cheeseysynapse
Well-Known Member
OK Goddamn It...........I have strong feelings about Ron Paul...........but first.........a little context.
Early in the year, remember that(?), Digg was fucking blowing up on Ron Paul every single day. I couldn't fucking believe it. I mean, even back then, it was easy to see that Ron Paul was one of the most radical republicans out there - radical, in the sense that he's actually a Libertarian. I mean, take all the entitlement programs the feds run and they were ALL gonna be in Ron Paul's gun sights. But, HE WAS AGAINST THE WAR!!!!!!! So, you'd see youtube vids with Ron basically berating Bernanke and Greenspan and the kids ate that shit up with a spoon. Really surprised me at the time. Cause that's why I loved Ron. Ron is a gold bug. And gold bugs are kinda spooky folks. That was my beef then with RP because he never said how we were supposed to transition from fiat currency back to gold - which would have major economic ramifications. I kept saying going back to gold, while great in the long run, was gonna be almost disastrous financially in the short-run....................Needless to say, back in feb. I never imagined the magnitude of the shit soup we were about to be in.............But now, going back on gold............I honestly don't think there would be any of the major banks left standing (like there are now, right?). So, although I still believe going back to gold now would seriously cripple the financial system EVEN more that it is now..........Its probably the right thing to do. Because once we come out of the mess, we'd be a brick-shithouse economically speaking. Although I don't really believe that we have to back to gold, we can achieve similar results by restructuring the fed. One of his best ideas on currency was to allow the use of foreign currency here. That is really smart, and an excellent way to instill discipline on the fed without regulating them - the people would do that via their choice of legal tender. That really is, IMO, a revolutionary idea. And probably really easy to implement.
So, in short, NOT A DAMN THING WAS WRONG WITH RP...........
It would hurt, but we need some tough love now.
Early in the year, remember that(?), Digg was fucking blowing up on Ron Paul every single day. I couldn't fucking believe it. I mean, even back then, it was easy to see that Ron Paul was one of the most radical republicans out there - radical, in the sense that he's actually a Libertarian. I mean, take all the entitlement programs the feds run and they were ALL gonna be in Ron Paul's gun sights. But, HE WAS AGAINST THE WAR!!!!!!! So, you'd see youtube vids with Ron basically berating Bernanke and Greenspan and the kids ate that shit up with a spoon. Really surprised me at the time. Cause that's why I loved Ron. Ron is a gold bug. And gold bugs are kinda spooky folks. That was my beef then with RP because he never said how we were supposed to transition from fiat currency back to gold - which would have major economic ramifications. I kept saying going back to gold, while great in the long run, was gonna be almost disastrous financially in the short-run....................Needless to say, back in feb. I never imagined the magnitude of the shit soup we were about to be in.............But now, going back on gold............I honestly don't think there would be any of the major banks left standing (like there are now, right?). So, although I still believe going back to gold now would seriously cripple the financial system EVEN more that it is now..........Its probably the right thing to do. Because once we come out of the mess, we'd be a brick-shithouse economically speaking. Although I don't really believe that we have to back to gold, we can achieve similar results by restructuring the fed. One of his best ideas on currency was to allow the use of foreign currency here. That is really smart, and an excellent way to instill discipline on the fed without regulating them - the people would do that via their choice of legal tender. That really is, IMO, a revolutionary idea. And probably really easy to implement.
So, in short, NOT A DAMN THING WAS WRONG WITH RP...........
It would hurt, but we need some tough love now.