Video made by Ron Paul supporter

I love how Ron Paul is considered an economics guru by his supporters when pretty much every prediction he has made since 2007 has been proven wrong. At what point do you reassess the track record and change your opinion?
 
by that logic you are assuming that we are going to be involved in another world war, we might as well give up diplomacy. We are the most violent country in the world. Our focus should not be in abroad, it should be in our own soil.
 
He has said, and still says, that runaway inflation is right around the corner thanks to monetary expansion (i.e. quantitative easing) . Yet inflation has been 1.5% a year since 2008 which is normal and commodity prices have been more or less flat. You'd think 4 years of being wrong about something would make you think about the bullshit you say.
 
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I think you missed my point that the world is a violent place. It is better to be in position to stop things before they get too big or even started. If you don't, things that happen around the globe will end up on your home soil before you know it. Foreign bases are part of diplomacy.
 
America contributes to most of it. Also, the middle east has always been chaos. There just wasn't 24 hour news back in the day so we didn't care about it. Nobody's going to invade us because we can wipe their country off the map before they get here. Also, it's called an erabassy

Cool video, this guy should have done the voice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPMvj_xejg
 
What? Inflation has not been 1.5% every year since 2008. In 2008, around 4%.. There was deflation in 2009 (averaged), because of the crash couple with liquidity catastrophe, 1.5-1.7% inflation last year, and is up around 3.5-3.7% this year. Ron Paul is far from an economics guru, but we've avoided "runaway inflation" via other detrimental domestic economic policies. If our market was allowed to operate efficiently, inflation would be around 10%. Our market is regulated so heavily now that we avoid one disaster by inducing another. You can't possibly argue that quantitative easing does not cause inflation.

edit: here's a table for you. http://inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/currentinflation.asp

Another edit: Bernanke is a fracking puppet.
 
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_IA_1218925.pdf

this latest poll has ron paul in the lead in iowa.

and south bay, we wouldnt have to worry about most of the world hating us if we did not have our soldiers patrolling their soil like the video says, but even if that is not the case there is no longer a need for these world wide bases. Our intercontinental missile capabilities and aircraft let us wage war from the other side of the world. Don't forget about our fleet of nuclear aircraft carriers, submarines, and battle ships. They re giant military bases that can be moved anywhere at any time.
 
I imagine a new level of political disagreement would exist if Ron Paul was elected president. Some of his ideas would be strongly opposed by democrats while other ideas would be strongly opposed by republicans. I wonder if his ideas could be implemented in this type of political climate. And it's true he has been calling for hyperinflation of levels we have not seen. I like that he wants to balance the budget and keep us out of foreign affairs.
 
If he were to be elected president i dont think a lot of his ideas would be inacted (ending the fed/department of education) in his first time. I do believe that our budget would be handled a lot better and as commander in chief of the armed forces we would definately not be as involved in other countries affairs..


I dont think we need 900 military bases across the world. I think our main ones in Germany, Japan, Korea, that one off the coast of India, are enough to keep our country safe. If were going to go to war with another country, itll most likely be: Iran, Pakistan, or North Korea. In the extreme case, its Russia and/or China.

I like the idea that ron paul believes in the constitution, and the fact that the president neeRAB permission from congress in order to use our military to attack another country.
 
sorry dzan, you make some good points sometimes, but im very surprised you of all people actually believe the published inflation nurabers. running the math in my head, comparing various metrics and increases, and comparing receipts and prices from 2007 to now it seems like a hell of A LOT more than 1.5% per year. yes, even roughly factoring in exponential growth on top of what we had before at 1.5% (as i imagine most people would instinctively think of linear growth in their heaRAB). however, i will also say i dont know any exact nurabers myself nor do i have hard statistical/scientific data to back this up.

tldr: imo metrics for measuring inflation are very flawed, it has been way more than 1-4% a year.

and i too feel that run away inflation is around the corner if things dont change.
 
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