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Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb
#13998504 - 02/20/11 10:11 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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http://www.americanindependent.com/170100/ron-paul-supporters-plan-presidents-day-money-bomb
On the heels of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s second consecutive victory in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s presidential straw poll, Paul supporters are planning a ‘money bomb’ fundraiser for Monday, which is Washington’s Birthday (also known as Presidents Day).
According to a Facebook page created for the event, the donations from the ‘money bomb’ — an online fundraiser scheduled for a specific time period, usually a day — are to go to Paul’s Liberty PAC, his leadership political action committee. According to the Facebook page, the show of support is intended to “Convince Ron Paul to Run” — presumably for President, though it doesn’t specify a particular office.
The listed organizers of the event are not officially connected to Paul or his PAC. A spokesperson for Paul did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Last week, Paul sent a letter to supporters saying his 2012 decision would depend partly on fundraising for his Liberty PAC, as the Texas Independent previously reported. Paul has two visits to Iowa planned for March, including a three-city tour March 7.
In other Paul-related news, Fox News has apologized for airing 2010 footage from CPAC (when the audience largely booed as Paul was announced as the winner of the straw poll) instead of 2011 footage (when the audience largely cheered) in its CPAC coverage this week. (Read a Texas Independent story on the topic.)
Mediate relayed a statement Wednesday afternoon from Fox News’ Senior Vice President of News Michael Clemente, who said, “We made a mistake with some of the video we aired, and plan on issuing a correction on America’s Newsroom tomorrow morning explaining exactly what happened.”
Fox News did not respond to a request for comment from the Texas Independent Wednesday.
Today, Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, who interviewed Paul in the original segment, delivered the promised correction on the air, as Mediate reported. Hemmer said:
“It was clearly a mistake. We used the wrong videotape. There are similarities in the shot between last year’s event and this year.
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Ron Paul won both years. However, there were audible boos in 2010 while you heard a lot more cheering this year. It’s an honest mistake. We apologize for the error and we look forward to having Representative Paul back on our show very soon.”
Edited by bugabuga420 (02/20/11 10:12 PM)
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: bugabuga420]
#13998521 - 02/20/11 10:15 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Let us not forgot Ron Paul stands alone when it comes to ending drug prohibition.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: bugabuga420]
#13999025 - 02/21/11 12:08 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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 do you hear that, drugs? there's hope!
Edited by notguilty (02/21/11 12:09 AM)
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: notguilty]
#13999064 - 02/21/11 12:22 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ron Paul's political views are pretty crazy other than his stance on drugs. I'd still vote for him over pretty much anybody besides maybe Gary Johnson though.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: LoveYourLife]
#13999431 - 02/21/11 02:24 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Pointless. As nice as it would be, Ron Paul will never get a significant amount of votes in an actual election. He's just too out there. People at large prefer to stick with what's comfortable.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: Ophanim]
#13999500 - 02/21/11 02:49 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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If you choose not to you are denying yourself and everyone else the chance for actual liberty in this country. The chance for a prosperous, safe and sound nation. He has won the CPAC straw poll so as of right now he is the front runner. If he wins the Iowa straw poll he will continue to be the front runner when things start getting heated. Ron Paul is very electable, He has been elected into office 11 times into the house, far more than any other candidate that is bound to run. He is the only politician that always votes on principle rather than what some lobbyist is paying him to vote on. Liberty really does work people, and it works in all aspects of life not just the drug war. Do a little research on sound money, free markets, self ownership, and natural rights and then compare them with scientific studies and statistics and things like Austrian Economics and see how it PROVES that liberty is the only course of action that leads to any prosperity whatsoever.
He has already raised over 300,000 in the first five hours and i bet you he will top a million before the day is over with. Freedom is alive and well in this country and the philosophical voice of reason that seems to have been lost over 279 years ago has once again awakened and is not going away.
Edited by TheMacDaddyLongLeg (02/21/11 03:01 AM)
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: Ophanim]
#13999884 - 02/21/11 08:09 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ophanim said: Pointless. As nice as it would be, Ron Paul will never get a significant amount of votes in an actual election. He's just too out there. People at large prefer to stick with what's comfortable.
How messed up does the US have to get before his policies don't seem extreme?
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: bugabuga420]
#13999886 - 02/21/11 08:10 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Whats so crazy? Hell free-market non subsidized practices are what started this great country. Stop all these farm subsidies and all the other ones that interfere with supply and demand metrics. What you mean the government shouldn't be telling everybody how to live their lives and we should let states do most of the regulating? Wow that is just madness. In case you guys hadn't realized he is also the one that wants to audit the Fed because Bernanke has no checks and balances. He can give anybody money whenever and never has to explain why to congress which are who represent your interests. If you ask me the current bipartinsinship with regards to huge spending makes all the left wing crazy democrats and right wing crazy conservatives look mad and crazy. All the young people need to vote this guy in.. its our future thats in true jeopardy not all these old people. We will be in so much debt all that money they are taking out of your check each week for social security and all the other taxes will have to go up to support it all. Check your wallet fools.. there won't be anything left for us by the time you get up there. Anybody that doesn't vote at all has no right to complain democracy requires participation. Then again most people enjoy getting stomped on as long as they can watch their TV and browse their internets.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: doeboy99]
#13999994 - 02/21/11 08:44 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Sorry, but I wouldn't vote for him. Deregulating/privatizing everything and putting us on the gold standard is going to cause more problems than it solves.
Edited by Le_Canard (02/21/11 08:49 AM)
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: Le_Canard]
#14000024 - 02/21/11 08:55 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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This has nothing to do with deregulation. Nobody is saying stop OSHA, EPA etc. from not doing their job. Frankly they really aren't doing their jobs that well at this point anyway. Look at how far behind they are in carcinogenic chemical testing. Ever since the federal reserve was started our money has inflated by like 98 or 99% gee that makes great sense! Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson ended the First and Second Banks of the United States. I guess when Bernanke and Wall Street continue to bet the entire house to enrich themselves and your money becomes worthless you will be one of the idiots saying 'how did this happen' Countries collapse because of economic debt and we are not immune to that.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: doeboy99]
#14000032 - 02/21/11 08:57 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Money decreasing in value is called inflation, it happens when you increase the supply of money Even if you were trading gold or precious metals because more can always be extracted from the earth and enter the money supply. This is normal. You have to keep printing money in order to keep economies growing.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: doeboy99]
#14000038 - 02/21/11 09:00 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've heard a lot of talk of total deregulation from Libertarians in the past. I even got in an arguement with one in Poli. about child labor laws (!) Be that as it may, how do you guys propose we implement the gold standard again?
P.S. This really doesn't belong here. Perhaps we can bring this to the Political forum?
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: Le_Canard]
#14000058 - 02/21/11 09:07 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeh its easy to create money all you gotta do is keep printing it and with rising commodities prices it will take more and more to purchase that gallon of milk. The problem with all this is that wage's and jobs aren't growing with the inflation. This is why the middle class is being destroyed.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: doeboy99]
#14000076 - 02/21/11 09:11 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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That I will agree with. We need a saner monetary policy to be sure. I do agree with some of the ideas put forth by Libertarians, but some are a bit out there and unworkable it seems to me.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: Le_Canard]
#14000104 - 02/21/11 09:19 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeh that is always the case as far as [policies go. Hell nobody in Washington now has a sane monetary policy and without that we all go down with the ship. Look at bush's 10 yr projections in 01.. he said we would have little to no debt by now... completely wrong. Obama's 10 yr projection says we wont have any surpluses whatsoever. There is going to come a time when foreign nations won't lend to us anymore because we will be far less capable of paying them back. Look at the British empire in the early 20th century. Spread all over the world and couldn't afford it and now look at them. If interest rates go up at all on this debt we will be paying huuuuuge amounts of money just in interest. That is why they want rates so low so they can continue borrowing without impunity.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: doeboy99]
#14000169 - 02/21/11 09:37 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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doeboy99 said: Yeh its easy to create money all you gotta do is keep printing it and with rising commodities prices it will take more and more to purchase that gallon of milk. The problem with all this is that wage's and jobs aren't growing with the inflation. This is why the middle class is being destroyed.
Wages are still growing.. Unless you work for the government.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: doeboy99]
#14000186 - 02/21/11 09:42 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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while i agree with some of his policies, namely non-interventionism, backing with gold, of course the drug stance. i have to say i find some of them to be way too conservative and way too unrealistic and out of touch with the reality of poverty.
i find the libertarian stance on government agencies and education to be great in theory but horrible in practice. i think they are an ideal to work towards but something that is not feasible in todays reality. if anything there should be more spending on welfare and education. as for birthright citizenship, that is a corner stone of americanism that i dont believe should be touched. it seems to me that this is a wholly racially motivated stance.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: grimrs]
#14000290 - 02/21/11 10:05 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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People just don't get it. We got to this point because of the ideology of the democrats and republicans. We need something new and better. We go from one extreme to the other. There is no wage growth or job growth that is a fantasy just like the numbers about unemployment. I graduated college and I cant find a job right now that pays more than I did in high school and I have a health sciences type degree. You people need to wake up and smell that nobody up there is going to stop the impending economic doom thats coming. They are all to self serving to think about anybody but themselves. George Washington could of been the King of this nation and instead he made the choice for liberty. We have what we have now because of those early choices to not do a lot of the things we do now. This industrialized country masquerades likes its a true way of life, but we will soon see what the cause and effect of all our militarism, economic meddling, and only considering ourselves will do for us. It all comes back to you and I can't wait for it cause I feel like I would have a better chance and something better than I do now.. Hell I didn't even consider getting a masters in public health until I experienced how bad the job market is.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: doeboy99]
#14000598 - 02/21/11 11:02 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have heard a bunch about Ron Paul but nothing about his policy except for ending the drug war. I went to his website and read his stances on foreign policy, the Fed, and the drug war and I agree with all of them. I'll have to read more and see what I don't agree with.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: doeboy99]
#14000606 - 02/21/11 11:03 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ron Paul's more radical policies would not pass the in the House or Congress without Libertarian support. Just a thought
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: psychedelico]
#14001324 - 02/21/11 01:10 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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That is true too. I support many of his principles and ideas. He proposed in his winning speech at the CPAC of the idea of lowering taxes to 10% for all Americans and the government providing Nothing. I personally would like to have my government continue some of the services it offers... But maybe it can be a Win/Win if isn't able to pass some of the more extreme measures.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: Rebirtha]
#14002447 - 02/21/11 04:18 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have zero faith in industry to police itself with regard to environmental issues. We have years and years of evidence, some quite recent, to back this up.
Same for the banking and financial industries. Anyone remember the great recession of '08?
But I do like Paul's stance on a few issues. If he could just tweak things to help the reality quotient, he could become viable.
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: Rebirtha]
#14004447 - 02/21/11 10:33 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Rebirtha said: That is true too. I support many of his principles and ideas. He proposed in his winning speech at the CPAC of the idea of lowering taxes to 10% for all Americans and the government providing Nothing. I personally would like to have my government continue some of the services it offers... But maybe it can be a Win/Win if isn't able to pass some of the more extreme measures.
If the government provides nothing why the fuck should we have to pay even 10% of our earnings in taxes?
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Re: Ron Paul Supporters Plan President's Day Moneybomb [Re: Ojom]
#14004499 - 02/21/11 10:42 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Just because he supports that policy doesn't mean it would be implemented. He would have to convince the House/Congress. Just a thought.
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