Ron Paul Fan made video - Awesome!!!

[Ares]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE

Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE

[LuckyStrike]

It is encouraging to see a video of people who get it, and don't be mistaken, once you begin to wake up you can't go back to sleep.

Ron Paul was insturmental in my journey to wake up and question what I had been told. He is an inspiration to me, that he can be in the den of thieves and remain unfazed, uncorrupted for decades staying consistent and true to the Constitution of this dying Republic.

There are good people out there, I'm young, but it hurts me to see those young kids who are growing up in this America, what used to be the land of oppurtunity, the land of the free and home of the brave is now just a house of cards economically, the military is little more than a state run terror orgainization, and a police state at home. We all know that one day the piper gets paid, and I hope these Ron Paul types have their preps in order, because it will be up to us to rebuild when it does.

[MNeagle]

Kudos, very well done!

[mightymanx]

If he wins we will see a mass awakening.

We will see a revolution when he is assassinated.

[Large Sarge]

that was excellent!

thanks much!

[mick silver]

ron paul scare the hell out of older people . when he talks cuts . they know he right but there so scare that the cut may make there ss checks smaller . there not willing to to take cuts to save there own country ... it mind it mind i pay in to that . just ask some old timer and see what they say

[JJ.G0ldD0t]

ron paul scare the hell out of older people . when he talks cuts . they know he right but there so scare that the cut may make there ss checks smaller . there not willing to to take cuts to save there own country ... it mind it mind i pay in to that . just ask some old timer and see what they say

You hit a pretty big nail on the head there mick. I concur and it pisses me the hell off. My god man - I'm 35 and I only just GOT it at age 30. You know what I did? I CHANGED- MYSELF - My LIFESTYLE - My core Principals - My business practices - Personal finance - investments- ......ON and ON. I'm not better than anyone else- It just seemed to me to be the right thing to DO.

So the Boomers are finally coming to a place where they accept what's going on - but THEY are not willing to sacrifice?

Its selfish and it has defined their generation. Makes me sick.

[Ares]

You hit a pretty big nail on the head there mick. I concur and it pisses me the hell off. My god man - I'm 35 and I only just GOT it at age 30. You know what I did? I CHANGED- MYSELF - My LIFESTYLE - My core Principals - My business practices - Personal finance - investments- ......ON and ON. I'm not better than anyone else- It just seemed to me to be the right thing to DO.

So the Boomers are finally coming to a place where they accept what's going on - but THEY are not willing to sacrifice?

Its selfish and it has defined their generation. Makes me sick.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I constantly get into arguments with my wife's grandfather. He's part of the "Greatest generation" and feels that everything should be handed to him on a silver platter.

He served in the Navy in WWII, saw some action in the south pacific. I said that's great, but I served time in the military as well and I realize that ANYTHING coming from the government was stolen from someone else. I don't condone theft do you?

He goes into the I payed into the system crap, to which I responded. Believing and having faith in a system was your first mistake. Actually believing that someone cares for you outside of your immediate family was your second mistake. Trusting that your retirement is entitled to you was your last and final mistake.

Nothing in this world is entitled other than your god given rights.

[chad]

ron paul scare the hell out of older people . when he talks cuts . they know he right but there so scare that the cut may make there ss checks smaller . there not willing to to take cuts to save there own country ... it mind it mind i pay in to that . just ask some old timer and see what they say

you're right mick. i know a couple of people who agree with him on almost all point, but "he's going to cut their benefits."

[JJ.G0ldD0t]

On topic...

We needed Ron Paul 40 years ago.

I've made it known that I don't believe in participating in the political system in this country.

But I'll say this: That actually gave me some hope. So - I am going to email that vid to my friends and family and say this:

Subject: Politics.

You all know that I believe our political system is a sham. If you insist on participating in it, at the very least, do something different for a change.

You have all watched ME prosper at the same time that you've lost money in 401k's and in the market. Even though I lost my job for a short time, I still prospered. WHY?
Because I did something Different. I won't be a sucker. If you trust this government; if you continue to trust these banks, you're a sucker.

The red team talks the talk and then stabs you in the back and the blue team are a bunch of jokes.....

Ron Paul has been voting his conscience and warning this country of the times we're in now for 30 years.

If you insist on voting, at least vote for this guy. Don't talk to me about politics anymore because this is all I have to say on the matter.

(insert that vid)

[mick silver]

There They Go Again

Peter Schiff
Posted Aug 25, 2011
Picking up where they left off in 2008, the media is in the midst of a campaign to ignore and undermine the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul (they gave me even rougher treatment during my 2010 Senate run). Political pundits just do not know what to do with a candidate who fails to fit into the blue and red boxes that form the simple narrative of American politics. They are perturbed by the grass roots nature of the campaign, by the strange honesty and earnestness of the candidate and his supporters, and the odd mixture of conservative values and liberty-minded policies. And like most adolescents, they reject what they don't understand.

The media's revulsion reached a fever pitch in the wake of the August 12 Iowa Straw Poll, the first test of the strength of Republican Presidential candidates. Objectively the results were a dead heat between Michelle Bachman and Ron Paul, who captured 28% and 27% of the votes respectively. But you would never have known that based on the subsequent media coverage.

The story that almost all news outlets ran with was that the poll produced a "top-tier" of candidates that included Bachman, Mitt Romney, and Rick Perry (both Romney and Perry received less than 5% of the Iowa vote). There was almost no mention of Congressman Paul's strong performance. The media also ignored how Perry's entrance into the race will draw votes away from Bachman, thereby benefiting Paul. The media silence even prompted comedian Jon Stewart (http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/indecision-2012---corn-polled-edition---ron-paul---the-top-tier) to issue a hilarious and scathing indictment.

Now the media is even impugning what should be seen as the Congressman's most successful accomplishment: the performance of his investment portfolio.

In an August 20 article entitled "Candidate of Doom and Gloom (http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052702303822904576516114289723344.html?m od=BOL_hpp_popview)," Barron's Magazine goes out of its way to characterize Ron Paul's gold mining-heavy portfolio allocation as simplistic, robotic, and unpatriotic. And while the reporter, Barron's Washington bureau chief Jim McTague, grudgingly recognized how these "stopped clock" investments had made strong gains over the last few years, he glaringly under-reported the long term success and wisdom of the Congressman's strategy.

By any objective standard the portfolio would make any financial superstar green with jealousy. Fueled by his understanding of the inflationary policies unrelentingly pushed by his colleagues in Washington, Ron wisely loaded up on gold and gold mining stocks in the mid to late 1990s when those assets were regarded as the poor stepchildren of Wall Street. Although these assets have significantly beaten the broad markets over the one and three year time frames used in the article, most of their phenomenal gains occurred earlier in the last decade. McTague, however, completely neglects to mention this despite his noting that Ron Paul favored a "buy and hold" strategy that surely gave him exposure to those fat years.

Amazingly, the average 10 year return of the 8 stocks listed in his top 10 holdings (that have 10 year track records - the two other positions have not been around that long) came in at more than 600%! During that time frame the S&P 500 was down 3%. Is there any stock mutual fund that can even touch that performance over a decade? Not likely.

If Barron's chooses to label this strategy as "stopped clock" investing, so be it. But a more honest assessment would simply call it "successful" investing.

But ignoring his returns is just a minor offense in the article. Its main attack is far more subtle. Using evangelical language, McTague stresses that the Congressman's investment decisions were informed by a lack of faith in the United States. His portfolio is described as a "super bearish bet against the United States," implying that the Congressman is unpatriotic. Would it have been more patriotic to foolishly bet on the U.S. economy and to have gone broke like the majority of American investors?

More pernicious still are implications that the Congressman opposed the recent debt ceiling increase because he was looking to goose his investment returns. The article argues that an engineered default (by failing to raise the ceiling) would have caused economic crisis in the U.S., thereby pushing up the price of gold and gold-related investments. Not only is this a low blow but the logic is faulty at its core.

It is much more likely that a failure to raise the debt ceiling would have signaled an end to reckless spending and currency debasement, which would have restored confidence in the U.S. dollar and taken the shine off of gold and gold-related investments. In fact, all of Paul's efforts in Congress over the decades to champion more responsible monetary and fiscal policy can be seen as detrimental to his own investment portfolio. If anything, his actions have been selfless rather than selfish.

Like most investment professionals, Ron Paul's opponents likely failed to comprehend the damage the overly expansive monetary and fiscal policy would do to our economy and, as a result, adopted mainstream investment strategies. While Barron's could try to characterize such approaches as being more patriotic, it certainly cannot describe them as being more successful. Isn't it about time we elected a president with some substance rather than someone who pantomimes in the preferred manner? Who do we want working in the Oval Office anyway: one of the few who understood how government policy would undermine our economy, and arranged his finances to profit from it, or one of many who had no clue?

The fact that Ron Paul chose to invest as he has is a testament to his intellect and his pragmatism. The fact that he voted the way he did, and tried relentlessly to persuade his colleagues to do likewise, in direct opposition to his personal investment strategy, is a testament to his patriotism. He knew that his appeals would fall on deaf ears and that Washington would destroy the dollar in its quest to "save" the economy. So while he tried to stop the train from running off a cliff, he took the sensible step of buying a parachute. Sounds like a guy I would like to see in the White House.

Too bad no one in the media seems to share these views.
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[JJ.G0ldD0t]

He goes into the I payed into the system crap, to which I responded. Believing and having faith in a system was your first mistake. Actually believing that someone cares for you outside of your immediate family was your second mistake. Trusting that your retirement is entitled to you was your last and final mistake.

Nothing in this world is entitled other than your god given rights.


Damn right

[Hermie]

I can see why people might not be willing to have their benefits cut, and to sacrifice for the good of the country,
because they are old enough to have seen that sacrifice on the part of some people is just negated by others.

You give up something and cut back and yet the Wall St. types are given tax write offs and outright cash payments.

Money will be sent out of the country to Israel and other places.

Foreigners who haven't donated a dime come here and are given mucho dinero in benefits and subsidies.

On and on.

It's unfortunate, but understandable to me, when many Americans figure, "The hell with it, I'm taking mine while I can."

I do believe that if there was some demonstrable honesty and integrity shown in DC by an administration of someone
such as Ron Paul, that many, many true Americans would be willing to again sacrifice for the good of the nation and its future.

But it is a chumps game to be giving up anything when your efforts are just pissed away with no thought of those who have given.

Core America has to somehow shake off the parasites that have overrun this country.
In government and out.

[Libertytree]

Just for the record, when Ron talks about cutting budgets he's very adamant that those who have paid in would not be thrown to the wolves and penalized in any way. The savings from stopping the wars and closing military bases would be directed to them and those in similar situations while at the same time letting people opt out and/or pay them a % of what they've paid in.

[Ponce]

For the US to improve itself will take a long time, but Ron Paul will "stop" what is going on right now......

"Paul will show us the way, but we have to walk there on our own"... Ponce

[iOWNme]

"I am an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect." - RP


GREAT video!

For a half a second, i almost thought about re-registering to vote for this guy. But then i quickly came to my senses when i remembered that this life isnt a movie. There is no happy ending. Not without the blood of patriots and tyrants.

History has already told us how this story ends.


With all that said, I like RP. I hope he wins and dismantles what he can before he gets killed.

[jimswift]

"I am an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect." - RP

sig material...think I will, thanks.

[Bigjon]

ron paul scare the hell out of older people . when he talks cuts . they know he right but there so scare that the cut may make there ss checks smaller . there not willing to to take cuts to save there own country ... it mind it mind i pay in to that . just ask some old timer and see what they say

I'm one of those older people and I'm not at all scared by Ron Paul.

There are some who say he's controlled opposition, that he will betray his own cause, but one fact remains he does wake people up to what government should be.

[Hatha Sunahara]

The way the media and the Anglo American Empire is treating RP is pre-emptive. If he wins, they might have to assassinate him (assuming he isn't controlled opposition). His main appeal to me is his message of hope for freedom FROM government. He appeals to rational people. This should scare the elite to their foundations.


Hatha