Wait a sec, I thought John Edwards was out of the Senate?
Too bad he’s dangerously clueless regarding foreign policy...
Good job rabid Paul haters! Record time on that keyword spam!
If Paul had a clue what the Islamists were up to it would have been easy to support him - but he doesn’t...
Consider that IF, by some unknown and as yet undiscovered law of cosmic illogic, that Ron Paul actually was elected President of the United States: the economic chaos that would result as of the day after Election Day (anticipating Paul’s views and policies on the economy) would make the upheavals of 1987, yea - even 1929 look like a minor ‘whoops’, because the uncertainty would without a doubt bring on a bear market, investment capital would dry up until it was clear what a Paul Administration would mean for the economy, you can be sure the DJIA would be dropping, and the value of the U.S. dollar would be virtually unpredictable. There would be good news for all the gold speculators however, because investors would be moving to precious metals for sure.
And those are just some of the economic issues that would be spooked by a Ron Paul victory next year.
On a global scale, you can be sure that our terrorist enemies would be rubbing their hands in glee because they would know that if Ron Paul is true to his word, there will be a major American pull out from the Middle East, and that would mean that al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, all of those dirtbags would be anticipating their being able to fill that power vacuum with impunity.
Israel might be compelled to launch a pre-emptive strike on both of her enemies Iran and Syria, why? Because Ron Paul has made it clear that he doesn’t think we should be providing any aid or support to Israel or any other nation in the Middle East. Ron Paul would do to Israel what Jimmy Carter did to the Shah, and the results would be even uglier. Israel would (in former SAC parlance) ‘use it (their military and/or nuclear capability) or lose it’.
Fortunately, Ron Paul is not only going to NOT be the GOP nominee, he is never going to be President. It is true that he has some good ideas, he does profess Christ as his Saviour (although he said he is very uncomfortable about discussing his faith, which begs the question ‘why’?), and in his own mind, he no doubt truly believes that his policies would be best for America.
And they would, if this were 1901.
Moral Question=Social Justice
Ron Paul is getting most of his support from way out disgusted democrats!
Back, back, way back, Hey! Hey!
What an asinine question.
And talk about class warfare. Wall Street is simply a place where "the rest of America" invests their funds and demands a return on their investment for their risk in doing so.
If someone is "stumped" by this guys questions it would be because he strings so many false associations together in one query.
Nothing against Mr. Paul, but I'm having a hard time following this.
If it isn't "human nature," what is it, a remote control?
And who forces people make "malinvestments?"
And does one always know what a "malinvestment" or what "too much debt" is before conditions have changes enough to make them so?
This line of questioning is ... well, perhaps there's not enough context here, but it seems a little bit strange.
Excellent points by Ron Paul. The only winners were those on Wall Street, the malinvestors, and those hawking their overpriced stocks leveraged by low interest debt. Wall Street sings the tune, the FED joins in with their instruments, and we all are compelled to dance to it, all the while the dollar continues its precipitous fall. And the media and the squeeky wheels applaud.
Ron Paul is dangerous.....Hillary’s TROJAN HORSE.
Ron Paul shoul be watching his back. Those who speak the truth about the Federal Reserve may end up in a bad plane crash.
"OMG, Ron Paul's ideas will crash the economy!!!! We've got to keep spending!"
"OMG, the Muslims are coming to get us...can't Ron Paul see that???"
"OMG, Ron Paul thinks our Holy Hero Bush might have been wrong in his response to 9/11!!!
"He's an idiot! A loony! He's nuts! He needs Thorazine! He's a surrender monkey! We're all GOING TO DIE!!!! AAAAAAAAAH!!!!"
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Well, I'm tired of all of these hysterical replies...and I'm not even supporting Ron Paul. He's an economically literate, libertarian-minded candidate who is asking some very valid, pointed questions about the domestic and foreign policy conduct of our government over the last two decades. Whether those questions are met with blank stares or hysterical denunciations, the replies pointed out that something is very wrong at the top - and FReepers, who are supposed to be rational and skeptical about government at all levels, are starting to sound like a team of teenaged Republican Party cheerleaders.
Ron Paul will get his 5% of the vote in the primary and fade from the scene. But if we continue to put up with a government who tells us, "Don't worry your pretty little heads about border security/government spending/the falling dollar/anything at all - just keep borrowing and spending", the USA will end up in the middle of the 21st century about where the British Empire ended up in the middle the 20th. It may already be inevitable. As the article says, further down:
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"Back in July of 2006, I wrote a piece introducing this moral element into the discussion of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies. I wrote then words that today, after a pre-emptive, forestalling 50 basis points decrease and more than $1 trillion in worldwide central bank injections of credit, are as germane as ever:
“A constant loss of value in the monetary unit forces all manner of dire consequences on economic actors: it favors consumption over saving, speculation over investment, capital over labor, and the young over the old; it prevents accurate economic calculation about the future and thus clouds investment horizons; it hollows out a country's middle class making for more class conflict between haves and have nots… there are grave time preference consequences as well that impact not only long term investment projects (as noted above) but also the very manner in which parents raise their children and how children care for their ageing parents, as well as the lessons of frugality and hard work that once were the bedrock of this nation.”
"Bravo to Ron Paul for giving voice to the hundreds of millions or pensioners, savers, working stiffs, poor, fixed income beneficiaries, laborers, gasoline-, bread-, milk-, and egg-buyers who weren’t able to ask Mr. Bernanke why he – like every Fed chairman before him since 1913 – screwed them for the benefit of the top 5% of the population of this country."
Who are the remain other ones?
If they are not anti-war, blame America, suicide monkeys, then that is the person to vote for.
Well, nil out of three is . . . uh . . . not a good score.
Good grief, the man is a blabbering idiot.