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Ron Paul: "Reality Is Now Setting In For America... It Was All Based On Lies & Ignorance"

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Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,

If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all Americans will continue to deteriorate. All liberties in America today are under siege.

It didn’t happen overnight. It took many years of neglect for our liberties to be given away so casually for a promise of security from the politicians. The tragic part is that the more security was promised — physical and economic — the less liberty was protected.

With cradle-to-grave welfare protecting all citizens from any mistakes and a perpetual global war on terrorism, which a majority of Americans were convinced was absolutely necessary for our survival, our security and prosperity has been sacrificed.

It was all based on lies and ignorance. Many came to believe that their best interests were served by giving up a little freedom now and then to gain a better life.

The trap was set. At the beginning of a cycle that systematically undermines liberty with delusions of easy prosperity, the change may actually seem to be beneficial to a few. But to me that’s like excusing embezzlement as a road to leisure and wealth — eventually payment and punishment always come due. One cannot escape the fact that a society’s wealth cannot be sustained or increased without work and productive effort. Yes, some criminal elements can benefit for a while, but reality always sets in.

Reality is now setting in for America and for that matter for most of the world. The piper will get his due even if “the children” have to suffer. The deception of promising “success” has lasted for quite a while. It was accomplished by ever-increasing taxes, deficits, borrowing, and printing press money. In the meantime the policing powers of the federal government were systematically and significantly expanded. No one cared much, as there seemed to be enough “gravy” for the rich, the poor, the politicians, and the bureaucrats.

Warfare/Welfare State Requires Police Control

As the size of government grew and cracks in the system became readily apparent, a federal police force was needed to regulate our lives and the economy, as well as to protect us from ourselves and make sure the redistribution of a shrinking economic pie was “fair” to all. Central economic planning requires an economic police force to monitor every transaction of all Americans. Special interests were quick to get governments to regulate everything we put in our bodies: food, medications, and even politically correct ideas. IRS employees soon needed to carry guns to maximize revenue collections.

The global commitment to perpetual war, though present for decades, exploded in size and scope after 9/11. If there weren’t enough economic reasons to monitor everything we did, fanatics used the excuse of national security to condition the American people to accept total surveillance of all by the NSA, the TSA, FISA courts, the CIA, and the FBI. The people even became sympathetic to our government’s policy of torture.

To keep the people obedient to statism that originated at the federal level of government, control of education was required. It is now recognized that central control of education has actually ruined education, while costs have skyrocketed. National control of medical care has brought a similar result. This has meant more money for bureaucrats, as well as drug, insurance, and health management companies, and less money for medical care. Constantly more police are required to run our lives at greater costs while providing less benefit. “Nationalizing” both medical care and education has provided a great incentive to increase the policing powers of the federal government.

 The predictable poverty that results from such a terrible system is now upon us and is a strong motivation for the militarization of local police as part of the expansion of the national police state. Temporary and perceived benefits of government overreach and expanded policing powers end up becoming the real problem. By the time it is understood that these “benefits” are artificial, government power and special interests have gained control of a system designed to serve them and not the people the programs were purported to help. The victims are left hanging and taught that too much freedom is the source of the problem, prompting even more support for the policing power of the state.

Today the failure of central economic planning and of the US as world policeman is everywhere to be found. This is especially noticeable in the police war on the lawbreakers — real and unreal — in America. The failures of social and economic policy of the past 50 years have led to a mounting friction between the local police and the rights of the people. Local police have been militarized and have become an integral part of the national police state. A police culture that accepts the principle of initiating unjustified violence against citizens has become a serious problem.

The news is constant. If it’s not Ferguson, it’s New York City. If not New York City, it’s Chicago or Detroit or Cleveland. And I believe the violence in our cities is only in its early stages. We had a taste of the conflict in the 1960s, but the fundamental values of equal justice and economic opportunity have receded further from reality. Failing to understand why the past 50 years of government expansion to eradicate poverty has only worsened the conditions of our cities will guarantee that the violent conflicts we see erupting today will only get worse.

Fight for Equal Protection Distorted by 'War on Poverty'

Fifty years ago, as a result of Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership in a plea for equal justice, LBJ declared war on poverty. Poverty was seen at that time as the major contributing factor in the plight of those living in the inner city. King’s dream was to make sure all people will be judged by the “content of their character” and not by “the color of their skin.” Good advice, but it was never followed. Residual racism remains, but the excuse for every shortcoming in the failed cities is said to be due to the color of one’s skin.

The very expensive war on poverty has after 50 years only made matters worse, compounding the problems of poverty and inflation while hurting most of the people the “war” was supposed to help. Currently our government spends over $1 trillion per year on anti-poverty programs. Over the past 50 years, over $16 trillion was spent, i.e., wasted. And yet poverty and dire economic conditions remain the major factor in the violence that persists, which incites or gives the police the excuse to overreact to maintain order. The plans and expectations for the war on poverty must have been seriously flawed.

Although the degree of poverty is different for the various races in the United States, all categories — Asian, white, Hispanic, and black — have had a steady increase in real median income from 1964 until the year 2000, when the first of many bubbles started bursting. In all four race categories incomes are lower since then. With the economy moving into the next stage of liquidation of bad investment and debt, we should expect this trend to continue. Economic setbacks and a decrease in real income are not limited to blacks in the inner city. The setback for the young has been dramatically worse than for the older generations, aggravating the problem of violent crime in our cities.

The “progress” of the early years of the war on poverty is understandable because the payment that always must be paid was delayed. The deficits and the borrowing and printing of money were unsustainable. It should not be difficult to understand that the welfare benefits, the bloated government, the excessive salaries, and the promised pensions for thousands of nonproductive bureaucrats in Detroit would lead to bankruptcy. The benefits had to be reduced. If policies don’t change and the politicians continue to be elected by wild promises, the disaster will continue. How can the provocateurs blame racism for the plight of the middle class in Detroit?

We must get people to reject flawed economic policy if we want a real war on poverty. LBJ’s war on poverty was no more successful than his Vietnam War — or any war since, for that matter. A national government that can print money as needed to finance extraordinary extravagance can function longer than a city, state, or private entity, but it too must eventually “file for bankruptcy” albeit in a different fashion. As we are now seeing, the bankruptcy of a nation also involves poverty for many. This situation will continue to worsen. Since poverty is a major contributing factor to the violence of excessive police militarization, some fundamentals must be understood. The economic theories of Paul Samuelson, Paul Krugman, John Maynard Keynes, and all those who claim to know how to “regulate” the economy to benefit the poor, must be challenged and abandoned.

So far reality has not yet set in. The poor grow in numbers as the middle class shrinks and the privileged class that benefits from government spending and government control of the monetary system thrives. The political demagogues and the authoritarians feed the flames of resentment that develop between the rich and the poor as class warfare and racial strife take over. They care little and understand less what liberty is all about — the more chaos there is, the more laws they seek to pass.

The Victimized Inner Cities

This social disruption has motivated the enthusiastic growth and militarization of our local police departments. The law and order crowd thrives on excessive laws and regulations that no US citizen can escape. The out-of-control war on drugs is the worst part, and it generates the greatest danger in poverty-ridden areas via out-of-control police. It is estimated that these conditions have generated up to 80,000 SWAT raids per year in the United States. Most are in poor neighborhoods and involve black homes and businesses being hit disproportionately. This involves a high percentage of no-knock attacks. As can be expected many totally innocent people are killed in the process. Property damage is routine and compensation is rare. The routine use of civil forfeiture of property has become an abomination, totally out of control, which significantly contributes to the chaos. It should not be a surprise to see resentment building up against the police under these conditions. The violent reaction against local merchants in retaliation for police actions further aggravates the situation —hardly a recipe for a safe neighborhood.

Though poverty and excessive laws associated with the war on drugs are significant factors in the conflicts that are routine in the inner-city, the overreaction by both sides continues to make the situation much worse. As a result, policing in general is out of control, and anything suggesting racial confrontation leads to rioting, looting, and property destruction. Civil liberties are ignored by the police, and the private property of innocent bystanders is disregarded by those resenting police violence. When police overreact and unfairly enforce the law, it elicits a violent reaction from those on the receiving end. This only escalates the problem. It’s an invitation for outside provocateurs to rush in and aggravate the racial tensions — all the while never trying to understand the real reasons behind police militarization and the cause of poverty.

The military-industrial complex now systematically lobbies to provide to local police departments the newest and most sophisticated weaponry — just as they sell weapons to the United States government to fight undeclared wars overseas. Drug laws are pushed by many corporate interests as well. Pharmaceutical companies, alcohol companies, and private prison systems all support of the insane war on drugs. The victims are the poor who suffer with a messed up economy and have no easy access to jobs. A natural temptation is to become a drug dealer. Violent activities arising from the drug war making drug transactions a criminal undertaking create demand in communities for strict law enforcement.

Why do the race baiters have so much success in making this type of conflict a racial problem alone? Unfortunately many of them make a living off stirring up trouble. If the situation were understood in terms of police brutality and poverty, the evening news would be dramatically different. Turning it into strictly a racial conflict narrows the discussion, and the idea of responsibility for one’s action no longer needs to be discussed.

The race factor seems to stir up the emotions. Mob-like responses can be achieved, which further inflames the situation. Out of control police and an entire segment of our population taught that responsibility for one’s actions is a negative are a volatile mix.

Justice under the law requires that people cannot be punished or rewarded because of the color of their skin, but unfortunately King’s claim that only a person’s character counts is forgotten.

The entitlement mentality is a source of much anger and misunderstanding. It leads people who see themselves as victims to one conclusion: they are entitled to be taken care of. They believe that more government transfer payments are the solution. They claim that they deserve to be taken care of and that, if they are not, there’s trouble to be had — which only opens the door to more police overreactions.

There is agreement with my contention that poverty is a big problem and the source of much trouble. Therefore, it is said, someone must take care of it. If one trillion dollars per year doesn’t do the job, then make it $2 trillion. If the war on poverty’s $16 trillion hasn’t worked, make it $32 trillion. This sentiment reflects the entitlement mentality that has taught many that some people have a “right” to government handouts and that the rich must pay. This is an idea that is deeply flawed, and it stirs up class warfare on top of racial animosities and police brutality.

The blanket demand that all wealthy individuals owe support to the poor through government welfare programs is not an example of equal justice under the law. It is an example of egalitarianism gone awry. Welfare, which is the use of force to transfer wealth from one group to another, is based on a moral principle of equality that in fact is not moral and does not work. The wealthy special interests, such as banks, the military-industrial complex, the medical industry, the drug industry, and many other corporatists, quickly gain control of the system. Crumbs may be thrown to the poor, but the principle of wealth transfer is hijacked and used for corporate and foreign welfare instead of wealth transfers to the poor.

Many people do indeed gain wealth unfairly with today’s system, which adds to the envy shared by many and especially the poor. But this is a problem that is not solved by indiscriminately placing blame on successful businesses. The result would be the country and the whole world becoming poorer while resentment rises. Honest profits of successful entrepreneurs are quite different than profits of the corporate elite who gain control of the government and, as a consequence, accumulate obscene wealth by “robbing” the middle class. To blame and destroy those who make an honest living by satisfying consumers without the use of special benefits from the government is destructive to liberty and wealth.

Reforms that are driven by envy of successful people making an honest living will not address the problem of poverty. Poverty is actually made worse by an aggressive sense of victimization.

Many factors are involved in the crisis of our cities, including the following:
 

Police brutality, militarization of the police, excessive laws, courts and law enforcement efforts ignoring the principles of equal justice,
 
Racism that exists to some degree on both sides of the conflict,
 
Rampant crime reflecting structural poverty,
 
Absence of an understanding of the difference between earned and stolen wealth,
 
Race baiting,
 
The entitlement mentality, self-reliance not being a goal for many, and the breakdown of the family unit,
 
The war on drugs, and
 
The lack of economic understanding regarding the Federal Reserve, taxes, welfare, economic consequences of constant war, deficits, and excessive government spending.

True satisfaction comes from productive effort and self-reliance and not from a government transferring wealth in an effort to bring about an egalitarian society. The absence of an understanding of the nonaggression principle makes it difficult for positive reforms to develop. Unfortunately hypocrisy has come to equal “common sense.” Placing confidence in people who thrive on wielding government power and who spend a lifetime using it to benefit special interests is not a wise policy.

The people have too little confidence that most problems can be solved in a voluntary manner in a society that cherishes civil liberties. There’s never an admission that government problem-solving doesn’t work. Government-created problems are a road to poverty and resentment. Too many people believe that “free stuff” from the government can solve our problems. They mistakenly believe that deficits don’t matter and that wealth can come from a printing press.

The recent high profile episodes of racial conflict involving police killings and the violence in some neighborhoods have been a fertile environment for the demagogues and those who thrive on racial conflict.

Some have suggested that sensitivity training for all police personnel should be required, to teach proper ways to deal with the public. Though there’s a lot of extenuating circumstances that provoke overreaction by the police, I’m not optimistic that the problem will be helped much by sensitivity training. Retraining the police won’t touch the complex problems that pit the police against the victims of complex social conditions generated by hate, violence and bad economic policies. The high profile episodes of police violence and overreaction are a consequence of conditions that in many ways were generated by government policy.

If social engineering intended to produce economic equality fails, more of the same cannot possibly be the solution. Seeking and promoting equal justice has nothing to do with welfare redistribution. On the contrary: equal justice requires the end of welfare redistribution. Redistribution is a process that is always destined to help a small minority, whether in an economy like ours that endorses central economic planning or in one run by radical fascists or communists. While advocates claim that it’s the duty of government to pursue economic equality, all efforts fail to achieve that goal, while gutting the principle of equal justice.

The Rich Are Getting Richer, But Why?

Under an authoritarian regime, those in power take care of themselves. This always leads to poverty and discrepancy in wealth distribution. Eventually the social strife that is predictable leads to an overthrow of the government. The Soviet communist leaders never suffered from want, but even they were routed when the people in the Soviet system decided that they had had enough.

We must realize that we are not exempt from a breakdown of our system. The strife that we are witnessing is a reflection of a growing number of people who are recognizing the discrepancy between rich and poor, the weak and the powerful, Wall Street and Main Street. The courts are obviously failing at meting out justice fairly and impartially. Money and race have a lot to do with how arrests, convictions, and incarcerations are carried out. That provides motivation for some people to become angry and violently strike out against anyone who appears to have more than they do.

While the courts fail to follow the rules of equal justice, those who react violently believe that attacking almost anyone is justifiable in seeking what they claim is justice. Talk of the 99 percent and one percent is not just sloganeering. It reveals a problem generated by government and a situation in which some people believe that they have a “right” to be taken care of rather than just a right to live in a free and just society where all persons are treated equally under the law.

Indeed the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. The extreme current inequality is not a consequence of free markets and true liberty. Rather it results from the welfare state that, as always, morphs into a system that provides excesses for the powerful few. Better management of the welfare system does not help. That only changes the types of authoritarians in charge. Both political parties are financed by Wall Street, the big banks, and the military-industrial complex. Getting rich by being part of the government class is the problem. Wealth achieved by hard work is quite a bit different. Opening the door to this opportunity is achievable by following the principle of life, liberty, and property.

The economic interventionist system under which we live today rewards those who benefit from government economic planning by the Federal Reserve, access to government contracts, and targeted special regulations to help one group over the other. The insiders benefit during the bubble phase of the business cycle and are the first ones in line for the bailouts. The poor, for whom welfare is supposedly designed to help and for whom the politicians justify the spending, end up with the crumbs while the Wall Street/banking elites thrive in good times and bad. There are two problems. First is conceding the principle that government has the moral authority to redistribute wealth. Second is believing the redistribution will be managed wisely and without corruption.

All government management ends up being unwise, corrupt, and wasteful. The money interests inevitably prevail. Belief that “good” bureaucrats and politicians can be found to manage the economy and achieve equity in distribution is a dream that always ends up a nightmare. To make even a modest attempt at this goal requires government to use aggression against one group for the benefit of another. This authority must be denied to government. We must limit the government’s role to protecting equal justice in defense of life, liberty, and property.

Currently the political system in America and in most of the rest of the world is not motivated to seek this limited goal for government. Thus the move toward unfair concentration of wealth in the few and a dramatic increase in the number of people living in poverty as the middle class shrinks. Since there is little understanding of the economic system that is a major contributing factor to the economic problems, it can be expected to exacerbate social and class conflict. The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson plus many similar incidents are signs of a serious economic and political crisis that is not limited to police brutality and runaway violence.

Police brutality and militarization may well induce a violent event far beyond what we have seen in Ferguson. It also can serve as an excuse. But it is not the root cause of turmoil. The real cause is poverty, the entitlement mentality, and the breakdown of the rule of law. Moral decay and the national police state are the real culprits.

More police with improved training will not do much to deal with this growing conflict. Bowing to entitlement demands from the “victims” will not be helpful in a bankrupt system. We have too many police, too many laws, and too much exemption of government officials from the crimes they commit. Both adding police and increasing entitlements involve expanding the role of government in an effort to solve problems that too much government has already caused. Government can only be expanded by diminishing the people’s liberty. This problem can only be ended by maximizing liberty and getting people to realize that self-reliance, hard work, and the absence of coercive force by individuals and government is the only way to reverse the downward trend from which we are suffering.

The battle will no longer be to get the government to pick sides in a conflict between rich and poor, black and white, young and old, or the lawless police versus the lawless demands of entitlement recipients demanding their “fair share.” There has to be an understanding that productive effort and self-reliance on the part of everyone is required for a free society to thrive.

Our Liberties Under Attack

The economic and moral decay of American society is reflected in the loss of liberties. This problem affects all Americans and not just the poor in the inner city. Gradual erosion of personal and economic liberty has proceeded for a century. The loss of our liberty has sharply accelerated since the 9/11 attacks. We have done to ourselves what no foreign enemy could have possibly accomplished.

Government surveillance provides the state with information that enables it to know our every move. The protection of the Fourth Amendment is gone. Many Americans are comfortable with the sacrifice of liberty for safety and accept the notion that government’s key responsibility is to keep us safe. It’s a nice dream but the truth is it can’t do it. One thing for sure: if it tries, it will do so at the expense of liberty.

Welfare, for the rich or poor, cannot exist without the sacrifice of the principal of property ownership. Though it always starts small and justified for the “needy,” the principle of wealth transfer incentivizes the special interests and the rich to obtain benefit at the expense of the poor. This occurs in all societies and inevitably grows to a point where the production of wealth is diminished and the system collapses. This is what we are witnessing today.

The growth of the state necessitates government surveillance of all our financial transactions to enhance the collection of tax revenues. Because there is never enough money for the “do-gooders,” the tactics of the tax collectors have become more vicious. Violation of our liberties is excused by the majority in order to ensure that all people “pay their fair share.” When conditions deteriorate, capital controls are imposed to prevent moving assets out of the country. Our monstrous tax code reflects the hundred-years development of our income tax system and is one of the greatest invitations for our “caring” government to pursue the impossible goal of the fair distribution of all wealth.

The vicious drug war, which dates from the early 1970s, provides another excuse for knowing everything about everybody at all times. Its selling point is to keep people safe from themselves. Pursuing this principle guarantees that liberty will be decimated in the process. It invites the government’s interference in our spiritual and intellectual well-being. What one reads and believes becomes of interest to the manipulators who want to care for us for our own good. And they never rest from seeking this goal.

This concession to the state invites controls on everything we put into our bodies: what we eat, drink, or inhale. It takes a lot of bureaucrats, politicians, and money to manage the process. The people, we have been told, are “too stupid” to make their own decisions about their own lives. We are to believe that politicians who invite themselves to rule over us are all-wise and that we should be thankful to sacrifice our liberty for this “service.” Authoritarians actually believe that we should be grateful to them for all the good things that they do for us. We must remember that if the people don’t rebel against a police state it only grows in size and becomes more ruthless.

In addition to all these trends — which includes the federal government monopolizing and administering medical care and education — government surveillance becomes the darling of the gurus who love the technology that allows the government to know our every move, every day, without limits.

With the disaster of 9/11, an existing acceptance of government monitoring, along with technological advances, helped allow a new age to be ushered in that makes the horrors of George Orwell’s 1984 look less threatening by comparison.

The Federal Government’s War on Us

Tolerance is a favorable trait when it means acting without aggression toward others, but tolerance of the monster that has evolved in our government is not good. Instead of adding more government agencies to spy on the American people, we should be talking about eliminating the ones we have, at a cost the American taxpayers of over $80 billion per year.

We have lived with the global war on terrorism for over 13 years now, and the threat of terrorist attacks against Americans and American allies is worse than ever. Though a global threat exists, the greatest dangers for American citizens here at home have been caused by our own government. Our government’s attacks on our liberties have been overwhelming and worse than anything any foreign power has ever done.

It’s the federal government that leads the charge in all our domestic wars, which, in addition to the global war on terrorism, include the war on drugs, taxpayers, and poverty, all of which contribute to the constant war on our privacy. Today every American is a suspect. Our president has established a policy that an American citizen can be assassinated without even being charged with a crime. The national police are made up of over 100,000 bureaucrats and police officials who carry guns to enforce federal law on the American citizens. The Founders and our Constitution intended that policing powers would be the responsibility of the individual states. That was forgotten a long time ago.

Not only do employees of agencies like the CIA, FBI, and BATF carry guns, employees of OSHA, EPA, Fish and Wildlife, and many other agencies enforcing regulations do so as well. The notion of total homeland security being provided by a heavily armed Department of Homeland Security was foreign to America up until just recently. Today, whether it’s riots in our cities or chaos after a national disaster like a hurricane, the Feds are there taking charge over all local officials and property owners, . It shouldn’t surprise us that our local police departments have become an arm of a runaway federal police mentality that mimics an army.

The Founders did not even want a standing army. They wanted only a militia. Today we endure, at the expense of our liberties, a national police force armed like an invading military force. We are destined to see a continued escalation of violence in our cities as the internal conflicts grow. Instead of the police quelling the violence, they unfortunately have become part of it.

It’s evident we have a national police force harassing the people and failing to protect liberty and property. It fails to quell riots while. Too often it incites them. We are also stuck with a huge “standing” army, marching around the world and engaged to some degree in over 150 countries, “making the world safe for democracy” and serving as a private police force for American corporations overseas.

The US Empire: Who Does it Serve?

When Obama announced a shift in geopolitical interest to the Far East —– to keep an eye on China —– one TV anchor pointed out that the move seems quite logical since we have a lot of “business interests” in the region. It is, in fact, far from logical if one looks at the tragic mess US government interventionism has caused in the Middle East and the conflict the US government is stirring up with Russia over Ukraine.

Old-fashioned colonialism was deemed necessary by various European powers to secure natural resources along with control over sea lanes and markets for selling manufactured goods. European-style colonialism — supporting a mercantilistic economy — came to be seen as politically unrealistic and unnecessary. When free-trade principles were utilized, colonialism did not die; it only changed form. Mercantilism in various forms and degrees drove trade policies of nations with strong economies and militaries. Though the United States is the world’s military powerhouse, controls the oceans and airspace, and has a presence in the four corners of the earth, few people refer to America as a colonial power. But in many ways it is, which has prompted our interests in oil and mineral rich countries. We are frequently involved in choosing the “elected” leaders, as well as hand-picking dictators, in many countries as well. This is not exactly what the Founders had advised.

International militarization of our policies is just as dangerous to our liberties and economy as is the domestic policy that drives our authoritarian governments to regulate our every move. We are now subject to an out-of-control domestic police force while the US military maintains our Empire overseas.

The “one percenters,” generally speaking, are internationalists who are not champions of individual liberty and free trade. They are supporters of managed trade and international institutions like the WTO where the interests of the one percent can influence the rulings that frequently have little to do with advancing advertised goals of low tariffs and free trade.

The international monetary system is a powerful tool for the select few. Easy credit, government guarantees, and generous contracts are a great benefit to those in charge. Non-compliant nations, or any country that is deemed unfriendly, can be punished with severe sanctions without moral or economic justification. US corporations benefit from our military presence worldwide. The military-industrial complex profits not only by selling weapons to the US government, but also by being the world’s chief arms provider.

It is a fact that many weapons we send into areas such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria frequently end up in the hands of our enemies. ISIS obtaining US weapons led to the US military then taking action to destroy the weapons. The military-industrial complex is immediately available to replace the weapons while earning generous profits. This is great if you happen to be an insider manufacturing or selling these weapons. It is quite a lucrative business, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.

The United States military presence around the world provides a “private” police force to protect US and other international companies against any local resistance or leaders that turn unfriendly. Our military presence overseas has nothing to do with protecting our freedoms and defending our Constitution. Those are lies and are used for the purpose of gaining the support of the American people for wars that should never have been fought. After long periods of tragic losses and expense, the American people generally wake up and realize what has happened. But what we need to do is wake the American people up earlier and get them to realize that the resistance has to be heard from the people when the government is preparing for war, not after the war has begun or even ended.

Military personnel are idolized, and, if any one raises a question on whether or not all soldiers are universally “heroes,” that person is accused of being unpatriotic, un-American, and unsupportive of the troops. In fact, the real heroes are the ones who expose the truth and refuse to fight foreign wars for the international corporations. Disengaging our troops from around the world and refusing to defend American neocolonialism is pursuing a course compatible with the qualities that Americans claim to stand for.

Liberty at home is never enhanced by war abroad. Preemptive wars are especially antagonistic to the goals of peace, commerce, and honest friendship. War “is the health of the state,” it has been said, and the state is the enemy of liberty. Wars overseas justify the wars at home against the American people. It is expected that liberties will be sacrificed when a country is at war. Pro-war neoconservatives are blatantly honest by arguing that for freedom to exist the sacrifice of liberty is required. This admission is truly discouraging. It hardly makes sense that voluntarily sacrificing liberty is worthwhile, if the goal is to preserve liberty. Time is short to reverse this trend.

Not only are our policies destructive to liberty, the economic costs are prohibitive. So far the bills have not been paid, but they are rapidly coming due. Both the deeply flawed policy of military interventionism abroad and the failed errors of central economic planning at home are now threatening our liberties and our general welfare. The recent breakout of violence in our cities between police on one side and people who have been thrust into the stagnation of poverty as a consequence of bad government social and economic policy on the other side should not be a mystery if one could see the forest for the trees. Economic problems are “blowback” and unintended consequences of well-meaning welfare programs that have been usurped by the powerful special interests demanding benefits off the top.

Yes, it’s tempting to believe the falsehoods of economists who claim that transferring wealth for fairness sake is beneficial, but history shows that it never works. The same humanitarians argue that all spending is crucial and beneficial, deficits don’t matter, borrowing is good, and taxing is the equalizer. If government still comes up short they say just turn on the printing presses. That is the philosophy we have been living with for 85 years, and the evidence is now in. It is clear to most Americans that these policies have not worked. Yet they are not ready to concede that it is less government and more freedom that is the solution.

The obsession with continuing all the same policies has increased our poverty, increased violence between the classes, and lowered the standard of living for all except the elite one percent. And worst of all, the sacrifice of liberty was for naught. Losing both liberty and the right to truly own property undermines the ability to create wealth. When this process gets out-of-control the economy goes into a death spiral, in the beginning of which we currently find ourselves. Without a correction to the basic understanding of the proper role of government, the downward spiral will continue.

Blowback All Around: We Are Less Safe

Economic blowback and unintended consequences is one thing, but blowback from our needless and aggressive policies around the world is another, and every bit as dangerous. As we find ourselves increasingly engaged economically and militarily around the world, we can expect many more attacks on American interests. With so many military personnel abroad, they will be the easiest targets to be hit. But attacks similar in nature to the 9/11 attacks will remain a threat to our homeland. We will not be attacked because we are free and rich. The attacks will come from angry people who have had friends and relatives killed by America’s careless and often vicious use of our military force in their countries.

It is not that difficult to feel resentment against a country that comes thousands of miles from home and bombs, invades, and punishes with sanctions, other countries that have never initiated force against it. As long as our foreign policy remains the same we can expect serious blowback attacks — and for them to increase in number as our prowess is diminished. Economic factors will determine this, and the loss of dollar hegemony will aggravate the situation.

The US government’s foolishness in foreign affairs has plagued us for 100 years. The escalation of our presence around the world since 9/11 continues. It is a policy “bubble” of gigantic proportions. This “bubble” of intervention is about to burst. Any serious look at our last 13 years of intervention around the world should convince all skeptics of how foolish, dangerous, and expensive it has been. The US operates with an attitude that it has the power and therefore the responsibility to be involved in deciding almost every foreign leader, whether elected or appointed as a dictator.

We have been engaged in picking and financing political factions in revolts in countries including Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, Ukraine, Somalia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Liberia, Georgia, Haiti, and Lebanon.

These involvements impose a huge tax and inflation burden on the American people. Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the debt continues to mount. The abject failure of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan elicits a loud call from the neoconservatives for more money, troops, weapons, and bombs, with zero hope of a successful mission. ISIS, now considered our greatest threat, is not even a country, but our occupation and destruction in the region motivates even a ragtag bunch to expel foreign forces from their homeland. ISIS has rallied enormous support and resources to undermine our allies in the region. That assessment is difficult, of course, since it’s hard for anyone to identify exactly who our allies are and distinguish them from our avowed enemies.

US foreign policy has helped create the disastrous situation in Syria. We declared that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had to go. We supported rebel factions. We armed them. They turned on us and used their American weapons against us with an amazing resistance headed by the ruthless ISIS, an outgrowth of al-Qaeda. It’s quite an irony that ISIS is well entrenched in northern Iraq, since before we decided to invade Iraq and kill Saddam Hussein no al-Qaeda were present in Iraq. Now the neocons are getting their way and American forces are returning with reinforcements and weapons to save Baghdad from the jihadists.

No one can make this stuff up. It’s too bizarre for fiction. Unfortunately, with the help of the media and our government, the American people have remained oblivious to the stupidity of our policies of the past 13 years. A day will come though when the full cost of this policy is dumped on the American people. Then they will get the message. Then it will be too late to gracefully exit and restore sanity without cataclysmic changes being forced on us. The major challenge will be the survival of our liberties.

What to expect in 2015?

Foreign Affairs

More American troops will be sent overseas to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine. There will be no military victories to brag about. More American military personnel will be killed in 2015 than in 2014. Military contractors will be used in growing numbers and their casualties will not be counted as military casualties.

The Ukraine civil war will not end, and the United States will be further bogged down in this conflict. Relations with Russia will continue to deteriorate. The neocons in Congress will gain even more influence over our foreign policy. Punishing sanctions will continue to be made more severe and push Russia further into China’s sphere of influence. Gold will gain credibility as we isolate the Russians from the financial markets.

Sanctions on Russia will alienate Europe against the United States. The British oil industry will suffer from the “conspiracy” of the US and Saudi Arabia to drive oil prices down to punish Russia.

The military-industrial complex will continue to thrive and make even more money with the greater influence of the neocons in the new Congress. Supplemental budgets for the military should be expected, along with covert assistance and additional foreign aid to finance the management of our Empire.

Our enemies’ strength will grow and prompt even more abuse of American citizens’ privacy and free expression. We should not be surprised if there is a reigniting of the conflict in the Balkans. The first of the color revolutions in 2000 in Serbia can hardly be claimed a permanent victory. Generally, bombs from outsiders don’t solve internal problems. Those problems must eventually be solved from within a country rather than from outside interference.

The US and NATO announced that the 13 year war in Afghanistan has ended. There has been neither the pretense of "Mission Accomplished" nor an admission of outright failure, along with an exodus. In reality the war has not ended and instead will continue for a long time. No victory for US policy is possible. The conflict will actually spread and increase in intensity since our goals are undefinable and therefore the war is un-winnable.

Sanity will not return to US leaders until our financial system collapses — an event for which they are feverishly working
 

Domestic issues

An honest assessment of the economy will not reveal any significant improvement in 2015. Inflation will continue to plague us, possibly even with the government-rigged CPI figures showing an increase. But the true inflation of the Fed’s credit creation, as well as the subsequent mal- investment and the various bubbles bursting will accelerate. Debt in all categories will continue to increase at unsustainable rates. The Fed will not permit interest rates to rise — at least on purpose. Eventually the market will demand that rates do rise, however.

Tax revenues will continue to rise, aiding the policy of the government spending the people’s money rather than those who earned it. Regulations, even with (or maybe especially with) a Republican Congress will continue to increase and make the Federal Register more incomprehensible. Friction between the middle class and the one percent, many of whom are living off government privileges, will escalate further and be reflected in confrontations especially in the large cities. Financial currency controls will continue to expand especially with cross-border transactions.

Blowback and unintended consequences from our sanctions and foreign policy in general will continue to threaten our domestic security and our economy, as well as our liberties.

Relations with Cuba will be improved with the president’s effort to resume diplomatic relations, but the radicals and isolationists who oppose free trade will place roadblocks in the way and slow the process.

A major geopolitical or economic event, greater than the crisis of 2008, is fast approaching. The precipitating event will be a surprise to the majority of politicians and economists. There are many “next shoe to drop” possibilities, and one could happen any time or any place.

Wall Street will be protected, and the trillions of dollars of big banks derivatives will be absorbed by the Fed, the FDIC, and ultimately by the American taxpayers in the next financial crisis. There’s no doubt the poor will get poorer and the rich richer until the spirit of revolution in the people calls a halt to the systematic destruction of freedom in America.

Conclusion: Toward a Peaceful Revolution

Authoritarianism has overtaken our economic system as the welfare mentality takes over at every level of government. Once the initiation of force by government is accepted by the people, even minimally, it escalates and involves every aspect of society. The only question that remains is just who gets to wield the power to distribute the largess to their friends and chosen beneficiaries. It’s a recipe for steady growth of the government at the expense of liberties, even if official documents and laws written to limit government power are in place. Planting even small seeds of monopoly power in the hands of a few people in government, whether democratically elected or not, will always metastasize like a cancer. This was Jefferson’s concern when he advised that “[t]he tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time.” He believed the people must warn the rulers that taking up arms against the government is legitimate if the government fails to protect the people’s liberty.

This should be a consideration. But if the spirit of liberty is not alive and well in the hearts and minds of the people, violence alone against the government will not be a solution. History has shown that, more often than not, people who rebel against abusive governments, whether run by kings or modern day dictators, do not gain much — overthrowing one dictator and replacing him with another just as bad.

A clear understanding of the nature and source of liberty is required for revolutions to be beneficial. Restraining the few who thrive on the use of force to rule over us is the challenge. Fortunately they are outnumbered by those who would choose liberty yet lack the will to challenge the humanitarian monsters who gain support from naive and apathetic citizens. All positive revolutions must be philosophic in nature to make a difference. Violence alone achieves nothing.

Before we can actually restore our liberties, we most likely will have to become a lot less free and much poorer. This is sad since correct and workable answers are available to us if only the people understood them and demanded liberty and honesty, rather than being dependent on excessive government power and believing the false promises of politicians.

Even with the problems we face today and the bleak outlook for the coming year there’s much to encourage us. During this next year there will be the continuation of many more people recognizing the failure of government to create peace and prosperity. More widespread understanding of this truth is required in order to bring about a successful revolution.

The freedom movement, especially with many young people involved, will grow in numbers and influence.

Current monetary policy and the Federal Reserve will continue to lose credibility, especially with the next bailout. Although “too big to fail” will stay in place, it will further alienate Main Street America causing it to rebel against the system.

The real problem of course is that too many “stupid people” are IN our government and have high visibility on the major TV networks. There will be plenty of people, not officially associated with government, who will rebel against various governments around the world. The sentiments supporting secession, jury nullification, nullification of federal laws by state legislatures, and a drive for more independence from larger governments will continue.

We should not be discouraged. Enlightenment is not nearly as difficult to achieve as it was before the breakthrough with Internet communications occurred.  Besides we must remember that “an idea whose time has come” cannot be stopped by armies, demagogues, politicians, or even Fox News or MSNBC. The time has come for the ideas of liberty to prevail. I smell progress. Let’s make 2015 a fun year for LIBERTY.

 

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Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:04 | 5648031 ObserverOnTheHill
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Want to know how communists have taken control ?

Watch the youtube interview of the son of a Soviet propaganda chief and then
defector to the US named Yuri Bezmenov.

It was done with G. Edward Griffin ( The Creature From Jekyll Island author ).
Amazingly,it was actually done in the 1980's !! and he lays out how
the communists would bring America down.

Taking control of the media was just one of the many ways they have been using for

a hundred years. Can anyone deny the way the media has promoted these agendas ?

You'll be amazed after watching and will realize just how incredibly successful
they have been infiltrating our institutions of schools, churches, courts, government , businesses, unions and even the military etc; to twist the thinking in this country.

SEARCH "Yuri Bezmenov interview" on youtube

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:48 | 5648230 SLIDINGINTOIT
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"THE MEDIA"...

WHY NOT SAY "WALL STREET"

OR THE "MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX"

OR PICK ANOTHER VAGUE SUMMARY TO DESCRIBE THE "UNKNOWN" ENEMY.

OR....GET INFORMED ,

AND POINT TO THE TRUE ENEMY, THE SCUM WHO OWN THE BIS, THE IMF, THE NON FEDERAL NO RESERVE .

THE SCUM ROTHCHILDS, THE ROCKERFELLERS, THEIR IMMEDIATE ASSOCIATES , ARE THE CORE ENEMY.

THEY OWN FUND CONTROL THE "MEDIA" "WALL STREET" THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORP".

THEY OWN CONTROLLING INTEREST IN THE CORPORATIONS

THEY OWN THE GOVERNMENTS VIA THE PARASITICAL CRIMINAL CENTRAL BANKING CABAL.

 

AND THEY WORK FOR  AND WORSHIP ....LUCIFER.

DOCUMENTED FACT.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:10 | 5648615 Accounting101
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We are off the rails now. YouTube? Seriously??? I can produce a YouTube video of a cat singing Happy Birthday.

Come on now!

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 15:09 | 5648746 Monty Burns
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Interview should be mandatory viewing for every student.  Can you just imagine that happening???

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:07 | 5648040 Franktastic
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The seed of decent has been planted years ago. I keep it alive in my children and my grand kids, just a matter of time and the lamp post in the streets will have another use, just add rope and a suit n tie and like magic things will change with the peoples will.

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:11 | 5648046 ObserverOnTheHill
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Apathy is the real enemy right now. As you talk to people and try to educate them to the crap that's going on it's very few that seem to really care.

Do some independent research - look into the relationship between fluoride and apathy - it is not conspiracy stuff but science shows that fluoride destroys your thyroid and pineal gland as well as having the effect of causing apathy.

Personally, I think apathy has done more to destroy the country than anything else.

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:38 | 5648128 SLIDINGINTOIT
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APATHY VIA DRUGS, POISON AND

________ MIND CONTROL MEDIA [all forms]

AND YES, IT IS A CONSPIRACY.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:49 | 5648108 SLIDINGINTOIT
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THE ENEMY IS THE SCUM WHO OWN THE NON FEDERAL NO RESERVE.

_____ THE ROTHCHILDS, THE ROCKERFELLERS , AND THEIR IMMEDIATE ASSOCIATES ARE THE CORE ENEMY.

THEY WORK FOR LUCIFER. .....ON RECORD.

Have the courage to USE THE SEARCH BAR.

Do not fear.

GET INFORMED.

___ BUILDING 7 SEVEN, & ARRON RUSSO'S INTERVIEW are a good place to BEGIN.__

KNOW THE ENEMY, ......KNOW THE ENEMIES INTENTIONS.....KNOW YOUR ENEMY

___________________ UNITE ____________________

STRIVE FOR TRUTH , JUSTICE , TRUE INTEGRITY

__________ DO NOT SURRENDER _____________

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:50 | 5649248 silentsock
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Your CAPS lock key is on.

(at least you do make paragraphs and use some punctuation)

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:02 | 5648151 RabbitOne
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We are at a point in socialist society where they will soon allow converted gay men to marry their sons to avoid paying inheritance taxes. It is plain to see while the left is in power we will see no end in mutations of past culture and loss of freedom to form their glorious new beginning to a new society.

Transformations that change society in a new direction have always been consistent in the past. With every attempt at changing society a SHTF event eventually happens that bring people back to themselves. With this event the pendulum swings the opposite way because of human nature.

 In this next SHTF event we will go back to basic survival instincts. In those times we will driven again to form strong families in tribes of look a likes, who speak and act the same and will demand simple society rules and basic laws.     

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:59 | 5648597 Accounting101
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Pure tribal bullshit, and you are being intellectually lazy. Stop being part of the problem.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:33 | 5648194 SLIDINGINTOIT
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___ BUILDING 7 SEVEN ___

A CLUE.

A CLUE THE SIZE OF A SKYSCRAPER.

A CLUE TO YOUR PROBLEMS.

 A CLUE TO THE REALITY, OF THE WORLD YOU ARE IN.

....IGNORE THE FACTS, IGNORE REALITY .

DO NOT USE THE SEARCH BAR, YOU "DONT HAVE TIME , " REMEMBER?

STICK YOUR HEAD IN THE DIRT, IN THE SAND , IN THE DECEPTION, THE DIVERSIONS, ...STICK YOUR HEAD IN ....

FOOTBALL.

STICK YOUR HEAD DOWN IN, ....THAT WILL LEAVE YOUR

DERRIERE,  UP IN THE AIR , ....JUST THE WAY THEY LIKE IT.

They are physically, mentally, Spiritually  attacking you , your family ,

They are enemies of Truth , Justice , Decency,

They have stated clearly they intend to destroy you.

They even put it in stone.

NOW GO WATCH FOOTBALL.

YOUR PROGRAMMING AWAITS.

CONTINUE, TO BE PROGRAMED.

KEEP YOUR ASS , UP THERE , REAL NICE.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:28 | 5648206 Connie Lingus
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Ok.  You've stated the obvious.  Now what.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:39 | 5648218 SLIDINGINTOIT
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OBVIOUS, ...yes to anyone who can still think cognitively and has researched the Truth of Sept 11,2001.

Obvious yes that the official story of 9/11 2001 IS A  COMPLETE FAIRY TALE, WITH CARTOON PHYSICS.

OBVIOUS YES .

 

BUT GO ASK TEN STRANGERS ON THE STREET , HAVE THE COURAGE TO TALK TO STRANGERS , [offer candy if you need to]

ASK THEM DO THEY KNOW ABOUT BUILDING 7 SEVEN.

DARE YA.

OBVIOUS , YES .

BUT THE aMERICANS ARE UNDER MIND CONTROL.

LITERALLY UNDER A SPELL.

FACT.

THEY ARE UNDER M I N D C O N T R O L .

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:26 | 5648333 conscious being
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Bldg. 7 is the easiest, major flaw in the official narrative to explain. Plenty of video documentation as well. When I have explained how #7 came down, without being struck, fell in its footprint at freefall speed, videos show numerous explosions prior to collapse, Larry Silverstein famously describing how he had to have them "pull" the building, etc. The response I have gotten is that some nefarious entity, maybe Russia, etc. faked all that video, etc. Barry Jennings death, plenty of other after the fact deaths of people who saw too much or pressed too hard. All fake. Stunning! People won't believe what they refuse to believe.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:38 | 5648340 SLIDINGINTOIT
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The fact FACT fact , that THEY DO NOT EVEN KNOW ABOUT A THIRD SKYSCRAPER THAT CAME STRAIGHT DOWN should WOULD should WAKE UP ANYONE WHO CAN THINK COGNITIVELY.

 

BUT THE aMERICANS ARE ZOMBIES.

 

UNDER FULL MIND CONTRIOL.

FACT.

___ B U I L D I N G __ 7 __ S E V E N ____

IS THE GLARING CLUE.

USE THE SEARCH BAR

I HAVE RESEARCHED ALL OF 9/11.

THEY ARE LYING ABOUT ALL OF IT.

ALL OF IT.

AND ARRON RUSSO MAKES IT CLEAR WHAT COMES NEXT.....THEY INTEND TO MICROCHIP EVERY aMERICAN FOOL, AND THEY CAN ONLY DO THAT WITH A HEALTH THREAT , A FALSE FLAG HEALTH "EMERGENCY" WITH A SERIES OF  MANDATORY "VACCINATIONS", THAT WILL REQUIRE "TRACKING" VIA A MICROCHIPS.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:39 | 5648223 SLIDINGINTOIT
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BUILDING 7 ....OR FOOTBALL.

TRUTH AND COURAGE , OR SURRENDER INTO FEAR AND FRAUD, COWER INTO WIMPASS FALSE HE-MAN CRAP.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:39 | 5648215 geekz_rule
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socialism? commuinism? statism?

come on man.

this is normal human behaviour. everything in motion, stays in motion, and typicaly develops momentum in the direction its moving

the real statists are the ones that imagined the illusion we were sold, of the american way of truth justice etc.. was susatinable.

it never was 

this is just monkeys fighting for garbage piles on a global scale. simple.

and the monkeys that created the central banking mechanism hundreds of years ago, are winning, and will continue to win for now. until they arent.

endurance of systems and governments MSUT be short lived, other wise this is what happens. anarchy for the uk ( and all ) bitchez... that is the only solution. out of the ashes a decent system can emerge, and be short lived, until sociopath monkeys take over again. rinse repeat, ad nauseum.

the tree of liberty demands regular feeding of the blood of patriots. and it's been starved to death decades ago.

P < P + I

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:43 | 5648227 LawsofPhysics
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Lie ignorance and fraud.  Still no one in prision.

 

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:43 | 5648228 stopthejunk1
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I wonder what will happen to Libertarianism in some hundreds of years when structural unemployment is 100% because the entire economy is automated, and the economic value of a human being is zero?

It will go the way of Malthus.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:28 | 5648339 conscious being
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Find out how to be self-sufficient and enjoy life. Emmancipate yourself. No one else can do it for you.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:58 | 5648430 IridiumRebel
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....and socialism and humanity. You and yours and mine will be long gone. 

Automation defies all political sentiment.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:31 | 5648641 stopthejunk1
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Humanity is not going anywhere. Capitalism however is doomed, because it is perfecting itself and eventually will have no need for human labor, which will necessitate socialism. If you observe that capitalism's core tenet is that "property is more important than people," you can see this easily. Socialism's core tenet is the opposite, and reflects mankind's true cooperative nature, not the capitalist distortion of the last 400 years.

This trend (the perfection of capitalism) has been going on for hundreds of years. The Malthusians and the Luddites have always been wrong, as well as the marginalized malcontents (like ZHers) that have forecasted the Apocalypse, which never comes, and never will come. The patron saint of Libertarians must be St. John with his revenge-fantasy vision of the world ending in order to avenge his people, who were enslaved when their own revolution (against the Romans) failed. Of course, that never happened, and never will happen.

Humanity actually has a bright future, but it's not a Libertarian one. It's not a Judeo-Christian one, either.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:48 | 5649232 serotonindumptruck
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A "bright future" you say?

Perhaps from the thousands of blinding thermonuclear detonations when WW3 kicks off.

Those weapons were built and stockpiled with the intention that they would be used, and they will be used, perhaps sooner than everyone realizes.

The Earth will soon be a dead planet.

The psychopaths have assumed control.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 02:17 | 5650497 IridiumRebel
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Socialism is a few rich folks allowing the vast sea of plebes enough to get by and nothing more. You make the mistake of trust in your desired masters. Capitalism is flawed, but with proper governance it offers the best chance for social mobility to which socialism completely lacks. I've stated this to you before and will reiterate it. THIS IS NOT CAPITALISM. THIS IS CRONYISM. You focus ire on the ideology when it is the controlling few who have tainted the true possibility of a capitalist system. BTW, capitalism when robust has socialist aspects that is fomented by the desire to help our fellow man. All one has to do is look at the failure of the welfare state that the U.S. has devolved into from shitty programs like The War on Poverty. The greatest advance in welfare was under Newt utilizing aspects of merit and self growth.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:02 | 5648271 SLIDINGINTOIT
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THE TRUTH OF THE NON FEDERAL NO RESERVE ,

AND THE TRUTH OF THE FALSE FLAG OF SEPT 11, 2001 ....ARE REQUIRED, TO BE INFORMED OF REALITY, AND THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN.

IGNORING IT ASSISTS IN THE DESTRUCTION OF TRUTH JUSTICE FREEDOM AND DECENT MORALITY.

 

TRUTH OR THE CONSEQUENCES.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:04 | 5648280 Sizzurp
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It was the older republican voters, above 60, who abandoned Ron Paul in the last election. Once you get to a certain age you apparently become more inclined to vote for plunder. Sad the oldies don't have more backbone and are not able to see what their precious benefits are doing to America. Now a rapacious police state will unleash hell upon us in their death throes. Everyone loses.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:25 | 5648633 stopthejunk1
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Taking care of people is not "plunder."

The top 1% own 40% of the stock market. The top 5% control over 90% of financial wealth in America. We have not seen this kind of severe inequality since Belle Epoch europe.

How much is enough?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 15:38 | 5648848 Sizzurp
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"Taking care of people" lol, what a moronic thing to say.  If you think that's what the government does with their looted funds, you are in for a rude awakening.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:12 | 5649134 Cathartes Aura
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still works a charm for some tho'

habitual thinking in old mind ruts, deep.

 

And am I under some spell?
And do my thoughts belong to me?
Or just some slogan I ingested to save time?

 

 

words.     sounds.           genius.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 02:51 | 5650529 trader1
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thanks for introducing me to some new age punk music ;-)

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:16 | 5648315 giatny1
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It's really scary when Ron Paul is the sanest man in the room. His analysis no longer seems extreme.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:28 | 5648643 dvfco
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His analysis was never extreme.  It is just pathetic how long it has taken people to realize he's been right all along.  Even more pathetic is the fact that some people still consider him extreme.

Generally, it's the one man not taking anything from the system and arguing against both major parties that is the sane one, not the rest of the whores in D.C.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:36 | 5648360 SLIDINGINTOIT
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The fact  FACT  fact , that THEY DO NOT EVEN KNOW ABOUT A THIRD SKYSCRAPER THAT CAME STRAIGHT DOWN should WOULD should WAKE UP ANYONE WHO CAN THINK COGNITIVELY.

 

BUT THE aMERICANS ARE ZOMBIES.

 

UNDER FULL MIND CONTRIOL.

FACT.

AND ARRON RUSSO MAKES IT CLEAR WHAT COMES NEXT.....THEY INTEND TO MICROCHIP EVERY aMERICAN FOOL, AND THEY CAN ONLY DO THAT WITH A HEALTH THREAT , A FALSE FLAG HEALTH "EMERGENCY" WITH A SERIES OF  MANDATORY "VACCINATIONS", THAT WILL REQUIRE "TRACKING" VIA A MICROCHIP.

 

WATCH ARRON RUSSO INTERVIEW

NORMAN DODDS

KURT HASKELLS

CHARLOTTE ISERBYTS

 

GET REAL CLEAR ON THE NON FEDERAL NO RESERVE

THE BILL OF RIGHTS

THE ROTHCHILDS

THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES

BOHEMIAN GROVE

 

TURN OFF THE TV , and GET IN THE FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE.

 

BECAUSE YOU ARE UNDER FULL ATTACK, RIGHT NOW.

IGNORING IT LEADS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILYS DEMISE.

 

___ B U I L D I N G __ 7 __ S E V E N ____

 

HAVE SOME COURAGE ,

USE THE SEARCH BAR ...DO NOT STOP.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:47 | 5648392 Polymarkos
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CAPS LOCK off, jackass.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:54 | 5648409 SLIDINGINTOIT
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EATWHAT YOULUV

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:21 | 5648485 Jerome Lester H...
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No doubt. I don't bother to read comments in caps lock. If the commenter is too stupid to understand why there are upper case and lower case letters in the alphabet then I see no reason to strain my eyes reading their stupidity.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:24 | 5648504 SLIDINGINTOIT
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WHO IS KAY GRIGGS?

WHO IS SGT TERRY YEAKEY?

WHO IS GEN STUBBLEBINE?

who is the "stupid" one ..........come on, admit it ....who?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:37 | 5648362 Polymarkos
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A peacful revolution will not likely work. But, just as with the end of the Soviet Union, I hope we can transition past this totalitarian nonsense without too much bloodshed.

 

I hope the digital machine revolution enables us to achieve vastly greater economic production without all the massive capital the old system required. If we can manage that, then capitalism will have given way to economic digitalism, and we will no longer 'need' central banks and a Fed Reserve to put the kaibash on the boom-bust cycle that massively scaled industrial capitalism carried with it.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:52 | 5648382 SLIDINGINTOIT
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R. Paul states above that ...." But attacks similar in nature to the 9/11 attacks will remain a threat to our homeland. We will not be attacked because we are free and rich. The attacks will come from angry people who have had friends and relatives killed by America’s careless and often vicious use of our military force in their countries.".....

THIS IS BULLSHIET. THE USA WAS NOT ATTACKED ON 9/11 "BECAUSE WE ARE RICH AND FREE",

THE USA WAS ATTACKED , BY THE GOVJACKED US GOVERNMENT , TO DESTROY OUR RIGHTS , TO DESTROY THE FOUNDATION OF THE COUNTRY.

TO TELL YOU ,WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE TERRORISTS...WHEN THEY ARE THE TERRORISTS THAT DID THE 9/11 ATTACK. FACT.

 

America was attacked by the govjacked us government on 9/11....and we are not in "homeland". We live in the usa, a nation, not a STATE OF NAZISM. [unless you all surrender to it]

___ B U I L D I N G __ 7 __ S E V E N ___

WAKE YOUR CONNED ASS UP.

STOP OPPERATING VIA THE CONTROLLED FALSE FLAG AGENDA.

WAKE UP, aMERICANS, AND THAT INCLUDES YOU RAND PAUL.

STOP OPPERATING AS A TRUE PATRIOT,

THAT IS IGNORANT OF THE TRUTH OF SEPT 11,

STOP LIVING IN FEAR ,

STOP COWERING TO THE SCUM WHO OWN THE NON FED ,

STOP LIVING A HALF TRUTH, AFRAID TO STAND UP AGAINST THE EVIL.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:57 | 5648416 IridiumRebel
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ZH folks are mostly awake, but you must spell correctly, cool?
Opperating is "Operating" correctly and the Yell text doesn't help either. 

We all know B7 was a ruse.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:18 | 5648474 SLIDINGINTOIT
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K BUILDING 7 WAS NOT A "RUSE".

Building 7 seven is the MOST OBVIOUS deception of Sept 11, 2001, BUT ONLY ONE OF THE HUNDREDS of lies and deceptions of SEPT 11, 2001.

THE OFFICIAL STORY IS A FAIRYTALE.

It is complete hogwash.

I point to Building 7 Seven , BECAUSE IF A SKYSCRAPER DOES NOT WAKE YOU UP , NOTHING WILL, YOU ARE TOO FAR GONE under the MIND CONTROL.

 

NOW, Ido not always spell correctly, and , I AM SHOUTING AND TELLING THE FACTS.

You might criticise PAUL REVERE and his approach , waking you up from your slumber. HE WAS STATING "THEY ARE COMING" ...I AM STATING THEY ARE ALREADY IN CONTROL, AND HAVE YOU STILL THINKING THAT FLAG UP THERE THAT THEY DISPLAY BACKWARDS , IS STILL THE "GOOD OLE USA " FLAG.

IT IS NOT.

 

So you will have to deal with the TRUTH , or you can ENJOY THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT GETTING MORE INFORMED.

9/11 WAS DONE BY THE US GOVJACKED GOVERNMENT.

FULFILLING THE ORDERS OF THE CONTROLLERS , THE SCUM WHO OWN THE IMF BIS AND NON FEDERAL NO RESERVE.

"Now , go watch football, you aMERICAN FOOLS.

WE HAVE YOU RIGHT WERE WE PLANNED TO.

YOU WILL SURRENDER IT ALL."

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 15:03 | 5648727 Monty Burns
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Pity to see you get so many downs. But Hate Facts never were popular.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:22 | 5649164 Tall Tom
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Do yourself a favor and do a search on Zerohedge.

 

Type in WTC Building 7 into the search box and see what happens.

 

We already know about 9/11..Many here know about the false flag.

 

Search out George Washington's Blogs and posts.

 

Perhaps you just found out about it.

 

Knowing something and doing something about it are two entirely different beasts.

 

But you are preaching to the choir here.

 

Now if this is an attempted thread jack...

 

This article is not directly about 9/11.

 

This discussion on this thread is supposedly about Ron Paul's admonitions and predictions as to our future if the current path is continued.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:21 | 5648487 SLIDINGINTOIT
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ASK 10 PEOPLE on the street,

"do you know about building 7...?"

 

they will lookat you with deer in the headlights,

or start looking around trying to guess which building is 7

or will say "YES" when they really dont have a clue....eventually they will laugh at you , or will walk away , or will say ..."I dont want to know"; ALL MIND CONTROLLED REACTIONS. , IMPLEMENTED IN THEIR MINDS,

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 15:00 | 5648724 Monty Burns
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Sadly, you're correct.  And maybe 2 of the ten will just freak out at you.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 20:33 | 5649764 BustainMovealota
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No argument there.  Problem is most Americans get their news spoofed to them daily.  Its a whole lot easier to sit the American dumb fat ass on the couch and click the on button on the remote than to pursue the real news, cross reference and analyze.,,, but, these folks vote too.  The real danger.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

-- Ayn Rand

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 15:00 | 5648718 Monty Burns
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True, but cut RP some slack. He knows better than anyone that were he to tell the truth about 9/11 he'd never appear on the media again or could even end up suicided. Having said that I think/hope that Building 7 could be the cut which unravels the whole cover-up fabric.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:15 | 5649139 Cathartes Aura
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aye, that's why his son dons the beanie and prays to the wall.  because otherwise, he'd be toast.

 

amirite?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 20:37 | 5649782 BustainMovealota
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“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”

-- Ayn Rand

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 01:32 | 5650446 bunnyswanson
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What the fuck does that mean?  Is there a Truth Season for hunters of the truth?  The messenger tells us what is happening.  We rely on his message to be truthful so we can make decisions accordingly.  The messenger gives us the "news"  New events that change the situation from what it had been yesterday.

 

Ayn Rand was a junkie who focused most of latter years on destroying the reputation of her young lover and his wife after he rejected her (though she remembered him in her will)

http://theweek.com/article/index/203764/ayn-rand-speed-addict

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:49 | 5648396 SLIDINGINTOIT
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WATCH ARRON RUSSO INTERVIEW

NORMAN DODDS

KURT HASKELLS

CHARLOTTE ISERBYTS

 

GET REAL CLEAR ON THE NON FEDERAL NO RESERVE

THE BILL OF RIGHTS

THE ROTHCHILDS

THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES

BOHEMIAN GROVE

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:25 | 5648509 OneTinTrooper
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Forget about a national leader winning with these views.  

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:37 | 5648539 SLIDINGINTOIT
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AS IF THE "ELECTIONS" WERE LEGITIMATE.

THE SCUM THAT OWN THE NON FED WILL PUT IN "OFFICE"

AS THE NEXT PUPPET, WHO THEY CHOOSE.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 20:24 | 5649721 prymythirdeye
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Gotta love the down votes

edit: Enough with the caps lock though

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:27 | 5648513 SLIDINGINTOIT
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_________

_____________ use the search bar __________

 

DO NOT LIVE YOUR LIFE AS A COWARD .

 

______ USE THE SEARCH BAR _____

start weith BUILDING 7 SEVEN & ARRON RUSSO'S INTERVIEW.

KURT HASKELL, A TRUE AMERICAN HERO.

NORMAN DODDS INTERVIEWS.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:30 | 5648522 SilverCoinLover
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It's a shame Ron Paul wasn't elected President, as this would have made a great State Of The Union Speech.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:41 | 5648559 El_Puerco
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Hey!...RON PAUL!...Where are you?!..

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:57 | 5648596 BernankeHasHemo...
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I have always liked Ron Paul but he is very naive if he thinks that the US populace has awakened to the threats around them. They are sheep hooked on meth and food stamps and only worthy of being turned into dog food by their Chinese masters. The time for revolution was a long time ago and not a peaceful revolution but one waged in the blood of the bankers and their allies.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:03 | 5648606 Bumbu Sauce
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It's true I read it on a blimp AND an overpass!

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:23 | 5648630 stopthejunk1
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:17 | 5649143 Cathartes Aura
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all lies and jest.

still, a man hears what he wants to hear

and disregards the rest.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:12 | 5648617 Playtime's Over
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My leftie left wing brother commented that he likes Ron Paul once while wading into a political comment. That was the beginning of the end for my flirtation with RPism.  It's my BS meter, when I here  progressives say something  good about ANYTHING I step back and examine.  Same with the punkie ZH anarchists.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:34 | 5648655 stopthejunk1
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The anarchists are not a threat. They cannot survive outside of their parents' basements. If it were not for the Internet, they would not even exist.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:36 | 5648657 bobdog54
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RP covers it off well but I didn't come away with any sense of how to really change the trend. You just can't hope it away. Not sure but I think RP misses the inherent "evil" in the human race. Greed, sloth, jealousy, power hungry, etc are primary drivers in a portion of people and you MUST understand and DEAL with it. I get from him that those evil behaviors are caused not natural, and that is why I didn't vote for him.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 16:23 | 5648954 1Inthebeginning
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Thought experiment.  What would happen if all the people helped each other pay off our debts.  I pay off your debt and then you and I help someone else pay their debt.  The limiting factors are that the people who were helped would continue to help others.  I believe that debt could be eliminated worldwide.  But you would need people you could trust.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 08:28 | 5650771 css1971
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Education.

It's all about changing minds.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 16:14 | 5648942 Radical Marijuana
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Ron Paul makes the most sense of any of the publicly significant politicians in America that I am aware of ... The statement in his article above that I agreed with most was:

"All positive revolutions must be philosophic in nature to make a difference."

However, in my view, Ron Paul does NOT get remotely close to the magnitude of intellectual scientific revolutions which would be ideally necessary for any Second American Revolution to possibly make things any better. Rather, Ron Paul continues to operate within the same old-fashioned false fundamental dichotomies and related impossible ideals, throughout all of his presentations.

Ron Paul is the best American reactionary revolutionary that I am aware of having some significant public effect waking people up. From that perspective, I found the article above to provide plenty of excellent analysis on every topic. However, the implied "solutions" continue to be too superficial. The main reason is that Ron Paul continues to be light years away from ENOUGH scientific revolutions, which would be required to make our political science able to be better reconciled with the progress in sciences like physics and biology.

Most of my kinds of comments on Zero Hedge, for the last couple years, have been discussing what could be the the main threads to weave together as a sufficient series of intellectual scientific revolutions, which attempt to provide a creative synthesis between ancient mysticism and post-modernizing science. The imperatives driving that are we DO have globalized systems of electronic monkey money, backed by apes with atomic bombs. Hence, the changes in the paradigms of physics HAVE delivered technologies which are trillions of times more powerful and capable, than anything which previously existed in known human history.

There is NOTHING in Ron Paul's old-fashioned conceptions of "Liberty" that have transformed enough to adapt to the runaway problems of progress in science and technology being channeled through social pyramid systems based on being able to back up lies with violence. Since I regard Ron Paul as one of the best, well-known American politicians, I find he exemplifies the typical contradictions of providing EXCELLENT ANALYSIS of the problems, followed by collapsing back to BULLSHIT "SOLUTIONS," which continue to be based too much on the impossible ideals expressed through magic words like Liberty.

Therefore, while I totally agree that "all positive revolutions must be philosophic in nature to make a difference," Ron Paul, and the people who support him, tend to NOT come close to the kinds of scientific revolutions which are theoretically necessary. THE BIG PROBLEMS ARE PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, STILL OPERATING INSIDE OF CIVILIZATIONS CONTROLLED BY SYSTEMS OF LIES BACKED BY VIOLENCE.

Those BIG PROBLEMS can not be resolved without profound paradigm shifts in political science, that enable that to become more consistent with physical sciences. While that is theoretically possible, it appears practically impossible. Hence, in my opinion, even the most famous and best American politicians, are still ridiculous reactionary revolutionaries. It is one of the great ironies of our times that most people who talk about the need for paradigm shifts tend to NOT actually do so. In the case of the article above, that was expressed by providing plenty of good analysis, and even pointing in the right directions regarding possible some solutions, but otherwise still stuck too much in the same old frames of reference.

The BIG PROBLEMS are profound because they have been developing at an exponentially accelerating rate for thousands of years. The BIG PROBLEMS are built into all of the dominate natural languages, as well as the dominate philosophy of science. We continue to rely upon DUALITIES, expressed as false fundamental dichotomies and their related impossible ideals, to base our notions of how to resolve our problems better. However, what we should do is move towards using more UNITARY MECHANISMS to understand politics, and attempting to be consistent with those perceptions when promoting better solutions for our political problems.

There is nothing less than intellectual scientific revolutions, which apply to political science, which might be able to assist us with going through the transformations driven by social pyramid systems based on backing up lies with violence being amplified to astronomical sizes by progress in physical science and technology. NONE of the various old-fashioned religions and ideologies, including that which uses the magical word of Liberty, are able to cope with the issue of the growing Grand Canyon Chasm between progress in all sciences, EXCEPT, NOT POLITICAL SCIENCE.

There is NO doubt that: "All positive revolutions must be philosophic in nature to make a difference."  However, in order for those philosophical revolutions to be sufficient, they must involve paradigm shifts in the basic ways that people understand themselves, which are orders of magnitude BIGGER than all of the previous paradigm shifts made in physical sciences. Of course, at the present time, we are mostly totally failing to do so, and therefore, the globalized systems of electronic monkey money, backed by apes with atomic bombs, and therefore, are headed towards catastrophic consequences, which we can barely comprehend at the current time.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 22:46 | 5650055 g speed
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As with most academia you fall into the rational trap--in that somehow we must include politics and economics in a solutions model--

I will contend that politics are useless in an enlightened society --economics is simply a way of putting a price on the time you have left in your life relative to everything else and would be useless if the time were limitless.

Politics and economics are the problem-- just reread all the comments above yours to gauge the influence they have in "problems of our world" They are it --period. Getting rid of things that inslave or inhibit one are the issues at hand, not the inclusion of those in a "new solution"  

Dr. Paul is correct -- the revolution must be "philosophic". Almost as if we were changing religions. Faith--the basis of religion, is the halmark of fiat-- as it is of all things which have a price. Value is not economic -price is. Politics is a function of faith, trust and abdication. It's trademark is "the lie". 

Science and technology are the only endevors that are defined by an absence of guilt, remorse, apology, racism, discrimination, violence, exclusion, etc. Maybe that is why it is advancing while the others are stuck in the past --

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 23:20 | 5650167 Radical Marijuana
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I assert that warfare is the oldest and best developed forms of social science and social engineering. The paradoxical problem is that success in warfare was based on deceits, and so, the most important soldiers were spies.

I regard militarism as the supreme ideology, because the most important thing that people do is kill each other, the outcomes from which control everything else within human societies. Politics and economics are quite different than other domains, because in those contexts more rational evidence and logical arguments tend to not be applied to discover better truth, but rather, are employed to develop better ways to be dishonest, and back those lies up with violence.

Economics is a subset of militarism. That is obvious when one considers how the foundation of political economy has become based on enforced frauds, which were made possible by the banksters capturing control over the powers of governments. The basic thrust of history has been the flow from power to information, with that being the War Kings morphing into the Fraud Kings.

To me, the most important issue is the paradox developed through history that the most successful death control systems were operated through the maximum possible deceits, which then became the basis upon which to build financial systems based on the maximum possible frauds. Unfortunately, that is very far advanced now, while there is no easy way to undo what thousands of years of backing up lies with violence has made become the real situation we are surrounded by, especially since it still continues to be the case that governments are the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals.

Politics and economics are supremely paradoxical sciences, and forms of social engineering, because their successes are based on deceits and frauds, which are backed up with destructive force. Any more genuine political science would have to directly address and admit that profound paradox into its discourse. However, so far, doing that has contradicted thousands of years of social success based on not doing that, but rather, continuing to excel at backing up dishonest with violence.

The problem with any genuinely better political economy is that it would have to be based on better death controls, in order to back up better debt controls, while all of the established systems, and their controlled opposition groups, were based on becoming socially successful through thousands of years of backing up deceits with destruction, and enforcing frauds.

A more sophisticated political science finds itself within the paradoxical ways that politics actually is based on the application of the principles and methods of organized crime. There is already LOTS of science about that, but only to deploy to become better at that! Given that problem, the most probable future is that civilization is going to commit insane collective suicide, rather than adapt in any better ways. The production of destruction is controlling production in ways which are becoming increasingly psychotic. Therefore, I am probably wasting my time attempting to make the points that I do, but nevertheless, as an "intellectual" I tend to value intellectual integrity more than anything else, and so, I recommend profound paradigm shifts in militarism, based on perceiving the purposes of the death controls in radically different ways. WE DO HAVE GLOBALIZED ELECTRONIC FRAUDS, BACKED BY THE FORCE OF ATOMIC BOMBS! Nothing that Ron Paul or you have said are even remotely in the same order of magnitude as those REAL PROBLEMS!

Old-fashioned ideologies are useless to deal with those REAL PROBLEMS.  Indeed, those are so, so, so serious, that the most probable future is NOT that human civilization will resolve its paradoxes, but rather, madly destroy itself. The mainstream philosophy of science has been a victim of the Big Lies, just as much as every other social enterprise has been. However, unless one takes a great deal of time to understand that, then one may not have any clues about that, but rather, continues to presume that one understand, despite still being extremely WRONG! Therefore, I found your reply, g speed, to be a lot like that of Ron Paul's article above, in that I agreed with a lot of what you wrote, but you appear to barely comprehend what my points were ...

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 13:13 | 5651696 g speed
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Sorry for the overnight wait--  

Militarism takes effort. It will not exist outside of a risk/reward system, whether global or local. The reward is "everything you see before you can be yours" The risk is you lose and die. In the end everything is personal-- war and death and birth and day to day life. To establish that the monsters of global evil are in control gives the devil more than his due. It's men after all--that do these deeds- make these plans-build and run these machines and systems. Men are finite and so are their endevours in politics and economics, be that war or peace or in between.

To continue the insanity (death control systems) for more than a generation requires religious zelotry. That in turn requires constant attention to detail on a daily basis by the "men and their progeny" in charge. Any slip at all and the whole thing reverts to the mean. Dr Paul is attempting to exploit the "chink in the armor" of the system--he calls it a message of liberty. IMHO it seems to be working. Your apocalypse is probably not going to happen. The system will consume it's self and more that likely just laydown and expire due to irrelevance. 

Gov't is obsolete.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 18:38 | 5653134 Radical Marijuana
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I agreed with your assertions, g speed, that: "Militarism takes effort. It will not exist outside of a risk/reward system ..."

To the degree that human beings consume all of the previously concentrated energy sources, and do not discover any new ones to replace those, then the centralizing powers will be dispersed, as the ability to control concentrated energy sources ceases to be as possible as it previously was. At the present time, that appears to be the path we are headed on, despite that it will take still some significant time to fully manifested, even though we were headed in that direct at an exponentially accelerating rate.

However, I do not believe that "government is obsolete," only that the previously existing forms of government have become obsolete. As long as human beings survive, then they can still engage in murder and robbery, and therefore, will still organize into whatever groups are best able to survive through doing that. In such a context, the long ride UP based on being able to strip-mine the natural resources of a fresh planet may be over, and that be the deeper reason why the government that grew upon the basis of being able to make "money" out of nothing to "pay" for strip-mining the planet will no longer be able to grow bigger.

However, even after any level of collapse, the survivors will still end up having their first priority making and maintaining whatever kind of government which could still exist then, because assembling and channeling the powers to rob and to kill will still be their first priority. Human beings are inherently political animals. My point is whether or not they could ever become more genuine scientific political animals. That is extremely problematic because that could not be based upon magic words, like Liberty, but rather must be on facing the facts that governments are necessarily based on the principles and methods of organized crime, because human beings operate as entropic pumps of energy.

Governments were about taxes and death, or debt controls and death controls. Governments will always be so, as long as human beings continue to survive. What I am saying is that human beings can NOT survive the growing contradictions of progress in science and technology, which are not matched by progress in political science. However, progress in political science is extremely problematic, because the biggest bullies' bullshit world view almost totally dominated the currently established civilization, including the controlled opposition groups within that civilization, including most of the scientific community as well!

In my view, Ron Paul "message of liberty" is based on merely magical words. There is no effort made to reconcile the concept of freedom with the concept of the conservation of energy. That may be done, but only through profound paradigm shifts in the basic philosophy of science, which then apply to political science, in ways whereby the "message of liberty" is promoted in ways which reflect a creative synthesis of ancient mysticism with post-modernizing science, which goes far, far beyond any old-fashioned religions or ideologies, that most people want to continue to promote as their preferred basis for "solutions."

How can there be any genuine "solutions" to problems wherein there are globalized systems of electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs, when the political theories attempting to do that have nothing in common with quantum mechanics or the special theory of relativity, etc.?  Our BIG PROBLEMS have been amplified to astronomical sizes by progress in science, while our politics continues to be dominated by various sorts of magical words, which are popular with those who want to continue to believe in various old-fashioned religions and ideologies, which is why it appears that our "government is obsolete."

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 22:40 | 5650063 geekz_rule
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thank you RM.. thoughtful post!

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:00 | 5649089 Bear
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Here's a little good news in a sea of bad:

Hillary is going to run on Obama's economics successes.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-now-ready-to-embrace-pres...

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 11:14 | 5651203 Farmer Joe in B...
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That's rich. Nothing has been fixed since BO took office. We will see another 2008-style market (and, consequently, economic) collapse before the next elections. 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:29 | 5649179 atthelake
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Even Ron Paul does not call a spade, a spade. These "stupid people" in Washington are, purposely, destroying America, Americans and the dollar. It's not a matter of stupidity. It's a matter of treason.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 18:25 | 5649372 felix2
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Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:07 | 5648150UncleDirtNap

It amazes me that even as events unfold in France people still insist on believing the Code Pink & Ron Paul distortions of history and believing that any country's policy or action is responsible for the 1400+ year conflict between Islam and every other culture and country it has ever come into contact with on the planet.

 For the last half centry France has maintained the very polices advocated by Ron Paul, they've bent over backward to not only distance themselves from US policy in the Middle East but worked to thwart it, violated international sactions and continued to aid, assist, do business with and provide comfort to citizens of states sponsoring terrorism.  From fighting against Hamas and Hezbollah being designated as terrorist organizations to maintaining open borders to immigrants from Middle East states France is the epitome of the type of policies Ron Paul advocates and look where it's gotten them?  Multiple "o-go zones" where French civil authority has ceded control to residents who enforce Sharia law and Jews fleeing the country for their safety.

Yes

Although our idiot neo con spawn are midgets in the shadow of the French Charlie Cartoonists who would not kneel before the Slavers

Ron Paul is always close but no cigar, his criticisms often accurate, but his blame off target, and his solutions, too Vichy French

where did US Marines get the name Leathernecks? From their fight at Tripoli against the islamist barbarians. Marines wore leather on their necks to protect against the decapitating barbarians

Christopher Hitchens:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_urbanities-thomas_jefferson.html

After Tripoli Frances Scott Key produced verses later revised for the star spangled banner:

In conflict resistless each toil they endur’d,
Till their foes shrunk dismay’d from the war’s desolation:
And pale beamed the Crescent, its splendor obscur’d
By the light of the star-bangled flag of our nation.
Where each flaming star gleamed a meteor of war,
And the turban’d head bowed to the terrible glare.
Then mixt with the olive the laurel shall wave
And form a bright wreath for the brow of the brave.

WWRPD? What would R Paul say about such verses? Would he blame Jefferson for instigating the Barbary pirates?

 

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 20:05 | 5649682 LocalBoy
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We dont have to wonder what he would have. Your guess was wrong - He voted to send military into Afghanistan to hunt the criminals, who happen to claim to be Muslim, in a similair fashion to that of Jefferson. Ironically, it was the military General, Washington, who elected to pay tribute........

THe leather was to protect from the saber, of any enemy. It was not relative to Muslim beheadings........

Jefferson did not blame Islam, he blamed the piracy on the pirates. When we left Tripoli and Algiers Muslims were still in charge and Goldman Sachs did not do business with them.......

 

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 02:27 | 5650508 JoJoJo
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Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (Barbary Ambassador) told Ambassador Jefferson: “[Piracy] was founded on the laws of the Prophet, as it was written in the Koran; that all nations which had not acknowledged [Islam’s] authority were sinners; that it was [the Moslem’s] right and duty to make war upon them and enslave them as prisoners, and that every Muslim slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 05:37 | 5650650 dreadnaught
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yeah but those bastards in France-HOW DARE THEY!!!=voted to recognize Palestine, drop the sanctions on Russia, and suggest that the EU be split apart-now tell me -IF THEY WERENT BEGGING FOR A FALSE FLAG 'Terrorist' attack from the CIA, I just dont know/........

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 18:25 | 5649373 Ewtman
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Now that the Democratic Party no longer controls the majority of the Senate, it is looking more possible that a stand alone up or down vote to audit the Federal Reserve Bank could happen in 2015.  Senator Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, plans to re-introduce his father’s long fought legislation to have the Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit the decision-making processes of the secretive quasi-federal agency.

 

http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/rand-paul-takes-up-his-fathers-cause-...

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 05:31 | 5650646 dreadnaught
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and guess how many Republicans will vote no......just ENOUGH

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 11:52 | 5651346 Comte d'herblay
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The FED is Untouchable.  Getting to audit any entity requires that entity to cooperate with the auditor,  providing access to all records.

Here're the possibilities of that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRB-mxrbUiI

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 20:21 | 5649515 RichardParker
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"Placing confidence in people who thrive on wielding government power and who spend a lifetime using it to benefit special interests is not a wise policy."

-Ron Paul

"Their attention was evidently focused on the short-term concerns of enriching themselves, waging wars, erecting monuments, competing with one another, and extracting enough food from the peasants to support all those activities. Like most leaders throughout human history, the Maya kings and nobles did not have the leisure to focus on long-term problems, insofar as they perceived them...."

Taken from Jared Diamond's The Last Americans.

Not much has changed...

 


Sun, 01/11/2015 - 22:59 | 5650102 22winmag
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Let's face it, the Tea Party is controlled opposition and a dead issue. Nobody is riding to the rescue. And the Oath Breaker-Keepers??They won't take your guns when the shit hits the fan, but they will kick doors down for marijuana and asset seizures all day long. Case closed. Thank you for dreaming.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 00:12 | 5650310 Mongrel
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Been pushing secession from DC for 20 years. It's past time for it! www.leagueofthesouth.com

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 00:20 | 5650331 thegr8whorebabylon
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RP's rEVOLution spurred a moonbat dEVOLution

cracks and cranks and nazi shanks

shout out nigga's Antoinet pranks

and all from OUR ranks

all from our ranks.

Hang your heads and beg for mercy

RP's son might win in Jersey

what if we just won this war

with neocons, and so much more.

what if we just won this war?

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 00:26 | 5650346 Fecund Stench
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RP's domestic views are the most hateful and ignorant thing I've read in a long time.

His disregard of the poor in the attempt to defend the rights of the rich is crystalline evil.

Junk away, fascist sycophants. 

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 00:29 | 5650350 Fecund Stench
Mon, 01/12/2015 - 02:04 | 5650486 Bear
Mon, 01/12/2015 - 02:16 | 5650501 JoJoJo
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RP is right on so many levels but I asked a minister,and disciple of Ron Paul if he thought there should be no restriction on the selling of all drugs. He was so pro RP that he thought arsenic and hemlock should be sold over the counter along with heroin,oxycontin,and cocaine.

Yes audit the Fed RP but realize that there is nothing we could have done nor can we do to pacify Jihadists. In a sense they are like many African Americans who have made a profession out of being perpetually offended. The Slams have racked up a higher body count (if you dont count the millions of dead Tutsis and Hutus) in modern times - just as their founder Muhammad had. Which begs the question: Aren't modern jihadists more emulating their founding father,a very violent man, than the peaceful Islamists?

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 02:34 | 5650519 zebrasquid
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Holy Moly, Ron Paul should take a breath...
These points couldn't be boiled down into 1/10 the length of this piece?
I mean, consider your audience.. it might be cool and right on and all that...
BUT...we all be A.D.D....

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 03:40 | 5650567 serotonindumptruck
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Does everyone realize that if you have a government job, regardless of whether it is local, county, state, or federal position, that you will be shielded from prosecutîon if you are charged with a crime?

It's true. As long as it isn't a felony or a domestic violence charge, you will be shielded from prosecution.

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Mon, 01/12/2015 - 09:03 | 5650815 forwardho
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Don't you have a relative who works for a bank in Nigeria?

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 04:25 | 5650602 p00k1e
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Jeb Bush will save us.  But you have to send him....  $1,000.....  if you don't Hillary will eat your babies and have sex with a terrorist on terrestrial.

And don’t forget to send Ron Paul a few bucks too you know.  He's a regular Joe w/house payment like the rest of working stiff.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 05:00 | 5650625 Hapa
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gotta see this film - I was riveted for 3 and 1/2 hours.  It's on the level of Loose Change as a watershed video:

JFK to 911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM&feature=youtu.be

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 05:09 | 5650632 p00k1e
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Once we get rich through Republican policy, we’ll use those tricks too.

Hell, yea. 

That’s why we support Republicanism. 

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 07:44 | 5650722 JamaicaJim
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He's right.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 08:15 | 5650757 Comte d'herblay
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It's the height of hypocrisy to BE right, and do nothing about it but complain.  Paul has made a career of being the Town Crier without ever having to actually be held to account for solving even issue he has ever raised.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 09:22 | 5650848 overmedicatedun...
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Comte, I agree with much of what you post..but anyone of us can do something, NO? careful callling R Paul a hypocrit..cause well ,what have you done about it?

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 11:45 | 5650952 Comte d'herblay
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Whoa....Over.....I didn't make a career, getting paid for doing nothing, while preaching to us.  He has.

As for me doing anything about many if not all the problems or even a single one of the serious issues he has raised, I know how little power I have versus a 30 yr government paid elected official.  He has used ALL his energy to bitch, and not accomplished one thing.  All mouth.

Show me the kind of marshalling of forces that passed Gay "marriage", a tiny flea fart in the cosmos of our problems, affecting an even tinier number of queers and then maybe Paul could claim one victory.

But he can't.

Take one problem like the blatant ripoff of the world's population by the Mortgage banking fraud crisis. What on earth can I do about an AG who will not bring even one investigation into who committed so many crimes???

Or getting irrelevant bills inserted into other bills to get passed what wouldn't see the light of day if attempted on its own, like the special change Jamie Dimon wanted and got inserted last month into the Budget bill???

 

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 15:02 | 5652179 overmedicatedun...
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comte, you are right, but always a but no?..I cannot point to any pol who has done more to shed light on the fed and other topics of freedom and consitution that paul has, the fact the elite power structure and independent fed tell him to fuck off does not mean more people become aware of the criminals in dc and at the fed by his speech and PR.

long ago i stopped hoping the elected would respond to the people..they have never let me down.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 08:06 | 5650739 Grimaldus
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Ron Paul forgot one thing---Crime. Lies, ignorance and CRIME describe the progressive method perfectly.

Grimaldus

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 08:11 | 5650745 lost money
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Ron Paul is an idot and you people are evn bigger diots listening to that mental midget

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 08:15 | 5650750 Comte d'herblay
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THx for being one of the few here who knows that.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 12:17 | 5651447 Farqued Up
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Which welfare teat are you sucking? Beware of the frog below that will steal your sustenance.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 08:14 | 5650747 Comte d'herblay
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Ron Paul:  All mouth and no action. He hasn't solved even one problem in his entire career.  He's the Seinfeld of CONgress.

 

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 12:28 | 5651483 VWAndy
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Yep RP had his chance. Window dressing. Selling false hope. It only took him thirty years to not audit the FED.

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 12:06 | 5651408 rejected
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"Wealth achieved by hard work is quite a bit different. Opening the door to this opportunity is achievable by following the principle of life, liberty, and property."

Please read the above line two or three times before continuing.

Mr. Paul has not once mentioned the off shoring of american production and the skilled well paying jobs that went with them,,, nor the On Shoring of H1B jobs to replace American labor with cheap foreign labor,,, or the influx of poor illegals scoffing up whats left.

Mr. Paul and his cohorts in Con-gress by the approval of Free Trade Treaties has eliminated the bulk of well paying jobs by their libertarian belief of no borders and that company's have the right to go where the labor is the cheapest or cheap labor has the right to do the same.

Much of the reasons for poverty and discontent is due to the great jobs giveaway by government with his and other libertarian blessings. The Libertarian theme is basically "Do what you want so long as you do no harm to others".  Apparently destroying job opportunity of an entire nation did not fall within those guide lines.  He and cohorts instituted the insane re-education of Americans that supposedly was to prepare them for better jobs only to allow corporations to import the cheap labor.

I could go on but it's old hat to most. The fact he avoids this is very telling. Although what he says is true much of the conflict comes from the unemployed, under employed he helped to create.

As Gerald Celente says "When someone loses everything they lose it" America was called the land of opportunity because if one was willing to work hard they could enjoy the benefits. Thanks to him and others this no longer applies. These days our PhD's are working at Taco Bell and living with their parents all the while building up resentment towards a system that screwed them.

No Mr. Paul. You and your fellow libertarians can't have your cake and eat it too. You eliminated the word opportunity in America bowing to the corporate bottom line, forcing people on government handouts or committing crimes trying to survive. These things are what fed the police / Security state you complain about. 

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 12:24 | 5651475 Farqued Up
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Unions chased most jobs offshore. We would all like a protection racket where we could get whiskey breaks 2-3 times a day.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 15:46 | 5656626 ron17571
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Common sense would have anyone who put these trade deals together.Would have to figure there was no way the U.S. could compete with the slave wages of countries like China. I think one of our countries problems is that we have no long term thinking going on.Its all about quick short term profits.Even over the long term destruction of our economy. You put too much Blame on Libertarian thinking for our countries problems. If anything unions caused more problems than any freedom thinking. 

Mon, 01/12/2015 - 12:11 | 5651427 Farqued Up
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Hang on folks, oil is offshore Cuber, it won't be long before the country will become the 51st state and the McDonalds and the banks will own the confiscated property of the exiles.

The only impediment will be the communist Neocons. That's their shining city on the hill. I'd bet Putin would trade Cuber for East Ukraine. No, Russia doesn't own it but he holds the JFK treaty that was implemented. It can be ripped up by consent.

Moar welfare on the horizon, much worse than Puerto Rico.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 15:40 | 5656586 ron17571
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Welcome to the reservation. Russell Means has an most excellant video on this.Look it up.

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