Ron Paul: ‘This is a revolution’

“Some have said I’ve helped to remove your apathy, but you have helped remove my skepticism,” Paul said.

Now that's a gem of a quote. Thanks for a great article from Texas! Mainers for Paul, best wishes!

Ron Paul is truly our only hope. MAINE dont let us down!

It's good to hear that Dr. Paul is expected to do well in Maine. I hope his supporters rallying in Florida can produce good results too.

I also wonder how he'll do in my home state if Massachusetts.

Gee, golly, now if only the GOP could see it's way fit to reveal where the caucus for my town will be . . .

This is an interesting worls survey
www.whowouldtheworldelect.com

and this is an easy candidate comparison
www.knowbeforeyouvote.com

Thank you for the fair article above.

This campaign should have nothing to do with religion. As a long time resident of Mass. you should know that Mitt left Mass with quite a mess from total corruption in our courts and police departments to the mandatory health insurance fiasco. He said he is clever in business, believe it, he is, he has figured our how to fine people who do not sign up for the mandatory insurance plan $200/yr and not give them insurance to boot, truly clever. Fortunately, I do not believe any GOP candidate who takes a war mongering stance can be elected. This leaves the good Dr Paul as the only guy to compete with HillBill or Obama. Good news is that Ron knows more about finance than both Dems put together. Go Ron Paul 2008!

Oh my gosh! There's a revolution? Finally!!!!

Walt, please don't be afraid. Do a little reading about where Ron Paul stands on the issues and you will understand the enthusiasm.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/

GREAT ARTICLE!!!!! It is so exciting to see an HONEST, CREDIBLE, HUMBLE, INTELLIGENT politician being covered!!!!! Ron Paul is energizing our youth and waking people my age (50's) out of their political apathy. His positions are simple. Reduce governnment and live by the Constitution. LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS and live by the GOLDEN RULE. He can fix our economic woes. Learn about this economic stimulus ideas

PLEASE do yourself a favor and go to RonPaul2008.com and look at his stance on the one issue that concerns you the most. Then make up your mind.

Oh come on WALT,

"nutjob libertarianism"

There we go with the name calling.

If you did a little research, you would stop with the name calling and instead become a RP supporter.

Why don't you watch Aaron Russo's, "Freedom for Fascism."

I promise you, you'll learn A LOT and your eyes will be open.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

Take care WALT

Greetings from Austin, TX. I am studying economics and wrote an essay concerning The Federal Reserve System to shed some light as to why its important to at least allow competing currencies.

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects of the Constitution or Confederation; not from any want of honor or virtue, as much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1797.

Today, two hundred years later, his statement still holds true. And because of this the United Stats has allowed and continues to allow the Federal Reserve, a paper corporation, to control the flow of money; making it tight and creating unemployment or printing more and creates inflation.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution states that the Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof and of any foreign coins. As you may know, this is not the case anymore. The United States government has no power to issue money, control the flow of money, or to even distribute it; that belongs to a private corporation registered in the State of Delaware, the Federal Reserve Bank, created by Congress in 1913.

Former presidents Jefferson and Jackson believed a central bank is not only unconstitutional but also causes inflation by printing money with no backing causing US citizens to issue treasury bills to support the created money. Unfortunately it is our children that pay for the treasury bills we issue to prop up the markets. Any money the Fed releases to "curb market jitters over sub-prime woes" is a tax on unborn children who will be paying the interest on the debt we have accrued.

And every time the Fed injects more money into the system, then you have more money chasing the same number of goods which causes inflation, making the situation worse later on. Inflation comes from the uneven change in the volume of money, say, when it is printed and given to a defense contractor. For the moment the contractor's suppliers do not realize the money volume has changed, the recipient of the printed money experiences increased purchasing power. The workers end up receiving the wage in old money, but then are faced with prices in the new money after the vendors adjust to the new money supply. Inflation is the enemy of our prosperity as it causes the cost of living to go up faster than the pay increase for the large majority of people.

Before the Federal Reserve existed it was free for citizens to turn their gold and silver into money; this increased the money supply as a wealth to the people. Today, dollars are created out of thin air and loaned into circulation as debt against future production, not exchanged into circulation as production performed. Money has been switched from an evidence of wealth to an evidence of debt. The whole principle and function of money has been switched!

Thomas Jefferson was concise in his early warning to the American nation, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Back in 1963, then president John Kennedy wanted an end to the Federal Reserve System and with a simple stroke of the pen he ordered the U.S. government to restore its Constitutional mandate of controlling the money. President Kennedy was dead three weeks later. When President Lyndon Johnson took office, he immediately rescinded Kennedy's order and the Federal Reserve won another round.

Slavery is the price of ignorance.

I can't believe that MTV has excluded Dr. Paul. Talk about having the deck stacked against you:

http://www.myspace.com/election2008

Ron Paul is an inspiration. I am so impressed with his honesty. You never have to wonder where he stands, or how he'll vote, unlike some candidates. No leveraged buy-outs or off-shore corporations like Mitt, and no war mongering, either! Ron Paul is for peace, prosperity and a return to the principals this country was founded on.

I so wanted to come down to Augusta to Ron Paul today! I had prior obligations and couldn't go. But it is so true Dr. Paul has cured my apathy!

I've never found a candidate before that matches so closely what I believe this country needs to become again the great country it once was!

Thanks Ron Paul

Thank you for the great article. It is nice to actually see thr real "fair" reporting.

Ron Pual makes me smile every video I watch of him. I have never believed in, or even believed a politician until I found Ron Paul.

Ron Paul for REAL change, not just words.

Go Ron Paul 2008!

I've waited a lifetime for a man like this that has a stellar family life and nearly perfect political record. He needs to be rewarded with the presidency.

And that he published race-baiting, anti-semitic, homophobic screeds for decades?!

(Source, one of many, here: http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7... )

I'm glad you are all excited by the political process, but Ron Paul is just not a good guy. He's a freaking secessionist, people!

Do you know what that means?

Anyone not supporting Ron Paul already is missing out on something HUGE. This is a once in a lifetime chance to vote for a politician who DOESNT LIE. Ron Paul's voting record goes back like 30 years - no joke. Check it out yourself. THERE WON'T BE ANOTHER CHANCE TO VOTE FOR A GUY LIKE THIS.

Look, it really boils down to a simple choice. Do you believe that Government is the servant of the people? Or the master?

Ron Paul is the only candidate who knows that Gov't is the SERVANT of the people and says it in his speeches repeatedly. The rest will NEVER talk like that!! Do you GET it now??

"The Mainstream Media's Best Kept Secret"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ukh_sDj6M

So he either a) denies the existence of the newsletters that were published for DECADES under his name

or b) claims that those newsletters were written by a different libertarian doctor named Ron Paul from Texas with a fondness for militias and the secessionist movement?!

Nice try, but I don't believe him.

The truth is irrelevant to people like Walt. They are just trying to seperate Dr. Paul from as many votes as they can.

If there's anything untruthful about the TNR story, the Paul campaign has yet to point out what it is. Go read it.

And Kent, you think that's "a little bit of political incorrectness"?!

Seriously? I hope you just got carried away there and don't actually think that.

Those newsletters are full of race-baiting, gay-bashing, anti-semitic propaganda. No one who writes, publishes, or promotes language like that is fit to be president.

Call me a troll if you want, but you're avoiding my central point: Ron Paul published racist, hate-filled screeds for DECADES.

If that's the Revolution, you can count me out.

I tell my friends when I was growing up, during the 60's, gas prices were anywhere from sixteen cents to thirty cents per gallon. Our Constitutional money was backed by silver at that time until 1964, and paper currency by gold until 1971. Most of my friends look at me as if I am nuts, when I tell them that gas, today, is still around a quarter a gallon. To prove it, my brothers and I, used to mow yards. We were paid at that time, at one yard, 2 dollars. Now, after buying one gallon of gas, for a quarter, for the next days work, we had 1.75 left. Now lets say I had thrown the Constitutional change of a silver dollar, a silver half dollar, and a silver quarter totaling, 1.75, into a drawer and while at the same time placing 2 paper dollars in the same drawer, forgetting about both for the 44 years from 1964 to 2008. Here are todays, 01-29-08, closing prices of silver U.S. coinage, not collectible coins, just silver change that was used in everyday circulation. This if from the website www.coinflation.com The 2 paper dollars would only buy 2/3 of a gallon of gas, with today's price of regular unleaded at 3.00 a gallon. This is where the wisdom of the Founding Fathers come in. The quarter is worth 3.02 today, the half dollar 6.05, and the silver dollar, 12.94. The combined total of the silver backed Constitutional money is worth 22.01 today, and this is only for the silver content. This is not due to any type of rarity or condition of coin. Only due to silver content of 90 per cent silver. Now at 3 dollars a gallon, you could purchase over 7 gallons of gas. That is why money must be a store of wealth, to be able to retain its buying power power, even after 44 years, so that it does not lose its value to inflation.

Now, lets say in 1964 you saved 1,000.00 dollars and for the following 9 years you also saved one thousand dollars each year. So between 1964 and 1973 you had saved a total of 10,000.00 dollars. If you saved those 10,000 paper dollar bills, at the end of 34years, those 10,000.00 paper notes will only purchase 10,000.00 dollars worth of good in 2008. But if you had 10,000 silver dollars in 1973, those same 10,000 silver dollars in 2008 would be able to purchase 129,400.00 dollars worth of 2008 goods. That is how your wealth is stolen from you by the printing of un-backed, un-Constitutional paper Federal Reserve Notes and that is for only 10 yrs of work.

That also does not even go into the concept of silver being severely under valued at this time, versus its historical ratio to gold.
That is how a regular quarter, backed by silver, would still buy a gallon of gas today, and then some. When Dr. Paul speaks of a sound currency, this is what it means.