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Chairman: At this time, Mr. Paul is recognized for three minutes; your thorn in the flesh.
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and welcome, Chairman Bernanke. You know, I guess over the past 30 or 40 years, I have criticized the Fed on occasion, but the Congress deserves some criticism, too. The Federal Reserve is a creature of the Congress, and if we don’t know what the Fed is doing, we have the authority and we certainly have the authority to pursue a lot more oversight, which I would like to see. So although the Fed is on the receiving end, and I think rightfully so when you look at the record; I mean, the Fed has been around for 99 years, almost a few years before you took it over, and 99%, 98% of the dollar value is gone from the 1913 dollar. So that’s not really a very good record, and I think what we’re witnessing today is the end-stages of a grand experiment, a philosophic experiment on total fiat money. Yes, they’ve been debasing currencies for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, and they always end badly, they always return to market-based money, which is commodity money, gold and silver.
But this experiment is something different than we’ve ever had before, and it started in 1971 when we were actually given an opportunity in many ways to be the issuer of the fiat currency, and we had way too many benefits from that than people realized. But it’s gone on for 40 years and people keep arguing from the other side of this argument that it’s working, it’s doing well. And yet, from my viewpoint, and the viewpoint of the free market economist, all it’s doing is building a bigger and bigger bubble. And the free market economist are the ones who predicted the NASDAQ bubbles, the housing bubbles, but we never hear from the Keynesian liberal economist and the central bankers saying, “Watch out, there’s a bubble out there, there’s too much credit, too many problems there. There’s a housing bubble, we have to deal with it.” Usually we get reassurances from the Fed on that. But I believe there’s a logical reason for this, because the Federal Reserve is given responsibility to protect the value of the dollar, that’s what stable prices are all about. But we don’t even have a definition of a dollar.
You know, we ask about the definition of a dollar, and they say, “It’s whatever it buys”. Well, every single day, it buys less than the previous day. To me, it’s sort of like building the economy and having economic planning like a builder has a yardstick that changes value every single day, just think of the kind of the building we would have. This is why we have this imbalance in our economic system. But it was a system designed to permit debt, we have a debt-based system. The more debt we have, and the more they debt the Federal Reserve buys, the more currency they can print. And they monetize this debt, and no wonder we’re in a debt crisis. It’s worldwide, I think it’s something that we’ve never experienced before. And I think the conclusion will be a vindication either for sound money, or you win the argument and say, “Yes, we are great managers, we know how to do it, we want the credit for the good times and we want the credit for getting us out of the bad times.” I think within a few years we’re going to know. Of course, I’m betting that the market is smarter, commodity money is smarter, nobody is smart enough to have central economic planning. So I’m anxiously waiting for the conclusion, because reforms have to come. When you see Robert Zoellick talking about monetary reforms and talking about gold, our time has come for serious discussion on monetary reform. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Ron Paul has predicted what “experts” thought they had under control, and NOW he is predicting the fall of the new Roman empire. wake up America
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Love that he doesn’t ask questions, just tells him whats up.
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You remember that John F. Kennedy got assassinated? Ben Bernanke deserves to be assassinated, Jonn F. Kennedy did not. If anything, if John F. Kennedy was not assassinated, we would have a better America today because he would of at least gotten some of our debt paid off to reserve our American dollar.
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why can’t california have it’s own currency to use? not nationally of course, that could screw stuff up, but in california only? it would work too. create a bank of california, put it on a gold standard, silver, diamonds, gems, etc, whatever is pricey on the market and doesnt often change in value. i could totally see this working. it’s legal too, given the 10th amendment, this is what the founders wanted, they didnt want a central bank, the wanted state banks.
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Like a boss.
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I love how Ron is running for president but oh wait there is a chance to question Bernanke and the Fed…let me take a break and go do that! The man truly cares not to get elected for himself but to SAVE this country with truth!
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Ben Bernanke dislikes this video.
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Ben’s thoughts: “oh shit, here we go again”
Go Dr. Paul! Ron Paul 2012!!!
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This man, Ron Paul is the only person that fight not only the right for Americans, but also the rest of the world.
Printing of US currency unlimitedly causes the world to inflate almost everything, especially the daily items, such as food, oil, etc.
However the problem is that there are still
too Americans still sleeping.
How Ron Paul can win the election ? I wander
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this man is brilliant. vote him in. the world needs him.
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76-year-old Ron Paul has college students chanting “End the Fed!”
The REVOLUTION movement is America’s future, not the current GOP and the phony non-Paul jokes that are running for President- they are already a laughable footnote in our country’s history.
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If Ron Paul doesn’t make President I’m Moving to Another Country Before SOMEONE Turns ON the FAN and The SH!T Starts to Fly!
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PS I am not the dislike, only when there is profanity that blocks and censors these videos due to content and safe search engines I will always give thumbs down until it is gone… then I go back and change it. We can always change our vote and I do this all the time based on content and the ability for others to be able to get this channels clips… free rights sheeple, it is you taking others rights to view away… before you bite remember the hypocritic oath keepers pledge.
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THIS is What Dr Paul is doing While Romney,Santorum and Newt are Trying to get your votes any way they can including Lying to US just Like Obama did on the FIRST Day of Office!
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Do a Google search of “Bernanke drunk” in bar. It says it all.
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It’s fucking ridiculous that Dr Paul has to be the only one in congress talking about this.
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Because Americans are morons! Sad to see you think that way, Along with the other 49 that thumb-up your comment. A better comment would be. Most Americans are asleep, but wakening everyday. A rude awakening is coming fast. Hold on to your seat. Mr. Paul is a great man, indeed.
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There is legislation in congress to implement the draft. People better think,young people especially… they can force people into war if it is implemented,is that freedom?.
RP will end all this,no more wars…
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The National media says very little about Ron Paul. But when you come to youtube you see nothing but support for the man. It doesn’t make sense.
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was anyone else irritated by the “Mr. Paul” name plate?
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I’m afraid for this man’s life, because if he does win somebody is gonna kill him.
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I shook this man’s hand
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more like sanatorium
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Too much wisdom and logic for a politician to run modern day U.S.
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One person voted for Santorum.
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If Ron Paul could just become President,I would feel proud to be American again.But I don’t think ti will happen anymore.I’m keeping my hopes up and will support Ron Paul till the end,but I can’t help but be realistic and know that big corporations have this nation in its pockets too deep for there to be a honest,intelligent,and moral man in office.I am just absolutely despised of our country nowadays and will not be here as a citizen after 2012 if we have a Romney or Obama as POTUS.
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you mean the car maker?
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How can people not vote for Ron Paul? The American voters are so stupid, he just lost the Wyoming Caucus with 8%. This is ridiculous.
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This man is truly the last hope of the people of the world.
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Ron Paul is more like a teacher than a politician , ..politicians try to convince you what is right to benefit them, Ron Paul just teaches you what is right, no matter what, even if its not to his benefit !
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Dr. Paul, fightin’ for the People!
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today on c.b.s news they were talking about the presidential candidates they spoke of mitler ricky jabba the newt but not one word about captian america better known as ron paul but they are not bias ?
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One day they will quote Ron like they do Abraham Lincoln. Just a shame it will be to late when they do.
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He’s paving the way for Rand. Rand can do it…
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Truth be told Ron won’t become president but future presidents will quote his wisdom.
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