Jews-Mafia-ELITE give a rats who people vote for (they don't even buther to counts the vots)-(from some reason E. Europe wanted to see America & American people on the negative side)!
Kentucky's biggest cash crop is marijuana.If Kentucky legalized,decriminalized,and taxed marijuana at street value.not only would Kentucky get millions or billions in revenue they would be able to pay off all of their bills.And if cannabis was legalized the 30% or more of kentuckyians who smoke would finally be law abiding citizens which would greatly improve community relations with local law enforcement.The cops would actually be arresting criminals and crime would go down.FUCKING LEGALIZE IT!
@condemned13 Common misconception that people think giving the government more money will somehow magically make politicians spend more wisely. And while I do agree it should be decrimiinized (although i'd never touch the shit myself), money in government hands is the cancer of government, because it just goes into the hugh slush fund of money for politicians to fight over for their own pet projects.
@condemned13 ˆIts such a Trivial issue so come on get real with the numbers we are looking at. One industry that actually helps reduce productivity will not help the economy nor food demand enough to help in any way except for the fact that a Plant should not be illegal!
so mister paul is spending his money on gold to protect his family. i'm bett'n my money on silver ... silver bullets to get rid of all economy vultures like him. where were his goddam smart brain advices on the day lehman brothers collapsed? Mister high and mighty did predict this crisis? which steps did he actually take to prevent it? 8 long bush years, than hand the rubble over to dems(like those incompetent bastards would do any better) and know nothing ...
everyone, go to ronpaul.com and pledge to vote for him. that way if he does go up against obama, we will know how many people voted for him and if the votes were rigged.
"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." ~ Thomas Jefferson
I've considered myself a demacrat more or less my whole life up until the time I first heard Ron Paul speek about freedom and liberty. I now consider myself a follower of the Ron paul shcool of politics and I choose that title because it's the only one where people know exacly where I stand. I just wish we had candidates of his quality in North Carolina.
@BlindMaphisto This is our problem, Ron Paul is 75, and he is one of a kind. Where else will we find anywhere another of his calibre to take us forward, as a Brit I no that we have no-one in UK politics, perhaps Daniel Hannan or Nigel Farage but they are both MEPs will no real voice power or influence. The problem with US politicians is that there are some who have good economic sense but they are bible-bashing social conservatives who couldn't give a rats arse about liberty.
@DukeofWellington91 Our hope is that men like him will inspire a new generation of politicians. Maybe even inspire this generation. I myself have never been interested in politics at all until I watched a bunch of Ron Paul Videos and as long as places like YouTube exist where we can keep his inspiring words alive then there is always hope for the future. If I had my way he would be president and have his face on Mount Rushmore.
@BlindMaphisto They should take dynamite to Lincoln and replace him with Paul (if he is made President). I can but hope, however if made to guess I would say that the result of this financial crisis will be a long term lurch to the left, just as in the 1930s, outside of America there is absolutely no appetite for right wing economic policies, and in America the chances are some half-baked Republican like Romney or Huckabee will win in 2012 and it will make no significant difference.
@BlindMaphisto Well, if you want to throw around blame for the treatment of native Americans you can get rid of the first 150 years of US Presidents. Lincoln on the other hand undermined your constitution - probably the greatest document ever written - more than any other president along with FDR.
@DukeofWellington91 Yeah but he was probably the worst offender. I give Lincoln a little bit of a pass because slavery was a terrible evil. And yes I am aware of the irony of being a constitutionalist and giving lincoln a pass on it. I got a lot of mixed emotions. One thing I don't have any mixed emotions about though is that Ron Paul is the greatest servant of the people and the constitution in Washington. A few hundred more like him in office and maybe we can get rid of this corporatocracy.
@BlindMaphisto A part from the fact that the civil war had absolutely jack do to with slavery? Or at least it was not the primary reason. Lincoln was no friend of the Black man, he wanted to forcefully repatriate them until the last. Even after the disaster of 400 being shipped to Haiti only to mostly die on the way.
@DukeofWellington91 Historian Drew Gilpin Faust observed that "leaders of the secession movement across the South cited slavery as the most compelling reason for southern independence."[6] Related and intertwined secondary issues also fueled the dispute; these secondary differences included issues of free speech, runaway slaves, expansion into Cuba, and states' rights. What in the world have you been reading that's got you thinking this ain't so?
@BlindMaphisto I think you need to look at it the other way around. Not why did the South want to secede but why did the North not let them. I won't argue that many in the South wanted to keep their slaves, but even then it was only a minority that held slaves, it would not have led the majority to put their lives on the line. Other reasons did that like state's rights and other economic tensions. The question you need to ask is why the North and Lincoln were so determined not to let them.
@BlindMaphisto And as far as that is concerned, as I have said Lincoln was hardly the most enlightened himself, there was also considerable concern about what nature the opening of the West would take, they wanted it to be an opportunity for the pioneering white man, not rich slave owners. Also consider that in 1850 there was 4 times as many abolitionist groups in the South than the North, it was not a Black & White issue.
@BlindMaphisto No pun intended, but perhaps the most convincing argument is that every other nation in the world managed to abolish slavery without a civil war, why didn't the USA?The Federal government could have bought the slaves and freed them like happened in Britain. I know Lincoln did propose, but he hardly pushed it as much as he could, surely even as much as a decade of political arguing for it would have been preferable to 600,000 Americans dead and the constitutions integrity destroyed
@DukeofWellington91 Sorry to interfere with your conversation but allow me to add some vital points: When you compare the abolishion of slavery in the USA with let's say Europe, for the sake of argument, please consider that there are many big differences. For instance slavery never played that big role in Europe and there are several reasons for it: At this time there was no shortage of cheap employees. In fact, as we all well know hundreds of thousands Europeans migrated towards America.
@DukeofWellington91 And, well, cotton is not a very common plant overseas (at least not in western Europe). In contrast industrialized spinning mills were the economic backbone. Moreover after the napoleonic wars and the Restauration there existed a delicate balance of power (also owing to the negotiating skills of Bismarck). So if any European power had started a devastating civil war, it would have been its own undoing or even a cause for a paneuropean war.
@Phaidron I agree that the economic situation in the states was different, but not that different to the situation in many European colonies, and Britain and Spain managed to stop slavery in the Caribbean etc. I do not disagree that it was difficult to end in the southern states but could you really imagine slavery continuing into the 20th century for example? I really can't, there was significant pressure even from within the South. It's also not as if the cotton industry collapsed with slavery
@Phaidron Also as to European civil wars, there was many in this period, although not strictly speaking civil wars, the wars to unite Germany and Italy are about as close as you can get, in the 1830s there was also civil war in Portugal, the was war in the Crimea, there was plenty of conflict over the period so war was hardly that great a disincentive, indeed just consider the enthusiasm war was greeted with in 1914 when there finally did come about a Europe wide conflict.
@fedtheend Jesus came to save us from Hell in the hereafter. Ron Paul came to save us from Hell on Earth. Jesus wins overall, but he's got more important things to do than fix our economy.
@hempartist420 I was responding to a religious fundamentalist. I'm not going to get into a theological argument on youtube. Because that would be absolutely retarded.
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I hope Ron runs in 2012? He has my vote if he does. Sad; how he was bashed by the main stream media last time around. Can't trust the media to be fair.
Jesuit Oath, US Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 66-43354
You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces and states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace.
To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly in concert with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but, openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means.
"... the Pope of Rome, as the head of the Papal Government, claims absolute sovereignty and supremacy over all the governments of the earth"
There are 12 people who disliked this video. I am curious what goes in the brain of those 12 people.... are they thinking everything is fine.... any thoughts?
Ron Paul is a Mason and a puppet for the NWO. They are using the Hegelian Dialectic, a tactic that the globalists love.
This was a controlled argument used to manipulate and condition the public to accept their change. See how the reporter minimizes the issue? Once the public is properly conditioned they will accept the globalist's solution or some form of it.
What are you talking about? Ron is the only real deal we have and you go around denouncing him. You are speaking nonsense. Your argument would apply to Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, but not Ron Paul.
@BABALAG00SH if any one is supporting globalist it's obama, every thing Ron talks about is against globalization. the big banks and corpirations are all for a global government it would give them more controll. the things Ron Pual stands for go against what they want
@BABALAG00SH Right from you're mouth, it is the reporter who tried to control the argument because Ron Paul tends to talk about more truth rather than sticking to their argument and usually his interviews ends up the reporters mocking him.
There is no way to put a time frame on us. It won't be a steady decline. One night we will go to bed with all things normal and the next day we will up to hell on earth. It will happen at the snap of a finger!
@BenBernankey LOL! Funny... How about you exempt me from all govt influences. Taxes, police, healthcare, all of it... Then you can keep your little laws to yourself.
are you that foolish? all that should be done away with is the illegal and unconstitutional income tax which is brought about by the unconstitutional Federal Reserve bank a private industry of international bankers. who loan our economy to our government.. with interest that can never truly be paid back.
Ive made about a dozen posts on this thread and none of which have stuck i really hate youtube comments system. Google needs to put some effort in to fix this.
@jackolavin the only problem with that is that three times zero is zero!!! I agree with you, though. Ron is in nobody's pocket, which makes him the real McCoy
Thanks, but we want him to stay here. But you have Nigel Farage and Daniel Hannan who speak well against the collectivist, soviet socialist EU governance.
"LOL! Funny... How about you exempt me from all govt influences. Taxes, police, healthcare, all of it... Then you can keep your little laws to yourself."
Somalia does not have functional govt since early 1990s so you are absolutely exempt from all govt influences. Taxes, police, healthcare ...a libertarian paradise welcomes you there
Well, Cuba has all the socialized health care you could want. Your paradise awaits you there, what's happening here already happened there in 1959. Went from being one of the most advanced countries in the world (even more than here) to a quasi-third world country/police state one year at a time.
Gt. Britain, Spain, Italy etc has almost exact same type of socialized health care system as VA health care in the US.
Canada, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia etc have socialized health insurance system (like US Medicare). My options are not limited to Cuba. I would prefer English speaking country since my spoken Spanish is not that great.
For you who want to get rid of govt influences,Taxes, police, healthcare etc altogether there is no option other than Somalia
Ah yes, you are semi correct. The problem being that in those countries GOOD Healthcare is included in your taxes along with good schooling. Only in Cuba do you have pay for GOOD healthcare, everyone else gets shafted with shitty healthcare and with doctors that choose whether or not they want to address your issues. You can't argue on this particular subject with me, I AM CUBAN and I'm a Dual Citizen here and Spain. Trust me, there's a giant difference between Obamacare and Spanish health care.
@BenBernankey Somalia is much better off without government than with one. You are comparing apples with oranges. The standard of living of Somalians have been raising while there was no government (you can even read it on the CIA factbook).
@AMRennsports He is still a Shill. Although he has more experience than the current one. He will be able to dismantle America Quickly in 2012 and return the system back to the Land owners only. Obama is the best thing for republicans since Reagan and Clinton.
@joopii: right on! In fact it's a tax on the rest of the world. At least I have some representation in the US government. Greeks who will have to pay off their debt in dollars don't even have that. The bottom line however is that there is a huge difference between paying a tax and paying an unfair tax. I don't think anybody would mind paying taxes in exchange for the benefits of large scale global investments in industry & commerce. Problem is when we don't get anything in return.
What would you do with a person who did not agree with paying taxes for "investment" - global or otherwise? America was founded on the idea of individual Liberty, and that the ONLY just purpose of government is to defend Individual Rights. This means that tax money for any other purpose is unjust. I DO mind being forced to pay taxes to "invest", and I don't think I should be treated like a criminal for it.
I would say that person should move back to the woods where you have no roads, bridges, stores schools fire departments or any infrastructure and get back to me after a year or so. I am not saying there are no people who could survive in the middle of nowhere, I am just saying there is no one who figured out how to run a complex society based on Ron Paul or libertarian ideas in general. All this whining about taxes is just a way for very wealthy people to get you 2 support their agenda.
And I say that people who view their neighbors as a meal ticket should move back to pre-America feudal Europe where the infrastructure was provided by the FORCE of government. Roads, bridges, stores, schools, fire departments, DO not have to come from the government, and often are provided by private concerns. ALL of the advancements in civilization are result of Freedom. The Founding Libertarians knew how to "run" a complex social system based on Liberty: YOU ARE LIVING in the REMNANTS of it.
Yeah, I can imagine air traffic control that lands you safe in a rich city but lets you crash in a poor one. That's already starting to happen in the USA and that's part of the problem. the US is going to be left behind by countries that invest in every neighborhood and every citizen, not just the ones able to afford to pay top dollars. Libertarian ideas never worked in the real world and never will. They are a sure ticket back to the stone age because they're based on mythology not reality.
The Fed Gov't CONFISCATED the airports when they NATIONALIZED the industry with an unconstitutional FAA during Roosevelt. But you totalitarian collectivists support this. Libertarian (AMERICAN) ideas work. The mythology of Christianity, and other religions, and the fantasy of viewing other people as cogs in a Social Machine - from Monarchy of Europe to Feudal Asia to Soviet Russia- are the chains that bound human beings. Recognizing the reality of the individual is the only thing that "works".
Built in SPITE of it, not because of it. Government debt and financing is nothing NEW: been around for thousands of years. Reason, and individual Liberty ARE new in a social-political sense, and the prosperity you describe is derived from it.
Dont' get me wrong I am just as much a sucker for utopia as the next guy, hell, I say get rid of money altogether! Soon we'll have robotics that will replace most jobs performed by people anyway. Problem is of course that we still need large scale projects.Even if we figure out how to run a factory 24/7 we'll have to put 1 on the moon and we'll need to pool our resources 2 do it. As soon as someone explains to me how you can do that without the concept of money& debt financing I am all for it.
"We" run "our" factories with forced debt financing, in "our" Fascist economies. In a Free Market economy , YOU would find people who AGREE with you and together you VOLUNTARILY pool YOUR resources (as opposed to using tax dollars of those who do not voluntarily "contribute") and build YOUR factory - on the moon or wherever. Money debt placed upon you, by others, without your consent, is what I oppose.
actually debt financing and fractional reserve banking go hand in hand and it's been around since 1694 the Bank of England. Before that you had no capacity to mobilize national resources. That's how war bonds worked in WW2.
You help make my case against Central Banks. It is improper to use force to compel others to do business with you, which is why I am against the government banks. A result of the Central bank is to finance WAR, like WW1, WW2, Korea, VN, Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon, Iran. No central bank, no financing for wars. Financing a war, and financing a military are not the same thing.
U might be forced by your government to pay taxes and cover the interest on government debt that's generated when the gov issues bonds or notes of any kind, or you might be forced to perhaps speak german when your country is taken over by an enemy, or go back and try to eek out a living as a subsistence farmer as 80% of the american population did before a national industrial policy decided to build the Erie Canal & the trans continental railroad. Either way you are forced, q is ? 1 is more pain
Yes but war bonds were bought with money from the american people. No one is buying the treasuries that are printing the dollars right now. the american public owned over 90% of america's debt in ww2. Today i think its less then 5%.
@madashelldude The reason we got out of the depression and did so well after the war is there was no world industry, america had the monopoly and we had free rain to build Europe back and control japan's growth as well. We sold them the goods they could not make and financed there future. This unfortunately will never happen again. I think we are on the same page Mad but we there is a lot of information out there... Read the wiki page watch IOUSA and if you are still interested watch
i agree with you that WW2 was a turning point: the dollar became the world reserve currency after Breton Woods, replacing the pound sterling and thus the USA replaced the traditional role of the British Empire of being the world's banker. The reason I just don't buy IOUSA and what David Walker is selling is because it sounds like a republican ploy to undermine liberal programs. I agree with a lot of their arguments, I just don't think they are telling the full story for reasons I already listed
in fact the social spending programs libertarians attack are prerequisites of a system they seem to advocate, in which the financial elite and the FED plays a lot smaller role and small businesses and individuals play a much larger role. In fact that's how EU works. Because they all have 1 EU Cental bank but no EU Treasury, when they get in trouble thery can't just print euros, they have to raise revenues by selling products on the world market, hence they need a well educated workforce.
that's why the EU is very careful to educate every citizen, make welfare available to people because that's how you make sure they have a chance to get ahead. Social mobility in the EU is much higher than the USA in the last 30 years. That used to be reversed. In Denmark if you are born under the poverty line u have a 60% chance to get in the middle class. In the USA it's only 30%.
@madashelldudeI take most of these movies with a grain of salt but the facts are facts and you need to at least agree that the math is there and sound. This is a very depressing but motivating thing to me. Even though Ron Paul is getting up there in years I think its time to step up to the plate. Hes got a lot of people backing him and the reality is he has a very real chance of becoming the republican candidate for president. Thechange that is comingwill be painful but better it be on ourterms.
I don't agree with their math because it suggests that social spending programs are bankrupting the country and of course if you look at countries with a solid balance sheet and no financial casino, like Germany: it's the social spending that makes them highly entrepreneurial and competitive. In the US because there is no socialized medicine the most talented individuals are locked in dead end corporate jobs because they can't afford to the hcare costs of starting their own business.
In fact what's bankrupting the country is that highly payed casino capitalists and bureaucrats on interlocking boards of large monopolies also clog up the political process and derail any reasonable effort to redistribute wealth downward and create a viable market for real products and services. You can't expect people to support economic growth on the shopping mall if their incomes r stagnating or dropping while millionaires are making out like bandits.
@madashelldude No country in the EU has to deal with the level of illegal and legal immigration that the united states does. This greatly impacts the advancement of the middle class when there is someone that will work in a restaurant or a factory or construction from moving up a level in the american society. Almost all socialist based governments cannot survive with high or even moderate levels of immigration. Another reason is the country's starvation for cheap goods and the lazinessofunions
@mrblump: let me get this straight. You seriously believe that some poor bastard picking tomatoes for $2/hr stands in the way of advancement for the american middle class?! If that's the direction they want to "advance to" I suppose you are right ;))))
You are wrong about immigration too: in 2005 total foreign inflows to Germany + Spain (600k + 700k) alone were more than in the US(1100k). Of course the US is a larger territory than any single EU country but population density is also lower.
You see, that's y I asked these questions. It depends what the answers are. For instance if you owe money in another country's currency, you can try and cut social services to save and perhaps boost your foreign currency denominated exports. If the value of the currency is determined by a commodity, such as gold, silver etc, you cannot print more money than the amount of these minerals you bring up from your mines without creating inflation etc. So answer my questions and you'll answer yours.
Yes, if your own currency is a basket of reserve currencies, you can print your money as long as you are increasing your foreign currency reserves because that's the value behind your money. If you are like the USA, your money depends on global dollar denominated commerce because the more commerce occurs the more demand is generated for dollars. That's why the USA has 750 overseas military bases: to enforce the pricing of strategic resources in $s. So the US can print $ when commerce is up.
the problem is that because the FED is not transparent and the US banking system is corrupt, they R abusing this power and printing much more $s than there is demand for it in the real economy, hence they are diluting everybody's $ savings. I am not sure what the rest of the world can do about it in the short term given the US stranglehold on key resources (c petro dollars) but on the long run they will do everything to get out of $s by replacing these resources with fairly priced altertivs ;)
1) the National Debt is almost 100% US$ denominated
2) The FED injects liquidity in the world economy by lending to large US banks who pass it on to the rest of the economy. That's how money is "printed"
3) Consumers buy products and services (the real stuff behind money) and sellers then invest in US treasury bonds which is US gov debt, thus liquidity generated by the private banks and the FED end up as federal government debt through the global dollar cycle.
What Ron Paul is not telling you is that the US government is not expected to "pay back" any of this debt because unlike Greece it prints the world's most important reserve currency. So it's national debt should reflect worldwide economic growth and if the FED was responsible it would be offset by US GDP growth, in other words the National Debt would decrease/stay constant as a % of the GDP. that in fact what happened under EVERY president EXCEPT for FDR, Reagan, and Bush 1 & 2. (FDR had WW2)
what you are describing is debt financing. I also noticed that libertarians like Ron Paul supporters either don't understand the concept or they are not telling the full story and that's why they are not only against the FED as it is run today which is BAD, but they are against the idea of central banking itself. no one explained to them that debt financing is the only known way to pool resources in a capitalist economy and the profits of financiers is interest rate which is inflationary.
so a certain degree of inflation obtained via fractional reserve banking is a necessary evil to attain a much greater good which is large scale investments in projects that no single developer or investor on its own could possibly finance. the first central bank was chartered by the british crown to rebuild much of the british navy and that project went on to generate the whole industrial revolution: it created everything from the textile industry to the coal industry in Britain.
I agree central banks are great when you can operate on a system that does not require you to have the money that you loan out. Unfortunately the system only functions on making smart loans to company's/investors that can grow and pay off there debt and the banks can get bigger and lend more. But for the common man this only lays down the foundation of financial slavery and debt for the rest of there lives.
I mean i am fully aware that people need to make smart investments, IE buying house's they can afford. But that does not seem to be happening and we are leaving in a system that has NOT changed at all even to accommodate for its mistakes. I think 99% of the population does not think of the long term effects of that credit they are borrowing and simply spends as much as they can while they can.
This leads to banks needing to call in on good loans to make up for the bad loans that were given to people. Once this happens shit hits the fan like it did in 2007-2008.
@madashelldude You are very right the Fed note is also the only currency that is used to trade for oil(thanks saudi's!). But what you don't seem to understand is this will be coming to an end.. foreign country's will stop buying our treasury's and start investing in other central banks. The oil industry will eventually let in the EURO. China and Japan will drop its treasuries as quickly as possible to diversify to the euro for the purchase of oil and as the preferred reserve note.
@mrblump: it's not likely foreign countries can do that because the US has bases in or near oil rich countries. Even if the world goes 100% electric cars, those need batteries and 50% of world lithium reserves are in Bolivia and Chile. If these 2 start selling for euros the next day the 101st airborne will pay them a visit. the only way to fix the system is the american people need to grow up and take charge in their own government and stop the bankers with regulations and oversight.
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Americans deserve everything they get. Yes, Ron Paul is no savior. He's just another player for the American Cretans. Americans are followers, racists, collaborators in murder, theft, pornography, and everything that is vile. Now the chickens are coming home.
Finally, justice is coming to the Americans, and trust me, it will be much worse than the economy.
I don't listen to anyone with a British accent telling me about America or my rigts. I refute all zionist jew, and I don't give the time of day to anyone wearing white shoes in a business suit.
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JASONANDTRACI 3 months ago
I pay 34% tax to the government to protect my family. Welcome to Europe.
CognitiveNetwork 3 months ago
Ron Paul for Santa next Christmas!
CognitiveNetwork 3 months ago
O B O M B M A is right we have run out of time. We must impeach him now and slow down the Federal Reserve, they have pushed the agenda ahead because they are afraid of Ron Paul. No time for an election America is in grave danger.
Go Ron Go
Wake up people I hope we are not too late. If we are God Bless you all.
johnnycmajor 3 months ago
I have a lot of respect for Ron Paul, but I don't agree with drawing a line in the sand. Right now people of America are desperate and funded or not they deserve some respite. Find a way to fund unemployment. It's not our fault that we are unemployed. We didn't do anything wrong except for being unlucky.
reverenceforall 4 months ago
@reverenceforall less government funding of stuff like that is better. the people in DC aren't smart enough to run the economy. the market would sort itself out alot quicker than stumulus money
brownspottedbanana 4 months ago
@brownspottedbanana Some can't wait for the market to sort itself out. Today someone on the street asked me for money so she could eat something. I see the homeless holding signs for help. Unfortunately the markets are not perfect and some intervention is necessary. Markets can't do everything that is necessary for a human society to function. They need some oversight. Both the government and the markets have a role. Right now the government is controlled by the market. therefore, ineffective.
reverenceforall 4 months ago
@reverenceforall Lol if you or i ran our personal spending habits like the government does, we would have to declare bankruptcy, and QUIT spending money that you dont take in. the government can get away with it and just print money. it worked for a little while, but if wealth can just come by printing money, all 320 mil people can just sit at home all day - obviously that doesnt work. there is still hella wealth here and running water and food - there will be plenty for years to come.
brownspottedbanana 4 months ago
@brownspottedbanana If you read carefully I am talking about a well run government not one controlled by the big corporations. The result of the country being run by the current "free market" are self evident and require no argument. If you are saying that a government can never be run efficiently then that is your opinion and you may keep it while I keep mine.
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reverenceforall 4 months ago
I'm amazed at why so few people have voted for for him in 08.
I guess like attracts like,majority is always wrong and over 30 mill. in the country don't even know how to read.
2598129 4 months ago
i'm canadian and i would vote for ron paul
th3nemes1s 4 months ago
Boy was he right.
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MrChuckd40 6 months ago
We are nearly @ the end of the Church age, where the signs of the times are starting to illuminate in our Government
MrChuckd40 6 months ago
jus look @ the new bill they're tryn 2 pass through the Senate now, SR10, makes it illegal to grow your own fruits and vegies...They want us 2 depend on them..
MrChuckd40 6 months ago
@MrChuckd40
that cant be true?? if it is im so shocked i cant speak.
that will nevr pass with the public in a million yrs.
but just the fact that its been put forward has alarm bells ringing.
crsbt 5 months ago
What bothers me is the power Elete can discredit him by using the scandal tactics, to get the people against him,But quite honestly I don't C N E thing happening 2 help this country, the Bible makes it clear, there will be a 7 year tribulation period where war breaks out all over the world, famin, pestilence will run ramped, a new religion will form, and there will be a 1 world dictator, called the anti Christ...I believe if you wanna survive give your life over to Christ, the only chance we hav
MrChuckd40 6 months ago
@MrChuckd40 The Bible is full of shit and it starts from the very first page....Religion was cr'eated to oppress the people and give them false hope and a way to get the people to give them they're money
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democratsaresmart 6 months ago
Ron Paul thinks that we have at max 2-3 years before the currency crisis unravels.
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I would like to invite this guy to come to the UK and Europe to run our countries.
A person with common sense among idiots is easy to notice.
The USA debt is like computer memory, 1 byte, 1 MB, 20 MB, 1 GB, 20 GB, 1TB, etc. it is all the same we have no notion of these magnitudes - they are all the same.
It is like your computer has more memory than mine, so what?
This is until my computer crashes, of course.
God have mercy on us.
canopej 8 months ago
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Ron Paul saw it before time-A person with a vision!
I'm surprise that there is out-there still some-one that make sence!
Jews run this this country and change is commplitly diffrent meaning!
Do you think-Aipac-Adl OSEH & and all other E. Europians & Italia-Russians Jews-Mafia-ELITE give a rats who people vote for (they don't even buther to counts the vots)-(from some reason E. Europe wanted to see America & American people on the negative side)!
Jews Elite-Mafia also Italian-mafia poisens!
src438 9 months ago
lets all buy gold~
kawaii7 9 months ago
Kentucky's biggest cash crop is marijuana.If Kentucky legalized,decriminalized,and taxed marijuana at street value.not only would Kentucky get millions or billions in revenue they would be able to pay off all of their bills.And if cannabis was legalized the 30% or more of kentuckyians who smoke would finally be law abiding citizens which would greatly improve community relations with local law enforcement.The cops would actually be arresting criminals and crime would go down.FUCKING LEGALIZE IT!
condemned13 10 months ago 7
@condemned13 I couldn't agree with you more, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here!
9537912rockstar 8 months ago
@condemned13 Common misconception that people think giving the government more money will somehow magically make politicians spend more wisely. And while I do agree it should be decrimiinized (although i'd never touch the shit myself), money in government hands is the cancer of government, because it just goes into the hugh slush fund of money for politicians to fight over for their own pet projects.
UponInfinity 8 months ago
@condemned13 ˆIts such a Trivial issue so come on get real with the numbers we are looking at. One industry that actually helps reduce productivity will not help the economy nor food demand enough to help in any way except for the fact that a Plant should not be illegal!
mespasticpunk 6 months ago
so mister paul is spending his money on gold to protect his family. i'm bett'n my money on silver ... silver bullets to get rid of all economy vultures like him. where were his goddam smart brain advices on the day lehman brothers collapsed? Mister high and mighty did predict this crisis? which steps did he actually take to prevent it? 8 long bush years, than hand the rubble over to dems(like those incompetent bastards would do any better) and know nothing ...
Phaidron 11 months ago
everyone, go to ronpaul.com and pledge to vote for him. that way if he does go up against obama, we will know how many people voted for him and if the votes were rigged.
LilRedRasta 11 months ago
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"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." ~ Thomas Jefferson
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LilRedRasta 11 months ago
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope
aitken1111 1 year ago 5
@aitken1111 lmao my hope he is
LilRedRasta 11 months ago
I've considered myself a demacrat more or less my whole life up until the time I first heard Ron Paul speek about freedom and liberty. I now consider myself a follower of the Ron paul shcool of politics and I choose that title because it's the only one where people know exacly where I stand. I just wish we had candidates of his quality in North Carolina.
BlindMaphisto 1 year ago
@BlindMaphisto This is our problem, Ron Paul is 75, and he is one of a kind. Where else will we find anywhere another of his calibre to take us forward, as a Brit I no that we have no-one in UK politics, perhaps Daniel Hannan or Nigel Farage but they are both MEPs will no real voice power or influence. The problem with US politicians is that there are some who have good economic sense but they are bible-bashing social conservatives who couldn't give a rats arse about liberty.
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
@DukeofWellington91 Our hope is that men like him will inspire a new generation of politicians. Maybe even inspire this generation. I myself have never been interested in politics at all until I watched a bunch of Ron Paul Videos and as long as places like YouTube exist where we can keep his inspiring words alive then there is always hope for the future. If I had my way he would be president and have his face on Mount Rushmore.
BlindMaphisto 11 months ago
@BlindMaphisto They should take dynamite to Lincoln and replace him with Paul (if he is made President). I can but hope, however if made to guess I would say that the result of this financial crisis will be a long term lurch to the left, just as in the 1930s, outside of America there is absolutely no appetite for right wing economic policies, and in America the chances are some half-baked Republican like Romney or Huckabee will win in 2012 and it will make no significant difference.
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
@DukeofWellington91 I would choose to dynamite Jefferson on account of his actions against the native Americans but that's just me.
BlindMaphisto 11 months ago
@BlindMaphisto Well, if you want to throw around blame for the treatment of native Americans you can get rid of the first 150 years of US Presidents. Lincoln on the other hand undermined your constitution - probably the greatest document ever written - more than any other president along with FDR.
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
@DukeofWellington91 Yeah but he was probably the worst offender. I give Lincoln a little bit of a pass because slavery was a terrible evil. And yes I am aware of the irony of being a constitutionalist and giving lincoln a pass on it. I got a lot of mixed emotions. One thing I don't have any mixed emotions about though is that Ron Paul is the greatest servant of the people and the constitution in Washington. A few hundred more like him in office and maybe we can get rid of this corporatocracy.
BlindMaphisto 11 months ago
@BlindMaphisto A part from the fact that the civil war had absolutely jack do to with slavery? Or at least it was not the primary reason. Lincoln was no friend of the Black man, he wanted to forcefully repatriate them until the last. Even after the disaster of 400 being shipped to Haiti only to mostly die on the way.
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
@DukeofWellington91 Historian Drew Gilpin Faust observed that "leaders of the secession movement across the South cited slavery as the most compelling reason for southern independence."[6] Related and intertwined secondary issues also fueled the dispute; these secondary differences included issues of free speech, runaway slaves, expansion into Cuba, and states' rights. What in the world have you been reading that's got you thinking this ain't so?
BlindMaphisto 11 months ago
@BlindMaphisto I think you need to look at it the other way around. Not why did the South want to secede but why did the North not let them. I won't argue that many in the South wanted to keep their slaves, but even then it was only a minority that held slaves, it would not have led the majority to put their lives on the line. Other reasons did that like state's rights and other economic tensions. The question you need to ask is why the North and Lincoln were so determined not to let them.
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
@BlindMaphisto And as far as that is concerned, as I have said Lincoln was hardly the most enlightened himself, there was also considerable concern about what nature the opening of the West would take, they wanted it to be an opportunity for the pioneering white man, not rich slave owners. Also consider that in 1850 there was 4 times as many abolitionist groups in the South than the North, it was not a Black & White issue.
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
@BlindMaphisto No pun intended, but perhaps the most convincing argument is that every other nation in the world managed to abolish slavery without a civil war, why didn't the USA?The Federal government could have bought the slaves and freed them like happened in Britain. I know Lincoln did propose, but he hardly pushed it as much as he could, surely even as much as a decade of political arguing for it would have been preferable to 600,000 Americans dead and the constitutions integrity destroyed
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
@DukeofWellington91 Sorry to interfere with your conversation but allow me to add some vital points: When you compare the abolishion of slavery in the USA with let's say Europe, for the sake of argument, please consider that there are many big differences. For instance slavery never played that big role in Europe and there are several reasons for it: At this time there was no shortage of cheap employees. In fact, as we all well know hundreds of thousands Europeans migrated towards America.
Phaidron 11 months ago
@DukeofWellington91 And, well, cotton is not a very common plant overseas (at least not in western Europe). In contrast industrialized spinning mills were the economic backbone. Moreover after the napoleonic wars and the Restauration there existed a delicate balance of power (also owing to the negotiating skills of Bismarck). So if any European power had started a devastating civil war, it would have been its own undoing or even a cause for a paneuropean war.
Phaidron 11 months ago
@Phaidron I agree that the economic situation in the states was different, but not that different to the situation in many European colonies, and Britain and Spain managed to stop slavery in the Caribbean etc. I do not disagree that it was difficult to end in the southern states but could you really imagine slavery continuing into the 20th century for example? I really can't, there was significant pressure even from within the South. It's also not as if the cotton industry collapsed with slavery
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
@Phaidron Also as to European civil wars, there was many in this period, although not strictly speaking civil wars, the wars to unite Germany and Italy are about as close as you can get, in the 1830s there was also civil war in Portugal, the was war in the Crimea, there was plenty of conflict over the period so war was hardly that great a disincentive, indeed just consider the enthusiasm war was greeted with in 1914 when there finally did come about a Europe wide conflict.
DukeofWellington91 11 months ago
Ron Paul carries the last remnants of public approval ratings for congress.
(it's a joke, but seriously, it's probably more true than not)
junk11111111 1 year ago
Go to his website and pledge to vote for him in 2012!!! He is our only hope!
PipersGrip 1 year ago
no shit dude. ron paul is not the only hope. jesus is our king.
fedtheend 1 year ago
@fedtheend Jesus came to save us from Hell in the hereafter. Ron Paul came to save us from Hell on Earth. Jesus wins overall, but he's got more important things to do than fix our economy.
CaptainCocaine 1 year ago
@CaptainCocaine CaptainCocaine is preaching about Jesus? Jesus doesn't exist, why don't you worry about things in reality?
hempartist420 1 year ago
@hempartist420 I was responding to a religious fundamentalist. I'm not going to get into a theological argument on youtube. Because that would be absolutely retarded.
CaptainCocaine 1 year ago
Run Ron Run!!! You're our only hope!
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ManufactureBelief 1 year ago
I hope Ron runs in 2012? He has my vote if he does. Sad; how he was bashed by the main stream media last time around. Can't trust the media to be fair.
harleynut1969 1 year ago
Stop the donkephant
wijse 1 year ago
anybody think its weird that EVERYONE on the internet loves ron paul, but fox news will die before giving him a question in a debate?
KEVRO 1 year ago
lol they have brits at fox news?
tjohn1986 1 year ago
Ron Paul, our hero!
figtreeparable 1 year ago
in 100 years he will be known in history books as the guy who foretold the future
bytestream 1 year ago
Gold and hemp.
3drican 1 year ago 2
@3drican I'm with you on that one.
collwoll 1 year ago
Jesuit Oath, US Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 66-43354
You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces and states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace.
haansgruber 1 year ago
To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly in concert with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but, openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means.
"... the Pope of Rome, as the head of the Papal Government, claims absolute sovereignty and supremacy over all the governments of the earth"
peace :)
haansgruber 1 year ago
@haansgruber Who gives a shit about the pope. The catholic church will meet its end one day. It's coming so don't worry about the pope!
magic038 1 year ago
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haansgruber 1 year ago
Ron Paul is the hope of our future
SolidSnake99x 1 year ago 3
Ron Paul for President!
FollowerOfGod3 1 year ago 10
There are 12 people who disliked this video. I am curious what goes in the brain of those 12 people.... are they thinking everything is fine.... any thoughts?
DanMorin007 1 year ago
@DanMorin007 they drank the obama aid
tranquilglass 1 year ago
@DanMorin007 The result of decades of dumbing down of population..
FollowerOfGod3 1 year ago 5
Ron Paul is a Mason and a puppet for the NWO. They are using the Hegelian Dialectic, a tactic that the globalists love.
This was a controlled argument used to manipulate and condition the public to accept their change. See how the reporter minimizes the issue? Once the public is properly conditioned they will accept the globalist's solution or some form of it.
BABALAG00SH 1 year ago
@BABALAG00SH
HIPPY
pogularocky 1 year ago
@BABALAG00SH That makes no sense. How is someone who is for less government for the NWO? Impossible, only those who want more government are NWO.
b4ihang 1 year ago
@BABALAG00SH
What are you talking about? Ron is the only real deal we have and you go around denouncing him. You are speaking nonsense. Your argument would apply to Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, but not Ron Paul.
friedenmeister 1 year ago
@BABALAG00SH if any one is supporting globalist it's obama, every thing Ron talks about is against globalization. the big banks and corpirations are all for a global government it would give them more controll. the things Ron Pual stands for go against what they want
tranquilglass 1 year ago 2
@BABALAG00SH Right from you're mouth, it is the reporter who tried to control the argument because Ron Paul tends to talk about more truth rather than sticking to their argument and usually his interviews ends up the reporters mocking him.
FollowerOfGod3 1 year ago 3
There is no way to put a time frame on us. It won't be a steady decline. One night we will go to bed with all things normal and the next day we will up to hell on earth. It will happen at the snap of a finger!
Limeisback2012 1 year ago
Ron paul looks like he is ready for retirement.
onepurewitch 1 year ago
Ron Paul lost big time with healh care....
BenBernankey 1 year ago
come 2012, expect a revolution..
mrswartz 1 year ago 12
you can't eat gold..better buy a land and start to learn how to grow food..
fresniak 1 year ago
@fresniak Be certain you have plenty of guns and ammunition lest squatters overrun you.
BowlesI 1 year ago 2
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fresniak 1 year ago
Is it still my right to hate the Federal Government or is that against the law yet?
STOP SPENDING MY MOTHER F***ING MONEY!
MrReedZachari 1 year ago
I'm open to the idea of exempting you of all taxes in exchange for banning you from all govt services.
BenBernankey 1 year ago
@BenBernankey
I accept.
Cfossedal 1 year ago
@BenBernankey LOL! Funny... How about you exempt me from all govt influences. Taxes, police, healthcare, all of it... Then you can keep your little laws to yourself.
AMRennsports 1 year ago
are you that foolish? all that should be done away with is the illegal and unconstitutional income tax which is brought about by the unconstitutional Federal Reserve bank a private industry of international bankers. who loan our economy to our government.. with interest that can never truly be paid back.
kaiyne316 1 year ago
Ive made about a dozen posts on this thread and none of which have stuck i really hate youtube comments system. Google needs to put some effort in to fix this.
mrblump 1 year ago
i think they might be censoring our comments, same has happened to me.
k1a1t1h1y1 1 year ago
He's so cool....he's straight up !! Love him!!
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jackolavin 1 year ago 82
@jackolavin Only 3x?
BowlesI 1 year ago
@jackolavin the only problem with that is that three times zero is zero!!! I agree with you, though. Ron is in nobody's pocket, which makes him the real McCoy
ShamrockGrowth 11 months ago
@jackolavin He's a lot more than that!
jjenson2006 10 months ago
@jackolavin and sadly, so sadly I fear that three times as unlikely to become the president as any other.
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jackolavin 1 year ago
Thanks, but we want him to stay here. But you have Nigel Farage and Daniel Hannan who speak well against the collectivist, soviet socialist EU governance.
rmcnnlly 1 year ago
Let me tell you, Ron Paul is the only hope I see in all the crap around us thesedays.
AMRennsports 1 year ago 95
His less than 5% vote he got from Republican primaries pretty much proves your point
BenBernankey 1 year ago
"LOL! Funny... How about you exempt me from all govt influences. Taxes, police, healthcare, all of it... Then you can keep your little laws to yourself."
Somalia does not have functional govt since early 1990s so you are absolutely exempt from all govt influences. Taxes, police, healthcare ...a libertarian paradise welcomes you there
BenBernankey 1 year ago
Well, Cuba has all the socialized health care you could want. Your paradise awaits you there, what's happening here already happened there in 1959. Went from being one of the most advanced countries in the world (even more than here) to a quasi-third world country/police state one year at a time.
AMRennsports 1 year ago 2
Gt. Britain, Spain, Italy etc has almost exact same type of socialized health care system as VA health care in the US.
Canada, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia etc have socialized health insurance system (like US Medicare). My options are not limited to Cuba. I would prefer English speaking country since my spoken Spanish is not that great.
For you who want to get rid of govt influences,Taxes, police, healthcare etc altogether there is no option other than Somalia
BenBernankey 1 year ago
Ah yes, you are semi correct. The problem being that in those countries GOOD Healthcare is included in your taxes along with good schooling. Only in Cuba do you have pay for GOOD healthcare, everyone else gets shafted with shitty healthcare and with doctors that choose whether or not they want to address your issues. You can't argue on this particular subject with me, I AM CUBAN and I'm a Dual Citizen here and Spain. Trust me, there's a giant difference between Obamacare and Spanish health care.
AMRennsports 1 year ago
@BenBernankey Somalia is much better off without government than with one. You are comparing apples with oranges. The standard of living of Somalians have been raising while there was no government (you can even read it on the CIA factbook).
DanMorin007 1 year ago
@DanMorin007
No wonder Libertarians like Ron Paul push for Somalia-like system in the US
BenBernankey 1 year ago
@AMRennsports I agree with you.....he is the only Republican we can trust......the only one that talk with good sense.......
wwwtips 1 year ago
@AMRennsports agreed!
drumminghunter 11 months ago
@AMRennsports He is still a Shill. Although he has more experience than the current one. He will be able to dismantle America Quickly in 2012 and return the system back to the Land owners only. Obama is the best thing for republicans since Reagan and Clinton.
mespasticpunk 6 months ago
@AMRennsports Ron Paul is our only hope.
The lamestream media and criminals in the government will do anything to keep him out, including murder.
lickdacat2 5 months ago
@asdf545454096
inflation is a tax on the american people, which you don't get a vote on.
@madashelldude
8% of your income tax goes towards the debt, so your are right that the US government does pay anything, the american people do.
joopii 1 year ago
@joopii: right on! In fact it's a tax on the rest of the world. At least I have some representation in the US government. Greeks who will have to pay off their debt in dollars don't even have that. The bottom line however is that there is a huge difference between paying a tax and paying an unfair tax. I don't think anybody would mind paying taxes in exchange for the benefits of large scale global investments in industry & commerce. Problem is when we don't get anything in return.
madashelldude 1 year ago
What would you do with a person who did not agree with paying taxes for "investment" - global or otherwise? America was founded on the idea of individual Liberty, and that the ONLY just purpose of government is to defend Individual Rights. This means that tax money for any other purpose is unjust. I DO mind being forced to pay taxes to "invest", and I don't think I should be treated like a criminal for it.
engine2truck6 1 year ago
I would say that person should move back to the woods where you have no roads, bridges, stores schools fire departments or any infrastructure and get back to me after a year or so. I am not saying there are no people who could survive in the middle of nowhere, I am just saying there is no one who figured out how to run a complex society based on Ron Paul or libertarian ideas in general. All this whining about taxes is just a way for very wealthy people to get you 2 support their agenda.
madashelldude 1 year ago
And I say that people who view their neighbors as a meal ticket should move back to pre-America feudal Europe where the infrastructure was provided by the FORCE of government. Roads, bridges, stores, schools, fire departments, DO not have to come from the government, and often are provided by private concerns. ALL of the advancements in civilization are result of Freedom. The Founding Libertarians knew how to "run" a complex social system based on Liberty: YOU ARE LIVING in the REMNANTS of it.
engine2truck6 1 year ago
Yeah, I can imagine air traffic control that lands you safe in a rich city but lets you crash in a poor one. That's already starting to happen in the USA and that's part of the problem. the US is going to be left behind by countries that invest in every neighborhood and every citizen, not just the ones able to afford to pay top dollars. Libertarian ideas never worked in the real world and never will. They are a sure ticket back to the stone age because they're based on mythology not reality.
madashelldude 1 year ago
The Fed Gov't CONFISCATED the airports when they NATIONALIZED the industry with an unconstitutional FAA during Roosevelt. But you totalitarian collectivists support this. Libertarian (AMERICAN) ideas work. The mythology of Christianity, and other religions, and the fantasy of viewing other people as cogs in a Social Machine - from Monarchy of Europe to Feudal Asia to Soviet Russia- are the chains that bound human beings. Recognizing the reality of the individual is the only thing that "works".
engine2truck6 1 year ago
Freedom and apple pie never built space programs, nuclear reactors or interstate highway systems. Government and debt financing did.
madashelldude 1 year ago
Built in SPITE of it, not because of it. Government debt and financing is nothing NEW: been around for thousands of years. Reason, and individual Liberty ARE new in a social-political sense, and the prosperity you describe is derived from it.
engine2truck6 1 year ago
Dont' get me wrong I am just as much a sucker for utopia as the next guy, hell, I say get rid of money altogether! Soon we'll have robotics that will replace most jobs performed by people anyway. Problem is of course that we still need large scale projects.Even if we figure out how to run a factory 24/7 we'll have to put 1 on the moon and we'll need to pool our resources 2 do it. As soon as someone explains to me how you can do that without the concept of money& debt financing I am all for it.
madashelldude 1 year ago
"We" run "our" factories with forced debt financing, in "our" Fascist economies. In a Free Market economy , YOU would find people who AGREE with you and together you VOLUNTARILY pool YOUR resources (as opposed to using tax dollars of those who do not voluntarily "contribute") and build YOUR factory - on the moon or wherever. Money debt placed upon you, by others, without your consent, is what I oppose.
engine2truck6 1 year ago
actually debt financing and fractional reserve banking go hand in hand and it's been around since 1694 the Bank of England. Before that you had no capacity to mobilize national resources. That's how war bonds worked in WW2.
madashelldude 1 year ago
You help make my case against Central Banks. It is improper to use force to compel others to do business with you, which is why I am against the government banks. A result of the Central bank is to finance WAR, like WW1, WW2, Korea, VN, Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon, Iran. No central bank, no financing for wars. Financing a war, and financing a military are not the same thing.
engine2truck6 1 year ago
U might be forced by your government to pay taxes and cover the interest on government debt that's generated when the gov issues bonds or notes of any kind, or you might be forced to perhaps speak german when your country is taken over by an enemy, or go back and try to eek out a living as a subsistence farmer as 80% of the american population did before a national industrial policy decided to build the Erie Canal & the trans continental railroad. Either way you are forced, q is ? 1 is more pain
madashelldude 1 year ago
Yes but war bonds were bought with money from the american people. No one is buying the treasuries that are printing the dollars right now. the american public owned over 90% of america's debt in ww2. Today i think its less then 5%.
mrblump 1 year ago
@mrblump: Your numbers are all wrong.
zfacts . com/p/318.html
madashelldude 1 year ago
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness does not equate to Least amount of Pain/Slavery, or ... shall I be a Slave, or a Master?
engine2truck6 1 year ago
@madashelldude The reason we got out of the depression and did so well after the war is there was no world industry, america had the monopoly and we had free rain to build Europe back and control japan's growth as well. We sold them the goods they could not make and financed there future. This unfortunately will never happen again. I think we are on the same page Mad but we there is a lot of information out there... Read the wiki page watch IOUSA and if you are still interested watch
mrblump 1 year ago
i agree with you that WW2 was a turning point: the dollar became the world reserve currency after Breton Woods, replacing the pound sterling and thus the USA replaced the traditional role of the British Empire of being the world's banker. The reason I just don't buy IOUSA and what David Walker is selling is because it sounds like a republican ploy to undermine liberal programs. I agree with a lot of their arguments, I just don't think they are telling the full story for reasons I already listed
madashelldude 1 year ago
in fact the social spending programs libertarians attack are prerequisites of a system they seem to advocate, in which the financial elite and the FED plays a lot smaller role and small businesses and individuals play a much larger role. In fact that's how EU works. Because they all have 1 EU Cental bank but no EU Treasury, when they get in trouble thery can't just print euros, they have to raise revenues by selling products on the world market, hence they need a well educated workforce.
madashelldude 1 year ago
that's why the EU is very careful to educate every citizen, make welfare available to people because that's how you make sure they have a chance to get ahead. Social mobility in the EU is much higher than the USA in the last 30 years. That used to be reversed. In Denmark if you are born under the poverty line u have a 60% chance to get in the middle class. In the USA it's only 30%.
madashelldude 1 year ago
@madashelldudeI take most of these movies with a grain of salt but the facts are facts and you need to at least agree that the math is there and sound. This is a very depressing but motivating thing to me. Even though Ron Paul is getting up there in years I think its time to step up to the plate. Hes got a lot of people backing him and the reality is he has a very real chance of becoming the republican candidate for president. Thechange that is comingwill be painful but better it be on ourterms.
mrblump 1 year ago
I don't agree with their math because it suggests that social spending programs are bankrupting the country and of course if you look at countries with a solid balance sheet and no financial casino, like Germany: it's the social spending that makes them highly entrepreneurial and competitive. In the US because there is no socialized medicine the most talented individuals are locked in dead end corporate jobs because they can't afford to the hcare costs of starting their own business.
madashelldude 1 year ago
In fact what's bankrupting the country is that highly payed casino capitalists and bureaucrats on interlocking boards of large monopolies also clog up the political process and derail any reasonable effort to redistribute wealth downward and create a viable market for real products and services. You can't expect people to support economic growth on the shopping mall if their incomes r stagnating or dropping while millionaires are making out like bandits.
madashelldude 1 year ago
@madashelldude No country in the EU has to deal with the level of illegal and legal immigration that the united states does. This greatly impacts the advancement of the middle class when there is someone that will work in a restaurant or a factory or construction from moving up a level in the american society. Almost all socialist based governments cannot survive with high or even moderate levels of immigration. Another reason is the country's starvation for cheap goods and the lazinessofunions
mrblump 1 year ago
@mrblump: let me get this straight. You seriously believe that some poor bastard picking tomatoes for $2/hr stands in the way of advancement for the american middle class?! If that's the direction they want to "advance to" I suppose you are right ;))))
You are wrong about immigration too: in 2005 total foreign inflows to Germany + Spain (600k + 700k) alone were more than in the US(1100k). Of course the US is a larger territory than any single EU country but population density is also lower.
madashelldude 1 year ago
RON PAUL WON 2010 Straw Poll with 31% of the votes!!
This is 9% above his closest competition!!
MrPatriot1787 1 year ago
I just have 3 questions to the "austrian school":
1) In what currency is the National Debt of the USA denominated?
2) Who's printing that currency?
3) what is the value behind it? Hint: Not gold and not thin air ;)))
I bet there is not 1 Paul supporter who knows all 3. this is econ 101. a lot of talk from this man not a whole lot of facts.
szatmar666 1 year ago 4
What do you get when you keep printing money?
quizerry 1 year ago
You see, that's y I asked these questions. It depends what the answers are. For instance if you owe money in another country's currency, you can try and cut social services to save and perhaps boost your foreign currency denominated exports. If the value of the currency is determined by a commodity, such as gold, silver etc, you cannot print more money than the amount of these minerals you bring up from your mines without creating inflation etc. So answer my questions and you'll answer yours.
szatmar666 1 year ago 5
Yes, if your own currency is a basket of reserve currencies, you can print your money as long as you are increasing your foreign currency reserves because that's the value behind your money. If you are like the USA, your money depends on global dollar denominated commerce because the more commerce occurs the more demand is generated for dollars. That's why the USA has 750 overseas military bases: to enforce the pricing of strategic resources in $s. So the US can print $ when commerce is up.
madashelldude 1 year ago 2
the problem is that because the FED is not transparent and the US banking system is corrupt, they R abusing this power and printing much more $s than there is demand for it in the real economy, hence they are diluting everybody's $ savings. I am not sure what the rest of the world can do about it in the short term given the US stranglehold on key resources (c petro dollars) but on the long run they will do everything to get out of $s by replacing these resources with fairly priced altertivs ;)
madashelldude 1 year ago
EXACTLY. So:
1) the National Debt is almost 100% US$ denominated
2) The FED injects liquidity in the world economy by lending to large US banks who pass it on to the rest of the economy. That's how money is "printed"
3) Consumers buy products and services (the real stuff behind money) and sellers then invest in US treasury bonds which is US gov debt, thus liquidity generated by the private banks and the FED end up as federal government debt through the global dollar cycle.
madashelldude 1 year ago
What Ron Paul is not telling you is that the US government is not expected to "pay back" any of this debt because unlike Greece it prints the world's most important reserve currency. So it's national debt should reflect worldwide economic growth and if the FED was responsible it would be offset by US GDP growth, in other words the National Debt would decrease/stay constant as a % of the GDP. that in fact what happened under EVERY president EXCEPT for FDR, Reagan, and Bush 1 & 2. (FDR had WW2)
madashelldude 1 year ago 2
what you are describing is debt financing. I also noticed that libertarians like Ron Paul supporters either don't understand the concept or they are not telling the full story and that's why they are not only against the FED as it is run today which is BAD, but they are against the idea of central banking itself. no one explained to them that debt financing is the only known way to pool resources in a capitalist economy and the profits of financiers is interest rate which is inflationary.
asdf545454096 1 year ago 3
so a certain degree of inflation obtained via fractional reserve banking is a necessary evil to attain a much greater good which is large scale investments in projects that no single developer or investor on its own could possibly finance. the first central bank was chartered by the british crown to rebuild much of the british navy and that project went on to generate the whole industrial revolution: it created everything from the textile industry to the coal industry in Britain.
szatmar666 1 year ago 3
I agree central banks are great when you can operate on a system that does not require you to have the money that you loan out. Unfortunately the system only functions on making smart loans to company's/investors that can grow and pay off there debt and the banks can get bigger and lend more. But for the common man this only lays down the foundation of financial slavery and debt for the rest of there lives.
mrblump 1 year ago
I mean i am fully aware that people need to make smart investments, IE buying house's they can afford. But that does not seem to be happening and we are leaving in a system that has NOT changed at all even to accommodate for its mistakes. I think 99% of the population does not think of the long term effects of that credit they are borrowing and simply spends as much as they can while they can.
mrblump 1 year ago
This leads to banks needing to call in on good loans to make up for the bad loans that were given to people. Once this happens shit hits the fan like it did in 2007-2008.
mrblump 1 year ago
@madashelldude You are very right the Fed note is also the only currency that is used to trade for oil(thanks saudi's!). But what you don't seem to understand is this will be coming to an end.. foreign country's will stop buying our treasury's and start investing in other central banks. The oil industry will eventually let in the EURO. China and Japan will drop its treasuries as quickly as possible to diversify to the euro for the purchase of oil and as the preferred reserve note.
mrblump 1 year ago
@mrblump: it's not likely foreign countries can do that because the US has bases in or near oil rich countries. Even if the world goes 100% electric cars, those need batteries and 50% of world lithium reserves are in Bolivia and Chile. If these 2 start selling for euros the next day the 101st airborne will pay them a visit. the only way to fix the system is the american people need to grow up and take charge in their own government and stop the bankers with regulations and oversight.
madashelldude 1 year ago
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ThePowerMovement 1 year ago
I have not had a job since 02/13/2010...now what? Ron Paul knows what's going on. I can not wait to plant my garden this spring.
We should ALL learn how to feed ourselves & clean our own water.
ThePowerMovement 1 year ago
what about people that live in an apartment... u are insane.
silkunion 1 year ago
Good thing the dollar store sells vaseline!
MyDadsRubberBroke 1 year ago
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Americans deserve everything they get. Yes, Ron Paul is no savior. He's just another player for the American Cretans. Americans are followers, racists, collaborators in murder, theft, pornography, and everything that is vile. Now the chickens are coming home.
Finally, justice is coming to the Americans, and trust me, it will be much worse than the economy.
SUPERPHANTAZM 1 year ago
BIBLE BACKS YOU UP MY FIREND
69fordf250 1 year ago
I don't listen to anyone with a British accent telling me about America or my rigts. I refute all zionist jew, and I don't give the time of day to anyone wearing white shoes in a business suit.
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saynotonontruth 1 year ago
I can see this: we sell Alaska to pay off our debts and then they drill, and now we have one more country that we are energy dependent to.
Drill baby, drill.....and I don't care that it might take 10 years to see the benefit. Thats what was said 10, 20 years ago.
JBTG33 1 year ago