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Originally Posted by Snownuts
judging by his initial post hes not as stupid in his responses as you are, and is more than capable of answering for himself without some childish nonsense dropped by you.
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No LPYW pretty much summed up what I was going to say. AGAIN. YET FUCKING AGAIN, someone on here has to take one tiny fragment and twist to fit their bullshit. When I called you all over the place, I meant that you are a hypocrite who admonishes practices you engage in. I in no way meant that your posts were hard to respond to.
As of now, I back Ron Paul. I find his discussion of the money markets apt, and his prescriptions for closer regulation of the Fed very wise. He opposes inflationary devaluation of American currency, which threatens to topple the American nation. All of the other candidates propose outrageous expenditures. The money for these expenditures is essentially printed out of thin air.
Note that in economic terms, the price of money in money markets is the interest rate. It is a basic reality [as in no matter how CNN manipulates the stock market figures] that if you print more money, the value of the dollar plummets. Bernanke (chairman of the Federal Reserve) simply dismisses Ron Paul saying that the Fed is looking to lower interest rates. When Bernanke says this, what you must realize is that this entails PRINTING MORE MONEY!!! Anyone catching a trend here? The current way of doing things is clearly not working.
But what if they just take some of the money out of the supply, in the hopes of increasing interest rates? Oh... damn... forgot about the credit crisis in the US money markets.
I very much believe in his policy for Iraq, and I respect that he has a knowledge and appreciation of the history of American intervention in the Middle East. Remarkably, he appears to be the only one that can think back further than the First Gulf War. He espouses views of multilateralism and not unilateralism--I will only comment that America's unilateralism has caused much of the backlash America is experiencing. NOTE: This does not mean I think 9/11 was good or justified, just in case any Guiliani-lovers are reading. It simply means that I realize that even America is not immune to criticism just because they're "number one".
Finally, he defends basic human rights like habeas corpus, and is very much in favour of Constitutional tradition. Relating back to unilateralism, he doesn't believe that the president should be able to do anything he so pleases, without consulting Congress. As far as I can tell from facts [so claims about WMDs are no longer count], the War in Iraq was about oil. I could understand chasing Bin Laden (despite training him), yet Bush never convincingly stated how Bin Laden = Hussein. Even if it was about pre-empting terrorism, that method has proving deadly and astronomically expensive. That method is no longer sustainable. It is obvious that the US should tighten up at home before they police everyone else. Anyone care to compare US security with airport security in the middle east? Keeping America safe was possible without all those troops even leaving America.
So....there are a few the ISSUES I agree with Ron Paul on. I am curious though? I understand that maybe people have ideological differences and different prescriptions for what should be done to better America. However, I would like to hear someone eloquently and logically set forth some of the arguments from other candidates. I haven't heard anyone speaking as much sense as Ron Paul. If you guys disagree with me, fine. But please start rebutting points on some of the
issues that affect your nation. I haven't seen a debate on Fox yet where Ron Paul's issues were intelligently rebutted. Instead, I see snickering schoolboys smearing on the man, and not the message.
And if we must discuss the man, well why don't we discuss his voting record. No flip-flopping. Against the Gulf Wars, both of which turned out to be disastrous. Against funding dictators abroad. The man has principles, and he has voted consistently in line with his principles. I trust the man to follow through on his policies, unlike the other pandering candidates. Anyone getting fuzzy on the difference between Republican and Democrat anymore? No wonder. And all this character assassination towards Paul is ridiculous. Shifty claims of his bigotry abound to hissing and clucking, while the current President has a DUI in his checkered history, and apparently is incapable of raising daughters who aren't drunkards. If you guys WANT to talk only BULLSHIT issues, I will certainly do it but we all know they help nothing.