by Ron Paul
The end of June marked what is hopefully the end of the Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing. For months the Fed has purchased hundreds of billions of dollars of Treasury debt, enabling the government to fund its profligate deficit spending, push the national debt to its limit, and further devalue the dollar. Confidence in the dollar is plummeting, confidence in the euro has been shattered by the European bond crisis, and beleaguered consumers and investors are slowly but surely awakening to the fact that government-issued currencies do not hold their value.
Currency is sound only when it is recognized and accepted as such by individuals, through the actions of the market, without coercion. Throughout history, gold and silver have been the two commodities that have most fully satisfied the requirements of sound money. This is why people around the world are flocking once again to gold and silver as a store of value to replace their rapidly depreciating paper currencies. Even central banks have come to their senses and have begun to stock up on gold once again.
But in our country today, attempting to use gold and silver as money is severely punished, regardless of the fact that it is the only constitutionally-allowed legal tender! In one recent instance, entrepreneurs who attempted to create their own gold and silver currency were convicted by the federal government of “counterfeiting”. Also, consider another case of an individual who was convicted of tax evasion for paying his employees with silver and gold coins rather than fiat paper dollars. The federal government acknowledges that such coins are legal tender at their face value, as they were issued by the U.S. government. But when it comes to income taxes owed by the employees who received them, the IRS suddenly deems the coins to be worth their full market value as precious metals.
These cases highlight the fact that a government monopoly on the issuance of money is purely a method of central control over the economy. If you can be forced to accept the government’s increasingly devalued dollar, there is no limit to how far the government will go to debauch the currency. Anyone who attempts to create a market based currency– meaning a currency with real value as determined by markets– threatens to embarrass the federal government and expose the folly of our fiat monetary system. So the government destroys competition through its usual tools of arrest, confiscation, and incarceration.
This is why I have taken steps to restore the constitutional monetary system envisioned and practiced by our Founding Fathers. I recently introduced HR 1098, the Free Competition in Currency Act. This bill eliminates three of the major obstacles to the circulation of sound money: federal legal tender laws that force acceptance of Federal Reserve Notes; “counterfeiting” laws that serve no purpose other than to ban the creation of private commodity currencies; and tax laws that penalize the use of gold and silver coins as money. During this Congress I hope to hold hearings on this bill in order to highlight the importance of returning to a sound monetary system.
Allowing market participants to choose a sound currency will ensure that individuals’ needs are met, rather than the needs of the government. Restoring sound money will restrict the ability of the government to reduce the citizenry’s purchasing power and burden future generations with debt. Unlike the current system which benefits the Fed and its banking cartel, all Americans are better off with a sound currency.
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The Tea Party has been hijacked by the GOP and extreme-right-religious voters. You can bet plenty of gays, anti-war, liberal and Independents like Ron Paul’s platform! If they don’t, then they don’t realize what Ron Paul stands for. Get INFORMED AMERICA! Get Ron Paul as the Republican nomination 2012! He’s for true liberty!
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The Tea Party has been hijacked by the GOP and extreme-right-religious voters. You can bet plenty of gays, anti-war, liberal and Independents like Ron Paul’s platform! If they don’t, then they don’t realize what Ron Paul stands for. Get INFORMED AMERICA! Get Ron Paul as the Republican nomination 2012! He’s for true liberty!
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Wealth changes. Markets change. People change. Thus the money supply changes.
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Who of you posting can afford even a modest amount of gold at your current personal wealth level? Gold is and always will be a TANGIBLE asset as history has proven. My question is how much gold will my FIAT dollar purchase when Ron wins at its current devaluated state? Will federal reserve notes be akin to Confederate currency then? If I don’t employ myself, how much gold will equal 1 hr of my time to an employer? Ron you have my vote in 2012 clear this up for me.
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RON PAUL 2012
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RON PAUL 2012
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0:37 – 0:47 So, that basically means that if anybody had created a so called ‘market-based currency’ that let’s say, surpasses the need for physical money and instead only utilized the available resources on the planet shared intelligently by every human being on it that would instantly end poverty and hunger by using the scientific method applied for social concern, and let’s say the people would agree that this would in fact be a sound currency, the ‘Ron Paul government’ would support that?
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0:38 – 0:47 So, that basically means that if anybody had created a so called ‘market-based currency’ that let’s say, surpasses the need for physical money and instead only utilized the available resources on the planet shared intelligently by every human being on it that would instantly end poverty and hunger by using the scientific method applied for social concern, and let’s say the people would agree that this would in fact be a sound currency, the ‘Ron Paul government’ would support that?
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0:39 – 0:47 So, that basically means that if anybody had created a so called ‘market-based currency’ that let’s say, surpasses the need for physical money and instead only utilized the available resources on the planet shared intelligently by every human being on it that would instantly end poverty and hunger by using the scientific method applied for social concern, and let’s say the people would agree that this would in fact be a sound currency, the ‘Ron Paul government’ would support that?
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I am from Pakistan. I would vote him the American President anytime
… Exceptional foreign policy he speaks about.
Good man he is.
Peace!
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I am from Pakistan. I would vote him the American President anytime
… Exceptional foreign policy he speaks about.
Good man he is.
Peace!
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There is a petition to Congress telling them to support Paul’s bill, HR 1098.
Action “Tell Congress: Restore Sound Money, Repeal Legal Tender Laws”
http://petitions.conservativeactionalerts.com/4754/tell-congress-restore-sound-money-repeal-legal-tender-laws/
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The majority of the masses do not have to think for themselves. If we have enough leaders on our side the followers will begin to drift in our direction. All you have to do is talk about it, Most importantly never accept defeat. Media brainwashes people into being ignorant. Do not be fooled into believing there is nothing you can do. Now more than ever people all over the world are waking up to the truth. Be a leader be prepared for ignorant resistance and dont let it phase you.
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When I look around my subscriptions I am happy to see all of the people who are so supportive of Ron Paul. I however fear that the idiotic public don’t really give two shits about his message because they cannot think. If they somehow could realize that he is different, that he would actually fix the system, maybe they would vote for him. The SAD SAD truth is that the American public does not know how to think for itself, and thus is doomed to destruction. My beautiful country is fucked…
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GreatPOPMusicChannel, Just as Dr. Paul says, if you come here legally and obey the laws you’re very welcome to become an American Citizen. It’s more than that that, however, because if this country is capable of fixing itself, then we can continue to be the inspiration of all the nations of the world. If we can repair our failures and problems, we can help others. Thanks for your support and we look forward to your help!
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I agree with Ron on a whole lot, but one thing: “A government monopoly on the issuance of money is purely a method of central control over the economy.”
I don’t know that having a decentralized money system would be a good idea… if we’re spending the same dollars in all parts of the country (and world), I want to know that they’re being managed centrally.
The problem isn’t that they’re being managed centrally. It’s that they’re being MIS-managed centrally! Ron Paul in general is genius tho
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