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Old 02-26-2009, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Ron Paul is not afraid to say it like it is. It is true that they are trying to reinflate the bubble.
Loaning money to banks to loan to consumers ? Telling consumers to buy ?
Mass layoffs and about 5 million on unemployment while they tell us mortgage rates are coming down ?

Advertisements to book a flight, "but we'll buy back the ticket if you get laid off"
Advertisements to buy a car, "but we'll take back the car no problem if you get laid off"

What the heck is wrong with this picture ? We need stable steady jobs, debt we can live with and savings. That's what we need but that is not what the government is pushing.
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Old 02-26-2009, 05:14 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Did anyone catch that Ron Paul mentioned a global takeover..with global banks and global regulations ?

That is one very real possibility..all debt could be defaulted and everyone move to the "new" system.
If it's done on a global scale then all "workers" can be equalized in salary levels via a new global currency.

Tin foil ? maybe..but there's been enough discussion about it that it might be the banksters only way out. The US printing presses cannot cover the trillions upon trillions lost by the banks.
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Old 02-26-2009, 05:17 PM
 
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It isn't about feelings. It is about fact.
You sound like a dogmatic Marxist I used to know who insisted that dialectical determinism trump all other possible causal factors. Take for example, "feelings are relationships" what exactly is the basis of leadership? It is a relationship based upon the same feelings, faith and trust that bind any other relationship. If politics wasn't based upon feelings we could simply program a computer to run the country.
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Old 02-26-2009, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Harrisonville
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Caught off guard by expecting in a limited amount of airtime to get statements from Bernanke (the NEWs) or to get the opening statements of the Congressmen (not the News)? On that point I would agree, but to try to inflate that into being caught off guard because it was Ron Paul, is rather silly.

CNBC isn't C-Span.

Well, nothing is too silly for Alex Jones.

It's just your basic mike-hog co-opting somebody else's interview.
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Old 02-26-2009, 06:15 PM
 
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Did anyone catch that Ron Paul mentioned a global takeover..with global banks and global regulations ?

That is one very real possibility..all debt could be defaulted and everyone move to the "new" system.
If it's done on a global scale then all "workers" can be equalized in salary levels via a new global currency.

Tin foil ? maybe..but there's been enough discussion about it that it might be the banksters only way out. The US printing presses cannot cover the trillions upon trillions lost by the banks.
D*mn you, Guttenberg!
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Old 02-26-2009, 06:20 PM
 
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Ron paul is old news and ihn senate hearings he never asks a question because he makes the same statements over and over again from reading points. he is 1950's sates right talking;nothing new.ZThat is why he is a repersentaive and not a senator. Represenatives are small fish in a big pond.
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Old 02-26-2009, 06:26 PM
 
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"CNBC Anchors Mortified That Ron Paul Was Allowed Air Time"

CNBC airs Ron Paul's remarks in their entirety and cut away only after the mike is yielded to Rep. Mike Castle. They were right, as their graphics make clear they were hoping for the statements of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. If they didn't like what Paul was saying they could have easily cut away at anytime during his comments, they didn't.

Get a grip.

I'll bet you would just die if Ben Bernanke had to go one-on-one with Ron Paul.
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Old 02-26-2009, 06:30 PM
 
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Well, nothing is too silly for Alex Jones.

It's just your basic mike-hog co-opting somebody else's interview.

Yeah, sneaking Ron Paul into a Congressional Hearing - very silly of Alex Jones to do that.
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Old 02-26-2009, 06:46 PM
 
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I didn't forget, and I haven't forgotten that Ron Paul supporters think he is the second coming of St. Paul and that's ok. But at some point you have to come to grips with the fact that a lot of us just don't feel that way and no amount of exposure to Dr. Paul is going to change that.

I'm sorry fellas but Ron Paul isn't suffering from a some massive conspiracy, some media cabal bent of "keeping the truth" from the American people. The plain simple fact of the matter is that for most of us, Dr. Paul and/or his arguments, observations and policies ideas just aren't compellingly attractive.

Again, CNBC could have in a flash cut away from Rep Paul as soon has be made his first utterance if that was the intent. It wasn't get over it.
You seem to be implying that unless it is Bernanke, it isn't news. So in other words only a select few individuals get to be considered "news" and everyone else doesn't matter. While I agree that CNBC isn't C-SPAN the comments by non-Bernankes is JUST as important. The truth is we are deliberately being fed only one storyline and anyone other than the selected soundbiters is to be regarded as "substandard" to use the anchor's terminology. Sad, very sad.

The truth will never get air time.
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Old 02-26-2009, 06:49 PM
 
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Ron paul is old news and ihn senate hearings he never asks a question because he makes the same statements over and over again from reading points. he is 1950's sates right talking;nothing new.ZThat is why he is a repersentaive and not a senator. Represenatives are small fish in a big pond.
And the biggest message can come from the smallest person. Your point seems to be that you think he's irrelevant. He is not President because he's not good enough, he's not President because he tells the truth.
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