Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
The House of Cards. The United Staes Economic system is like a House of Cards, as an article just released by the AP shows. Ron Paul has been warning us for years.by Big Louie
(libertarian)
Sunday, December 23, 2007
This House of Cards is starting to fall much more rapidly as this article from the Associated Press demonstrates.
Unlike the middle of the last century (1950s) in which manufacturing and Agriculture was a large part of our economy, Now, over 70% of our economy is CONSUMPTION! We have borrowed ourselves personally to the edge of a cliff. It is too late for many, but hopefully, we can still save the rest of us by immediately implimenting changes in our spending/borrowing habits.
Not just individually (we actually had a negative savings rate for the first time ever in '06) but as a nation.
As our government continues to borrow huge amounts of money from the privately-owned Federal Reserve bank, the value of our dollar declines. What little money we do have buys us less and less. Now, instead of disposable income, we use what we have just to survive. The cost-of-living increases for our senior citizens actually make them LOSE money every year by not keeping pace with the true inflationary rate
Yet, the politicians keep funding a multi-trillion dollar failed foriegn policy while raping the Social Security System. There is NO money there, just a bunch of IOUs. They are only slightly more worthless than our Dollar.
Just as it is in the Micro-economic sphere, so it goes in the Macro-economic realm. Sure, we can keep borrowing money, but someday we will have to pay the bills or someone will come to collect.
Has no one noticed the Chinese buying up all the Banks in the U.S. lately?
There is only ONE candidate who has a plan to end this suicidal course of borrowing against our nation's Future. STOP SPENDING SO MUCH!!!
Every other candidate on the Republican ticket and the 2 front runners on the democratic side would continue to keep troops in Iraq and at 700 bases in 130 different foriegn countries. These troops number in excess of HALF-A-MILLION. I bet that if we brought them home, we might even have enough money and personnel to actually secure OUR own borders.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
That says it all except this "Vote for your future, Vote Dr. Ron Paul for President in 2008"
Here are 2 excellent sites for info about the candidate
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Half a million troops here verses there means a lot more people spending here.
Even if they only spend $5,000 per year per person this is a huge number.
This one move will cause a boom in our economy.
There is no military reason to have them in all these countries. Troops can be deployed very quickly to any place in the world. Few Countries can stack up to the Military we have and of those only two can be considered questionable as to would they attack us. But lets face it war is a thing of the past. With nukes being in the equation no country will go to all out war unless they went with a all out first strike.
So ground troops are really only useful for third would country conflicts. And why on earth would we be fighting third would countries?
Maybe you as a news source need to tell people what weapons we really have. They just don't know how big the bombs we have are. Maybe if they knew that we have bombs that can wipe out an area 100 miles in diameter they would see that ground wars are not the wars of the future. One bomb can take out the whole of Iraq or Iran. Three or four can knock out a super power.
No major power will risk such a war!!!
As to Terror threats - Terrorism is not a virus. It not an infection!
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