On the Issue Of Gold, Ron Paul and Ron Reagan had much in common.
David Wiegel’s “Hit and Run” at Reason, has an interesting comment about two Ron’s: Ron Paul and Ron Reagan. On the issue of the gold standard, the two Ron’s shared much the same view.
The piece starts out by examining a recent piece by the Washington Monthly that has some less than sparkling remarks about Dr. Paul
Kevin Drum calls Ron Paul a “fruitcake” and demands that you–yes, you!–stop taking him so damn seriously.
Wiegel then goes on to look at a few of Drum’s accusations, as well as some other recent articles that paint Paul as “crazy”. Then he makes, what to some, will be a startling observation:
I guess I’ve got to break the news: If Paul’s anachronistic gold-and-silder obsession is enough to call him “crazy,” conservatives had better be ready to ditch one of their heroes.
Who is the conservative hero Wiegel’s referring to?
None other than the Gipper himself, Ronald Wilson Reagan.
To anyone who came of age cheering Reagan’s Revolution, it’s heartening to read about his exploits again. Anyone wanting to get a sense of Reagan, the man and the president, should invest in a copy of “The Reagan Diaries”.
But back to Ron Paul.
Read rest of story and video of classic Ron Paul explaining the Gold Standard:
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5 users commented in " Gold Standard Stories: A Tale of Two Rons "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWe are going to be free! Ron Paul is likely going to sweep the 2008 elections! Id say the probability he is the next POTUS is 90-95% now.
People are screaming FREEEDOM! like William Wallace rigt now. They are going to have to kill Ron Paul like they did JFK or RK to stop him now, and I fully expect the MSM, military industrial complex and the CFR types to go after his life because the smear tactics are backfiring!
VOTE RON PAUL FOR FREEDOM, its your **LAST CHANCE** We will never see a man as good, honest and consistent as Ron again.
You are a fruitcake if you think RP has a chance in hell. He has some good ideas, many bad and idealistic ones, and he is far too radical for any sane person to take seriously. His popularity has become artificially inflated by people like Mick Russom (the guy above) and all it does is make RP look like an idiot. All these people acting like spoiled children online, spamming his name constantly, and voting multiple times in polls do nothing but scare potential serious supporters away.
Oh but that doesn’t matter at all since he’s got the next election 95% of the way locked up right? Lol. He has less than 5% of the republican votes nation wide at this point. Sounds like a winner to me!
I encourage people who have any economic intelligence to vote against RP.
Here is what Alan Greenspan has to say about gold:
“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.”
http://www.constitution.org/mon/greenspan_gold.htm
Nice job “bob dole,” not only did your candidate (McCain) lose, we have a serious crisis in freedom and liberty.
How are you so sure the votes aren’t being rigged at this point.
And this is my favorite idiot in time moment: “I encourage people who have any economic intelligence to vote against RP.”
Yeah, whats been happening lately is good economics? Balderdash. Its more deficit spending on the grand-kids backs.
Thanks for helping destroy America, traitor.
I’ve returned again to heckle and laugh at the idiot above.
Thanks again for helping destroy America. Your advice in the 2008 elections has at this point nearly destroyed our republic.
Thanks.
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