today, ron paul got at least one vote in florida. :)

i'm doing my part to weed out the corruption.

Gingrich is the fastest thinker on his feet of any presidential candidate since Boy Clinton.

That said, personally, I'm voting for Obama. In that I expect the Dimo-craps will be more likely to provide cots in the FEMA camps than the hard-ass Republi-turds, who will make everyone sleep on the ground as a character building exercise.

It may not seem like a worry now, but once they round us all up it is going to be a BIG DEAL. Trust me on this.

Arbeit macht frei!

haha jstanley,

the democrats are the party of strongarming- they have always sided with the idea of force over the weak (abortion,letting killers go/having the elderly die, fast and furious drugrunning, etc.)

their whole philosophy is to take from others, as the party of big government. why do you think the bills are coming at us fast and furious now, taking away our rights as fast as they can? why do you think obama talked about that huge private army? what would be the point of that?

they will kill your butt if push comes to shove. :)

Easy on the Pachyderm-flavored Koolaid, there FS. Seriously. I've imbibed plenty of it myself, and it took a long time before I realized how badly it distorts the senses... *hick*...

No they won't; you just have to be poor and they shovel money and food stamps right at you...as long as you promise to vote them back into power. I agree with Js; if the newt or some other reptilian character like Rombot gets the nod, I'm not voting for them. I'll vote 3rd party and at least I can say I won't have voted for any of the anti-liberty scumbags likely to win.

The election makes no difference. Do you really think your vote counts. The outcome of an election is directly tied to who counts the vote.

Casino slots are required to payout a percent. This is accomplished by a chip which has to be certified by a government agency.

Elections are tabulated by electronic voting machines. They have to be certified accurate. By Who are they certified ?

Kinda like when home sales were counted wrong. Who the hell counted them !?

Anyway - All we have is the vote and I will vote to remove everyone presently sitting in a cushy government office(is the vote counted?). If everyone would do this, it occurs to me that politicians may not have enuf time to make **** deals.

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I'll vote 3rd party and at least I can say I won't have voted for any of the anti-liberty scumbags likely to win.

Amen. The franchise is a trust that, in my book at the very least, ought to be treated the respect of voting one's conscience. Duh.

It's sad to watch it happen EVERY election cycle. The "you're throwing your vote away" crowd form and begin to blather. Led to believe that as lowly voters they have the ability to triangulate jack ****.

Like sheep to the slaughter. *Bah*...

Obama and dictatorship? After what newt said about judges? For ****s sake.

The best thing I can say about Newt is that he seems to be the only candidate who has seriously thought about space policy.

I realize that the election won't be decided on that issue, even though that's where our future lies.

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A positive rate of inflation is a pre-requisite to the viability of a fractional reserve banking system. Deflation will destroy a fractional reserve banking system just as margin/leverage will destroy a brokerage account in a down market, where asset values depreciate.

I've never thought about it in those terms.

Thanks for the post!

"For my wife, Gena, and I, we sincerely believe former Speaker Newt Gingrich is the answer to most of those questions and deserves our endorsement and vote."

www.wnd.com/2012/01/my-endorsement-for-president/

Wow..Chuck Norris is behind Newt! Looks like there is a REAL Chuck Norris Fun fact!!

AND?

How many more years is the USA going to be able to fund a trillion military that has sucked the country dry already? The military of the US is there for oen reason, to enforce what the bankers want. The entire mess set up after world war II was to allow bankers to run the world. Currency is bank paper.

There isn't any likable way to fix this stuff. I don't know that I would protest what Bernanke is doing so much if it wasn't for the fact that bankers in bankrupt banks are using the funds to walk out the back door with the wealth of the nation. The entire problem has to be looked at as a monetary balance sheet. Bank paper has caused almost every bubble in history, save for maybe tulip mania, which happened very rapidly in an area where there was excess gold. In situations where credit isn't used to create debt, but instead money is loaned directly, there isn't a systematic problem. The money merely changes hands as if it was used to buy a good at a retail store. When it is acquired by credit, new money is created and the collapse of the debt impacts the liability (credit) accounts in the banks. In such a system, gold represents a minorty money, while bank notes and demand deposits well in excess of the supply of gold create the problem.

If you go to Mexico, the currency has on it Banco de Mexico. It is bank paper. The US note is drawn on the Federal Reserve, which has a monopoly on the issuance of bank paper. In Europe, it is the European Central Bank. No country prints its own money. That is a joke on the people of the world and a scheme to enrich those in banking and those in the associated governments that endow the system. Inflation happens through the financial system and the demand for goods and services follow. Mises stated that you saw the first evidence of inflation in the various stock markets, which tells me that it is the bankers that are buying the stocks with money that they invent out of thin air before any of us touch it, thus they get the assets at wholesale and sell them to us at retail.

The question is, would the dollar have ever been the reserve had there not been gold pledged behind it at Breton Woods? I highly doubt it, as there wasn't enough good private debt in the system to anchor the money at the time. What else i doubt is that the system survives on a zero inflation level, as it has to expand or collapse. The entire rules of the game would have to change and enough of the credit entries be moved from the supply of deposits to the capital accounts of the banking system. Thus, the depositors have to own the bank and then maybe some Federal Reserve financed deposits would get the game off dead center. The point being, this can only be fixed by a shift in credits that would be sufficient to absorb the losses in the system and at the same time provide debtors with enough money for repayment to avoid collapse.

Anyone educated in finance recognizes exponentials and inverse exponentials. They are the basic formulas for FV and PV, the compound interest and its inverse. Inflation is the FV and deflation is the PV. My suspicion is that if deflation isn't interrupted, it collapses down to the monetary base. Maybe I am wrong, namely because politicians and bankers know their game is up, should this ever occur and they might swing from lamp posts. What causes deflation is excessive credit against minimal capital. Without the various government guarantees, the system would have gone down years ago and no banker in his right mind would have dared operate on less than 10% capital reserves. It is the lack of capital, not the lack of reserves that restrains banking. Lending without capital is nothing more than counterfeiting, as basically all money printing in the US and most of the world is done by commercial banks and not governments. What we think of as printing is the medium of exchange between banks for the most part and doesn't make up the money supply, unless banks use it to purchase assets or make loans.

The role of gold has always been international. I highly doubt if the world paper currencies fall apart and the structure of debt goes with them, there will be a currency to be used in trade that will work without gold. In fact, currency has never been the money, which is where most people miss the boat. The debt is the money or the metal is the money. Currency has either been a note for payment of debt or a warehouse receipt for gold. It has never been anything other than an IOU and in the modern world it is an IOU for an IOU and nothing else. Its value rests in payment of debt, as is stated on the face of all US currency.

Where the anti Paul people miss the boat is they don't understand money and the associated freedoms and tyrany associated with various forms of money. What is private is private and as far as any paper currency having value other than payment of debt, it would only have value through the barrel of a gun. There is nothing to exchange, nothing to redeem other than a tyranical government using duress in order that it have value. A world currency would literally be an ogre knocking at the door. Of course, much of the dollars value stems from the piracy organization known as the IMF, which finances the looting of indebted countries and banking systems around the world. We had better hope they don't come knocking at our own doors.

BTW, I concur with Nanna's quote posted above, the inverse exponential.

uwe wrote..

Some people do believe this is "good" for the economy because it tends to prevent 'hoarding' of money; i.e. it encourages investment.

This idea is off base, because the only thing that makes money disappear is payment of credit related debt. If we did hoard currency, the bankers would go broke, as their scheme is based on a shell game of credits between banks and withdrawal of cash deprives them of the media for the shell game. Money has absolutely nothing to do with investing, but it has a lot to do with asset bubbles. Buying stock on the secondary exchange has nothing to do with investing. Only trading assets. Buying bonds to fund the building of factories has plenty to do with investing, as it is new capital. Pledging money in venture capital would be investing, but it could also be buying into a scheme. Buying the stock of GE or some other company is merely buying assets that have already been invested.

Our problem investing now is there is less money than there is debt, but there is a debt bubble and assets always cost too much when there is a debt bubble, especially an enforced debt bubble as we have now. As I pointed out above, when you buy stocks, you have bought something with the inflation the bankers used to acquire it at a lower price. Anyone who watches these markets day to day that has a clue has to realize that movements in these markets are no more than bankers marking up prices. No one is forced to buy, but the shorts. All shorts are naked, but what KD describes as naked shorts are to my knowledge sales of stocks that are really shorts, but executed as if the seller actually owned the shares. All speculative entries into futures markets are naked, both on the buying side and selling side as there isn't an implied obligation until a certain date to make or take delivery, thus the complaints of the losers bears no fruit in my book. In any case, in a free secondary market, a short should have no real effect on the value of any stock over time.

I don't think gold as national currency is necessary and it's the last reason I'd vote for Paul.

No, the fundamental reason is he's an outsider and will break up the conspiracy at the top that is destroying our liberties, or at least undo some of it.

The rest of these clowns are big money puppets.

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First, Marianne pretty much stole Gingrich from his first wife. She was younger (and didn't have cancer.) So that Marianne got hosed by the same game with Calista is rather ironic -- and, in my opinion, just desserts. If you do something like this in the first instance, that is sleeping with a married man and his marriage breaks up as a consequence (in whole or part) and you "win", you shouldn't be surprised when the same thing happens to you later on.

Only question I have is - WHO is Newt seeing now to replace Calista? Would love to hear ANYONE ask Newt that in an interview!!!

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This doesn't make Newt any less of a douchebag for doing what he did -- he is a douchebag[./b] . . .

What is wrong with a candidate seeking the nomination of more than one party?

Paul was the Libertarian nominee before and his positions haven't changed since that time.

Karl, I know you don't like him but trying to ascribe some kind of malicious motive to him is not right.

It's illegal in some states and he will be excluded from the Florida ballot, for one.

so traumaboy, you don't have a problem with newt's promised influence peddling on the iraq embargo?

somebody should be talking to freeh, demanding to find out who stopped the investigation. (but i suppose if money changed hands freeh won't talk)

a corrupt politician steps down, pushed out by his OWN PARTY years ago, and now some people want to ressurect his candidacy-mostly the media-from watching that pathetic last republican debate with brian williams.

this is jaw-dropping, seriously.

@Boz, George Carlin is my hero.

But listen to this. No matter what they think they control, no matter how many bases they think they have covered and how many contingencies they have planned for they won't win. They won't get our souls and there is one power in the universe they have no power over and who is actually using them to bring about their end. That's the Almighty God in Heaven.

Sandy I can't stand the lying **** myself.....if my message made it look like I support Newt then let me be clear....I Don't and was shocked that Chuck Norris came out on WND in support of him.

The mental image of political cartoons depicting Gingrich in international press .. eeewwww.

i apologize to you, traumaboy!

i read that fast and thought you were talking about your wife and yourself, not realizing that you were quoting chuck norris. duh on me.

i think chuck norris took one too many karate kicks to the head. :)

I Completely understand Floridasandy!! Best I could tell ol Chuck is following the old line of voting for the lesser of two evils which, unless my reading comprehension fails me, is not something that KD advocates lol!!