“If the guy is such a sure loser in 2012, why all the attacks? In his quiet way, Paul must have tapped into something. And you can get an idea of that something from what Pat Buchanan wrote the other day about the CPAC poll.
After asking “how do conservatives justify borrowing hundreds of billions yearly from Europe, Japan and the Gulf states — to defend Europe, Japan and the Arab Gulf states?” Buchanan answered his own question by making the case that such policies are not conservative at all.
“Ron Paul’s victory at CPAC may be a sign the prodigal sons of the right are casting off the heresy of neoconservatism and coming home to first principles,” Buchanan concluded.
Buchanan has put his finger on why the unemotional Texas congressman produces such an emotional reaction. The party establishment has to dread the prospect of a candidate who can unite the youthful libertarian conservatives with the Buchananite America-first types. Such a character might win a plurality running against Romney, Huckabee and neocon Barbie doll Sarah Palin.
And Paul might have the most money of them all, thanks to the support of those young voters who actually understand how the internet works. I suspect this is what all the shouting is about, even though the subject of it all never raises his voice.”
I wonder if Ron Paul can stop the U.S. prison system from jailing more people than communist Red China?
There’s something wrong in America with over 900 military bases worldwide,a national intelligence agency out of control and securities regulators catering to organized crime by allowing corruption to flurish.
Maybe we should all just sit back,relax and smo ke a joint while the mafia gets rich off of all the people in America during today’s prohibition on hemp.
Wake up America,the founders of the Constitution warned us about the Federal Government.
By the way,don’t end up in prison my fellow Americans because you’ll be used as slave labor.
Now you’ll be assembling appliances and building furniture just to stay competitive with our overseas friends.
If you don’t co-operate it’s solitary buddy.
“…By the way,don’t end up in prison my fellow Americans because you’ll be used as slave labor.
Now you’ll be assembling appliances and building furniture just to stay competitive with our overseas friends.”
How will those on the outside be any different than those described above on the inside? Those on the inside will have three squares a day and a roof over their heads?
At what % of unemployment do the jails and prisons have to start closing because so many find it a better slot in life and want in? 30%? 50%? Detroit is 50% in some places, I haven’t heard of people wanting in, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening, the recidivism rate would reveal much too I imagine… everything hinges on the continued flow of unemployment and welfare checks. That’s what happens when the government Is the GDP?
Did protectionism work in the past? It was the mainstay for a long time of the old British Empire wasn’t it?
Global rebalancing
Fiat Dollar volatility
Global currency volatility…
“neocon Barbie doll Sarah Palin” – Heh, I like that. I wonder how much of her support comes from the same kind of support the woman leader Kirchiner down in Argentina gets, the make-up factor? I’ll bet it’s huge…. those people bewilder me.
I don’t know, the ideas of Ron Paul must scare/ make a lot of people really uncomfortable in their positions both ideologically and power/money-wise. I say this because of the enthusiastic response an employed stereotypical “Ditto Head” Rush Limbaugh fan had during and after a viewing of the DVD Fall of the Republic. The guy even wanted to make copies to give to his other fully employed Ditto Head friends. I was amazed at his response, I can see it multiplying fast and the donation coffers at the RNC drying up quick as a result. Oh boy, that’s it, when Ron Paul speaks, the RNC feels it in their treasure chest and in their ability to control and manipulate the flow of information, that’s why they get so bent out of shape simply discussing an idea to the point they refuse to converse. It’s so funny when they do that, but kind of painful to watch, you sort of expect them to start twitching if they go on.
Ron Paul and the Libertarians, any others too, they need more DVD type media to captivate and draw the passive TV viewing segments of the population, not the brain-dead clueless viewers, rather the “so-tired-from-work-can’t-move” types who know something strange is happening here, but it’s not exactly clear…
Sorry for the rant, I just felt like it.
Hope your feeling totally better… did you take any shareable photos, get any cool souvenirs?
I believe we have 3 or 4 years tops before the whole thing comes crashing down. What’s gonna happen when the checks (ssi, ss, food stamps, medicare, unemployment, welfare) stop? Today I had a meeting with someone from the central part of the state I live in, who is chairman of the local economic development agency and he said that next month, the unemployment checks for 3500 people (of a town that consists of maybe 50,000 people stop. This after extension and extension but now there are no more.
It may already be too late but if not, there is only one person who can do it and that’s Ron Paul.
Jeff –
Don’t you think it’s already crashed down, and we’re just not fully aware of it?
I mean half the states are bankrupt…
The country is bankrupt..
And yet we keep kissing the backsides of the quislings and thieves who did this…
I don’t think Bernanke, Geithner, Summers, Paulson, Blankfein and the rest are either morons or incompetent in the usual sense.
They simply don’t care what we the people think, because they don’t answer to us.
I am not even sure they can be called crooks in the ordinary sense. I really do think they see themselves as doing “god’s work.” If that means dealing devastation and pain to vast portions of humanity, so be it..they have a “higher calling”.
It’s deeply frightening.
Clark, of course, I took photos…but you know how wary I am about the net…
And I use and old fashioned camera so I need to develop stuff.
I will, I promise, buy a digital camera in a month. It’s so much easier.
And I owe you guys a round up of my impressions, which I will provide in a couple of days.
It’s raining now where I am and awfully cold for this time in the south….under 5 degrees celsius.
Still, I feel happy to be back speaking English and again in a country as well organized and energetic as the US. I missed that part of it a lot.
And cheap food too. After tiny, tiny cups of espresso for 20 pesos (one dollar in Uruguay), it’s nice to sample breakfast here again.
A 24 oz cup of Cinnamon coffee is less than a dollar and a sausage biscuit is another dollar. And then, remember, salaries here are four times what they are in Uruguay.
You couldn’t make breakfast at home cheaper.
I daresay food will go up too…but except for the fact that houses and land prices are not cheap here, I am not sure that any of those countries are in better shape.
And I don’t seem Latin America creating jobs as Asia does…or the US still does.