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Rand Paul should be running for president, not Ron.
Could Bernanke Spark a Run on the Dollar?
The only real fix is to lower the cost of U.S. workers relative to foreign rivals....
In other words, the Fed is planning to give every working man and woman in the US a big pay-cut so they can go nose-to-nose with foreign labor....
The government will continue to run a large budget deficit, which must be financed by issuing more government debt. The debt is monetized when the Federal Reserve purchases it from the public. The effect is to increase the money supply. Inflationary monetary policy goes hand-in-hand with a falling dollar in foreign-exchange markets.” (“The Wrong Way to Double Exports”, Judy Shelton, Wall Street Journal)So, while working people and pensioners see their savings sliced in half to accommodate the globalist dream of an evenly-depressed world labor market; the investor class will get regular injections of Fed liquidity via QE2 to keep stocks “bubbly” and profits high.....
www.economicnoise.com...
In 1976 A typical American CEO earned 36 times as much as the average worker. By 2008 the average CEO pay increased to 369 times that of the average worker.... timelines.ws...
Good job Rand...but I thought dim/libs were AGAINST the Patroit Act and castigated Repubs for passing it?So,why now,al of a sudden,the dim/libs are going to vote for renewal?
Rasmussen has defined a really fantastic concept for its poll interpretations: the Political Class. ... the Political Class is that small group of elites and its ardent supporters, the ones who try to brand themselves as populists but are in fact concerned primarily with the goodness of their own power and authority....
Rasmussen defines the category based on a three-question poll:
1. Generally speaking, when it comes to important national issues, whose judgment do you trust more – the American people or America’s political leaders?
2. Some people believe that the federal government has become a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interests. Has the federal government become a special interest group?
3. Do government and big business often work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors?
The idea is that each one has three acceptable answers (the populist answer, the elitist answer, and “I don’t know”), and your category is assigned based on your responses. So if you give the elitist answer to 2 questions and I don’t know to a third, or the elitist answer to all three, you’re in the Political Class. Similarly for the Populist Mainstream.... dingodonkey.wordpress.com...
Tea Party at Year's End
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
.... Forty-one percent (41%) believe the Tea Party movement will be stronger in 2012 than it was in 2010.
At year's end, 21% of voters nationwide consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement. Another 11% have close friends or family members who are involved....
The Tea Party is part of a larger group that is frustrated with the political status quo. That larger group, identified as Mainstream voters, includes a solid majority of Americans. Mainstream voters tend to trust the wisdom of the American people more than the ideologies of politicians. Among the larger group of Mainstream voters, 25% consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement. Another 11% have friends or family members in the movement....
n a book released earlier this year, Scott Rasmussen observed that "the gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century." He added that “the American people don’t want to be governed from the left, the right, or the center. They want to govern themselves.”
Rand Paul goes against everything he "supports" and is full of double talk and back stepping..
This situation is nothing but a way to go into gun rights, nothing more nothing less.. To act like he is a savior for it is silly and would only happen in a place like this where you have alot of right leaning extreamists. Thats why Ron and Rand are not nearly as popular out in the real world as they are here.. In the real world, people are a bit more sane then you all.
Sometimes discreation is the better part of valor....maybe rand and ron dont want to be too extreme and get killed beofe they can do some good..
Originally posted by StaceyWilson
No one can be trusted (politicians) , the whole system is corrupt , Obama promised much as well, my take is whoevers voted in , will bend over like everyone since JFK died , We have been watching events unfold before our eyes , it gets worse and worse , will we be decieved again by the Pauls?
Originally posted by Pha3drus
FACT : Only 5 Democrats voted against the Patriot Act
The Democrats who voted to block the Patriot Act extension were Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester of Montana as well as Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Jeff Merkley of Oregon. The Republicans who voted with them were Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Paul. Also voting no was Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Originally posted by Pha3drus
I am not pushing any agenda, mate.
I thought it was obvious that Republicans are a war mongering and Israel loving sell out. Many people seem to believe that Democrats are much better than Republicans.
Right on prostitution
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Michael Smerconish is right to call for full legalization of prostitution ("Legalize prostitution," March 6 and TribLIVE.com). Laws against prostitution are essentially laws against a person's right to his or her own body. It is the view of citizens as mere vassals of the state that underpins laws against prostitution (and many other actions).
These fundamentally anti-American laws serve to drive prostitution into the black market, attracting organized crime to the trade. Moreover, these laws exacerbate the spread of sexually transmitted infections and sexual trafficking while further empowering organized crime.
Amesh A. Adalja
Butler
The writer is a board-certified infectious diseases physician.
Monday, April 4, 2011March 2011 OActivists Compilation
Here is a list of items published by members of the OActivists list for March 2011:
Op-Eds Ari Armstrong, "Law should protect wanted fetuses while allowing abortions", The Denver Daily News, March 1, 2011. Paul Hsieh, "Socialized Medicine: Theory Versus Practice", Liberty Ink Journal, March 2011. Letters to the Editor Amesh Adalja, "Irresponsible sex ed", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, March 2, 2011. Paul Hsieh, M.D., "Questioning the savings under health reform", The Denver Post, March 3, 2011. Tim Peck, "Equality resolution approval praised, but mayor lambasted", The Asheville Tribune, March 3, 2011. Amesh Adalja, "It's the Dogma that Does It", Baltimore City Paper, March 9, 2011. Tim Peck, "Equality resolution OK praised; mayor lambasted", Asheville Daily Planet, March 9, 2011. Amesh Adalja, "Right on Prostitution", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, March 15, 2011. Amesh Adalja, "Apply Portugal's lessons", Butler Eagle, March 15, 2011. Tim Peck, "Editorial ripped by reader alleging it is 3 times wrong", The Tribune, March 17, 2011. Amesh Adalja, "End State's Liquor Role", Butler Eagle, March 26, 2011. Amesh Adalja, "The Abortion Debate Part One Zillion", Baltimore City Paper, March 30, 2011. Articles Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Guarantee to unions the same rights the rest of us have", Grand Junction Free Press, March 4, 2011. Sylvia Bokor, "Government Regulation is Killing Business" Capitalist Magazine, March 7, 2011, and posted on Free Enterprise Newsletter facebook page, March 8, 2011. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Stripper welfare illustrates why charity should be voluntary", Grand Junction Free Press, March 18, 2011. Joshua Lipana, "Save Education, Privatize Government Schools", American Thinker, March 22, 2011. Joshua Lipana, "Tim Wu: The Man Who is Destroying the Tech Industry", American Thinker, March 29, 2011. Paul Hsieh, "Health Care and the Separation of Charity and State," The Objective Standard, Spring 2011. This list does not include blog posts, web comments, letters to congressmen and other politicians, radio show call-ins, etc., all of which actively spread our message and advance our goals.
No one can be trusted (politicians) , the whole system is corrupt , Obama promised much as well, my take is whoevers voted in , will bend over like everyone since JFK died , We have been watching events unfold before our eyes , it gets worse and worse , will we be decieved again by the Pauls?
....How many tea party candidates were elected in 2010? I'm fairly sure it was well above 3. Instead of being deceptive about the fault of democrats, why don't people focus objectively on the proportion of tea party candidates not following on their "libertarian" roots. Focus on both sides.