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take off your blinds ron paul is still in the race.with the msm blessings or not.

Matt Foley said:
Nobody here wants to turn themselves into a currency exchange booth so they can be screwed by currency manipulators.
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We are already getting screwed by currency manipulators. The only difference is that we only have one major currency manipulator to deal with right now.

StillBallin75 said:
Being a Paulite doesn't make you enlightened. I've met both moronic Paul supporters and intelligent Paul supporters. Either way though, this isn't evidence of anything. He's too far back in the delegate race to do anything significant.
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Not true actually, Paul is doing extremely well in the actual delegate race. The "projected count" you get from the media is a blatant deception that they mindlessly perpetrate on us every primary season. Of course, that deception provides a good cover for the dirty tricks of the political establishment arrayed against Ron Paul in the real race that no one talks about.

Chiefgator said:
As for the Guilded Age, I am only familiar because I have a 20 year old son and he is into fantasy comics.
If you were actually talking about the Gilded Age after the US Civil War, I am fairly familiar with that too. The funny part is the term was coined by Mark Twain as a parody because it was not really a Golden Age but one that only has a film of gold covering the surface. A great many people were exploited in that era so that a very select few could get filthy rich.
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Actually, the Gilded Age was an attack on the political corruption that dominated the era. Corruption inherently distorts the market as government uses its power to manipulate the economic process and the wealthy use the government to enrich themselves even more.

As for the FED. It serves a very important purpose and I agree it has many flaws. I think the fault lies more in the management of it than in it's actual function. Personally, I think it mostly stems from the fact that it is basically a Bank that is run by Bankers to regulate Banks and Bankers... The inmates have the keys to the asylum. But, returning to the Gold Standard and ending the FED is not the cure.
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Do you think a Fed run by professional bureaucrats would do any better?
 
Fubar said:
The mere words u use tell me u know of ron Paul only from the media clowns.try to think for yourself,without TV circus.you might discover something.
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I can read his books without the media clowns help. I can read his campaign promises without the media clowns help. I can listen to him speak with the media clowns help. I don't think that my ideas are being shaped significantly by any clowns in the media. I legitimately think his policies are incredibly dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.
 
Demon of Light said:
Do you think a Fed run by professional bureaucrats would do any better?
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No, I do not. A FED run by an appointed panel of finance experts that are not current employees of the banks they are regulating would probably be a better option. More oversight and an audit may help a bit as well....

As for the Gilded Age, I agree with you. The political corruption led to the era of the "Robber Barons". I do see some of the same parallels with the Corporate Crony set up that is currently in Washington. The complete dismissal of all regulation will not help that situation.
 
Chiefgator said:
As for the Gilded Age, I agree with you. The political corruption led to the era of the "Robber Barons". I do see some of the same parallels with the Corporate Crony set up that is currently in Washington. The complete dismissal of all regulation will not help that situation.
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You didn't need "regulation" during the Gilded Age, all you needed was a politician with the balls to break up monopolies and trusts.
 
Demon of Light said:
We are already getting screwed by currency manipulators. The only difference is that we only have one major currency manipulator to deal with right now.
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"blah blah, the government is a monopoly, Microsoft isn't, blah blah blah," that's what I hear from Ronulans.
 
Matt Foley said:
You didn't need "regulation" during the Gilded Age, all you needed was a politician with the balls to break up monopolies and trusts.
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Enter TR.... But under what authority when we have broken up those monopolies & trusts without the regulation to back it up?
 
NAKED N00B said:
It's weird to hear a Paulista tell everyone else to take off their blinders.

These guys are so entranced by the ramblings of this one nutjob that they're blind to reality.
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You have it easier, your nutjob has already been picked out for you.
 
Ron Paul is securing delegates. In Minnesota, he just swept through the district delegate voting...he took 20 of 24 delegates. He is doing the same in Iowa, Alaska, and many other caucus states.

Source: Here
 
It will be interesting to see what the media concocts against him this round. Hope the major news sources are ready for his seasoned defenses.

*boxing comentator*
"CNN GOES DOWN! Haymaker to the temple! MSN going down, Rabbit punch to the diaphragm! FOX is out of the fight with a slight cut to the eye!"
 
Matt Foley said:
The authority of Congress, you don't need beaurocrats to get stuff done. Bureaocrats Bur, ugh...
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Congress has the Authority to REGULATE commerce... So they will have to pass the REGULATIONS... They cannot just say the word and stuff happens.
One of those regulations was the Sherman Act. It basically did nothing until TR came in (10 years later or so) and had his AG launch a series of lawsuits against what TR called "offensive business combinations".

TR was exactly what you called for. The politician with the balls to break up the trusts.

He did grow the Govt in doing so, tho. He formed the Dept of Commerce and Labor. Without it, Standard Oil et al. would have reformed. A laissez faire approach to industy is wonderful..... if you own the big business. If you are the small guy or a worker, you will get plowed under.
 
NAKED N00B said:
I can read his books without the media clowns help. I can read his campaign promises without the media clowns help. I can listen to him speak with the media clowns help. I don't think that my ideas are being shaped significantly by any clowns in the media. I legitimately think his policies are incredibly dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.
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for some reason i believe you are honest.i can respect that.
 
AreteCourage said:
Ron Paul is securing delegates. In Minnesota, he just swept through the district delegate voting...he took 20 of 24 delegates. He is doing the same in Iowa, Alaska, and many other caucus states.

Source: Here
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