Where's the shrimp?
Posted on 02/25/2010 9:30:03 AM PST by 1rudeboy
That, and the fact that the vast majority of Republicans are as clueless as rocks about how the real world of finance works.
Starting with this irrational and unsupported belief that there exists such a thing as a “free market.”
Correct, and the best way to do that is to stop barking like a moonbat.
From where I'm sitting, he apparently has enough to have kept him in office for many years. I don't agree with a lot of his foreign policy, but what you're saying doesn't line up with observable reality.
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Assuming your premise, though dubious, is true--what does this irrational American belief in the free market have to do with Ron Paul?
Are you talking about the Texas shrimp industry?
In order to limit government, we must first expand it . . . there is no way otherwise to combat the pernicious influences of the free market, that doesn’t exist anyway.
Bernie Sanders keeps getting re-elected also, that simply means he is popular in his district.
So most of the emails you get against Ron Paul come from people who live outside of his district, and who he doesn't represent?
Add his "surrender" foreign policy to this belief in bigger government via earmarks and you have one mixed up politician who thinks dissolving the Fed (he could really care less about any audit) is the answer to our economic challenges. That tape of him questioning Bernake would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Ron Paul does NOT supprot Israel. You are delusional if you think he does. He is a 9/11 Truther. He is an isolationist. There is little in what he espouses that a true conservative agrees with. He long ago feel off the deep end
very true, but not necessarily in that order or frequency.
L. Ron Paul has gone so far to the right, that he came back out on the far Left. (Worm Hole related)
Great site if you want to wait 297 minutes for it to load, then, when you finally get it to work, it constantly reloads until your computer commits suicide by jumping off the table.
Why Ron Paul gets a bad rap? The conservative movement boils down to three legs—fiscal con, social con, neocon. Paul doesn’t vote with the socons or the neocons. End of story.
Paul does his job as an elected representative by forwarding on to a congressional budget committee requests from residents or groups in his district to have some of the money, that they paid in taxes, returned to the district. That money is in a federal budget that he voted against because of the unconstitutional spending contained in it.
No win situation for him with you delusional Paul-haters - he forwards on the requests and he's responsible for pork... he doesn't, and he's failing to do the duties of his office.
Add his "surrender" foreign policy...
Just like my personal "surrender" policy I have with my neighbors - I'm a paranoid idiot who "knows" my neighbor is a threat to me (he has guns!), but I haven't went next door and killed him yet, which is allowable under the local version of the Bush Doctrine of Preemptive War that you neocons love so much.
You clowns better hope Dr. Paul is right about foreign policy (hint: he is), because your precious little American Empire is going the same way as the Roman one, and for the same reasons.
The most fundamental reason why there is no free market is that the Fed is constantly playing with the money supply for various purposes and intents - most of which turn out to be ill-advised and counter to what a free market would actually do.
For example, right now, they’re trying desperately to re-inflate the housing bubble. It would be better to simply allow it to deflate and collapse, purge the banks run by idiots and allow capital to be re-allocated to those who don’t have their heads up their asses. But no, the Fed is intent on keeping the idiots at all levels of the housing market in the market - which is completely contrary to the ideal of a free market.
The only way we could approach a free market in the macro economy of the US would be to eliminate the Fed and grow the money supply based on the overall size of the economy - on a simple, rule-based system.
Where's the shrimp?
When/how did they do that? Be specific.
You're as confused as Ron Paul. You think earmarks are constitutional. Apparently, you also think it is his duty to ensure that the fedgov continues to spend more money than it takes in. How you justify this nonsense is laughable.
....but I haven't went next door and killed him yet, which is allowable under the local version of the Bush Doctrine of Preemptive War that you neocons love so much.
Neocons? Preemptive war?
No wonder you're so defensive. You're on the wrong forum. Here's what JimRob had to say about anti-war moonbats like Ron Paul:
Hey, if you don't like FR and or our support the war policies leave. Go find a website that supports your unfortunate, short-sighted and misguided antiwar efforts. It's really that simple.
In case you antiwar Paulistas haven't noticed, Free Republic supports the war effort 100%. Many of our chapters protest against the antiwar moonbats either weekly, monthly or whenever the opportunity arises. The DC Chapter has been protesting against the antiwar moonbats EVERY Friday night at Walter Reed for three years.
Free Republic has co-sponsored several cross country caravans and hundreds of rallies in cities all across the country and in DC against the antiwar moonbats and in support of our Commander-in-chief, our troops, the war effort and our Gold Star and Blue Star families, many of whom are FReepers.
When you are supporting antiwar moonbats you are working against Free Republic's mission, hurting our efforts, hurting our families who have lost loved ones or have loved ones involved in the fighting, hurting our troops, damaging their morale, working against our efforts to defeat the enemy, and, in fact, giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Antiwar moonbats are the domestic enemy. Antiwar moonbats willingly give aid and comfort to the enemy during wartime. In my book, that's tantamount to treason. Ron Paul is an antiwar moonbat. You figure it out. If antiwar moonbats are the enemy and Ron Paul is an aid and comfort supplying antiwar moonbat, then Ron Paul IS the enemy!
If you Paulistas are looking for support on FR for an antiwar moonbat who is giving aid and comfort to our enemies, you're nuts! Free Republic will NEVER support antiwar moonbats!
As far as our official policy on Ron Paul is concerned, it's the same policy we have for his antiwar moonbat allies the traitors Harry Reid, Chuckie Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha, Cindy Sheehan, Barbara Streisand, Jane Fonda, CodePink, International Answer, et al and their flaming antiwar spam monkeys. Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!
Where the hell did you guys ever get the idea that enemy supporting antiwar moonbats would be welcome on FR?
That plain enough for you or do I need to spell it out?
168 posted on Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:22:47 PM by Jim Robinson (Our God-given unalienable rights are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!)
To me, that says all that needs to be said.
Lasts for five hundred years? OK.. another 250 to go.
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