One major role the government should have is policing fraud. This is proper regulation. Fraud occurs daily in a fractional lending banking institution. You are aware your money is not actually there in the bank correct? The lower the reserve requirements, the more at-risk the system is to failure and the less informed depositors must be to keep their funds in a bank. Right now, the government engine is running full throttle to keep the confidence going. Essentially, government is helping to continue a fraud! This is backwards activity. We should have a movement towards sound currency and sound banking and the free market in these institutions would lead in this direction. You appear to simply lack some of the root level awareness of how government action is actually perpetuating a fraud.
The empire coming to an end is a good thing. One of the few good things about this economic collapse is the government may be prevented from starting another war and committing mass murder.
The best thing to show that the US is not a free market is to show that the FED can decide the interest rates, and the never-ending banking legsilation.
@ kemp34harsh jail time doesn't fix the country. you miss my point which is that we are setting ourselves up for failure allowing large sums of money to be moved around in secret.<a class="user" href="http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/12/enron.qanda.focus/">http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/12/enron.qanda. ...</a>how would jailing someone, anyone... improve our economy?that was behind the enron crisis and it was behind the mortgage crisis as well. we really have two choices: we can reduce the amount of money in play or we can recognize the importance of knowing where it is and what it might do.when ron paul had the chance, he said it was not the business of the government to be involved. it's your own choice to decide if that matters or not.i think it matters.
I think he drop because he doesnt want to just try. He wants to win, and he thinks his best chance to win is by being the republican candidate (he is republican remember?) I think he prefers not to burn himself and try to be the republican candidate for next elections.
Closed AccountOct 14, 2008
One major role the government should have is policing fraud. This is proper regulation. Fraud occurs daily in a fractional lending banking institution. You are aware your money is not actually there in the bank correct? The lower the reserve requirements, the more at-risk the system is to failure and the less informed depositors must be to keep their funds in a bank. Right now, the government engine is running full throttle to keep the confidence going. Essentially, government is helping to continue a fraud! This is backwards activity. We should have a movement towards sound currency and sound banking and the free market in these institutions would lead in this direction. You appear to simply lack some of the root level awareness of how government action is actually perpetuating a fraud.
Closed AccountOct 15, 2008
The empire coming to an end is a good thing. One of the few good things about this economic collapse is the government may be prevented from starting another war and committing mass murder.
hugolpOct 15, 2008
The best thing to show that the US is not a free market is to show that the FED can decide the interest rates, and the never-ending banking legsilation.
uncleosbertOct 15, 2008
@ kemp34harsh jail time doesn't fix the country. you miss my point which is that we are setting ourselves up for failure allowing large sums of money to be moved around in secret.<a class="user" href="http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/12/enron.qanda.focus/">http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/12/enron.qanda. ...</a>how would jailing someone, anyone... improve our economy?that was behind the enron crisis and it was behind the mortgage crisis as well. we really have two choices: we can reduce the amount of money in play or we can recognize the importance of knowing where it is and what it might do.when ron paul had the chance, he said it was not the business of the government to be involved. it's your own choice to decide if that matters or not.i think it matters.
hugolpOct 15, 2008
I think he drop because he doesnt want to just try. He wants to win, and he thinks his best chance to win is by being the republican candidate (he is republican remember?) I think he prefers not to burn himself and try to be the republican candidate for next elections.
vixelpixenOct 24, 2008
Ron Paul is now an official write-in candidate in California according to <a class="user" href="http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/10/24/california-only-has-4-declared-presidential-write-in-candidates/">http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/10/24/california ...</a><a class="user" href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/023626.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/023 ...</a><a class="user" href="http://www.dailypaul.com/node/69997">http://www.dailypaul.com/node/69997</a>We should spread the word as there only a couple of weeks now.