Interested in learning more about Ron Paul?

you must first understand the federal reserve before trying to figure out why closing it down is a good thing. do your own research and you'll find its what causes inflation - ending it will stop inflation , and we as a country can start to build our savings again.

the federal reserve is a PRIVATE bank that charges OUR government interest to create EVERY DOLLAR in existence. that is what causes inflation, which devalues our savings while making the handful of federal reserve owners VERY rich.

his views are that the government is too big, and people will spend their own money better than the government can spend it for them... which makes perfect sense to me

he wants to stop the wars all over the globe and bring our troops home, and be a national DEFENSE instead of offense for a change (saving the country billions)

the middle class has shrank almost out of existence under our current structure of corporations and workers with nothing in between, government regulations keep the little guy from competing because there are too many hoops to jump through to open a new business, giving the existing companies a huge advantage - allowing them to grow bigger and bigger

if you think about it, there is very little you or i can do without the federal government telling you how to do it, or taxing you for it.... freedom went out the window a long time ago, Ron Paul wants to give us back our freeedoms

100 years ago we paid an average of 3% taxes and had virtually no debt, now we pay on average 40% and debt is out of control, AND we were much much safer without our military stirring up trouble everywhere

It would take hours to try and explain Ron Paul, but for starters your friend is by no means a typical Ron Paul supporter.

The first thing you should know is that Ron Paul stands for a smaller less intrusive federal government. He would like to reduce the power and expense of the federal government, but more importantly he is very protective of the Bill of Rights and the freedoms and liberties Americans should have as outlined in the US Constitution. While serving in the House of Representatives Ron Paul stood up to party pressure and voted against both Iraq wars, the Patriot Act, and spoke out against the NDAA.. Ron Paul is not supportive of US military intervention or sacrificing freedoms in the name of national security. He is also critical of the FED, which is a privately owned bank. Instead of printing debt free American money our government has been borrowing banknotes at interest from the FED since 1913. The interest expense on the national debt for FY2011 was over $454 Billion dollars. This a a major burden on the taxpayers. In fact the IRS was signed into law in 1913 (the same year the FED was) largely to insure that the FED could collect the interest on money it lent to the federal government. The last President to try issuing money through the US Treasury instead of borrowing banknotes from the FED at interest was JFK.

I think you would benefit from researching Ron Paul on the internet. There are some very good reasons Ron Paul takes the positions he does, and he is far from crazy. He is just up against some very powerful people who would have their plans derailed and their golden geese stop laying if Ron Paul became President.

Edit; Firefighters, police officers, education, safe foods to eat, and safe environment are primarily the domain of State, County and Municipal governments. The federal government is not and should not be in charge of everything. Their track record is dismal, and elected federal officials have a long history of awarding contracts to their buddies in the private sector. Operating from the assumption that the federal government is on the up and up is a mistake. The US Government is the home of massive corruption. Very little happens on Capitol Hill that doesn't make a lot of money for somebody.

Since he is a bumbling fool, how much more have you accomplished in your life than him? Where will you be when you are his age? Climbing mountains? I have observed his life and find him the epitome of what a person ought to be.

Don't go by what you've "heard".

Go straight to the source and then decide.

Here's a source. If you really want to be objective, which by your question I am sure you do, sample his own words and decide for yourself.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html

Ron Paul can get in line with Lydon LaRouche, John Birch, Barry Goldwater, and all the other perennial cranks, and fade into obscurity.

he can sure fire up an already paranoid and nearsighted crowd , that's for sure.

He has a website. Look there.

Ron Paul is out, your friend is apparently an idiot and what Paul thinks means nothing., Have a nice night.

Entertaining whack-job who has been running on "Term-Limits" since 1986.....hates Government except for jobs for his kid and family, now I hear that his wife wants to be an Ambassador.....I know enough, thanks anyway..

he is old, crazy, a loser ans an anarchist

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