Libertarian ping!
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I’m voting for Ron Paul too.
"Vote Republican: The Party That Believes in Smaller Big Government"
I voted for Ron Paul. Domestic Policy — he’s 100% right. Foreign stuff, not so much, but I’d rather be right on domestic policy than foreign policy anyhow.
I will not send my vote 3rd party this election, the stakes are too high with Obama. If it were Hillary vs. McCain — then I would have voted Libertarian.
I bet ron paul is voting for mccain. the last thing he wants is Obama in the WH
Too True, I already voted Baldwin/Castle.
To be honest, I wrote in Duncan Hunter in the GOP Primary here—of course I did this after McCain already had the nomination wrapped up, but I did my job down-ticket. Protest votes still seem romantically strange to me.
The problem arises when the government raises the currency to $3 Trillion instead of $1.5 Trillion.
I voted for Ron Paul in the primary. I will vote for Palin this time. She’s the only reason I’m voting Republican- frankly, McCain and all RINOs can kiss my butt.
This is the thing that convinced me: she renegotiated oil contracts on behalf of Alaska, and when a windfall came in to the state’s coffers, she didn’t spend it- she GAVE IT BACK TO THE PEOPLE.
That was all I had to hear. We need to keep this woman as close to DC as possible, and move folks like Jindal into position as well. In fact, if Joe the Plumber types run for office in the future, they need to receive rabid support from everyone who loves America. The professional politician class (mostly lawyers) has not served us well.
A wasted protest vote. I hope he is happy in the new education camps Obama and his ilk are preparing for us. McCain is not perfect by any means, but we will be relatively free to oppose him. With Obama we can’t even guarantee there will be elections in two years. Marxists don’t do elections and don’t do democracy and if they do elections, they always fix them and win.
We need instant run-off elections.
They’re all wrong. The viral anarchy seeping into both prevailing parties from that filthy, infectious, little prostitution party is wrong, too.
If you want any semblance of a constitutional America left, you will vote for McCain/Palin.
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Fiat money is not the problem. The problem is that they allowed banks to engage in risky behaviors and take on more leverage and market exposure than they should have by repealing Glass-Stegall. And they lowered the bank reserve rates to historic lows and made exceptions for all kinds of deposits, and that also raised the leverage of banks.
We had liquidity crises and the resulting depressions approximately every 20 years when we were on the gold standard. Gold standard would do absolutely nothing to prevent the current crisis. Except possibly keep us at a third world economic level so that we wouldn’t have as far to fall.
We have had far fewer liquidity crises since we abandoned the gold standard.
Besides the gold standard was always a myth. As long as banks make loans, most of the money supply doesn’t really exist in the way you want it to. You deposit 1000 gold coins in the bank, and the bank turns around and loans it out. Now you have 1000 gold coins and borrower#1 has 1000 gold coins. Borrower#1 deposits the 1000 gold coins in his bank and that bank loans it to Borrower#2. That’s now 3000 gold coins recorded at banks, and yet only 1000 gold coins are in existence.
Money was never backed by an equivalent amount of gold even when we were on the gold standard. Even then most money was created through the bank loan process and was vastly greater than the real gold backing it. Unless you shut down all borrowing and lending, money will never be backed by gold. And if you do that, we will certainly become a third world country.
The only thing a gold standard would do is instead of the FED managing the money supply and determining how much inflation we will have, gold inflation is determined by how much is dug out of the ground. Most years during the gold standard we had deflation because not enough is dug up. But during the California gold bloom we had sever inflation, because the money supply kept growing. At least fiat we can control. You might want to give control of our money supply growth to Chinese and African gold mines, but I don’t.