"My Plan To Make America Great Again" - Gov. Buddy Roemer

http://www.buddyroemer.com ~ 2012 Presidential Candidate.
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[fishpawsable]

finally an adult in the room

[greatpiemom1]

Buddy Roemer 2012 get his name out we need somebody like him!

[mariahawk5]

Dare someone speak the truth?

[deadeyedick1933]

Great, pro-American domestic/economic policy, same pro-zionist warmongering as everyone else. He's like Ron Paul's mirror image.

[jackooboy1]

I lived in Korea after graduating college in 2007 due to choice because I wanted to explore... My older sister graduated with a master's degree in 2008 and now lives and works in Korea because no one is hiring in the US. I'm currently back in the US getting my master's, may go on for a doctorate, in nursing and plan on going overseas again. I have no faith in the US government or our so called "leaders."

[ClaireConrad]

@TheTeaPartyMovement Absolutely RIGHT you are. How interesting that only ONE candidate engages BOTH the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement! Buddy is obviously the wisest and most well balanced. The only issue that upsets him is corruption, which is my main concern too. (And we need term limits and rules for return and lobbying, etc.) He does'nt waste time talking for hours on non-Presidential subjects! He only addresses subjects that he would HAVE to deal with as Pres.

[toothdoctor100]

Don't both reading the comments below. I imagine there are rooms of people being paid to stop any message that makes sense. I am an independent. Buddy has a good plan for America. Nobody was even talking about it. I would have been interested in seeing a discussion debating drill versus wind power as a means of doing what buddy was talking about during this video. The comments were arguing like the talking heads of mass media. Very depressing. We have huge problems in America most of

[toothdoctor100]

Every American should watch this video.

[frank47hammer]

Bush graduated from Yale-still a reputable school, but he was a C student. This guy graduated at the top of his HS class at the age of 16 and earned degrees in Economics and Finance at Harvard. He built up a successful bank from scratch. All politicians usually start their speeches with idealized versions of American history. What's important is what he's saying about campaign finance and American finances. He knows what he is talking. Tax free accounts are a good ideal

[overcominginertia]

@Turkxi I was born before 1960 and can remember when people laughed at junk made in Japan. American products were highly prized because of their quality. Appliances worked when they got thrown away. Usually changed them because they were out of style or looked ratty. The American worker produced quality products and now they are being thrown aside and expected to buy crap made by their replacements in a foreign country. I say let those products rot on the shelf. BUY AMERICAN!

[Turkxi]

I was born in 81, I don't recall to much "Made in America". I wish manufacturing would return to the states.

[HeatherSpoonheim]

@ur12cujo Read the above discussion and you'll see. It's been a month since I watched the start of this video and all I remember was it was a pathetic representation of pre-revolutionary New England.

[ur12cujo]

@HeatherSpoonheim - State you complant. What was he wrong about??

[mattsta1964]

good speech though

[mattsta1964]

Vote for Ron Paul

Problem solved

[HeatherSpoonheim]

@sickoftalking Yes, well I think we are seeing a repeat of history. Of course there will still be those who will rationalize hard line tactics and curtailments of freedoms as necessary measures to provide security. Then, as now, the general population does not rebel for ideals, but for real, tangible rights that they have already been denied. I don't fully swing to Zinn's mostly economic motives, but I do feel it's a lot closer to the truth than the ideologies invented in retrospect.

[sickoftalking]

@HeatherSpoonheim I still consider that an 'idealistic' war, especially in contrast by arguments by some, like Howard Zinn, that the war was really economic and the argument for liberty was a charade.

[sickoftalking]

@HeatherSpoonheim Of course. The grievance I listed wasn't the only one in the Declaration of Independence. But the colonists had the option of seeing the action by the king as just, and any curtailments of freedom as necessary measures to deal with rebellion; to support "security" over "liberty". Many colonists did rationalize it, which is why you saw support of the crown to the end. But I think it became increasingly apparent to some that the crown didn't even respect the idea of liberty.

[HeatherSpoonheim]

@sickoftalking The application of taxation without consulting the colonists (akin to the modern IRS and an income tax that should be illegal even under the U.S. constitution), and the taxing of essential commodities were not an impending issue, but an already transgressed incursion. With the French sealing up the territories west of the 13 colonies, the situation was grim. The revolution was not based on an 'idealism' of liberty, it was fought to obtain real liberties.

[HeatherSpoonheim]

@sickoftalking Yes, well the carte blanche search warrants executed by the British under the Navigation acts weren't 'impending'; they occured, much like he open-ended secret search warrants issued under the modern patriot act against the citizens of the Empire of the United States. That those laws were enacted in a parliament where colonists had no representation was considered abhorrent to justice, but again, not much different than what is happening to the territories of the US today.

[sickoftalking]

@HeatherSpoonheim Many many Americans, at the time the Declaration of Independence was issued, still supported the crown, and opposed revolution. There was also support by many British for American representation in parliament. A deal could have been worked out eventually. One of the final things that exhausted the colonists patience, and drove the Revolution, was the threat, as expressed in the Declaration, that the "free System of English laws" would be abolished.

[sickoftalking]

@HeatherSpoonheim Roemer is just paraphrasing Edmund Burke's argument that the American Revolution was rooted in an English tradition of liberty, to quote Burke, " liberty according to English ideas and on English principles." Now, read the Declaration of Independence; one of the grievances: "For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province... an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies."

[moriartysdemise]

Nice deflections. You need to brush up on your listening comprehension.

[HeatherSpoonheim]

@moriartysdemise Yeah, as accurate as Palin's understanding of Paul Revere's role. Maybe you could put together a band of people to go edit wiki as well. The revolution wasn't sanctioned as by precautionary principle, and preemptive wars are not in the interest of security - but the fallacies of both go hand in hand, I guess.