Comments on: Is Ron Paul Nuts?

By: Jules

Jules — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:05:10 +0000

Well, according to Macroeconomics 101, the dollar's slide is only the inevitable corrective outcome of running such a huge trade deficit. But rather than asking why the dollar has fallen, the more pertinent question is: Why has the dollar been so high?"

By: marmot

marmot — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:51:08 +0000

the devaluation of the dollar is going to turn out to be a positive force in the economy because a lot of jobs are going to return to this country and exports are going through the roof. I'm not doubting your word, but do you have a link? Are we on the verge of a manufacturing renaissance?

By: Mr. Roach

Mr. Roach — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:07:55 +0000

Well done, Osama Obama. Well done.

By: Osama Obama

Osama Obama — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:32:53 +0000

Iconoclast421, what the heck are you talking about? What world do YOU live in? And is Dr. Paul taking appointments with you?

The Dollar is not 50% devalued, first of all, and secondly, the devaluation of the dollar is going to turn out to be a positive force in the economy because a lot of jobs are going to return to this country and exports are going through the roof. Canada’s dollar is at an alltime high, and is currently worth more than the US$. Yet go to McD’s and order a #1 Meal. In Chicago that will cost you about $5US. In Canada, it will cost you about $8 Canadian!

Autism “rates” are up because the definition of autism changes every day. You think this sudden “epidemic” and 1:166 nonsense just happened in one day? No. But lots of things once considered a learning disability or other issue are not lumped into “autism”. Soon everyone will be autistic on one way or another.

Lead coated toys from China? China is a growing industrial powerhouse. Along the road, they took some shortcuts. They lack some internal oversight. Thankfully, oversight on our side led to recalls and such things. It’s not like all the 3 year olds in this country all died. In fact I’m not sure anyone ever even got sick.

Cheney and a lot of other celebs bought land in Dubai. Big deal. Dubai is a great real estate investment and a very hot vacation destination. Heck, if I could afford it, I’d buy land there.

Grow up, my friend. The world is a complex place. Don’t believe everything that’s whispered in your ear.

By: Iconoclast421

Iconoclast421 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:23:28 +0000

Weirdos huh?

You can sit there in your little bubble and dream up whatever reality you want, but in THIS reality, it isnt a bunch of conspiracy theorists who have devalued our dollar by 50%

Sorry to shatter your paradigm, but no WACO conspiracy theorist caused oil to go to $100 a barrel.

No “troofer” caused autism rates to skyrocket to over 1%.

No wacko shouting “9/11 was an inside job” caused us to buy lead coated toys made in China.

And no, it wasn’t some lunatic fringe that made your hero Dick cheney buy a house in Dubai, nor did they make your other hero Bush buy land in Paraguay.

Truth is, you are so far detached from reality that you make even the ufo nuts seem sane in comparison. All these people going crazy! Erm… maybe it’s just you?? Sooner or later you are going to realize that is indeed what is happening!

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:48:08 +0000

Honza P must be congratulated, I suppose, on not referring in his post to either Neville Chamberlain or Winston Churchill.

But if a national debt exceeding $9 trillion, a large chunk of its foreign debt and trade deficit in Chinese hands, millions of illegal immigrants and the disastrous expedition in Iraq hasn’t disillusioned him regarding America’s imperial ambitions, then nothing I say could have any effect.

By: Mr. Roach

Mr. Roach — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:57:37 +0000

No he might not have been elected president under any set of circumstances. Have a reality check. Since when did “conservatives” live in fantasy land where structural constraints mean nothing.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:43:33 +0000

Paul will never win the Republican nonmination, and thus can’t be elected president as a republican. But he could be elected president as a third-party candidate. Ross Perot, a one-issue kook, received almost 20% of the vote in a three-man race and might have been elected president if he hadn’t dropped out of the race for weeks because of manic-depression.

By: Honza P

Honza P — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:31:25 +0000

Trent’s denunciation of the benign American-lead world order is classic. In 1913, intellectuals were bemoaning the British and French Empires and aching for them to be cast overboard along with the corrupt system in China and Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Didn’t work out so well, did it? The cost of the passing of that world order was not just to peoples in far away places with names English speakers cannot pronounce, many of whom were my relatives, but to hundreds of thousands of Americans and Englishmen.
So Trent, with all due respect, go fly a kite, or better yet, move.
As for the social issues brought up, this http://prosandcons.us/?p=5638 bears directly on the social fight, and honestly, I trust the Supreme Court picks of the other Republican contenders as much as I do those of a fiery ideas libertarian, because sometimes those libertinish tendencies in libertarianism make libertarians react in socially destructive ways when given the temptation to make legislation from the bench, not that I think a Justice Ron Paul (and that could be fun) would be tempted similarly.
I am perhaps more libertarian at home than Chris, but decidedly not in foreign policy, pining as I do for the Habsburgs, for the days when the British Queen was also Empress of India and even occasionally for the idiot Hohenzollern, Manchu and Romanov Dynasties.
Jules may rue the British Empire and British relevance in the hard world of bayonets, but where there was British rule, there was hope. The British were very popular in the First Czechoslovak Republic and are fondly remembered from Somaliland and Basra to Singapore and the Bahamas for a reason. Americans were forced out of our insularity when we helped nudge the British into self-destructive Fabianism, and we’ve been subsidizing what order there is in the world since, even as Europeans free-ride on that protection into socialist societal euthanasia (and no, I do not mean that the recent spread of the flat tax is not revitalizing much of Europe or that Europe is a goner).
How sad that jules, a man who is likely a Tory, has slipped into the despairing, cynical right of Continental reactionaries. English speakers used to be can-do people who built the world’s economy, legal framework and military order. I suppose the grinding down by pillows of the EU has sapped the manhood and hope from much of the British right. How sad. Just as in America, but moreso the vital spark seems to be dimming among Anglo-Saxons and Celts, Slavs, Asians and Latins seem to be stepping in to fill the breech.
Just my two cents.

By: fightingwindmills

fightingwindmills — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:01:13 +0000

Thanks for sharing that link Glaivester.

By: Karkis

Karkis — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:28:03 +0000

I found this post quite useful. I am not the most aware person and never understood why conservatives seem to dislike libertarians when I thought they had much in common. This read made it clear to me.

By: Glaivester

Glaivester — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:44:38 +0000

If you believe in Ron Paul, you should vote for him, whether he has a chance or not. He probably won't win, but he will move the Overton window, and that is what we need right now.

By: David Manley

David Manley — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:12:04 +0000

I’m surprised to see an Englishman using seafaring terminology like “bilge” now that the Royal Navy is being scrapped.

By: Jules

Jules — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:50:17 +0000

Are these last couple of replies the depths that Republican politics have sunk to under Bush and the neo-conservatives? Utter bilge.

By: Osama Obama

Osama Obama — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:26:30 +0000

I find it quite funny that those who support Ron Paul feel compelled to call him Dr. Paul. Does calling him a doctor elevate his credentials as a politician? Does it make him sound smarter? First of all, he was an OBGYN (IE a pussy doctor). Second, there are lots and lots and lots of doctors out there and a lot of them are very stupid outside of medicine, and certainly when it comes to practical issues. Heck, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are arguably the smartest Presidents we’ve ever had. Is it a coincidence they are also likely the worst Presidents we’ve ever had? Hmm….

Ron Paul, indeed. What a joke.