"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."
well said