Comments on: Ron Paul, Peter Schiff on Freedom Watch http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/ Ron Paul is America's leading voice for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. The Ron Paul Revolution continues. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:08:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: margo nelsenhttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14299 margo nelsen Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:15:11 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14299 I haven't talked to one person who supports this stimulas bill so why did our representitives vote for it. Aren't they supposed to vote the peoples wishes. Can't we get an attorney like Gerry Spence author of "Freedom For None" and sew our congessman and senators for not following our constitution. I haven’t talked to one person who supports this stimulas bill so why did our representitives vote for it. Aren’t they supposed to vote the peoples wishes. Can’t we get an attorney like Gerry Spence author of “Freedom For None” and sew our congessman and senators for not following our constitution.

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]]> By: Matthew Stonehttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14178 Matthew Stone Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:05:31 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14178 Wow. Nice response! That is what I want from my free-market analysts! 'Jeez, thats way confusing, ummm, so yeah' Free markets grow and evolve, not all people do... As we are learning these days...Another way:" Didn’t mean to confuse you with how the real world works As a capitalist that is where the market could realize huge profit. How would a gold standard prevent that, right now? Please let me know.Since there is a lot of extreme speculation, if there is asynchronous adoption of the gold standard, couldn’t russia, or other countries that are collapsing, just go communist while we go gold standard, throw their peeps in a mine, use the black market, smuggle gold in, smuggle dollars out, convert, and VOILA burn dollars again? Dollars reduce and we hit what, massive HYPERINFLATION. Potentially.If I were some ruler of a gold-wealthy third world country Id be stoked.You finally gave me a chance to kick some ass!As the ruler of a slave-based gold-wealthy economy, I would also take 10% of gold, smuggle, convert, and short US markets, keep 15% in posession and wait to buy up the economies pegged to gold as they hyperinflate. I could screw capitalism, stout currencies, balanced budgets, and people that thought they know better than free markets. " Wow. Nice response! That is what I want from my free-market analysts! ‘Jeez, thats way confusing, ummm, so yeah’ Free markets grow and evolve, not all people do… As we are learning these days…

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Didn’t mean to confuse you with how the real world works As a capitalist that is where the market could realize huge profit. How would a gold standard prevent that, right now? Please let me know.

Since there is a lot of extreme speculation, if there is asynchronous adoption of the gold standard, couldn’t russia, or other countries that are collapsing, just go communist while we go gold standard, throw their peeps in a mine, use the black market, smuggle gold in, smuggle dollars out, convert, and VOILA burn dollars again? Dollars reduce and we hit what, massive HYPERINFLATION. Potentially.

If I were some ruler of a gold-wealthy third world country Id be stoked.You finally gave me a chance to kick some ass!

As the ruler of a slave-based gold-wealthy economy, I would also take 10% of gold, smuggle, convert, and short US markets, keep 15% in posession and wait to buy up the economies pegged to gold as they hyperinflate. I could screw capitalism, stout currencies, balanced budgets, and people that thought they know better than free markets.
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]]> By: Matthew Stonehttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14177 Matthew Stone Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:53:10 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14177 Didn't mean to confuse you with how the real world works :) As a capitalist that is where the market could realize huge profit. How would a gold standard prevent that, right now? Please let me know.Since there is a lot of extreme speculation, if there is asynchronous adoption of the gold standard, couldn't russia, or other countries that are collapsing, just go communist while we go gold standard, throw their peeps in a mine, use the black market, smuggle, convert, and VOILA burn dollars again?I would also take 10% of gold and short US markets, 15% in posession, and buy up the economies pegged to gold. Didn’t mean to confuse you with how the real world works :) As a capitalist that is where the market could realize huge profit. How would a gold standard prevent that, right now? Please let me know.

Since there is a lot of extreme speculation, if there is asynchronous adoption of the gold standard, couldn’t russia, or other countries that are collapsing, just go communist while we go gold standard, throw their peeps in a mine, use the black market, smuggle, convert, and VOILA burn dollars again?

I would also take 10% of gold and short US markets, 15% in posession, and buy up the economies pegged to gold.

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]]> By: Seanhttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14128 Sean Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:12:57 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14128 if we switched to the gold standard, than china and saudi arabia would rob us blind with the outragous surplus they recieve from us... Say there was a trillion dollars in circulation in the united states with a qt of our gold backing it up.. We give china 400 billion+ more than we recieve and saudi arabia 400 billion+ more than we recieve a year.. We would run out of gold in just so many years. Thats just logic.. There is no way we could mine a trillion dollars worth of gold a year to match our trade imbalance. If we did, it would just make us slaves. We would continue having to mine gold just to give it china and saudia arabia.. Is that your answer nate? do you want china to own all our commodities or are you okay to admit that we need to stop spending money overseas before we can change our currency? if we switched to the gold standard, than china and saudi arabia would rob us blind with the outragous surplus they recieve from us… Say there was a trillion dollars in circulation in the united states with a qt of our gold backing it up.. We give china 400 billion+ more than we recieve and saudi arabia 400 billion+ more than we recieve a year.. We would run out of gold in just so many years. Thats just logic.. There is no way we could mine a trillion dollars worth of gold a year to match our trade imbalance. If we did, it would just make us slaves. We would continue having to mine gold just to give it china and saudia arabia.. Is that your answer nate? do you want china to own all our commodities or are you okay to admit that we need to stop spending money overseas before we can change our currency?

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]]> By: Petrogradehttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14113 Petrograde Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:58:13 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14113 Matthew, when you sober up and the hang over wears off, please re-post your thoughts so they make sense to the rest of us.btw - this might not be the best place to bash the Gold Standard. Matthew, when you sober up and the hang over wears off, please re-post your thoughts so they make sense to the rest of us.

btw – this might not be the best place to bash the Gold Standard.

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]]> By: Natehttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14103 Nate Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:59:56 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14103 What the hell? What the hell?

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]]> By: Matthew Stonehttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14099 Matthew Stone Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:23:24 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14099 Given your lack of drive for self-improvement as evidenced by this terrible rant, I bet in the future, spelling, grammar, and prose will also be underutilized skills. Given your lack of drive for self-improvement as evidenced by this terrible rant, I bet in the future, spelling, grammar, and prose will also be underutilized skills.

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]]> By: Meblah Swensonhttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14098 Meblah Swenson Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:18:04 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14098 I apologize, but to ask for clarification on "The evil oligarchs are killing us by the thousands."?Cite your source? I apologize, but to ask for clarification on “The evil oligarchs are killing us by the thousands.”?

Cite your source?

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]]> By: Matthew Stonehttp://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-18/ron-paul-peter-schiff-on-freedom-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-14097 Matthew Stone Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:13:59 +0000 http://www.ronpaul.com/?p=1156#comment-14097 Come on...If we now moved to a gold standard, china could take a portion of our reserves, fund a ton of cheap mining operations in South Africa, Indonesia, Russia (etc...), mine the crap out of their gold at a cheaper cost than the private market can compete with (as it would be a speculative attack), hoard gold, un-peg their currency, ship cheap gold in to people in the US to trade to banks, put dollars in a crate and burn them?Ouch.Then banks are stuck with gold that is freaking impossible to transmit (which is totally rad in an increasing velocity society), dollars are disappearing rapidly because they are getting burned, and noone knows wtf is going on so panic deflation occurs, and noone wants to spend because they are afraid they will get gold back, anyone can lie because now there is noone to confirm or verify a bank's gold reserves.Revolution? Come on…

If we now moved to a gold standard, china could take a portion of our reserves, fund a ton of cheap mining operations in South Africa, Indonesia, Russia (etc…), mine the crap out of their gold at a cheaper cost than the private market can compete with (as it would be a speculative attack), hoard gold, un-peg their currency, ship cheap gold in to people in the US to trade to banks, put dollars in a crate and burn them?

Ouch.

Then banks are stuck with gold that is freaking impossible to transmit (which is totally rad in an increasing velocity society), dollars are disappearing rapidly because they are getting burned, and noone knows wtf is going on so panic deflation occurs, and noone wants to spend because they are afraid they will get gold back, anyone can lie because now there is noone to confirm or verify a bank’s gold reserves.

Revolution?

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