Reddit mentions of End the Fed

>build a fence along the US-Mexico border

False.

>and abolish the Federal Reserve

You say, as if this is a secret part of his platform and as if he didn't write a book about it. Give me a few reasons to keep the Federal Reserve Bank, and maybe I'll consider that a negative on his platform.

>put America back on the gold standard.

Technically false. He does believe in the gold standard, but his position is really to legalize competing currencies to the Federal Reserve note, like gold and silver (which is the Constitutional position). He wants to overturn Nixon's executive order, which would legalize gold as a currency for those who wanted to use it, but would not "put us back on the gold standard" overnight.

>he's against gay marriage

No, he isn't. He has his own views on what marriage means, but he has no will or intent to impose those views on any others.

>is STILL making racist remarks

You say, citing an article from 2006 with no racist quotes, comments, or remarks in it. Show me a current or even old video of Ron Paul saying something racist and derogatory. Show me something that refutes this and I'll believe you.

>believes in New World Order conspiracy theories

You say, as if it isn't becoming increasingly obvious as the days pass that the world is succumbing to the economic control of a few. It doesn't take conspiracy theory to pay attention to the situation with the collapsing Euro after the warnings of those who condemned the European ruling class for attempting to create a European state, or to pay attention to the Trilateral Commission, or the CFR, or to the fact that the President just signed a bill allowing indefinite detention of US citizens, the Occupy movements being met with excessive force for going up against the entanglement of the banksters and the bureaucrats. In fact, anyone who doesn't believe to an extent that there is a blatant conspiracy to concentrate power and wealth out of the hands of the many and into the hands of the few has their head buried in the sand and is in no way prepared for the coming crises that we as a nation and a world face in the coming years.

>build a fence along the US-Mexico border

False.

>and abolish the Federal Reserve

You say, as if this is a secret part of his platform and as if he didn't write a book about it. Give me a few reasons to keep the Federal Reserve Bank, and maybe I'll consider that a negative on his platform.

>put America back on the gold standard.

Technically false. He does believe in the gold standard, but his position is really to legalize competing currencies to the Federal Reserve note, like gold and silver (which is the Constitutional position). He wants to overturn Nixon's executive order, which would legalize gold as a currency for those who wanted to use it, but would not "put us back on the gold standard" overnight.

>he's against gay marriage

No, he isn't. He has his own views on what marriage means, but he has no will or intent to impose those views on any others.

>is STILL making racist remarks

You say, citing an article from 2006 with no racist quotes, comments, or remarks in it. Show me a current or even old video of Ron Paul saying something racist and derogatory. Show me something that refutes this and I'll believe you.

>believes in New World Order conspiracy theories

You say, as if it isn't becoming increasingly obvious as the days pass that the world is succumbing to the economic control of a few. It doesn't take conspiracy theory to pay attention to the situation with the collapsing Euro after the warnings of those who condemned the European ruling class for attempting to create a European state, or to pay attention to the Trilateral Commission, or the CFR, or to the fact that the President just signed a bill allowing indefinite detention of US citizens, the Occupy movements being met with excessive force for going up against the entanglement of the banksters and the bureaucrats. In fact, anyone who doesn't believe to an extent that there is a blatant conspiracy to concentrate power and wealth out of the hands of the many and into the hands of the few has their head buried in the sand and is in no way prepared for the coming crises that we as a nation and a world face in the coming years.

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Wow it's sad when the top comment is a spampost, and the only way to refute the spampost is with another spampost. Fucking pathetic /politics.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ngkpm/fuck_i_think_im_going_to_vote_for_ron_paul/c38yirf

*edit: lol WTF is wrong with you people, stop commenting on the content! it's flawed, THAT'S THE POINT!

https://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193

End the Fed

https://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193

This is what you want:

Short version on 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWX55SpYmU

Long version 2008 and 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_WBo4sfmi4

Very big on ending the Federal Reserve. Ending the wars. He is a former Libertarian presidential nominee as well. End the drugs war. End the wars. No dept of Education. Cut spending. Barely any taxes. No Federal reserve. No surveillance. Essentially, no gov't. All individual liberty. Small government. Wasn't hard for him to run as a limited government republican. George W. Bush just got done expanding government like we had never seen before. Ron Paul ran against all that and had a ton of momentum, but was pushed to the side.

They even change the rules so that he couldn't win at the convention. They feared how intense his grass roots campaign was, so they change the rules where delegates couldn't change at the convention.

Guess who got the republican nomination in 2008? John fucking McCain.

Ron Paul got one electoral vote in 2016 when one person defected from Texas and voted for him. God bless.

Here is one of his most famous and moving speeches from 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIaqmF5IXV4

Here is a famous clip from one of the 2008 debates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDND5tcUFoI

An oh, yeah, and how could I forget. They smeared him as a racist, too.

His son is Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. Ron Paul was in the House of Representatives from Texas. Both are doctors.

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His book END THE FED:

https://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193

His youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkJ1N-7g9Q6n7KnriGit-Ig

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His website:

http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com

If Microsoft owned the editorial boards of all of the major computer magazines it would be stopped. The Fed? They can get away with it because the people just accept it.

Want the whole picture? Read "End the Fed".

The book "End the Fed" by Ron Paul is good.

It costs $3.98 on Amazon for a new copy, $3.15 for a used book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004IEA4DM/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new

here's one that you might be able to get free shipping for

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0446549193/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new

You strike me as reasonably intelligent person, who just so happened to get caught up by the neo-con/RINO propaganda. I started out as a toe the party line republican myself so I know where you're coming from.
I think a good economics refresher is what's called for first here.
I highly recommend "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell and if you're up for it check out r/austrianeconomics.
If you really think Paul's ideas on the Fed are oddball, I encourage to at least skim over his book "End the Fed".For some economic brilliance you can absorb right now, check out Milton Friedman, a nobel prize winner and genius thinker.

>100% of the fault is with the corporations.

ಠ_ಠ He really should read this. Man he is a retard and so disingenuous. People on the left don't even like this guy, because he lies so much.

He's a smart enough man to know that he can't just end the Fed overnight. You probably haven't read it, but his book on the topic does quite well to give a history of the organization.


Dr. Paul has been a student of economics for 30 years, so it really chides me when people try to write off his opinions at a whiff. It's just that people (both his supporters and his critics) have simply not had enough education on the subject. The Federal Reserve is a terribly corrupt and unfair group.

I have two end the fed tshirts.

There is a reason we have lost 95% of our purchasing power since 1913. Guess what was created that year? Guess who caused and admitted to the Great Depression?

The inflation has hurt the purchasing power of every American who has ever saved money.


You do your homework.

I suggest you pre-order his book "End the Fed"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446549193?ie=UTF8&tag=ronpaufor05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0446549193

And here we have the problem: A complete misunderstanding of the issue. You can't solve the ongoing crisis with more band-aids, it's a completely different philosophical approach that needs taken.

To suggest that Ron Paul "got any amount of what he wanted" in any way means that you don't understand.

Ron Paul's book: "End The Fed"

Read it. http://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193

End the Fed by Ron Paul.

If you are involved with OWS, or are at all interested in the learning about the horrors in the banking industry, read this book. It gets to the source of the problem and talks about real solutions. Absolutely eye-opening.

What do you think would be the best way to shut it down? I know that Ron Paul wrote a book called End the Fed. https://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193

Alan Grayson had some pretty excellent grilling of the Fed Reserve Chariman at the time Ben Bernanke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0NYBTkE1yQ

Other than these two (admittedly fringe guys) I don't know of anyone with political influence trying to shut down the fed. If anyone knows anyone else working to shut down the fed please let me know so I can follow and support them.

The problem is there is no way of knowing what is high enough or too high when it comes to the inflation of the money supply (thru the FED interest rate).

The only interest rate which is always right in a meaningful sense and is self-correcting is the natural interest rate, that which the market determines by individuals exchanging IOUs for future money in exchange for current money (ie. borrowing and lending).

Different people have different time preferences, some are more thrifty and "savers", whereas some would rather borrow to achieve their plans. The mix of savers and borrowers keeps changing, and the result of this supply and demand is the natural rate.

The problem is that with central banks controlling the money supply and the interest rate they provide to other banks, there is no way to know the actual natural interest rate anymore. In a way, the FED by its very existence makes its own task impossible.

The only solution is to end the FED ...

End the Fed - Ron Paul :) It was a fascinating read.

Ok. You are certainly entitled to your opinion. If you are really interested, he does have a new book out End The Fed and goes way deeper into how our government operates and how it was ment to operate than this small article presents. Anyhow, I am a fan of his and believe that he brings up important issues and sometimes his ideas catch on bigger platforms.

I'll give you one quick example of why I support Ron Paul, and particularly, his move to End the Fed.

I was recently reading about the release of Ronnie Biggs, who was involved in "the great train robbery". When I saw this line, in the article...

> The (1963) robbery netted 2.6 million pounds – worth more than $50 million today.

In 1963, it took approx. $3 to buy 1 British Pound (pdf). So they stole $7.8 million 1963 dollars, and due to inflation (from our friends at the fed), that's $50 million in today's dollars.

With a bit of math, that means that today's dollar, is worth 15.6 cents of 1963 money.

So... the Brits are going crazy over a guy who stole less than $8 million dollars, but in my lifetime (born in 1964), the Fed has stolen 85 cents worth of every dollar in the country.

Lovely, ain't it? It's all a matter of perspective.

ps: Yes, I did read Atlas Shrugged, and started reading Lew Rockwell's blog not long after - both of which happened before the conversion was complete.

I still hate Reagan, and both Bush's (I despise Jr.), but I've begun to at least believe in some of the things that Reagan stood for - if only he had actually practiced them.

Running around telling people they need a math course is the surest sign you're missing the bigger picture. I'll pass on returning your ignorant insults and instead try to help.

Here, educate yourself. And I'd be happy to entertain any info you have that supports the view the Federal Reserve is acts in best interest or the American people rather than in their owners best interest (hint: it's not owned by us or the USA)

Warren Buffet's "Squanderville"

Republican Congressman Ron Paul's book. "End The Fed" tell him he needs a math course.

And a litany of documentaries on the the history, unconstitutionality, and shady dealings of the Federal Reserve. Just go to Google video and type in "Federal Reserve"

> What I don't hear about much though is what will happen once the Federal Reserve Bank is acually abolished.

If this topic interests you, I highly suggest you read Ron Paul's End the Fed, used copies go for as little as a penny on Amazon. The last chapter he talks about how the entire system is built on the Fed and we can't just dismantle it cold turkey, so he gives some suggestions on how to phase it out over time.

> What will my paycheck look like?

The fed is the master of inflation. Inflation is one of the cruelest of taxes. It helps the rich get richer while it destroys the savings of the middle and lower class. Without the Fed, currencies would only inflate at a rate of how fast gold and silver could be mined, which is a very low rate. Most likely savings in increased productivity would outpace inflation meaning your paycheck would have more purchasing power. This is what happened from most of the post-civil war era till the end of the 19th century.

> What will my investments look like?

There would be less booms and busts in the market place making investing more lucrative.

> What will minimum wage be?

Ending the Fed wouldn't change the minimum wage, only congress can set that rate, however as mentioned above, productivity would outweigh inflation making the purchasing power of the dollar worth more.

> Will there be competong currencies, and if so won't that complicate evem the simplest financial transaction?

If congress allows competing currencies with in the US then sure, but more than likely the government will want to keep their monopoly on "coining" (more like printing) money. In this case they will convict people who try to use competing currencies, which they already have. BitCoin is out of government's jurisdiction so it will be interesting to see how that pans out. As mentioned in another comment, credit card companies can easily perform currency transactions with east at little or no cost to the consumer- CapitalOne already does on an international scale for free.

> but a century or so of economically leading the planet is a pretty tough trend to beat. How will ending the fed improve that trend?

The booms and busts of the 20th century are bigger and greater than ever. I wouldn't consider this an improvement over the 19th century business cycle. Pretty much you need to choose your damage. Enormous booms and busts that occur every 7-12 years and devastates an entire economy (as the US has shown since 1913 when the Fed was created), or smaller more frequent (3-5 years) booms & busts that are more industry specific and don't detriment the entire economy. I don't know about you but I'd rather end the fed and deal with smaller industry specific booms that occur more often than the big ones fueled by the Fed that cripple the economy.

What role does the Federal Reserve play? This is the level of "investigation" you need? LOL!

Here, pick up a book:
http://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193

I'm not about to waste my time trying to explain everything from interest rate price fixing to inflation for you, and the impact all this has on making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Ron Paul means what he says on this issue. I guess writing a book isn't enough. I guess if you can't sum up this position in a paragraph or a 30 second sound clip or whatever then you're not being clear enough.

What will it take for you to consider this as a serious and reasonable position if you don't understand the first thing about it? You're not an economic expert and neither am I, but I can read enough on the subject to get an understanding of why this isn't an "insane" idea. Educate yourself about the topic.

> going back to the gold standard and abolishing the Fed seem unworkable.

"Seems"... sure. If you understand how and why we might abolish the Fed then we can have a discussion about the details involved. Until then, you can keep your ad hominem attacks to yourself if you please.

> Let's say I offer a man a thousand dollars to shoot an innocent person, and then he does.

The problem is the man with the gun, not the briber. Take away the gun, and no one will care how much people give in bribes.

Take away the power of government to print trillions of dollars and bailout firms, and the malfeasance goes away with infringing on our liberties.

In other words: this

You should read End the Fed.

As an aside, the one on the left is great. I highly recommend it.