Liberty MavenMore Ron Paul in 2012 Talk
December 26th, 2008 12:03 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Election, Liberty, Politics, Ron Paul, inflation | 2 Responses
I almost missed this one due to the holiday, but Doug Wead’s latest Ron Paul in 2012 article was published yesterday and it’s another great one. In this one he echoes my own thoughts that the state of the economy by 2012 may play right into Ron Paul’s chances of winning the GOP nomination.
The others will be debating how much the government’s latest bailout should be. Or whether there should be six more or three more. They can’t very well say there shouldn’t have been any since they are already on record. Only Ron Paul can be saying that the nationalization of the insurance industry or the banks or the car industry and all the others that will follow represented an abandonment of the free market system and the Swedenization of America at a time when even Sweden has backed away from socialism as a failed model.
People say, well Ron Paul was an aberration. He only “took” with an activist’s segment because of the unpopularity of the Iraq War. But by 2012 the American economy could very well be in chaos over the decisions we are making now.
Take for example the supply of money. Trillions of new dollars are being printed. Eventually, as this continues, our own dollars will be watered down and diluted. It is like a wave out there that is on its way and will someday soon hit the shore. It has already been set in motion and it will come. Every time they print more money it is like a tax on the money in your pocket because they are diminishing from its value. So George W. Bush, the great conservative, who refused to raise taxes, spent so much money that we didn’t have that he was forced to just print more. Ironically, we all got taxed by default, by losing the value of the money we had.
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December 28th, 2008 at 5:32 pm (#)
[...] do better in 2012 than he did in 2008. He has plenty of “see I told you so” behind him. As Liberty Maven posted, “the state of the economy by 2012 may play right into Ron Paul’s chances of winning the [...]
December 29th, 2008 at 3:11 am (#)
Nice sentiment, but do you realize how old the man is right now? We need a new man to rally behind. Lew Rockwell or Jacob Hornberger or someone I have never heard of yet. We have four years to get it together.
I have one problem with your article, you don’t seem to understand Austrian Economics. You write: “Eventually, as this continues, our own dollars will be watered down and diluted.” There is no eventually about it. Every dollar printed, created electronically, or however they “make” it, dilutes our currency. Every single dollar. The only question is a matter of how much, not when.
Moreover, this is not ironic at all. The very creation of the Fed was so that politicians could rob us blind without raising taxes. They do it on purpose. They LIE to us in those speeches when they say they won’t raise taxes. They know what they are doing. It is not by mistake that they promise one thing but do another.
Obama is the same. The headlines are hysterical. In one fell swoop it says that Obama will be keeping his campaign promises of lowering the taxes on the middle class while at the same time they talk of him creating a “stimulus” package of stealing 800 billion from all us middle classers so that he can give some of that back to us. Does anyone read what they themselves write? Do they not realize that how incredibly backwards they are?
Ron Paul is a good man. But he made a lousy candidate. He never wanted to win, he wanted to make a statement. He did that. His campaign was run by children, on purpose, so that he wouldn’t win. I know, I have heard them confess. I only wish he had told all of us because I spent more money than I could afford to get him elected. I also wish he had spent all of the money on the Presidential campaign. Ah well…
What we need now is education. Even the people writing for the cause don’t truly understand it. Now is the time for all of us to read Man, Economy and State and Human Action. We have time. Ron Paul has read them both. If we don’t then how can have any idea what he is talking about.