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wealthy economy ? perhaps for the select few, but americas majority have had our jobs and rights removed, we are an impoverished nation
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end the political arena ron paul wants to operate in-allow people to select our own destiny create oir own laws, replace the ballot with openended referendums, with information technology of today, we could take back our freedom to make our own choices without all the lawyers, judges, politicians, lobbies and their criminal clients who wrtieup the laws that permit free trade with a communist country bent on our destruction, using their subjects as slaves in order to steal our factories
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A note about sovereign debt in wealthy economies: Correlation does not imply causation. Many countries which produce more wealth also carry more debt. Why? Well, because countries which produce more wealth can afford to carry larger debt balances, and political forces tend to favor increases in debt rather than increases in taxes. However increases in debt stifle growth. Estonia is an example of a stable economy with a low sovereign debt to GDP ratio which is growing.
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I suppose that I differentiate being critical of gov from insulting the people of the US.Practically speaking, citizens have very little control over what their gov does.I think that it's dangerous to disregard criticism of the gov as insulting to the people of the US.That course ends with the gov getting a pass on pretty much everything.On sovereign debt sufficient commentary here is impossible, but see Youtube: Inflated:How Money and Debt Built the American Dream
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Yet i could never even like the man who i see as insulting us, so its impossible for me to support him.He needs to stop calling us a dictatorship, stop calling us an empire, and stop calling us bankrupt, for me to even listen to him speak for more than a minute before i become so disenchanted by his choice of words. Yet his foreign policy i do not like, i think abandoning our allies is silly, but i do like his domestic polices.
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Too much sovereign debt can lead to a broke country, but traditionally that has been an excess of 300% of GDP. Our debt is acually lower then average, although thanks to Obama its gotten much worse. Ron Paul would fare much better if he didn't go around insulting us by calling us an Empire and other degrading things. I think he has some interesting ideas, although he takes many of them too far for me.
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Not a PhD, but a medical doctor. Google "Ron Paul Doctor NPR" for a news story about it. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on whether projecting power through overseas military bases constitutes an empire. I'd contend that too much sovereign debt can and does make a countries "broke". As the debt increases, so do the interest payments on that debt. Sure, countries can print money to pay the bill, but at the end of the day, someone has to pay the piper.
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Well we can go by the definition of an empire, which is a collection of nations ruled by a by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government. International rights of passage, alliances, and training missions do not fall under this category.
btw, Dr Paul? I don't recall Ron Paul earning a Phd. The country is also not "broke", unless you count sovereign debt as being' broke'; in which case every country in the world is "broke"
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If having at least 662 overseas military bases and military personnel stationed in more than 130 foreign countries isn't an empire, what is? Dr. Paul points this out because it's costing the people a mint, and the country's broke.
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Don't let it be said, at the crossroads of history, we had a chance...
a chance to stem the tide, change the course...
thwart the push to socialism and preserve our freedom...
and we did nothing!
Our generation is the one losing our freedom. DO SOMETHING!
ELECT RON PAUL!
q12tube 1 year ago 7
I love the little End The Fed sign at the end. That was good.
spaceclutch 1 year ago 3