On Capital and Capitalism

[granddad2002]

Ron Paul speaks of freedom, personal responsibility and work. I agree you can't run the printing press until the economy gets better.'That every time an emergency happens government justifies taking away your rights.' ; I never quite see the 'boogey man' in this argument.Public administration is part of any advanced collective of humans; You've got just under 1 thousand humans in the principal elected offices representing 300+ million; the same 1 thousand are representing us among 6+billion.

[KiwiKnowles]

Can't disagree with: Save, work hard and STOP spending your childrens/grand childrens money/resources/freedom from the financial sector and destroying their enviroment.

[cris750]

@shadowgeyser, 1) I agree on this point. 2) Not Keynesian capitalism. Keynesian capitalism involves the state which is just as bad. 3) "War" ,in the modern era, involves the intricacies of economics-scarcity. Like for example, war industry today would eventually increase the debt of a nation-state.

[cris750]

It is both the Federal Reserve and Capitalism. Capitalism or scarcity economics is what is driving human misery. Only malevolent ETs benefit out of the misery of the human race. Their slave plantation managers are the human illumanati and human secret gov. who create wars on Earth to make sure humans of Earth do not explore independently and to fuel the capitalist machinery which needs war industry as a lubricant.

[newwind07]

Thank god this jack ass will never be president. Capitalism is bad sure, but ANARCHO-CAPITALISM is just primal "survival of the fittest" bullshit designed for greedy white crackers.

[Aspetta17]

Thank god I'm not the only one who sees right through that anarcho-capitalism bs LoL.

Because human nature has not changed (or else we wouldn't be experiencing crony-capitalism now). Shifting over to "anarcho-capitalism" would just set us up for a two-tiered society (no middle class, no need for one) where Social Darwinism is LAW. It's very regressive...

[tomitstube]

i'm sorry... but did he say "dollars coming home to roost"?

do you need my  address?

[tomitstube]

'the understanding of capital'? lol, economists have been saying this for forty years. reagan justified tripling the debt for military and the cold war...

this lecture reminds me of republicans taking an age old immigrant issue and making it sound like the end of the world...

mr paul, your lesson is wasted if the every day consumer doesn't get common sense as you describe it. of course you'd have a different course of action if Obama just ignored everything like '29.

[nalcow]

Besides debt monetization, the fractional reserve system has a big role on increasing the money supply. I'd be very happy to hear Dr Paul about that topic as well. Greetings from Mexico.

[nalcow]

Debt monetization, dollar devaluation, inflation, banks needing more capital, goverment creating more money from thin air.. I do agree bails out and masssive spending will cause more harm than help.

[AnElementof1]

I passionately agree with the substance of Dr. Paul's statements in this video. However, the Campaign For Liberty Press REALLY needs to do a better job recording Dr. Paul's statements. It may sound trivial, but they should have a warmer backdrop behind him, adjust the lighting, and (most importantly) Dr. Paul should not be seen holding a microphone on camera. It makes the video look amateur and can be easily corrected. Purchase a lavalier microphone.

[timesplitters333]

well obama also sayed that we would have change, and that we would be out of iraq in 18 months,...

YEA RIGHT! FLIP flop obama is a puppet, its shows now, because he cant do what he sayed he would do

[tomitstube]

your expectations are unreal and basically ignorant. Obama promised calculated withdrawal from iraq. again, as with the economy, Obama's biggest critics are unreasonable and subject to knee jerk objection-ism.

[timesplitters333]

hehe yea, and you still think that America will withdraw from Iraq right:))

hey i was once there, until i woke up.

Calling people jerk without knowing them explains who you are....

My god..

[tomitstube]

uh yeah, i do think we'll leave iraq, we're all ready phasing back. anyone with half a brain knows this has to be calculated. again i'll say your criticism is knee jerk and unreasonable. after the last 8 years you want it all to end tomorrow? puhleeeze. and what does your religious connotation have to do with anything?

[timesplitters333]

hehe so what you saying that Obama lied to get where he is:))

Well he is a politican so....

And yes why not end the war tomorrow?!

Take all the troops home from the middle east, they dont even want us to be there!

[nalejbank]

Please join us at the Campaign for Liberty (.com) - we must unite to save our freedoms and this nation's sovereignty!

[TheUnitedFreak]

big (hugs) for you! ^_^

thank you for fighting for our freedom! ^_^

[hopeforamerika]

That's an astute observation. Another thing we don't hear about is his stand on taxing assets. We should. Since when is income wealth? A person could be very wealthy in assets (land, real estate, art collection, etc.) and yet earn little income. Will there be a wealth tax down the road in his plan?

[hopeforamerika]

Did anyone notice that tonight, in the debate, Obama promised not to tax people who earn $200,000 or less? Did anyone notice that in previous days that figure was $250,000? What will it be tomorrow? Next week? The day after election? Folks need to do themselves a favor and wake up!

(I'm subscribing)

[hopeforamerika]

I should clarify before someone objects. In the above I meant to say he promised not to raise taxes on those earning $200,000 or less, but last week that figure was $250,000. I remember hearing that figure and so did others I've talked to.

[djr1100]

hmmm, 30 trillion created from nothing. Somebody opened the closet and exposed the 30 trillion, now the Fed is printing to make up for the 30 trillion shortfall, meanwhile the Treasury is borrowing to fund the Fed. Well, I don't know about you, but there is a word that describes what is coming in the not so distant future HYPERINFLATION...

Seems like I heard of this before, oh yea, it's how the Nazis came into power prior to starting WWII

[carlindelco]

that's right

[rexthebarker]

Without Ron Paul our country is done.

[pumpkinshellz]

Why oh why can't YOU be our next president....sighhhh...I am so depressed by our choices

[YEEFREAKINHAA]

WAIT! WHAT? Ron Paul is still fighting the good fight by speaking the good word? Keep it up Dr. Paul! Everyone else, Spread the word. We gotta get the Republocrats outta our Government and away from our financial system! ...unless your into Socialism type stuff...

[maczimms]

True.....

[hplaserjet2001]

Dr Paul was the only choice for the Republicans. They blew it when they did not choose him as their candidate for president. I wish the Americans good luck, they are going to need it. Dr Paul is honest, he speaks the truth. Hopefully, whoever is voted into office will consult with Dr Paul. But, I doubt this as both candidates appear to be destined to stay on the current path, which will lead the USA to financial ruin. The USA must get out of Iraq asap, the war has cost too much.

[mickeysears]

If this video doesn't put it together for you then I don't know what will. Continue down this path of Federal Reserve Control and we are doomed to fail. Both Dems and Repubs are for continued and expanded Fed power. The answer is either a third party which will take many years or retake The Repubican Party and throw the Neocons and The Evalgalicals out from power and put true compassionate conservatives back in charge.

[ichliebeBelaFarinRod]

First of all, who is "WE"? Drawing lines in the sand now? How sad.

I love how you immediately get pissy and start dishing out insults/profanity. Really shows how level-headed you are, "slut". So much for trying to have an intelligent conversation on YouTube! LOL.

You may have a half-truth there, but to blame it all on the Jews - why not slap on a swastika and start shouting Heil Hitler? Go back to Nazi Germany, dick.

I repeat - sit down and shut up, you racist piece of trash. I'm done here.

[ichliebeBelaFarinRod]

With that kind of attitude, especially with that kind of slurred-biased thinking, you're right - YOU won't overcome. Maybe you should sit down and shut up while the rest of us at least TRY to make better of the shitty situation we've been dealt.

Oh, and you might want to re-think the whole Nazi-flavored idea that Jews run all the banks/lobbies/media outlets. You would be surprised how many Nazis slipped through the cracks post-World War II and started corporations both across Europe and the US.

[ichliebeBelaFarinRod]

Look up George Dubya's granddaddy, Prescott Bush:

"After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926

until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his 'enemy national' partners."

[ichliebeBelaFarinRod]

It fills me with pride to see all of you posting so enthusiastically. What we need are MORE of these active, bustling forums of discussion - not digital, but real, attainable and able to participate live.

Keep talking, keep educating yourselves, WAKE UP AND PAY ATTENTION! THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!

Thanks to people like Ron Paul we CAN overcome this period of deplorable and absolutely REPREHENSIBLE treachery, deceit, robbery, secret-society corporate and political scammery! WE CAN OVERCOME!!

[ichliebeBelaFarinRod]

YES!!! Thank you Ron Paul for speaking about a fundamentally intricate and complicated financial system in a way that all of us both financially educated and clueless (myself!) can understand. I love how he speaks to and for the people, not AT them like the bunch of clowns running for office (as well as the ringleader MONKEY currently residing therein).

[RonPaulGeorgeRingo]

Sure, the media "complex" is a joke. That said, the blame lies with the people.

Republicans (Democrats & independents too) had a chance to vote for Ron Paul.

They CHOSE not to.

I blame the people. These are the by and large the same people who voted for Bush twice. They owe America an apology.

[talent631]

thx for making your appearance public each day

your an inspiration Dr.

[dannukesem]

Why isn't this guy president ?!

[futuresoldier897]

That's what I'd like to know,But the media is why they censored him

[gdougles]

he's my president

[n0us3rn4m3s4v41l4bl3]

because our country is brainwashed

[dannukesem]

It is sad to see complete liars get into office, that do it for only personal gain, and Ron Paul lose out to these characters. Why does the media support bs ? They have to live here too. I don't get it.

[mpolzkill]

See the Soviet Union, Dan & the "more equal pigs".

[Budvb]

I think the whole world is just about there are a few of us those on the bottom understand what is going on! Everything will work out!

[LesPaul2006]

He lost the republican nomination against John McCain. Guess why.

[kut77less]

Is ron paul a freemason

[LesPaul2006]

I don't know if he is a freemason, a catholic or an alien from outer space, all I know is that he's RIGHT about the issues.

[666Qtip666]

I would say he is a free man with a free mind, in other words a real American unlike the vast majority of the swine in washington!!!

[greatvaluemustard]

I hope you're right; I hope our numbers are growing.

I don't see it, but since you've been right about everything else for the last 30 years, I assume you're right about this too :)

[MrDeppness]

Every time Dr.Paul speaks, I learn something that no one else is talking about in govt today. Thank you for dedicating your life to the honest truth. We all need to know this stuff. Without you, so many would be in the dark.

[xmodrelic]

Good stuff...

[bebop54]

keep it up dr. paul ....

we appreciate you enormously !

[Failbama]

Could this be the end of Keynesian economics? Wasn't Keynesian supposed to be a short term fix?

[stepremi]

Thanks Dr Paul for giving it to us straight and simple. Keep up the great work. Kill the FED!

[mylongcylinder]

To have good government, there must be good people *in* government. It is not enough to have a rule of law if those who wield the force of that law assume that they may behave as if they themselves are *above* the law. That is not good government, but tyranny and despotism. As Abraham Lincoln said, "The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts; not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution!"

[aires12345678]

i use to have some kinda hope but now i don't event know anymore!

[oneidea2112]

as long as there are good people in the world their is hope. Be part of the solution spread the word and free minds...

[aires12345678]

yea,good advise!

[evcrawfish]

if you don't have cash you don't need it

[Garboth]

Very true, but some people like it and it's not up to you to stop them. If nobody wanted money it would be harder for people who don't want money because you'd either need to make things yourself or pay more for them.

[Ba101]

True, but "they" need to revamp the system, and they are not likely to do that because it gives "them" all the power.

Its not just about buying something on credit.

The system dies if there is no borrowing. Debt is Money. Thats needs to change or all of our not buying will have little or no positive effect.

BTW, Dr Pauls Liberty site needs an archive list so we can send people there and they are able to put it all together.

Most won't do what I do and click on the vid to find it here.

[schulwitz]

It never ceases to amaze me that men like this still exist.

[natem20]

"When you look at the world we humans have created you may conclude that it was created by sleeping people, because awake, aware, conscious people would manifest a very different world. We have entered one of the most important periods in human history...We have the opportunity to lift ourselves to new levels of consciousness."

-JOHN PERKINS Dream Change (DC) founder, NY Times best selling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire.

[natem20]

DREAM CHANGE and its 'WAKING OUR WORLD' Movement:

Inspire Earth-Honoring Changes in Consciousness

Utilize Indigenous Wisdom to Effect Social and Environmental Change

Conserve Forests and Preserve Traditional Cultures and Values

Encourage Sustainable Ways of Living

[Vercingetorix1313]

Ron Paul once said 'we are entering a new era'.

I believe we have been a sleeping people distracted from the order and manipulation of our society.

I would like to believe that a good thing is being forged in these difficult times as a gift for the world. Humanity needs something good right now...liberty would be a good start.

[milliradian]

The FED did it! I know of people who made more signs saying this than I might ever make. But I encourage all to make signs, tell those that don't yet know who to blame where to direct their anger, say it loud... THE FED DID IT!!!

[jdtrickster4]

Another definition of capital is "the means of production." A tractor, for ex. Some say Capitalism is corrupt & no longer works. That gov't is corrupt & they ask for a "change" that will come in the form of Socialism: More gov't control of the means of production consolidated into fewer hands; those of the International Money Changers (the ones Jesus threw out of the Temple) & Industrialist Magnates. Surely you & I will see EQUALITY all around us: When all are equally impoverished AND ENSLAVED!

[cubsfanatic13]

We are already enslaved.  Enslaved to a system that forces us to accrue debt and work our entire lives to pay the interest.

[jdtrickster4]

Yes, you're quite right. It's all a matter of degree. We're already socialistic, as well. But there's more of both where they come from. Yet, after a while it'll come in the form of loss of liberties; more and more each day. I've lived it. This is only the beginning. The worst days are still ahead of us.

[cubsfanatic13]

We are going to become more socialistic and losing more of our rights the more we elect these presidential candidates who do nothing but throw tax dollars at our problems.

[jdtrickster4]

Well, personally, I am proud to say, I haven't voted for the "Demoplican" party going on two decades counting this election cycle.

[ParapaDrifter]

work locally, act globally! Build your local food infrastructure... power... construction and this depression will be a cinch.

Organize with your local farmers and keep them from defaulting on their farms!!!

Regarding foreclosures, bring a class action lawsuit against the banks for entering a fraudlent impossible contract, which is against the law!

It is impossible for us all to pay off the principal AND the interest... its simple mathematics... dollars < loan obligations.

[ParapaDrifter]

transit umbra lux permanet

-Darkness passes, Light remains-

[AiresQX4]

What Ron Paul speaks of is Poison to McCain and Obama supporters ears!!

HA,HA,HA!! The common asshole is so dumbed down and arrogant! It's so DISGUSTING!

[vincevl]

We also need to realise that our usual expansionist view of business needs to go. Humanity cannot expand indefinitely; the Earth is a finite resource and we already fill it to the brim. :(

[djsuperstar717]

the whole monetary system is just fucked up;

[BestFuckingChannel]

First!

BTW I <3 you Dr. Paul =P

[jmantra623]

I agree with him that you have to work to gain capital however in our current situation how are people supposed to work when they're aren't enough jobs to go around?

And the lower paying labor jobs are not enough to support a family on.

[thedaoofplus1]

create the jobs instead of waiting for someone else to do it.

[Signzit]

now you are beginning to see the plan the world money manipulators have had in store for you!

Why do you think they paid of Congress to move all those jobs off shore? There is a Plan! WAKE-UP!

The UN, NATO, GATT. NAFTA, they are all small bites from our ass. Don't you see? What he is trying to say? Does he have to spell it all out for you & get killed, so you'll understand what's being said?

Jackson, Lincoln, Huey Long, Kennedy. Paul? No thanks, not for your understanding. Take the punch!

[mn8aol]

Have you seen the youtube video: Uri Dadush / World Bank, loses it on WJ ?

[Andy120290Returns]

Ron Paul always knows what the RIGHT thing is to say.

[MrMP81]

It's easy when all you're speaking is the truth :-)

[freedomfighter7777]

i am on board with the camp. for libertty, but fear there is something more that must need be done. Freedom or Death. I go to Iraq in January, and really dont want to go to an unconstitutional war, but hey, what can i do right? anyway. I fear that our movement needs to add more tatics. God save the Republic.

[geir358]

Support you and wish you the best - but, hey, keep God out of this. We don't need more deity in politics and let "Got Mit Uns" be dead with Adolf.

[freedomcorp]

"WE can restore sanity to the markets and freedom to this country"-Ron Paul

The rhetoric of a leader. Not the fear espoused by Bush or the bickering and empty plans of the candidates. Call on the American people in such times. This is when we are at our best, united for the good of the nation.

[GeorgeGreekTrucker]

Thank God for you Sir.

Wishing you and yours all the best.

If only your pupils could be half as bright and

half as brave as your good self this world

will soon become a better place to live in.

[ElCapitan1985]

Dr. Paul you are a bright shiney light in a dark cold government...the fires you've started will spread in the minds of Americans for years to come. 5/5!

[datalorez]

1st view!!!!

1st comment.

Thanks Ron!

[datalorez]

Dangit I wasn't first :(

[dinevski3]

It's true. We can't solve our economic problems with neverending "liquidity injections." They don't work, and never will. When you have more debt and inflation than actual capital, you really don't have capitalism. You have corporatism, something that's very dangerous. Wake up, America!

[LibbyViddy]

Please help support Bob Barr to bring liberty to the White House. The campaign for liberty although highlighting key points is not going to make a difference.

1/3 Libertarian congress is what we need to make a difference.

[BabybooR33]

what a matrix.........