Posted on 01/09/2012 7:07:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Intellectually speaking, we live in fascinating, if dangerous, times. Given a larger view of history, it should be understood that nations, political systems, and currencies come and go on a fairly regular basis. Human freedom is an exception -- not the norm.
There are four core components necessary for the existence of an independent, sovereign nation: A system of laws (constitutional or otherwise,) geographical borders, a sound monetary system, and a defensive function.
Presently, the United States is failing (or trending toward failure) on the first three counts. Failure on two or more will lead to a failure of the fourth (national defense.) Capitalism notwithstanding, could it be that this is what Russia, China, and the emerging Islamic Caliphate want? Or what George Soros wants?
It is for this reason that I support Ron Paul for POTUS. Yes, detractors of Paul's foreign policy may have legitimate gripes -- in particular his seeming failure to understand that radical Islamists cannot be disincentivized in the same way that Soviet Communists could.
Here is a short, 2002 video of Ron Paul making a multitude of predictions in the areas of economics and geopolitics. Watch the entire thing before judging -- Paul's accuracy craves explanation.
http://youtu.be/zGDisyWkIBM ;
Could it be that Ron Paul is right about economics, the Constitution, and geopolitics, and that his detractors are the ones that have it wrong?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I don’t know if Paul was drafted or not, but the idea that the Army would make an infantry man out of a Medical Doctor is just plan crazy. And yes Medical Doctors can be forced into service if the Armed Forces need them. I don’t know if it is called a draft or not, and it is not the same as the regular draft for 2 years of service that was used during Vietnam. Since I like Newt I am not going to go into the details of his situation during the Vietnam war. Since I don’t find them very flattering.
What does this mean? He’s still on video campaigning with and endorsing a well-known Code Pink activist and 9/11 truther, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Here’s a thread to some of the history of gold standard banking.
It was an awful mess. Unworkable IMHO. Its why no one earth is on a gold standard.
In other words, nuts. Just like RP.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2689034/posts?page=1
Anyone can make predictions. If you know a little bit about history and you are following curent trends you have a better than 50% chance of being correct.
None the less even if he got 80% of his prediction right doesn’t qualify him to be President.
Heres a prediction I am makeing: Ron Paul will not be President.
After the election tell me I am genius. I mean I predicted the future.
Actually, it is pretty common, especially among non-trauma doctors like Paul (he was just an OBGYN). My dad was an electrical engineer. He joined the Air Force to avoid being drafted into the Army, and guess what, he was loaned out to the Army in the field as a radio operator. The point is, Paul lied both about his service and about Newt. (and it isn't the first time, he isn't the nice old honest grandpa type his supporters make him out to be.)
bfl
Granted nobody should want Ron Paul in the whitehouse, but Dennis Kucinich was right about Kosovo and he’s one of the two or three people of either party who has any realistic grasp of money policy and the theory and history of money. Money issues scare me precisely because almost no politicians understand them.
From 1717 (or possibly earlier) to 1914 Britain, the world's dominant economic power for most of this period, was on a de facto or de jure gold standard. With difficulty during the Napoleonic Wars and other periods, of course.
The US was on a gold or gold/silver standard for most of its history up to about 1930, with intermissions for Civil War and WWI.
This ~200 year period saw a long-term and quite remarkable economic expansion. It remains to be seen whether the fiat system we've had for the last almost-century will be able to show similar legs. Recent events do not give grounds for optimism.
The only way it could be practical and secure is to first highly ramp up our domestic mining operations to where we can control the market more.
That would seem to put the ability to manipulate the money market into private rather than government hands. Unless gold-mining were to be nationalized or highly regulated.
Are you believing some of the posts in this thread? Unbelievable that the one candidate that has a proven record of always siding on the side of the Constitution is being viciously attacked. yeah he got some strange ideas, some of which we might not want to implement but really guys/gals maybe you could tone the attacks down a bit? Ron Paul is running second/third in the primaries, maybe his voters will be needed in the general? Just saying
GDP grew nicely long term under the gold standard (e.g. late 1800's) The problems, just like with currency, stem from politics and manipulation. Certainly the current dollar regime is a mess, we have no choices but future inflation or major recession.
He seemed to be who was behind the numbers that made Ron Paul's predictions so accurate.
No individual, no family, no business and certainly no nation can flaunt the natural laws of finance for long.
Sooner or later, each will crash and burn the same as an overloaded 747 that runs out of fuel with nary a runway in sight.
We are not exempt from the lesson history is about to teach us.
Well yes. Yes I do...........
Minor deflation that would quickly come into equilibrium with economic activity. Economic trouble comes from booms and busts and booms are normally triggered by increased inflationary expectations. A steady inflation would not be bad, just like steady deflation but the former is much more difficult than the latter.
I don’t think anyone in this thread is suggesting he ought to be President. I certainly am not. Nice straw man.
And your putting your prediction in the same category as all that RP got right in that video is not even worth commenting upon.
“Unbelievable that the one candidate that has a proven record of always siding on the side of the Constitution is being viciously attacked.”
NO! Ron Paul trashes the United States Constitution. Just because Ron Paul and his cult’s spin machine continue to say the word “Constitution” over and over does not change the fact that he tramples the “provide for the common defense” and “promote the general welfare” with his isolationist weak military and dope pushing.
You've got it exactly backwards. Gold is stable, currency is not.
IIRC, it was Nixon who ended the "Gold Standard" in 1970/71 ...
No it is not common at all. I have forgotten the indecent but in WW2 or WW1 a great scientist was drafted and killed in action as a regular infantry man. After that either a law was passed or an executive order released that stopped the practice of drafting certain categories of occupations into a a regular infantry MOS. Medical Doctors being one of them.
You can't continue the lie Paul-drone.
Nixon ended the last legal vestige of the gold standard. It ended in reality in the early 30s.
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