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Old 05-30-2014, 05:09 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, La. USA
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Ron Paul is the most hard hitting, brutally honest, and strait forward politician I have ever seen in Washington.

Rand Paul is a corporate backed worm that would destroy our country with national debt caused by lowering rich peoples tax rates.

The 5 Worst Things About Rand Paul's Budget Proposal | ThinkProgress


Its sad that we live in a country where a real man like Ron Paul has no chance to win. But a non-man corporate worm like Rand Paul has a chance.
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Old 05-30-2014, 10:46 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Again, we had more busts before the fed. Keep telling yourself it's the government and not the free market correction.
Again a Central Bank is just like the Federal Reserve and it is government that causes the booms and busts. How come you don't understand that?
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Old 05-30-2014, 10:47 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Ron Paul is the most hard hitting, brutally honest, and strait forward politician I have ever seen in Washington.

Rand Paul is a corporate backed worm that would destroy our country with national debt caused by lowering rich peoples tax rates.

The 5 Worst Things About Rand Paul's Budget Proposal | ThinkProgress


Its sad that we live in a country where a real man like Ron Paul has no chance to win. But a non-man corporate worm like Rand Paul has a chance.
corporate backed? lmao How come you don't know there is very little difference in the policies between father and son?
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Old 05-31-2014, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Where they serve real ale.
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Stable like the Great Depression? Stable like the dollars value being much worse in the last 50 years than before? The problem is government, along with a central bank, interfering in the free market not the gold standard.
There is a reason every country went off the gold standard and it is because it constrains economic growth due to a lack of gold. Also it prevented trade flows from really working efficiently because if everyone's currency is tied to gold then currencies can't really float to correct for trade imbalances.
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Old 05-31-2014, 07:47 AM
 
Location: Steeler Nation
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Stable like the Great Depression? Stable like the dollars value being much worse in the last 50 years than before? The problem is government, along with a central bank, interfering in the free market not the gold standard.
And printing money.
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Old 05-31-2014, 08:07 AM
 
Location: Steeler Nation
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There is a reason every country went off the gold standard and it is because it constrains economic growth due to a lack of gold. Also it prevented trade flows from really working efficiently because if everyone's currency is tied to gold then currencies can't really float to correct for trade imbalances.
Here's a good article for you....
Nixon's Colossal Monetary Error: The Verdict 40 Years Later - Forbes
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Old 05-31-2014, 09:32 AM
 
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No, that honor belongs to Dr. Ben Carson!

Runner up.... Ted Cruz. I like him a lot too.

Rand Paul is alright, I like Ron Paul as a person and believe he's the only honest politician in Washington, but some of his policies are..... crazy to say the least.
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Old 05-31-2014, 12:27 PM
 
Location: Texas
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There is a reason every country went off the gold standard and it is because it constrains economic growth due to a lack of gold.
The reason is simple. Doesn't surprise me you don't get it. He who controls the money supply controls the nation.

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Also it prevented trade flows from really working efficiently because if everyone's currency is tied to gold then currencies can't really float to correct for trade imbalances.
This is gibberish. The international gold standard of 1/20 of an ounce equaled one dollar, meant that the benefits of having one money medium were extended throughout the world. There were no problems with trade when we were on the gold standard. ~1815-1914 The classical gold standard era, we saw unprecedented economic growth and free trade in goods, capital, and labor. We saw countries going off the gold standard in WW1 and use inflationary tactics. It came back near the end of the 1920's until Great Britian and the US went off it in the early 1930's.

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Old 05-31-2014, 12:40 PM
 
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Ron Paul published a newsletter that sometimes insulted and demeaned black people

Rand Paul said he would not have voted for the 1964 civil rights bill.

In my opinion, those facts should disqualify either from holding elected political office let alone the Presidency.
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Old 05-31-2014, 12:53 PM
 
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I'm always amazed by people who are swept up into thinking an individual will 'save' them from a machine they merely want to profit from and so maintain its functioning to keep themselves profitable.
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