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Ron Paul's favorite economist won this debate in a Laffer
Newark Star Ledger via NJ.COM ^ | 11/22/2008 | Paul Mulshine

Posted on 11/26/2008 4:55:45 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

This video of Peter Schiff debating Arthur Laffer back in 2006 has been making the rounds on the web. Schiff was Ron Paul's economic advisor during Paul's run for the Republican presidential nomination this year. Paul lost that race, but just about everything he predicted has come true in the interim.

Paul's most depressing - in both the emotional and economic senses - prediction was that the U.S. couldn't maintain an economy based on the easy money flowing out of the Fed.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nj.com ...


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KEYWORDS: economy; laffer; lp; ronpaul; schiff
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To: Kid Shelleen

Paul is an expert in protecting the shrimp industry. I’ll give him that.


41 posted on 12/13/2008 2:11:42 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
30 million illegal aliens, many of them voting.

50 million government-schooled illiterates, many of them voting.

Millions of fake ACORN votes.

An entrenched kakistocracy.

Ron Paul can't get elected until there is a massive cull of the herd which raises the average IQ by about 30 points.

42 posted on 12/13/2008 2:32:45 PM PST by TonyStark
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To: farmer18th
Where is Paul on Islamofascism?

Essentially that it's a profound misallocation of resources to have the US military chasing 6th century goatherders up mountains and trying to impose democracy on peoples who don't want it and can't handle it anyway, when we are simultaneously pumping billions into the Saudi economy every year and thereby undermining all of the military's efforts.

Paul's enemies very cleverly tap into an underlying and unthinking "America, love it or leave it, you Commie pinko fag!!!" attitude among conservatives to get them to brand his argument "treasonous" and change the subject away from the real treason going on at the Federal Reserve.

43 posted on 12/13/2008 2:48:35 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

I don’t brand his argument treasonous—just misinformed, but, for the record, I don’t think you should fight a war unless you take territory either. We didn’t fight native Americans up into caves. We brought missionaries along with the soldiers, and we added new stars onto the union flag. Where I differ with Paul is in thinking that 9/11 could have been avoided by ignoring Islam. Unless you want to leave Israel stranded, and our interest in world oil supplies unattended, you have to understand that Islam is a threat to domestic tranquility economic growth.


44 posted on 12/13/2008 4:31:48 PM PST by farmer18th (George Will: Conservative, as long as the Newsweek People Don't make Fun of Me.)
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To: farmer18th
Where is Paul on Islamofascism?

Letting them kill each other, and if they attack us again, they'll be wiped out and left to rebuild their own cesspool.

45 posted on 12/13/2008 4:38:32 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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