Thread: Ron Paul on the Issues

Texas, vote out SOPA creator tomorrow!

Submitted by Yowan on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 14:43
Politics & Law
Texas

Texans: Vote out SOPA creator Rep. Lamar Smith tomorrow! Go vote! And remind other voters in your state.

He's running against Sheriff Mack Sheriff Mack for Congress (thanks ralph hornsby for the comment)

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Huge Day For Ron Paul Tomorrow!

Submitted by FreedomLovingPatriot on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 15:25
Daily Paul Liberty Forum
Texas

Tomorrow could be an amazing day for the Ron Paul Campaign!



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Team Nevada just fubar'd Rmoney

Submitted by A_G1RL on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 19:54
Ron Paul 2012
Nebraska

I’d like to make a few observations concerning the whole Nevada GOP mess going on right now. And I've got something to tell you that I am pretty sure most of you are yet aware of. As a little back story, in 2008 the Ron Paul supporters made themselves known to the state party. As we seeing now in many other states, during the last campaign many Ron Paul supporters vied for delegate slots and working positions within the Nevada GOP. Also as we are again seeing this time around in other states, the leadership of the state convention broke rules, ended the convention improperly, and tried to shut out any participation from people that support Dr. Paul. Being well educated on the rules, the RP peeps reconvened and finished the party business which included electing delegates to go to the RNC. Sadly, the national party lied at the RNC and said the dispute had been resolved and did not seat any of the Paul supporting delegates. It was also found in a court case that the Ron Paul people did act appropriately, followed all rules, and should have been the rightful seated delegates and positions. Of course, that was way after the RNC and changed absolutely nothing in the results of the 2008 election. Quick court cases and decisions only come for insiders.

Between 2008 and now the freedom-minded people did not leave the Nevada GOP. Instead, they became more involved, more participatory, and grew in numbers. As most of you reading this are aware, the results of all this hard work and organization have resulted in not only a near sweep of all delegates to the 2012 RNC, but also state party main leadership positions. Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian stepped down soon after the February 4th beauty contest. Good job Nevada peeps, we sincerely appreciate your perseverance.

You’d think that would be the happy ending of this story, but it seems another couple chapters are still in the making. Recently, five prominent people in positions of leadership for the Clark County GOP have tendered their resignations. Clark County is of major importance to the state party since it has the highest population and home of the city of Las Vegas. The now former chairman Dave Gibbs and vice chairman Stroupe have both announced that they will be joining “Team Nevada”. Both Gibbs and Stroupe through letters claimed their reasons for resigning were due to “distractions” that were getting in the way of their goal of getting Republicans elected. Really? Having more people join the ranks of your party and insisting that it actually follow the principles of limited government and fiscal sanity are distractions? Well, I for one see that excuse as completely illogical and then conclude that the real issue is that they do not wish to deal with people that refuse to blindly appeal to authority.

Bob List, a national committeeman, former Nevada Governor from 1979-1982, currently chairman of the Nevada’s republican party budget committee and sits on the national party’s executive committee, was voted out of his national committeeman position during the state convention. He did an interview in which he admits it was all done by the rules and ‘fair and square’. He even went so far as to add that it was not a surprise to him since the Ron Paul people had grown in numbers, saying that ‘the writing was on the wall’. He described this ‘swarm of killer bees’ as going by principles and not falling in line behind a single candidate in which they’ve been told to support. Oh the humanity. Bob List will also be joining Team Nevada and said during the interview that the Romney campaign is involved in the formation of the group and his nomination will be their main focus of activity. In that interview and through public statements from the GOP we’ve learned that they are basically going to cut off the real Nevada GOP of funds and funnel their monies through Team Nevada.

Team Nevada is being referred to as the ‘shadow party’ being formed in the state. It is well known that it is being formed and funded by both the National Republican Party and the Romney for President campaign. This clearly already violates rule 11(a) of the National Republican Rules as Bob List clearly exposed its purpose during the above discussed interview.

Now even though the term ‘shadow party’ is popular, let us step back and call it what it REALLY is …. a third party. The real and established state Republican Party, which has submitted its rules to the Secretary of State for recognition of its candidates on the public ballots, is still intact and is being run and represented by the people that were duly elected adhering to the preset rules. The people that used to be members of the real Nevada GOP have resigned and are now forming a new party simply because they are …. ahem: butthurt that the people that no longer just do as they are told and actually have principles showed them the door. Team Nevada isn’t simply a group or movement based on ideals such as Tea Party or Campaign for Liberty - they have a stated goal of getting Mitt Romney elected outside of the current state republican party. No matter what name they are giving it, that, my dears, is a third party and Rmoney (not a typo) is their third party candidate. As said before, even Rmoney’s official campaign has even colluded to bring about this third party.

Ready for a little twist to this chapter? Well, a lot of people will tell you this or that and even the GOP has tried to threaten state parties by telling them what is or is not part of the Republican National Party rules. I’ve actually read them, and you can too. http://www.gop.com/images/legal/2008_RULES_Adopted.pdf They’re boring, but they are online for all of us to see. Now take a little trip with me down the long list of rules for this party and scroll all the way down to rule 11 again. We’ve all had discussions about section (a) in which state parties cannot spend money on/with a candidate until they are the nominee. Rmoney is not the Nevada nominee - as evidenced by the state party convention - yet they are breaking that rule. But, more interesting and not talked about at all in the lamestream is section (b). Rule 11 (b) in summary says that anyone that does anything at all towards getting the nomination of a third party is now disqualified. I’ve talked about this numerous times on our show Presidential Paulitics. This rule is the very reason that the lamestream press pushed so hard on asking Ron Paul about his third party possibilities in the future only about four hundred times. If at any time the good doctor would have even hinted at entertaining the idea, the way the national party rules are written he could be disqualified from receiving the nomination at the coming RNC no matter how many delegates he had amassed. The rule even states through use of a multiparty or similar type ballot.

The formation, stated goals, and the very fact that the official Rmoney campaign is coordinating with Team Nevada is a complete and total breaking of Republican National Party rule 11(b). This presidential candidate is seeking the nomination from Nevada for President of the United States within a third party that is clearly NOT the official state Republican Party. Here’s the kicker…. The punishment for breaking this rule is clearly written in the text of the rule so you won’t have to search elsewhere. Mitt Romney “shall not be recognized by the Republican National Committee as the nominee of the Republican Party from that state”.

The ending to this chapter is still to be written as we will be watching to see if any other states mess up doing the same exact thing. I’d love it.

TL;DR: Team Nevada and the Rmoney campaign just boned hard and got Mittens disqualified from getting anything from Nevada at the RNC. I’m sure glad these dipshits aren’t running things there anymore.

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Neal Boortz is AMAZED at Ron Paul's 2002 prediction of the housing bubble



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from the 11/18/11 edition of The Neal Boortz Show.

Read Ron Paul's complete statement predicting the housing bubble and exactly how it would happen here:

Ron Paul on the Housing Bubble – July 2002

Ron Paul on the Housing Bubble – July 2002

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By RonPaul.com on September 26, 2008

Congressman Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
July 16, 2002

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce the Free Housing Market Enhancement Act. This legislation restores a free market in housing by repealing special privileges for housing-related government sponsored enterprises (GSEs). These entities are the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie), and the National Home Loan Bank Board (HLBB). According to the Congressional Budget Office, the housing-related GSEs received $13.6 billion worth of indirect federal subsidies in fiscal year 2000 alone.

One of the major government privileges granted these GSEs is a line of credit to the United States Treasury. According to some estimates, the line of credit may be worth over $2 billion. This explicit promise by the Treasury to bail out these GSEs in times of economic difficulty helps them attract investors who are willing to settle for lower yields than they would demand in the absence of the subsidy. Thus, the line of credit distorts the allocation of capital. More importantly, the line of credit is a promise on behalf of the government to engage in a massive unconstitutional and immoral income transfer from working Americans to holders of GSE debt.

The Free Housing Market Enhancement Act also repeals the explicit grant of legal authority given to the Federal Reserve to purchase the debt of housing-related GSEs. GSEs are the only institutions besides the United States Treasury granted explicit statutory authority to monetize their debt through the Federal Reserve. This provision gives the GSEs a source of liquidity unavailable to their competitors.

Ironically, by transferring the risk of a widespread mortgage default, the government increases the likelihood of a painful crash in the housing market. This is because the special privileges of Fannie, Freddie, and HLBB have distorted the housing market by allowing them to attract capital they could not attract under pure market conditions. As a result, capital is diverted from its most productive use into housing. This reduces the efficacy of the entire market and thus reduces the standard of living of all Americans.

However, despite the long-term damage to the economy inflicted by the government’s interference in the housing market, the government’s policies of diverting capital to other uses creates a short-term boom in housing. Like all artificially-created bubbles, the boom in housing prices cannot last forever. When housing prices fall, homeowners will experience difficulty as their equity is wiped out. Furthermore, the holders of the mortgage debt will also have a loss. These losses will be greater than they would have otherwise been had government policy not actively encouraged over-investment in housing.

Perhaps the Federal Reserve can stave off the day of reckoning by purchasing GSE debt and pumping liquidity into the housing market, but this cannot hold off the inevitable drop in the housing market forever. In fact, postponing the necessary but painful market corrections will only deepen the inevitable fall. The more people invested in the market, the greater the effects across the economy when the bubble bursts.

No less an authority than Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has expressed concern that government subsidies provided to the GSEs make investors underestimate the risk of investing in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Mr. Speaker, it is time for Congress to act to remove taxpayer support from the housing GSEs before the bubble bursts and taxpayers are once again forced to bail out investors misled by foolish government interference in the market. I therefore hope my colleagues will stand up for American taxpayers and investors by cosponsoring the Free Housing Market Enhancement Act.”

Ron Paul on the Housing Bubble – July 2002

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Ron Paul Stock or secede and join China

Submitted by Kurt Wallace on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 08:13
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I joke privately with my Liberty friends that Georgia should secede from the U.S. and join China to cap off the support for Government control. Every day there are new cameras going up at intersections all over Atlanta. On July 1st our state will succumb to the 2005 Real ID Act http://www.dds.ga.gov/sec.... Ben Swann reported on the GOP support for the NDAA this week. And every Republican congressman from Georgia voted for CISPA.

A majority of our local governments across the state are in debt and we are somehow a Red State? Erik Erikson, Sean Hannity and Neal Boortz are from Georgia...Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and Jimmy Carter influence Georgia mindset as well. These people plus many more are so rooted here that we who love Liberty are in a hole dealing with the 'big government and the state has the answers for you' cheerleaders.

Last year, I met our present Governor Nathan Deal and his lovely wife while they were campaigning. Deal's handlers asked me to consider joining his team in fundraising and I did not respond after looking at his voting record in the US Congress. Deal and most of the Georgia GOP leadership endorsed Newt.

Georgia needs help in understanding and adherence to the principles of Liberty as the people of this state are unaware, oblivious or disconnected.

Here are the election results from Super Tuesday:

GOP Primary on March 6th 2012:

03/06 GA Gingrich 47.2% Paul 6.6% Romney 25.9% Santorum 19.6%

We had the second lowest results for Ron Paul of all the Super Tuesday states at 6.6%. Personally, this would be discouraging for me but this is double our results on 2008 when Dr. Paul received only 3%. Though low in vote percentages, it is my understanding that Georgia is high in donations to Ron Paul for President.

Ben Mihalski called me yesterday and invited me to the Ron Paul Stock - Liberty Jam event. He is a 'Leader in Liberty' here in Georgia and has put a lot of his time and money into this Liberty awareness concert/speaking event. Please join us today at the venue or on UStream. We need your overall support in Georgia. If you are a poor college student or just can't afford $25 per person please know the donations are suggestion only and you can give whatever you are able. But please join us today.

We need to raise the awareness in Georgia and continue to educate our representatives as to the fine details of bills and the history of subtle frog boiling state intrusions on Liberty. Many of our representatives are just uninformed and our small numbers work tirelessly to change their minds. During the C4L push to audit the fed, Ron Paul supporters here in Georgia changed Rep. Hank Johnson's vote to supporting the audit and he was one of the toughest nuts to crack.

Ben spoke to me about his commitment and vision for spreading the message of Liberty in our state. I support him and ask the Daily Paul community to please stand with Georgia and do the same.

See you there...

Be a Leader in Liberty! or as they say in China 当一个领导人的自由

Kurt Wallace

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256 ResponsesBy RonPaul.com on May 24, 2012