The REAL war on terror

War kills people; you cannot have a war without having people to be at war with. Terrorism, although terrible, can never really be an enemy; a terrorist is an enemy that uses terrorism. Before we can conquer terrorism we must first understand what it is and who it is. I am sure that the first thing that comes to mind when you think of terrorism is 9/11 and the Islamic suicidal attack that led the United States to attack the government of Afghanistan. Clearly the terrorist attack on 9/11 defeated us, but we can free ourselves again. That is if we understand the word “terror”.

Terror is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as “1- Intense, overpowering fear, 2- The ability to cause intense fear, 3- One who instills intense fear, and 4- Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes” Terrorism, therefore, is causing intense fear. So who is a terrorist except one who we are extremely afraid of? The terrorist attack on 9/11 changed the majority of the American people; it caused incredible fear that did not exist before. If you are now afraid of Islamic fanatics you are a victim of the terrorist attack.

To overcome that fear, is to defeat terrorism.

Is our military attacking terrorists “over there” in the Middle East? Are they eliminating terrorism? What those questions should picture in your mind is not Islamofascist’s, or rag headed cave men that strap bombs on themselves and commit suicide. Let me re-word the questions:

Are we attacking those who instill intense overpowering fear, in the Middle East? Are we eliminating intimidation and coercion through the threat or commission of violence?

I think a little common sense is needed. How can we defeat those we are afraid of? Doesn’t that require overcoming our fear first? Are we terrified by them? Terrorism is a method to attack your enemy. It is a way to subdue a population; a way to take away their will, yes, their freedom. We have taken away our own freedom exactly to the degree we are afraid. We are our own terrorists. It is impossible for a government to “give” freedom; for the absence of a dictating government is true liberty.

“Man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”- Ronald Reagan

We can find wisdom even from those we disagree with. I disagree completely with most of what FDR did, (our own Hugo Chaves), but I agree completely with this:

“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself” – Franklin D Roosevelt

Another big government elitist that I disagree with a lot said:

“The best way to defeat this enemy in the long run is to deny them recruiting tools, recruiterments, made possible by resentment” George W Bush

The key word there is “resentment”. Most of the people I know who support the occupation of Iraq could care less about resentment from Iraqi’s, or Muslims, toward us. “Kill them all!” “torture them!” “Remember 9/11!” “Support the troops!” I believe a parallel can be drawn between these Americans now and Europeans during the Crusades. Most Americans are vigilante in spirit, including the President, including me, until we stop ourselves. We must determine the difference between vigilantism and justice. Justice is not what gave us the Iraq war, and it definitely does not keep us there. Justice did not give us the Patriot Act, nor the Military Commissions Act. Perhaps vigilantism didn’t give us this war in Iraq either; maybe it was our own fear, our own terror. I did not like Sadaam, and was glad to see him deposed, but obviously he was deposed by the wrong people, us. To me that was worse than leaving him as a tyrant. For the majority of the Iraqi people believe that we replaced Sadaam as the dictator.

The point is; no one can liberate a people except themselves, for liberty is self responsibility. Dictators throughout history invaded countries as liberators, they just never left.

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” – Sigmund Freud

Terrorism, therefore, cannot be defeated unless we defeat it right here in our own hearts and minds. Stop being afraid and terrorism loses. The government cannot stop terrorism no matter how many wars they fight against it. Terrorism is a security issue, not a military conflict issue, unless we terrorize ourselves into believing that.

“At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reaches us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."- Abraham Lincoln

Republicans, Vote Ron Paul or Else!

Wolf Blitzer:
“What is the chance that you will run as an independent third party candidate?”

Ron Paul:
“Pretty slim, I have no intention, no plans. The system is biased against third parties and independent runs. It isn’t a very democratic process. You run as an independent you cannot get into the debates, it is hard to get on ballots. I’d like to see the promotion of democracy here in this country. We deserve a little bit of improvement here.”

Wolf Blitzer:
“I want to hear the words “zero chance”, but you say “pretty slim””

Ron Paul:
“99.99 percent, I don’t like saying absolutes. But I have no plans and no intentions to do anything outside of the Republican Primary”

Ron Paul is going to win the nomination of the Republican Party or the party is going to lose in the general election. Take that as a guarantee. One I would bet $500 on. (Gambling is now legal) Now knowing that, how many of you Bush devotees are going to hold your nose and vote for him in the primaries? Are you loyal to the Republican Party and want the party to win, or hate Ron Paul more than Hillary?

Ron Paul is a social conservative Constitutionalist; think if that when it comes to the Supreme Court. He would bring fiscal responsibility to the Whitehouse. VETO! He is an anti-abortion, anti-socialized healthcare, anti-tax, Christian conservative who has been married for fifty years. And has had tons of life long Democrats switching their party affiliation on the war issue alone! Are we that devoted to a war that has no “good” ending anyway?

If he doesn’t win the nomination you are throwing your vote away. It is that simple. Because if he does not win it, we who have held our noses and endorsed the elitist’s Bush are going to vote with him, even if that means the Libertarian Party, (who might seek Pat Buchanan if Ron Paul won’t accept it, with Ron Paul as his vice-president). The 400,000 member Constitution Party is seeking Ron Paul as well, and whomever he endorsed for President is going to get millions of dollars from his supporters. If that is not the Republican Party, the Party will lose, regardless of James Dobson and his third party threat if Giuliani or Romney wins. The scenario that gave us Bill Clinton, and Woodrow Wilson, is lining up again and it is your fault, not Ron’s, if Bill gets access to the Oval Office amenities again. Our Teddy Roosevelt, or Ross Perot is on your ticket.

The ideal scenario for a third party in 08’ is if Hillary is the D. liberal and Giuliani is the R. liberal with a Ron Paul third party. Things in this country could be looking UP! It is like Thomas Jefferson 2008

“I am for preserving to the states the powers not yielded by them to the union; and for preventing the further encroachment of the executive branch on the rightful powers of congress. I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, and for retiring the national debt, eliminating the standing army, and relying on the militia to safeguard internal security, and keeping the navy small, lest it drag the nation into eternal wars. I am for free commerce with all nations, political connections with none…. I am for freedom of religion, and for freedom of the press. And against all violations to the Constitution to silence our citizens” - Thomas Jefferson on his positions for the 1800 election.

“Paper is poverty…it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself” –Thomas Jefferson

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be” –Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them” –Thomas Jefferson

“I sincerely believe that banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies” –Thomas Jefferson

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” -Thomas Jefferson

“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its Constitution.” —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Paine, 1798

Mad Federal Reserve and Ron Paul

Jim Cramer for new Fed Chairman!

Ron Paul, the United Nations, and Iraq

“The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure” ~George Washington

Here is what Ron Paul said about why he is on the "get out" side of the Iraq war. It is not because it is politically expedient, it is because it was not a defensive war, and Congress ignored the Constitution in favor of the United Nations to give their responsibility for war to the President. Why did they do it? So they could get out from under the blame if it went wrong.

Ron Paul, "Brushfires of Freedom" September 2007:

"In October 2002 we passed legislation that transferred congressional authority to the President to go to war. This piece of legislation I was strongly opposed to. There are two issues involved. We are in war, we can’t deny it. The two issues are the way we go to war, and whether the war is wise or not. I believe that the war was not a wise, Constitutional, defensive war and thus have been opposed to it. The other side of the coin is how do you do it? This is one thing that the founders were very, very clear on. We as a people would only go to war when the people’s opinions were expressed through their members of congress. That is a Declaration of War by the members of congress, that is should be the ONLY way we go to war….

"When that resolution came to International relations, the committee that I am on, I amended and substituted it with a declaration of war. It was very simple, it was three lines long. I copied it from World War two. And I told them at the time "You are going to have to defeat this because I am going to vote against my amendment. But this is what you should do if you want to go to war.” They didn’t like to vote on it, they didn’t like what I was going to do, and of course no one voted for it. Instead they passed this resolution which transfers the power to go to war at will to the President.

"I want to read to you what the chairman of the committee [Henry Hyde] said immediately after I introduced my resolution; his statement was this (he was putting me down):

“There are things in the Constitution that have been overtaken by events, by time; declaration of war is one of them. There are things no longer relevant to a modern society. Why declare war if you don’t have to? We are saying to the President, use your judgment. To demand that we declare war is to strengthen something to death. You have got a hammerlock on this situation that is not called for, inappropriate, anachronistic, it isn’t done anymore.”

"That was the chairman of the committee telling me that our Constitution is anachronistic, it is a waste of time. And then the Democrat minority leader in the committee [Tom Lantos] gave a similar talk, and his strongest word was:

“What you are doing, Paul, is frivolous.”

"This is what we are up against. Again, my strength does not come from them; it comes from you, the people who care about our Constitution.

"In that resolution, they never mention Article One Section Eight and declaration of war, that was totally ignored, but they mentioned the United Nations twenty-one times.

"At the same time, and in those months that followed, we did hear in the public a fair amount of criticism about the U.N. The criticism was that the U.N. was not joining on, and they did not respond as our administration wanted them to. It could have been interpreted that this was a strong attack on the United Nations. It wasn’t so much that as a challenge to the United Nations to be stronger and more forceful and let us control the United Nations, but still we were using the United Nations. Even at the State of the Union message, if you listened carefully, it was mentioned four times. He talked about the war and upholding these United Nations resolutions. So we do know that the opposition to the United Nations is not that strong, even though you might hear strong comments coming from our leadership….

"We are still paying far beyond our fair share at the United Nations. We get stuck with responsibility, and the financing, and the burden, and the men lost, all too often. I think the thing we should be concerned about from the United Nations, (the damage that is done to us, and the potential damage that is likely to come), the greatest threat is that we have over these years been willing to turn over to the United Nations much of the control of our foreign policy and when we go to war. And that has to be changed."

We need to get behind this man if we are really serious about keeping our Constitutional Sovereignty. It is no small thing.

Why taxing the rich never works

Before the Sixteenth Amendment legalized the income tax it had been made law several times and the Supreme Court ruled them Unconstitutional. The wealthy, especially the super-wealthy, had anticipated these laws and had created a clever tool to protect their riches. It was called a "charitable foundation".

The idea was to co-sign the ownership of wealth, including stocks and securities, to a foundation and then get Congress and the state legislatures to declare all such charitable institutions exempt from taxes. By setting up boards which were under the control of these wealthy benefactors they could escape the tax and still maintain control over the disposition of these fabulous fortunes.

Long before the federal income tax was in place, multimillionaires such as John D. Rockefeller (who once said "I want to own nothing and control everything"), J.P. Morgan, and Andrew Carnegie had their foundations set up and operating. The next step was to make certain that the new tax bill passed by Congress contained a provision specifically exempting their treasure houses from taxation.

The tax bill which the Sixteenth Amendment authorized was introduced as House Resolution 3321 on October 3, 1913. It turned out to be somewhat of a legislative potpourri for tax attorneys, accountants and the federal courts. In the ensuing years, untold millions of dollars have been spent trying to figure out exactly what this tax law, and those which followed it, were intended to provide. However, tucked away in its inward parts was that precious key which safely locked up the riches of the super wealthy.

Here are the magic words under Section 2, paragraph G:

"Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall apply...to any corporation or association organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific or educational purposes."

All of the foundations of the super-rich were designed to qualify under one or more of these categories. And they do today. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did nothing but remove them from the wealthiest taxpayers in the United States into the group of tax-exempt filthy rich.

The Prophet

He said: "I see" And they said: "He's crazy; crucify him!" He still said: "I see" And they said: "He's an extremeist!" and they tolerated him And he continued to say: "I see" And they said: "He's eccentric." And they rather liked him, and smiled at him. And he stubbornly said again: "I see" And they said: "There's something in what he says" And they gave him half an ear. But he said as if he never said it before: "I see" And at last they were awake, and they gathered about him and built a temple in his name. And yet, he only said: "I see" And they wanted to do something for him. "What can we do to express to you our regret?" He only smiled. He touched them with the the ends of his fingers and kissed them. What could they do for him? "Nothing more than you have done" He answered. And what was that? They wanted to know. "You see", he said, "thats reward enough; you see, you see"

-Horace Traubel

This will change the way you look at Hugo Chaves, or else you are blind

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened” – Winston Churchill

Who agrees with Ron Paul?

Well Ron Paul is hated by the Republicans for believing what this man said:




AND
What this man said:



What a FOOL! He should have believed them AFTER they became President and Vice President. How could he believe Bush? Cheney? Hell, they didn't even believe themselves!

The NEXT Ten Amendments to the Constitution

Amendment 28
The Federal Government cannot borrow money.
Congress can (and must exclusively) authorize the issue of a quantity of currency created by the purchase and/or storage of hard assets such as silver, gold, diamonds, title of real property, or purchase and storage of any non perishable commodity. The unit of money is the Silver Dollar Note and $1 is redeemable in ___oz of Silver, or any equivalent of ___oz of Silver.

Amendment 29
Repeal the 16th amendment allowing the personal income tax (Jokes over)

Amendment 30
Members of the House of Representatives are limited to 16 year total term, and are designated by districts of approximately 1 million in population as determined by census. House members can be impeached by petition within their district for any reason.
Senators are limited to a 12 year total term in office
Repeal 17th amendment, State legislatures elect Senators and can impeach them for any reason
Supreme Court Justices can be impeached by petition of _(qty)_ lower court or state Supreme Court justices for any reason
The President can be impeached by super-majority of congress for any reason
The Reason for removal from office by any officeholder must be disclosed publicly

Amendment 31
Presidential Electors shall be selected and vote according congressional district majority, each district getting 1 vote, AND each state legislature getting 2 votes total. Instant runoff voting shall be used if there are more than 2 candidates for the office.

Amendment 32
Campaign donations are unlimited to individual citizens, but must be fully disclosed by name and amount. PAC money cannot be collected or spent by the candidate. All campaign funds not spent go into the disaster relief fund.

Amendment 33
Congress cannot delegate any part of its authority without amending the Constitution
No foreign Country can be attacked, or foreign person injured or killed except by congress declaring WAR, issuing warrants, or letters of Marque and Reprisal

Amendment 34
All bills passed by congress that violate the Constitution (as decided by the President, the Supreme Court or State Convention), even if signed by the President, are null and void, and each member who voted for it (including the President) is subject to possible impeachment, and trial for treason.
All executive orders issued by the President that violate the Constitution (as decided by Congress, the Supreme Court, or State Convention) are null and void, and the President is subject to possible impeachment, and trial for treason.

Amendment 35
No permanent Bureau or Department can be created except by Amendment to the Constitution. All Departments not expressly authorized by Amendment will become abolished as of 4 years from _(specific date)___

Amendment 36
Congressional, Presidential, and Judicial pensions are equal to 70% of their salary, and are paid annually for a total in years equal to time spent in office. If convicted of any crime while in office, no pension is paid.

Amendment 37
All land owned or controlled by the United States must become Territorial, and new States be proposed by them.

Ron Paul says stop allowing them to "Monetize the debt"

What does it mean to "monetize the debt"? The Banking system is not merely paper money, it is much worse. It is debt money. To illustrate:

OK, here is the simple version of what our banking system does and why it is so crappy. The system we have is less viable now than it was during the Great Depression, but because of the added peace of mind that the FDIC (Federal Depositor Insurance Corporation) gives us we milk it along expecting it to last forever. It won’t, it can’t.

We Poe folk who actually work for a living have been continuously robbed since 1913, actually long before if you look into it. The ability for banks to manufacture money by merely loaning it out has been around for over 300 years. Governments in Europe looked to bankers for money when they went to war, and the bankers loaned out more money than they had. This has happened time and time again. It is how the rich stay rich, and the poor stay poor. As soon as a poor man gets rich, he either gets involved in the scheme, or his heirs go poor again. What I am saying is if your last name is Rothschild, Rockefeller, Schiff, Roosevelt, Morgan, Kennedy, or Bush, or you probably don’t have to work if you don’t want to, no matter how much money you spend. Just buy a Central Bank

The best way to illustrate the scheme is to simplify the operation. So let’s say there are only two banks and then the Federal Reserve above them. Picture a triangle. OK, I am Bank1, and in competition is Bank2. I have $100 and he has $100. I get a thousand people to deposit $1 in my bank to store it for them totaling $1000 plus the $100 of my own. I send out a monthly statement telling all my customers they have their full amount in my bank, but I can loan out all $1000, as long as I keep my $100 in reserve for those who spend their $1 out of my bank. This is the 10% required “reserve” in our fractional reserve system. This works great if not too many come in at the same time and take their money out. Cool for me and the FDIC for you.

But that’s nothing.

I loan out $1000 at interest by writing a check to my loan customer, he deposits the $1000 into Bank2. Now Bank2 has $1000 + $100 investment. He can loan out $1000 now too. His customer gets a check for $1000 and deposits it into my Bank1. Now I can lend out $900 of that. Bank2 gets that new deposit and can loan out $810, I can loan out $729, he can loan out $656.10 and on and on and on until all the money is loaned out, and all of it is tied up in the 10% reserve. It doesn’t matter if my customers spend their money, because whomever they give it to will usually just deposit it anyway! Cool eh?

Is everybody happy? So far the loans I am making interest money on total $2629, and my customer statements show a total of $3466.10, while I only spent $100. Cool. Interest money comes in, people take their money out, spend it, and others put it back in. All is well. Until, rats, the fool I loaned the $1000 to disappears with the loot. All heck breaks loose until, thank goodness, the Fed rescues me and loans me whatever I need into my reserves to keep the ship afloat.

Guess where the Fed gets the money it loans to me? Well, it used to be monetized gold, but now, it is 100% monetized debt. The Fed loans money to me that is backed by Government debt or my debt to them. They storing the debt paper makes the money they spent buying it have value. As a result, the total money supply grows by no other means than by loaning it.

The ability to manufacture money from loans has put lots of money in supply, and made it easy to get loans for houses and cars. But it requires more loans to sustain itself. Stop borrowing, and all the money disappears to the banks long before the loans are paid off; keep borrowing and the money becomes worthless, and most of it goes to the banks in interest.

This system is corrupt, and it is a house of cards waiting to be knocked over. There are toothpicks and band aids continuously stuck into it to keep it up. Bank owners are making a killing on interest, but all that interest money is created by debt, which creates a need for more inflation to cover the interest. There is no way this can sustain itself forever. The national debt is VITAL to keeping this joke afloat. Pay it off, and we get the great depression once again. Keep borrowing and we get runaway inflation and the great depression German style.

The solution is simple. Eliminate dishonest fractional reserve banking, and inflate the currency through government action, not bank action. BOTH must happen; neither will work independently. This is the only solution, there is no other way. Money must also have intrinsic value; not credit value, but tangible asset value. This would make our economy the wealthiest in the world again. And everyone would be wealthy, not just tax exempt bankers.

I promise you nothing but Freedom

Why we NEED Ron Paul for President

Inflation redifined for Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke

‘Inflation’ is a word that has too many definitions. Confusion comes from trying to use this word in conversation when the meaning of the word is not concrete. Therefore I am going to follow the teenage mutant ninja turtle’s guideline and invent new words to crack this word into three.

Inflation has 3 definitions.
1- Money supply increase.
2- Overall price of goods and services increase.
3- Currency value decrease, or devaluation
The third meaning comes from the first two and is oxymoronic, for how can a decrease come from the word inflate?
My new words are:
1- Monflation,
2- Priflation, and
3- Demonvaluation.
Cool words huh. Cowabunga dude

When the Federal Reserve chairman is being grilled by my favorite man in politics, Dr. Ron Paul, they are speaking of two different things. Mr. Smooth himself, Ben Bernanke attempts to dismiss Dr. No by stating things that he knows are not 100% true. They both use the word Inflation, but Dr. No is talking about monflation, while Mr. Smooth is talking about priflation; both of which they know produce demonvaluation. Dr. No believes that monflation creates demonvaluation and therefore priflation. Mr. Smooth believes that priflation is controlled by attempting to reduce demonvaluation through keeping interest rates rather than monflation as the criteria.

Most people don’t know it, but the priflation statistics that the Federal Reserve uses are not what you would think. In their “core” CPI (consumer price index), the only relevant data to them regarding priflation, they do not include things that you or I would. You know, things like food, gas, and the price of buying a house. I may not be a rocket scientist, but that is kinda like lying if you ask me. The inflation rate, according to Mr. Smooth (priflation), is 3%, but according to Dr. No (demonvaluation), it is 10%. For some reason, I believe Ron Paul more than Ben Bernanke.

The Last Ron to run sounds like to the new one

"A Time For Change" Speech for Barry Goldwater in October 1964


O that conservatives were as liberal as Milton Freidman

Tucker Carlson as Press Secretary

The Ron Paul Cabinet

Vice President- Mark Sanford/Walter Jones
Chief of Staff- Lew Rockwell
Secretary of State- Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski
Secretary of Defense- Paul D. Eaton
Deputy Secretary of Defense- Robert Pape
Secretary of Treasury- James Grant
Secretary of the Interior- Walter Williams
Director of National Intelligence- Michael Scheuer
Secretary of Veterans Affairs- John McCain
Director of the Office of Management and Budget- Karen DeCoster
Attorney General- Andrew Napolitano
Press Secretary- John Stossel/ Tucker Carlson

Social Security Administration- Mike Gravel
National Drug Control- Mike Ruppert
Homeland Security- Tom Tancredo
Energy- Michael Badnarik
Education- Kevin Chavous
EPA- Ralph Nader
Transportation- me :0)
Secretary of Commerce- William Grieder
HUD-
Health-
Labor-


CIA- Flynt Leverett

The Amero vs Social Security

The Amero is coming. What is the Amero you ask? The Amero is a new currency that is based on a new international bank and the North American Union. It is a currency that will compete with the dollar as legal tender in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. This new bank is already in existence, so don't think this is a conspiracy "theory" WATCH

The downturn of our economy is precipitating a need for the Amero as the dollar gets weaker and weaker. We are going to see a need for it, but there is a BIG problem, and that is it is unconstitutional and seriously undermines United States soveriegnty. What I propose is something much better AND will have no adverse impact on our economy. In fact it would stimulate it like nothing else. What is that you say?

THE SOCIAL SECURITY BANK

The more I contemplate this idea, the more I like it. It would be politically correct, bipartisan, and have popular support. Not only that, it would lower the federal deficit and repair Social Security at the same time. The only problem is overcoming ignorance from the masses and lack of ignorance from the banking lobby.

In essence it would be a chartered Central Bank that has only one client but tons of investors. It would save Social Security while at the same time lowering the National Debt. The Federal Reserve would have necessary congressional oversight, and the dollar would begin to rise in value.

The chartering of the bank would include rules removing the ability of the Federal Reserve to buy Treasury Securities and requires them to Issue Federal Reserve Securities to borrow the money from the Social Security Bank that it loans to other banks. This new bank would be directly managed by the Congress of the United States, thus making it legal under the Constitution. All the Citizenry can invest in this bank by buying retirement "Social" securities called FEDERAL RESERVE BONDS. The money we inject into this bank will buy these bonds from the Federal Reserve.

Along with the bill chartering this bank new rules will mandate all banks including the Federal Reserve to raise their reserves at a steady rate while keeping the discount and federal funds rates frozen at 5%. This intrest rate rule would end when reserves reach 100%. This will build in a demand for loans from the Federal Reserve, and thus demand for the Federal Reserve to issue Fed Securities to gain this needed money. The Social Security Bank will have NO reserve requirements except for the Federal Government demand deposits. Congress can use tax money to buy Fed bonds if needed. All interest income from these bonds would go into the Treasury.

I haven't gone to college, haven't taken any economics courses, but I have read alot about our monetary system. This looks viable and practical to me, but would gladly take any criticism of it. Am I nuts?

All I can say is watch

Money, Money, Money, Money

People really don't understand anything about how money is created, yet it is so very simple. I was amazed at the magic myself until I finally understood it. Fully one half of every transaction in almost everything we do involves money, and yet I had no idea where money originated or how it is worth anything. The most amazing thing is, we don't even care. Millions of people make their living dealing with money every day and most of them don't even know why money is money. It is truly amazing. Sigmund Freud suggested that there is a psychological connection between money and feces; he said we grew up thinking shit was valuable. (In fact they used to call outhouses "vaults") Maybe that is why we guard such smelly truth, and don't even want to discuss it.

Right now our money system is so benignly fraudulent that we call anyone who criticizes it a "conspiracy theorist". Amazing, for Ron Paul is right on, and he is considered crazy. If he could have his way, everyone would be better off. Even those who think he is “insane”, even the bankers. The only place that money gets into society is through a bank, and every time a bank issues money, they demand it back with interest. Why is it strange to think that it cannot work forever? Maybe it is because it has worked for so long, even though it really hasn’t. Why is it strange to think that whoever controls the bank, eventually owns whatever, and controls whatever else they want? Including bribery, donating to campaigns, buying off news editors, running the education system, and intimidating or even killing someone who threatens them? What a cash cow. What would you do if you had this power, would you rather be president of the United States?

There are two fundamental problems with our money system, and both have been around much longer than the Federal Reserve. But the Federal Reserve monopolized and multiplied it instead of fixing it. The fundamental problems are:

1- Fractional Reserve banking,
This allows a bank to loan out much more money than it has, and that money is backed mostly by the IOU documents written up at the time the loan is made. Only a small percentage of their own money is used to "back" the loan. Right now reserve requirements are between 8 and 16 percent. This, in any other business, is fraud; but in banking it is merely a regulated rule. The problem is when a loan defaults, it deletes the IOU but not the money, and as a result all money becomes worth less. This has been a practice of bankers for hundreds of years, but it is not common knowledge even today. Every single bank failure in history would not have happened if this practice was illegal.

2- Treasury Securities
This is the national debt chopped into little pieces and sold. There are different types of securities and they are a great investment to buy because they are guaranteed by the government to earn interest. The problem is, they are a burden to all taxpayers and give the rich a desire for the nation to stay in debt. Individuals are limited in how much they can buy, but banks are not. The Chinese central bank buys approximately $2 billion of these every day. This market, called the bond market, has caused (along with fractional reserve banking) all money in circulation to lose gold backing completely. Today all money is backed only by these government IOU's. The Federal Reserve has the very most "debt paper" as its assets. These "assets" are the backing to our Federal Reserve notes. (Yes, it is magic) When Alexander Hamilton first instituted this scheme within the first year of the constitution, Thomas Jefferson said:

“America is being transformed into a gaming table…Already the new national government is imperiled by the financial mania. Furthermore their gamester ethic will corrode the traditional frugality and industry that defines the American character”

The real problem with this type of government debt is the immorality of it. Those who are in government are less likely to curb government spending when they know that they can profit personally from the debt. As Hamilton said to the First National Bank president Robert Morris “A national debt, if not excessive, to us is a national blessing” For some reason, I am glad that Aaron Burr won that duel. I only wish it would have happened twelve years sooner. This system was eliminated by Andrew Jackson, but then restored during the Civil War, and has been with us ever since.

Wouldn’t it bee cool to see debtless money enter the economy through farming, manufacturing, and natural resources? Will it ever happen? I doubt it.

Advice for Ron Paul

I would love to be Ron Paul’s PR director. I could help him get his awesome message out without looking so fringe. After watching the debate on Sunday, I couldn’t help noticing that he did not seem clear or concise, and was trying to get a lot of words into a short answer. (a.k.a. “rambling”) (Of course that did not keep me from voting for him via text message.) I also couldn’t help noticing how much more relaxed and clear the other candidates were, even though they obviously were talking on issues that to most Americans seem pointless, or frightening. After the debate, Ron Paul was much more relaxed and clear when he was being interviewed by Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes. That was great, but I wish he would have done that during the debate. I am positively convinced that his success is shocking even to himself and he really does not know how to make the next step and turn the anti-terrorist crowd to the anti-war side; even though I know it is possible. So here is my advice for Dr Ron Paul:

1- Stop worrying about your message more than your temperament. You ARE top tier, and in this day and age of “image is everything” you need to be more confident, when someone says insulting things or says something that is really horrible, be calm and stern rather than angry and excited. Ignore the bell more.

2- Disarm the critics, laugh at their stupid insinuations and smear tactics, but still take them down quickly. You could make your point better by answering the question with the one they should have asked. EVEN IN THE DEBATES

3- Reason with the war crowd, for they have been taught that we would be cowards if we saved more troops from getting killed. They believe that. Get specific about the DIFFERENCE between ending terrorism and the war on terror. Tell the people that the terrorists WILL win if we let 9/11 take away our freedoms, privacy or sovereignty.

4- Proclaim that you are for a STRONG national defense every chance you get, and that you advocate a better foreign policy that will make us safer, NOT WEAKER. Specify that you would like to build up the bases here at home, that you want to push missile defense, and better treatment of our veterans etc.

5- Use personal stories in the debates; they take away antagonism from disagreement. Babies and hero’s come to mind.

6- Realize that even though you are brilliant, and your policies would be awesome in making our Country the envy of the world again and accomplishing exactly what those who attack you want. You MUST BACK OFF the FBI, the CIA, and the Federal Reserve in your speech. In this I mean call it “reforming” rather than “abolishing”. Everyone knows that we need intelligence, investigation, and monetary policy at the Federal level, even though they have done some bad things.

7- Bring up intelligent truth’s that people like me didn’t realize. Such as Letters of Marqe and Reprisal, the 1998 Iraqi liberation act, the Declaration of War that you proposed that was voted down, and other things people are amazed enough to actually think about.

I want Ron Paul to win, it would be the best thing this country did for itself in a long, long time. But I want everyone to realize that he is one candidate among four, and if you take all three of the others and make them into one, he will lose in the primary and Hilbillery will win in the General. He is the only hope we have. No pressure man.

Ron Paul is right about the Middle East

In 1953 the CIA overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq in Iran. Why? He was very popular for standing up to the oil companies, and their treatment and pay to Iranian workers. In 1952 he used his power to nationalize the oil fields. The CIA bombed cleric’s and blamed him, and paid mobs and police to overthrow him. The Shah then became dictator of Iran. From 1953 to 1978 Iran bought $18 billion worth of military arms from U.S. arms manufacturers. Half of the oil was owned by U.S. oil companies. In 1978, David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger persuaded Jimmy Carter to allow the Shah to come to the U.S. for medical treatment. Because of this, the Iranians overthrew the Shah and took hostages from the American embassy where the 1953 “Operation Ajax” was run. This was the “Islamic Revolution” that changed Iran from a dictatorship to an Islamic Republic. The U.S. traded arms for those hostages. Israel was the middle man. The Iran-Contra scandal in 1984-85 showed that the CIA was selling arms to Iran even up to that time, while diplomatically supporting and selling arms to Iraq.

Iraq became a nation after WWII and had ties with the Soviet Union until 1978. It nationalized its oil in 1972. Sadaam Hussein became President in 1979 although he had been prominent since 1964. He was a reformist secular leader who abolished most Sharia law courts. In 1978 he ousted the last of the Communist Party from the political structure. His internal police was brutal to opposition and although he was westernized, he was hated by his own people. In 1980, the U.S. supported and sold arms (including chemical) to Iraq in Sadaam's attempt to conquer Iran. Sadaam declared himself "winner" in 1988. He used biological weapons supplied by the U.S. on the Kurds within his country who were attacking Iraqi military. Kuwait gave $30 billion to help Iraq in its war with Iran and Iraq wanted the debt cancelled, but Kuwait refused. Kuwait was also “slant drilling” into Iraqi oil fields. So in 1990 he thought he could conquer Kuwait and have U.S. backing. Oops.

The Saudi government who supported Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war, allowed the U.S. to build (using Bin Laden and Sons Construction) and use bases within Saudi Arabia to attack Iraq in 1990. Saudi Arabia is the holiest of holies for the Muslim religion. Many religious zealots in the religion issued a Jihad against America. Osama Bin Laden was a Saudi who was a central figure to many Muslims for his great ‘win’ against the Soviet Union in keeping occupiers out of Afghanistan. The CIA supported him and funded him. Then he saw the U.S. as the great new evil. 15 of the 19 hijackers responsible for the attack on 9/11 were Saudi, as is their leader.

THOSE DARN JIHADISTS JUST HATE OUR FREEDOMS, OUR WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND OUR CHRISTIAN RELIGION

Imagine Ron Paul as President. Removing all troops from the Persian Gulf and ignoring the UN. Selling food and everything else to Iran, Iraq, and every other country in the region. Signing new treaties with each country, and formally apologizing to the Muslim community. THen Congress issues a Letter of Marqe and Reprisal against Osama Bin Laden, putting a $1 Billion price tag on his head.
Our troops would be honored by the vanquished as truly good will soldiers instead of invaders, and our troops would be honored by us. Good will never fails, but it never is considered good will by using guns. National Defense is never National Offense, and 9/11 should not change us for the worse.

Ron Paul and money

Whenever you become indebted, you loose some fundamental freedom. You tie yourself to that person or institution that you become indebted to in somewhat of a master-servant relationship. Whether that is fundamentally right or wrong depends upon individual opinion. It really depends who you become indebted to, and whether you like being in debt to them or not. Our financial system is based on debt. The fundamental unit of the dollar is debt, or the use of credit. Credit is merely trust. Our dollar is based on the trust that the Government can pay back it’s debt to the Federal Reserve. The dollar is based upon the IOU treasury notes issued by the United States treasury. The fundamentals of this system are severely flawed, and practically unfixable. Right now there are $22 in debt for every $1 in circulaion! Although it is fixable, it would take a massive education effort first; for if the majority of people do not know what the problem is, they cannot fix it. Here is the problem: Fractional reserve banking, and private central banking. Our government issues debt "bonds", "bills", and "notes" to fund their over budget spending, and the Federal Reserve issues paper money into the banking system by loaning it at interest to the Government and other banks. Then the other banks loan out many times that amount. For every $1000 the Fed issues (by loaning it to the government), the banks can loan out $100,000 Realizing this is true you can see that it is impossible to get out of the debt and have any money left. There is no money created to cover the interest, and that has been the case since before the Federal Reserve. In fact the Federal Reserve bank was created to fix the problem!
There is a solution, and it is not impossible to do without severely rocking our economy. The first thing that must be done is end fractional reserve banking, money creation should be done by government if it is not gold, or silver. We must completely eliminate the fraudulent fractional reserve policy. Of course the gold standard is the absolute best money system in history, and it is the only money that is legal tender in the Constitution, but it is limiting for a people and a government. You cannot spend gold that you do not have, even if you need something and the one who has that thing wants something from you. If you do not have gold as money to complete the exchange, you are severely hampered.
One solution is the “Greenbacks” the way Abraham Lincoln did it. Congress, by the authority of the Constitution has the right and the power to coin money, and regulate the value thereof. The problem is the trust people have in a completely fiat currency is very weak. Congress can have absolute power over inflation by regulating the value of the dollar directly, but they would not have something to exchange for it, (which is the case now). But it would take debt out of equation. This way congress is responsible for inflation, completely, rather than just being blamed for it.
Another solution is to print dollars from the value of not exclusively gold, but to silver, land, and a host of other real tangible things; even commodities, and energy. Congress can authorize the printing of money based on the value of these things.
Another possibility is to charter a second Central Bank, called the Social Security Bank, and allow only citizens to deposit money there and then loan that to banks and the government as the Federal Reserve does; at interest, and make fractional reserve banking illegal. The Treasury would deposit all of its money here in the only checking account of the Federal Government. Interest would all be in paid only on retirement, but accumulate throughout the time the money stays there. They would issue “Social Security Notes” that are adjusted against Federal Reserve Notes every day at the Federal Reserve bank, thus removing devaluing inflation. If money gets scarce than this bank can issue loans to other banks that is based on credit too, but that should be only very short term. The interest would become property of the Treasury, completely, and a source of income for the government.

Here is what I propose:
FIRST pass a law increasing the commercial bank’s required reserves at the Central Bank and in their vaults at a steady rate per year, say 5-10%.
SECOND, create a second silver value currency that the government issues to pay it’s debts and have that backed by gold and silver, the value of government property, say, National Park dollars, Highway dollars, and Capital building dollars etc. with that money completely debt free.
THIRD, as interest at banks rise because of the rise in reserve requirements, the Social Security bank can lend money it borrows from the new hard asset currency that the Treasury creates.

A Central Bank that was truly owned by the Government, with branches in each state and territory, each raising their own money and lending it at interest to other banks would be great, it would be interest income for the government and would pay for things with much less taxation.

We all can dream can't we?

The Ron Paul Party

THE INDEPENDENT AMERICAN PARTY

1- Reform the Banking System, and put value back into money
The Federal Reserve System creates money backed by storage of debt. Banks multiply this money by monetizing other debt on top of this. Interest is added and there is not enough money in circulation to cover it, and there never will be as long as it continues. Inflation comes from fractional reserve banking and that needs to be completely eliminated. Gold, silver, and any storable commodity such as oil, steel, or even farm products and real estate can be monetized by government storing them, all based on their value in gold. Let money enter the marketplace in several sectors, through the several Departments of the government, not just banking through credit. The Federal Reserve needs to be a Department of government, and interest generated by loaning money to banks should become property of the United States Treasury. A branch of the Federal Reserve Bank should be in each state.

2- Abolish the personal income tax
This tax was originally a tax on interest income, dividends, and foreign earned income. It has grown to be the tool used to enslave the American People. There should be no tax on wages. Corporate Income Tax and General Tariffs would easily make up the difference.

3- Reform the Election Process
Term limits on congressional and Senate seats should become law by amending the constitution. Our elected officials pander to the media and special interests because of their desire to be re-elected. The election process is more often dictated by major media focus on certain issues, and many in office change their vote to be re-elected because of it. Smart people should be in government who can use their heads in spite of current public opinion from the focus group media and lobbyist’s. The seventeenth amendment should be repealed and Senators should be elected by State Legislatures, and the President should be elected by electoral votes that are separated by congressional district and each state legislature should have two votes. No elected official should get a pension longer than their term in years, and none should get more money than their salary. Any who accept bribes should be kicked out and imprisoned immediately. Any Federal officer who breaks their oath of office would be tried for treason. On the ballot in the year the President is elected, each citizen votes for a presidential elector for their congressional district, while the state legislatures shall elect two presidential electors total, these electors will vote for the President of the United States.

4- Reform the United Nations and Get out of treaty “Organizations”
The United Nations is now the government of the world, it now dictates more than peace between nations and exchange rates of currencies. More and more it is dictating the economies and internal laws of nations. All treaties should be treaties expressly designated under the Constitution, and no treaty "organizations" should be entered into by the United States, these organizations preside over Constitutional government. The United States government should be prohibited from entering into them.

5- Establish a North American Union through the Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the greatest form of government on earth; it should stay that way or improve. Mexico and Canada could be invited to separate into states and become a part of the United States. If we keep it, Iraq should become a state. Cuba, Puerto Rico and The Virgin Islands should already be states. Any and all land controlled by the United States should become states, except the District of Columbia.

6- Disarm the CIA, FBI, BATF, and all other federal agencies not responsible for personal security of those in public office or police enforcement within the District of Columbia. Otherwise let only the military use weapons in the name of the Federal Government. State and local police forces should be well armed to enforce federal law.

7- Eliminate every Federal Department that is not expressly allowed by the Constitution. Some Departments are beneficial, but should be expressly permitted by an Amendment to the constitution. They should have elected officials running them. Make their boards elected by the STATE Legislatures every year with no term limit, while the chairman is appointed by the President as the Secretary of that department.

8- Add two other Amendments to the Constitution
a- The Federal Government cannot borrow money, except in time of war through Trust funds.
b- NO act of abuse or killing of any foreign person can be performed outside of the jurisdiction of what the Constitution expressly allows. Any President or military leader who disobeys this will be tried for assault or murder by federal law.

THE GREATEST PRESIDENT WE NEVER HAD

Here is the political views of a presidential candidate in 1844, who, only four months later was killed by a mob:

“For the accommodation of the people in every state and territory, let Congress show their wisdom by granting a national bank, with branches in each State and Territory, where the capital stock shall be held by the nation for the Central Bank, and by the states and territories for the branches; and whose officers and directors shall be elected yearly by the people, with wages at the rate of two dollars per day for services; which several banks shall never issue any more bills than the amount of capital stock in her vaults and the interest.
“The net gain of the Central Bank shall be applied to the national revenue, and that of the branches to the states and territories revenues. And the bills shall be par throughout the nation, which will mercifully cure that fatal disorder known in cities as brokerage, and leave the peoples money in their own pockets.
“Give every man his constitutional freedom and the president full power to send an army to suppress mobs, and the States authority to repeal and impugn that relic of folly which makes it necessary for the governor of a state to make the demand of the President for troops, in case of invasion or rebellion.
“As to the contiguous territories to the United States, wisdom would direct no tangling alliance. Oregon belongs to this government honorably; and when we have the red man’s consent, let the Union spread from the east to the west sea; and if Texas petitions Congress to be adopted among the sons of liberty, give her the right hand of fellowship, and refuse not the same friendly grip to Canada and Mexico. …..
“The Southern people are hospitable and noble. They will help rid so free a country of every vestige of slavery, whenever they are assured of an equivalent for their property. The country will be full of money and confidence when a National Bank of twenty millions and a State Bank in every state, with a million or more, gives a tone to monetary matters, and makes a circulating medium as valuable in the purses of a whole community as in the coffers of a speculating banker or broker.
“In the United States the people are the government, and their united voice is the only sovereign that should rule, the only power that should be obeyed, and the only gentlemen that should be honored at home and abroad……..
“When the people petitioned for a National Bank, I would use my best endeavors to have their prayers answered, and establish one on national principles to save taxes, and make them its controllers of its ways and means. And when the people petitioned to possess the territory of Oregon, or any other contiguous territory, I would lend the influence of the Chief Magistrate to grant so reasonable a request, that they might extend the mighty efforts and enterprise of a free people from the east to the west sea, and make the wilderness blossom as the rose. And when a neighboring realm petitioned to join the union of liberty’s sons, my voice would be: COME- yea, come, Texas; come Mexico, come Canada; and come, all the world; let us be brethren, let us be one great family, and let there be universal peace.”
---February 7, 1844

Undoubtedly had this policy been instituted, the United States would have been much, much better than it is, and we would not have had a Civil War.

No your vote doesn't count

Do you know how the president of the United States gets elected? We all think our vote counts, and it does, but not nearly as you might think.
In 2000 Al Gore actually received more votes total than George Bush, but thanks to the system established by the Constitution, George Bush won the election. It has happened before, and changes have been made because of it. I think that the only changes that need to be made are education of the people, and then the states who actually send the electors in the electoral college can reflect the views of the people more accurately. I believe if all of the states used the "Maine method" than it would be more consistent with what the founding fathers anticipated.
When you cast your vote in the Presidential election, you are not voting for that person, but rather you are voting for representation in the electoral college. In every state except two, Maine and Nebraska, the popular vote of that state gains ALL of the electoral college votes for that state. In 2000, the Florida vote which was won by George Bush by only a few thousand votes actually gave him a swing of 54 out of 538 total votes in the electoral college. I think it is severly flawed, and the Constitution needs amended. All a candidate really needs to win now is to win California (55 votes), Texas (34), New York (31), Florida (27) Illinois (21), Pennsylvania (21), Ohio (20), Michigan (17), Georgia (15), New Jersey (15), and North Carolina (15), that ticket would have 271 votes, which would be enough to win, no matter what happens in the rest of the country. I believe that if all of the states were on the "Maine method" the conservative vote would have counted MORE, and George Bush would still have been elected. Here is a link that describes the system in detail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College

I believe that the President of the United States should be elected partly by the representatives in the legislatures of each individual state. Local elections would mean more, and the federal government would be more subject to state oversight. In other words, my local representative in my state congress would not only represent me in the state, but they would also represent me in the election of the President of the United States. Plus each congressional district could have one vote by majority. If it were possible to have a 25-25 tie, than the State govenors would be given a vote, and if there was another tie (almost impossible) then the congress could vote, then the senate, then the supreme court.

RON PAUL

WOW! I can't believe there is actually a candidate who has put the real issues on the table!

Go Ron Paul!

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Wake UP People!

I am amazed, AMAZED; at the gullibility of the average person. Doesn’t anyone realize what our country is doing? I know that September 11 was a catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude. We as Americans wanted so bad to give retribution and avenge that day. O how badly I wanted to see Osama Bin Laden strung up at ground zero! There was not a group of people in the world that did not want us to go after those terrorists. But what have we done, and why? I am appalled that our representatives passed such a thing as the “Patriot Act”. I am not even the slightest bit ashamed to say that I was against the Iraq war from the beginning. I thought it was a sham, and a disgusting excuse to seize the oil resources of a foreign nation. I wanted Osama, not Iraq! But MY O MY, What happened to our country?
It fry’s me that I am now considered a liberal because I think this war was and is stupid. We were not attacked by Iraq! Why have we thrown away our Constitution and attacked a sovereign country out of fear? It is retarded to sit in a corner and worry if you are not Republican, or that you are not Conservative, or that you do not support the troops, if you hate this stupid war in Iraq. What happened to our country? Why are we so afraid? Why don’t people use their brains? Why don’t we understand?
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing” – Dwight D Eisenhower
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself” - Franklin D Roosevelt
“Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety.” -Benjamin Franklin
Now who’s afraid of the big bad terrorist, and why? What is with this fear that it will happen again in our country? And what about these tree huggers, and their fear of global warming? Get over it people! Do the best you can, and require that your government let you. Quit hiding behind big brother, hoping that he will save us from these boogie monsters. Our country was founded on the principle that the citizen owned the government, not the other way around. “Mind your own business” was our motto. Don’t let 19 terrorist’s, and whoever was funding and supporting them, make you give up your freedom, or privacy! NO, not in the slightest bit! The Patriot Act is a terrible answer to such an attack. Yes there was a terrorist attack in 2001, yes it was a big deal, but we as a country should be stronger and not weaker because of it. We as individual Americans should be more determined to be free, and independent, and secure. If we really are, why are you so afraid of another attack? If our resolve was not broken, why are you afraid? Why have you let them take away your sense of security?
I personally have not let them, and I will not let them, conquer me. I am LESS afraid of terrorist’s now than I was pre-911. Call that whatever you want, but I call you fearful wimps’ cowards! Burn that stupid miss-named “Patriot Act”, and Get out of Iraq, NOW! Let the puppet government we have set up take responsibility for what happens now. Let them nationalize the oil. Sell them supplies, and weapons, and then buy oil from them. If there is internal fighting, get out of it! Let them handle it, they are not children. They will never be a sovereign nation until they take care of their own. Let them do it! If we have military servicemen or contractors who have committed crimes there, let them be punished there, by their laws, even if they get executed for it. There will never be a free and democratic Iraq, unless they as a people do it themselves. So GET OUT! (Or make it a state, with representation in OUR government)
Government doesn’t give us our rights, the Constitution doesn’t give us our rights; God gives us our rights. The only good government is one who protects rights, not dictates rights. And anyone who thinks anyone else in the world should have fewer rights than they have is one who supports slavery. Think about it!

I am not like you

Most American's confuse me. The liberals are for gun control, are they really liberal? The conservatives are against conservation? Television, Movies, and Radio have been a great tool to dumb down the entire population into turning off their brains. They don't think past the end of thier favorite talk show host. They get their news from the same source, and believe the worst in everyone who does not agree with them.

Never has the people of the United States been more split in opinion than now. 9-11 Unified us for a moment, but then the continuing Iraq war has devided us more than ever. It is interesting that a majority of Democrats voted to go take out Iraq, but then changed their minds after a while. It is interesting that a majority of Republicans criticized the Bosnian war, but now support the Iraq war. As if it is not the principle of the thing rather than who the boss is that makes the difference. The two parties do not care, really, about their own principles. When I say care, I mean put their money where their mouth is.

I have never liked the fact that the government owns me economically. That it was a matter of law for me to report every nickel that I make to a government agency called the IRS. But as an American, I feel the duty to pay taxes. After all I am represented, right? I am amazed that my citizen representatives actually allowed or made this happen! I have been interested in monitary policy and how it came to be ever since I first realized that I had to file my tax return in detail and sign it, or face criminal charges.
I have a prospective that is unique, a background that is one in a hundred million, and a desire to share.