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- ricperry1, on 01/02/2008, -1/+7This article is completely wrong, cites no sources, and fails to convince even the most anti-RP person who has any sort of integrity in researching FACT.
- dthomasdigital, on 01/02/2008, -1/+6He is neither xenophobic or loony. try to do a little "real" research.
- thecoolestguy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+4What a stupid article. The irony is that quiblit.com is the one that is anti-semitic, in inferring that Ron Paul's reference to the federal reserve being a private bank is actually a reference to Jews controlling America. Hey schad500, stop projecting your own paranoia onto Ron Paul. The private banking cartel that is the federal reserve is not good for anyone, Jewish, Hispanic or Ango-Saxon, as it reduces free market competition and stagnates economic growth.
Life expectancy went up 20.9 years from 1900 to 1950. This was a result of the Laissez Faire boom of the late 19th, early 20th century. Life expectancy went up only 8 years from 1950 to 2000. Big government doesn't work. Social Security is a failure. Government funded health care is a failure.
Median wages have barely grown since 1971. For the 25-34 demographic, median wages are lower today than they were in 1971!
It's time to return to peace, freedom and prosperity. No more centralized banking. No more big government military industry complex. No more costly foreign military engagements (Americans are taxed to maintain 700 military bases in over 130 countries). It's time to cut the crap and live life. Go America! Go Ron Paul!
"How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
-George Washington - TheTaoOfBill, on 01/02/2008, -1/+4What good has your precious United Nations done lately other than give us an excuse to go to war with Iraq and now with Iran (UN resolutions)
And what good has the federal reserve done lately except falsely lowering interest rates by printing more money out of thin air and causing inflation to skyrocket and bubbles to burst all over the place.
If you are not against the UN and the Federal Reserve you simply do not understand how harmful these organizations are to our economy and our sovereignty and peace. - vbullinger, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2The fed IS a banking cartel:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5232639329 ...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-165688030 ...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-905047436 ...
The more of a hand the government has in health care, the worse it gets. Quality plummets and costs skyrocket.
Social security is OBVIOUSLY a failure: they take a HUGE chunk of your paycheck and it's bankrupt! - keifusx, on 01/02/2008, -1/+2Interesting draw.
- thecoolestguy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+14) The post-1971 period has been the worst one for the free market, as 1971 is the year the US severed its ties to the gold standard. Having no clear standard for the value of the dollar has meant that the government has been able to expand the money supply 14X in the 34 years after 1971. In comparison, the money supply was only expanded 2X in the 34 years before 1971. The expansion of the money supply has meant more money for the government (and the politically connected) to spend at the expense of the non-government sectors of the economy which have seen the value of their dollars decrease (the inflation tax).
- keifusx, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1This is an interesting comment. Why exactly are federally funded health care and social security failures? I mean, you may be able to make a philosophical case, and I'll admit that the public health insurance here is a wreck, but public heath care seems to not be broken in Europe and Canada, and Social Security is projected to work for 50 years.
Also, your 1900 to 1950, has a big FDR and labor movements in it. And your post-1971 has a lot of industry-friendly economic policy. Your reasoning is really kinda bizarre - thecoolestguy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1@keifusx
1) Public health care in Europe and Canada is a total failure. There is actually quite a bit of public health care in the United States as well, and it is a total failure. Government actually spends more per capital on health care in the United States than it does in Canada.
As far as socialized heathcare programs go, the Canadian one is at least a little better managed than the American one. America's socialized healthcare was designed by big corporations (who provide Clinton with huge contributions) to profit them, but overall free market health care is far superior to socialized health care.
Health care prices per capita are 10X more (40X times if one doesn't adjust for inflation) today than they were in 1960 before government got involved in a big way. In all free market industries, prices decrease every year as companies develop new technologies that increase efficiency. For example computer, which are manufactured and designed by companies in the free market, are thousands of times cheaper and millions of times more advanced today than they were in 1960. With education and health care, which have been increasingly regulated and funded by government, particularly the federal government, prices have INCREASED every year -for health care, at twice the rate of inflation .
2) Social Security is a total and utter failure and is going to lead to the total financial collapse of the United States. This is according to the Comptroller General of the United States:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGpY2hw7ao8
3) The 1900 to 1950 period showed the fruits of the 1880-1920 economic boom. FDR's New Deal, which only deepened the great depression, exploited the wealth that had been created in the pre-income tax period.
There was really no federal funding/regulation of health care and no social security before 1950, and there were two terrible world wars, yet the US saw its life expectancy rise much faster in this period than in the post-socialized health care and social security years of 1950- 2000. - rundeep, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1Um, boyfriend, government is not involved in health care. That's why it costs so much. Duh. Social Security is bankrupt not because it was poorly run, but because Congress borrowed from it a few years back in order to fund a lot of other nonsense.
- schad500, on 01/02/2008, -3/+2Quite frankly, I'm not terribly concerned about US sovereignty. Nationalism is a pretty dumb philosophy in the age of nuclear weapons.
- schad500, on 01/02/2008, -4/+2Not true. The article quotes Ron Paul's own website. Specifically, that he introduced bills to withdraw from the United Nations and to abolish the Federal Reserve. Also, that he deliberately and intentionally misrepresents the ownership of the Federal Reserve, and that this misrepresentation has its source in neo-Nazi propaganda.
- schad500, on 01/02/2008, -4/+2Interesting that you insist on calling the Federal Reserve a "private banking cartel". It is not, and it's extremely easy to determine the truth, as demonstrated in the article.
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