Pimp My Ride-On the road with Ron Paul's merry band of misfits and his hooker fan club

The New Republic ^ | 21 Dec 2007 | Tucker Carlson

[Boogaloo Baby]

Thanks for the post.

That reminds me... I need to send in my campaign donation.

[Wolfie]

Ron Paul’s inisistence an adhering to the Constitution is too extreme.

[M203M4]

For Paul, the original sin in monetary policy took place in 1933, when FDR uncoupled the currency from gold. This removed limits from federal spending, allowing Congress an endless supply of money it could print at will, while leaving citizens vulnerable to the inflation that inevitably resulted.

I agree with Paul on the problem, but not on the solution. First, all currency is fiat, even a currency backed by gold. In addition, a gold Specie Standard is impossible (without grossly inflating the value of gold) because of the size of the economy, necessarily meaning that any gold standard introduced will involve some artificial correspondence open to government manipulation. Anything less than a 100% standard leaves us exactly where we are - having a government without spending constraints, simply able to debase the currency by screwing with the gold-dollar correspondence. An indirect attempt to constrain debasement will fail, because there will still exist mechanisms through which the money supply could be artificially manipulated. The constraint needs to be EXPLICIT.

A far superior solution is to explicitly constrain the growth of the money supply DIRECTLY (without introducing backing upon a single commodity) - Friedman advocated this. Fence off the processes from political forces, essentially replacing the political hacks at the fed with a computer algorithm which matches the money supply to the growth of the economy (the "demand").

We were both finishing our brownies when he mentioned they'd been baked by a supporter.

Eeek! He should have checked if the brownies were made by a truther, nazi, pedophile, terrorist, weirdo, or white supremacist!

[jrooney]

You might want to update your ping list big guy. The first seven names on your list are all banned. As freepers we should not want anyone over inflating someones support here on FR, right? It is kinda like spamming polls for inflated support.

[murphE]

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. -Thomas Jefferson

Long but good documentary is on Google Video here

[rineaux]

Will take a look at later. Thanks for the link.

[ejonesie22]

The title alone was worth the price of admission...

[Moose4]

Interesting article.

Now I’m having fun imagining what would happen if Hunter S. Thompson was still around and was covering Ron Paul’s campaign. Man, that’d be a treat.

}:-)4

[bamahead]

It’s really entertaining to see the haters on here get so bent out of shape over such minutia, like members of a ping list being banned...

GWB -I guess you are supposed to check everyone’s FR homepage and make sure they’re still active before you ping your list! That can take some time, so let me know if you need help :)

The best thing about it, is that these ravings are in public view for everyone to see. Sunshine is truly the best disinfectant.

Keep it up good buddy...

[Xenalyte]

Some of us Ron Paul supporters who are not homicidal maniacs would say that graphic is really vile.

[reagan_fanatic]

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I’m no Paul supporter, but I agree.

That graphic is disgusting to say the least.

[weegee]

“The constitutionality of a central bank is not an issue you see on many lists of voter concerns. (How many pollsters would think to ask about it? How many voters would understand the question?)”

How many questions of the constitutionality of ANY announced programs in the candidates campaign pledges come up in polls and debates?

[No.6]

“Now I’m having fun imagining what would happen if Hunter S. Thompson was still around and was covering Ron Paul’s campaign. Man, that’d be a treat.”

Wow, that’s exactly what I wrote on AGW ...
(I know you know what AGW is)

[TMSuchman]

No! Art Bell now lives in the Philippines, with his new wife & baby....

[Tribune7]

If Paul wasn’t such a flake on the WOT, I could see myself voting for him.

[elhombrelibre]

I guess they get banned because they’re so much smarter than everyone else.

[elhombrelibre]

Some of you are not??? What about his al Qaeda supporters?

[Xenalyte]

Actually, it’s likely because they’re not as impeccably polite as George W. Bush. I admire the hell out of his diplomacy and tact on these threads.

And I love how they point up the difference between the mudslingers and those of us for whom real thinking doesn’t hurt.

[OCCASparky]

The best line:

Either the Ron Paul movement is more sophisticated than most journalists understand, or a lot of Paul supporters are eccentric bordering on bonkers.

My vote is on the latter.