Ron Paul
Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). For the first time since the administration came to power, the official unemployment number fell below 8%. Keynesian cheerleaders all claimed the numbers meant we are surely on the road to economic recovery, just in time for Christmas, and also, the election. Others saw through this ruse.
The situation on the ground looks nothing like a recovery. 23 million people are still out of work or chronically underemployed. This number is expected to rise dramatically next year. The situation in Washington should not give anyone cause for optimism. Politicians refuse to look honestly and intelligently at the cause of our economic malaise, and so real solutions are not taken seriously or acted upon. It is much easier and less painful to simply recalculate the numbers and redefine the terms until a rosier picture is presented. There is only blind hope that at some point, for some reason, things might change. But nothing will change for the better if we only stay the course.
The truth is the long term solutions to our economic quagmire involve some short term pain. Re-evaluating the economic role of an institution as insidious and behemoth as the Federal Reserve will inconvenience some people, and those people happen to have a lot of power. Similarly, the idea of ending government programs and closing down superfluous departments will always upset someone because it means someone will stop getting a government check.
No one wants to upset the apple cart, even if all the apples are rotten.
Not all of the unemployed are counted in the BLS unemployment numbers. This is no secret. In 1994 government statisticians came up with the term “discouraged worker” to remove entire swaths of people from the unemployment statistic. Now all the government has to do to improve the unemployment numbers is discourage people from looking for a job.
Far more unintended consequences are created in Washington than jobs.
Ideally, the business sector should be able to depend on sound numbers from the BLS, but smart business leaders know that trust in these numbers leads to bad decisions and failure. In regards to the recent jobs numbers, investor Jim Rogers recently stated “I have learned not to take advice from the government, especially the US government, which frequently misleads its citizens.” He also noted the election just around the corner, suggesting timing as an extra incentive to keep fudging the statistics.
The real drivers of the productive economy can’t afford to take risks based on false numbers. This is why economist John Williams created Shadow Government Statistics, utilizing more traditional methodologies and definitions to show business decision makers the real economic picture, warts and all. He shows the real unemployment rate to be a staggering 22.8%.
This is a difficult figure to accept as the actual truth. Perhaps if the politicians did, the people would finally demand real change and real solutions. Perhaps they would consider that all of the so-called stimulus spending, quantitative easing and mountains of regulation from Washington has only crippled the economy. Perhaps people would come to understand that fewer checks handed out from the public sector would mean more checks available in the private sector, and a return to real prosperity instead of just the appearance of it.
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Amazing that the people have been bamboozled into thinking that either Barack or Mitt are a solution — when both are AGAINST these principles upon which our Nation was built!
PRINCIPLES we must stand by!
“A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have….” Thomas Jefferson
“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.” DOROTHY THOMPSON
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.” FREDERICK DOUGLAS
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.” —Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” EDMUND BURKE
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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Voting for either anti-American would be legitimizing the further government corruption that seems to have no end!
VOTE for Garry Johnson — who stands for these principles, or face the dire consequences of failing to do so — TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA!
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Yes, and he is the only one that truly knows the truth for America.
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Yes, and he is the only one that truly knows the truth for America.
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Yes, and he is the only one that truly knows the truth for America.
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Yes, and he is the only one that truly knows the truth for America.
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You’re talking about when Romney said that 47% percent of the country is on welfare and will vote for Obama.
Go ask CNN…They are rather ebarrased by their poll after the first debate that stated, 47% didn’t like either candidate.
I love how that number keeps popping up!
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and thats why he aint president
truth tellers dont get as much press as puppets, liars etc. or mitt romney
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OBAMA!!???? have you lost your mind???? if anything, just don’t vote, or don’t vote for either candidate…or write in RP… ANYTHING BUT OBAMA
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In Florida we have early voting I wrote in Ron Paul!!!
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But they’re both the same person? Punish the GOP by voting Gary Johnson so that the Republicans can bitch about how if libertarians cost them by not supporting the GOP candidate.
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As a huge Ron Paul fan I will punish the GOP for what they did to Ron Paul by voting for OBAMA 2012.
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Would ask all that find merit in the below to SPREAD IT! Thanks.
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VOTE for Gary Johnson (do not write-in Ron Paul, please)!
Here is why:
The Establishment fears Ron Paul so much that they will do anything to stop him and his (our) movement for Liberty on the election level (since so far they have not been able to control the internet, and thus shut us down completely)!
The Major Networks will show after the election NOTHING for Ron Paul (not even that he got ANY of the Vote, for that would be admitting that some actually dared to write-in his name).
The Apparatchiks have been instructed to shred all write-in ballots where Ron Paul’s name appears (for proof just watch after the election and see if Ron Paul is even mentioned, let alone how many votes he got)!
Gary Johnson is on the ballot in all 50 States — so a vote for him is a vote COUNTED against the wannabe despots of America! (Plus, if he breaks the 5+% level, the Libertarian Party (Ron Paul’s original party) will be eligible for federal funds to the tune of about 90 million dollars for the next election — and no longer will be a financial shoe-string operation!!!).
VOTE GARY JOHNSON (or write-in Ron Paul if you must) — as long as you vote for what you realize is BEST for our Nation, and NOT get bamboozled into voting again for the “lesser of two evils”: the Kenyan Barack or Mitt the Mormon (this path only leads to more and bigger evil, for the next election cycle…should there be one)!!!
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In plain english…
1) The libertarian base is not nearly large enough to beat either the republicans or democrats.
2) The libertarian base (such as it is) is split between Ron Paul & Johnson.
3) Only a handful of states even recognize write-ins (thus most paul votes are utterly wasted).
& thus,
4) Either Obama or Romney is going to be the next president of the USA.
5) The welfare state (roughly 45% of America) is going to vote for Obama no matter what.
6) The left is using voter fraud.
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explain how obama = johnson.
im dying to hear your response
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Johnson=Obama.
You’re a defeatist.
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nope, gary johnson…like i just said….it was the last comment…go check…
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i highly doubt that things will get better either way…
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Yes, I know movie theatres are more expensive to buy food and beverages, however it used to be $6 in 2004 levels.
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So you’re voting for Obama then.
Nice, defeatist!
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i got bored after the first 2 presidential
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romney wont be influenced. afterall he and obama are funded by the same banks.
im voting gary johnson, i wont give into these criminals
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Good on you.
We’re going to need everyone we can get to overcome the left’s voting fraud alone.
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Watch the movie: Obama 2012
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Yea, I wanted Ron Paul to win, but that isn’t going to happen now and Obama needs to get out, so I’m going to join the strength in numbers for Romney to get into the White House.
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We’re definitely screwed under Obama. Obama will do the wrong thing every time without hesitation.
We might be screwed under Romney. But a conservative might do the right thing some of the time. At the very least, Romney is a guy who the grass roots activists (like us) can work with. They can influence him & possibly push pull & drag him into fighting the cause of liberty.
Obama WILL run the country into the ground. He is ideologically driven to do so. Its got to be Ryan-Romney, in 2012.
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3:17
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Where does he say 22.8%?
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Haarp geomagnetic waves and GWEN are truly causing chaos here in the U.S.-disguised as cellphone towers I noticed the pulsing tortureous frequency pounding in my left ear during certain moments throughout the early morning hours and day…
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agreed but pray for Christian revival
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Our media is censored and full of lies by the people that own both our Gov. and the media
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you are still MY president Ron Paul!
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obama/romney, makes no difference. were screwed either way
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I love obama on social issues, ehh on economic issues, but god damn if ron paul was the candidate I’d vote for him again and again AND AGAIN!
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Those who watched this persidents statement in the rose garden the day following the terrorist assault understands that he lied to everyone. In case you never seen the statement, you need to visit whitehouse[dot]org and look up Bengazi statement and also transcript.
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3rd parties need a 5% to become a “real” party. So don’t waste your vote on Obamney or Rombama.
-GJ’s got ballot access to 48/50 states already, litigating for the last 2
-On a good number of issues, GJ advocates the words of RP
-This could just be the beginning of a revolution so give it a thought again
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