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Will the Real Ron Paul Please Stand?

The News Media is going insane over Rick Perry’s brain-freeze last night (take a listen). Perry attempting to prove a point to Ron Paul that he is equally as tough on cutting failed to mention the third department he would cut. As Drudge Report noted, it was 53 seconds of pure agony and embarrassment. But what the media has failed to mention is that Rick Perry is actually talking about cutting departments, not tinkering with them. Perry’s tough cuts talk was clouded by his lack of memory (let’s face it, it happens to all of us, but we are not on the national scene). All the candidates are in some sense trying to speak Paulian without giving him credit (though it should be noted Gingrich spoke favorably of Paul concerning the Federal Reserve). Everyone tries to be Ron Paul because they realize that his ideas have finally become ripened for consumption. Everyone tries to be Ron Paul, but there is only one; only one who is consistent–not you Mitt Romney–and faithful to his principles.<>проверка ключевых слов

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Iran and Nuclear Weapons

The hype about Iran’s nuclear weapons is getting explosive! Fox News Sunday (Christ Wallace)  led by their fearless neo-conservative commentator, Bill Kristol, says that Israel’s president is actually preparing to take down Iran’s facilities. All of this stems from the much anticipated report by the IAEA report. But contrary to popular assertions, Flynn Leverret summarizes well the report when he writes:

…Even if every single point in the IAEA’s report were absolutely, 100 percent true, it would mean that Iran is working systematically to master the skills it would need to fabricate nuclear weapons at some hypothetical point down the road, should it ever decide to do so.

The march to war would most likely put all the pressure on the U.S. to act on behalf of Israel, which would mean an additional decade of war in the Middle East. We cannot afford this fear talk all over again. –UB<> купить текста для а стоимость

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Who is Serious about Cutting Spending?

I am the only candidate with a serious plan to cut spending, balance the budget and promote freedom and prosperity, and I hope you will join me in working to restore America now.–Ron Paul
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Flat Tax is an Income tax

Laurence Vance summarizes Chodorov’s argument against an income tax of any sort:

Because the Flat Tax is still an income tax, it deserves the scorn heaped upon the income tax by Old Right stalwart Frank Chodorov in his book The Income Tax: Root of All Evil. As explained in this classic work, with an income tax the state says to its citizens: “Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide. . . . The amount of your earnings that you may retain for yourself is determined by the needs of government, and you have nothing to say about it.”

Though I would probably be comfortable with Peter Schiff and Jeff Miller’s version of a fair tax (consumption tax; then at the very least you would still have the choice to use your income by making purchases as you please; of course the problem is that modern fair tax proposals would mean 30% in the final sale of all new goods and services; quite a stifling proposition), which is the idea of a consumption tax over an income tax (if these were the only choices, and they are not), both flat tax and fair tax advocates suffer a thousand deaths when their ideas are quickly analyzed. Ultimately the goal is to repeal the monstrous 16th amendment.<>определение позиции в выдаче

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Identity versus Philosophy

A stunningly accurate description about voting strategy by Jack Hunter:

Most voters do not think in philosophical terms. This is not to say they don’t have political philosophies. It’s just that they arrive at their politics—first and foremost—according to which politicians they like most.

This phenomenon is perhaps easiest to observe at the moment in Obama Democrats, who’ve seen so many liberal policy promises ignored or rejected now that their guy has become president. If the Left once hated the Patriot Act and our Middle East wars with a passion, under Obama that hatred and passion has evaporated as quickly as the antiwar movement. What liberals really despised was George W. Bush. Now that a Democrat continues with the same policies, the Left magically doesn’t find them so terrible anymore.

Sarah Palin is the new George W. Bush. This is not to insult the former Alaska governor, only to note that Palin has replaced the former president as a focus of Left hatred. Just ask the average liberal their opinion of Palin. The venom spewed in your direction won’t have much to do with any particular policies, it will instead be an immediate and emotional rejection of her very person, combined with some snarky tidbits about her accent or intelligence. Read more…

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Republicans Should Learn from Ron Paul

I am not foolish. I know a Paul candidacy is a long-shot, but it is a long-shot worth waiting for. Political thinkers need a careful strategy. Putting our vote behind the front-runner for fear that no matter how bad he is he is the only chance to beat Obama does not strike me as a helpful way to think about politics. Politics is a lot more complicated and thus, a patient, long-term strategy is best. Paul’s bold fiscal cuts are precisely what the Republicans need at this stage. If Paul will not win, his strategy will. The Orange County Register’s Editorial piece is quite helpful.<>для чего нужны копирайтерыпродвижение интернет магазинов

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Buchanan on the Coming Church/State Wars

This is a very frightening piece the great paleo-con who has been sounding the bells of doom for quite some time. We do well to read this.

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Random Thoughts on Paul and Debate

As I was vociferously attempting to shed some pounds at the treadmill, the gym provides some fascinatingly silly TV programs. Among them is Fox News’ The Five. Essentially, five silly people sit around a table touting the virtues of Mitt Perry. Mitt as the presidential-looking one and Perry as the tea-party look-alike. As I keep listening enduring the muscle pain, I also have to endure their analysis of the Republican debate. Jon Hunstsman, the one who was not qualified to be in the debate, was talked about more often than Ron Paul. Yes, Ron Paul who not only dealt with every issue discussed with intense knowledge, but also the one who received great compliments from other candidates. Black this out!<>наружная реклама в ступино

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Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis

I give here the entire piece published by the Wall Street Journal written by the honorable Ron Paul:

By RON PAUL

To know what is wrong with the Federal Reserve, one must first understand the nature of money. Money is like any other good in our economy that emerges from the market to satisfy the needs and wants of consumers. Its particular usefulness is that it helps facilitate indirect exchange, making it easier for us to buy and sell goods because there is a common way of measuring their value. Money is not a government phenomenon, and it need not and should not be managed by government. When central banks like the Fed manage money they are engaging in price fixing, which leads not to prosperity but to disaster.

The Federal Reserve has caused every single boom and bust that has occurred in this country since the bank’s creation in 1913. It pumps new money into the financial system to lower interest rates and spur the economy. Adding new money increases the supply of money, making the price of money over time—the interest rate—lower than the market would make it. These lower interest rates affect the allocation of resources, causing capital to be malinvested throughout the economy. So certain projects and ventures that appear profitable when funded at artificially low interest rates are not in fact the best use of those resources.

Eventually, the economic boom created by the Fed’s actions is found to be unsustainable, and the bust ensues as this malinvested capital manifests itself in a surplus of capital goods, inventory overhangs, etc. Until these misdirected resources are put to a more productive use—the uses the free market actually desires—the economy stagnates.

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The great contribution of the Austrian school of economics to economic theory was in its description of this business cycle: the process of booms and busts, and their origins in monetary intervention by the government in cooperation with the banking system. Yet policy makers at the Federal Reserve still fail to understand the causes of our most recent financial crisis. So they find themselves unable to come up with an adequate solution.

In many respects the governors of the Federal Reserve System and the members of the Federal Open Market Committee are like all other high-ranking powerful officials. Because they make decisions that profoundly affect the workings of the economy and because they have hundreds of bright economists working for them doing research and collecting data, they buy into the pretense of knowledge—the illusion that because they have all these resources at their fingertips they therefore have the ability to guide the economy as they see fit.

Nothing could be further from the truth. No attitude could be more destructive. What the Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek victoriously asserted in the socialist calculation debate of the 1920s and 1930s—the notion that the marketplace, where people freely decide what they need and want to pay for, is the only effective way to allocate resources—may be obvious to many ordinary Americans. But it has not influenced government leaders today, who do not seem to see the importance of prices to the functioning of a market economy.

The manner of thinking of the Federal Reserve now is no different than that of the former Soviet Union, which employed hundreds of thousands of people to perform research and provide calculations in an attempt to mimic the price system of the West’s (relatively) free markets. Despite the obvious lesson to be drawn from the Soviet collapse, the U.S. still has not fully absorbed it.

 

The Fed fails to grasp that an interest rate is a price—the price of time—and that attempting to manipulate that price is as destructive as any other government price control. It fails to see that the price of housing was artificially inflated through the Fed’s monetary pumping during the early 2000s, and that the only way to restore soundness to the housing sector is to allow prices to return to sustainable market levels. Instead, the Fed’s actions have had one aim—to keep prices elevated at bubble levels—thus ensuring that bad debt remains on the books and failing firms remain in business, albatrosses around the market’s neck.

The Fed’s quantitative easing programs increased the national debt by trillions of dollars. The debt is now so large that if the central bank begins to move away from its zero interest-rate policy, the rise in interest rates will result in the U.S. government having to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in additional interest on the national debt each year. Thus there is significant political pressure being placed on the Fed to keep interest rates low. The Fed has painted itself so far into a corner now that even if it wanted to raise interest rates, as a practical matter it might not be able to do so. But it will do something, we know, because the pressure to “just do something” often outweighs all other considerations.

What exactly the Fed will do is anyone’s guess, and it is no surprise that markets continue to founder as anticipation mounts. If the Fed would stop intervening and distorting the market, and would allow the functioning of a truly free market that deals with profit and loss, our economy could recover. The continued existence of an organization that can create trillions of dollars out of thin air to purchase financial assets and prop up a fundamentally insolvent banking system is a black mark on an economy that professes to be free.

Mr. Paul, a congressman from Texas, is seeking the Republican presidential nomination.<>adwords ruпродвижение интернет  ов оп тимизация

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The End of Foreign Aid & Yesterday’s Debate

Paul–the iconic conservative–said in yesterday’s debate that foreign aid should be the easiest item to cut:

“To me, foreign aid is taking money from poor people in this country and giving it to rich people in poor countries, and it becomes weapons of war, essentially, no well — no matter how well motivated it is.”

Paul’s political purity is truly a challenge to the Republican establishment. Establishment candidates have no interest in making real substantive cuts. Paul dared the other candidates to talk about real cuts. None, of course, took up the challenge.  Paul’s purity makes his message appealing to us, but foreign to others. Yet, last night, much of Paul’s message was resonating with the audience and even with many of the candidates who hurried to shake the congressman’s hands after the debate.<>vzlomat-whatsappуслуги яндекс директ

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