ŅEMSIM PIEMĒRU NO ASV PREZIDENTA KANDIDĀTA RONA POLA, UN SĀKSIM RUNĀT PAR LIETĀM, KURĀM TIEŠĀM IR NOZĪME.KĀDU MĒS GRIBAM LATVIJU NĀKOTNĒ? VAI MĒS GRIBAM ĻAUT VALDĪBAI IEJAUKTIES BRĪVAJĀ TIRGŪ, LAI ŅEMTU MŪSU IENĀKUMUS UN IZMANTOTU TOS SPECIĀLĀM INTERESĒM, UN DEVALVĒTU MŪSU VALūTU? VAI ŠIS IR VIENĪGAIS VEIDS, KĀ VALDĪBAI DARBOTIES? ATBILDE IR NĒ, UN ALTERNATĪVA IR ĪSTA BRĪVĪBA.
Thursday, September 20, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com Posted September 20th, 2007 by manystrom
Thanks to Grant Johnston who emailed me with a slew of international Ron Paul blogs. The list of sites on the blogroll on the front page now contains fifteen (15!) international blogs! What other candidate - Republican or Democrat can boast this kind of support?
International Blogs:
Asia for Ron Paul Bavaria for Ron Paul Belgians for Ron Paul Brits for Ron Paul Brazilians for Ron Paul Canadians for Ron Paul Chile for Ron Paul French for Ron Paul Europe 4 Ron Paul Holland 4 Ron Paul Hungary for Ron Paul Indian & Pakistani Friends of Ron Paul Poland for Ron Paul Romania for Ron Paul Venezuela for Ron Paul
Grant also notes: "I discovered, by observation in meetup.com (http://ronpaul.meetup.com/about/), that a city gets a white pin, when 3 or more people are waiting for a meetup group. When the pin is white, no one has to pay. You only have to pay if a meetup group is started (it is not mandatory to start a group if interest is expressed). The pin then changes to red. It would be nice to at least have a white pin for each of the countries that have Ron Paul supporters (Brazil, Romania, etc.). Unfortunately, I cannot find contact information for them on their websites, to tell them how to get it. http://www.dailypaul.com/node/2236 ---------------------------------------------------
"America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist."
Ron Paul, Freedom vs. Security: A False Choice, May 31, 2004
Los Angeles enthusiastically received Ron Paul yesterday! The fundraising reception in the morning was a great success. It was held at the Ritz Carlton in Pasadena and tickets were $500 per person. Sold out! After the breakfast, Dr. Paul went to a nearby university. He met with a group of students and press. He then spoke at a rally outside on campus. A police officer estimated the crowd to be between 700-900 people. They cheered Dr. Paul time and time again. Students and professors in the surrounding buildings had windows opened and listened too. After the rally, Dr. Paul attended a fundraising reception on campus. Tickets were $500 per person for the event. Sold out! Yesterday evening, Dr. Paul attended a fundraising dinner at the home of Bill Johnson. Tickets were $2,000 per person. Sold out! Dr. Paul and staff then traveled to San Francisco arriving about 1:00 am this morning. It will be another busy day.
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – As Labor Day kicked off the traditional start of the presidential campaign season, the Ron Paul campaign passed an important milestone: 40,000 volunteers signed up through Meetup.com to help Dr. Paul. The Paul campaign has been widely recognized for its powerful presence on the internet. The campaign leads all GOP candidates in every significant online metric including: website traffic, MySpace and Facebook friends, Eventful demands, YouTube subscribers and Google searches. The Paul online campaign is now translating that support into on-the-ground organization through Meetup groups. "All over America, Meetup group members are coming together and organizing to support Dr. Paul," said campaign chairman Kent Snyder. "Our Meetup groups help give us the grassroots support that other campaigns are trying to buy." There are currently 40,213 Ron Paul Meetup members while Barack Obama, the candidate with the second best Meetup organization, has 5,801 members.
Johnny Kramer wonders what it might look like. The Ron Paul campaign has excited libertarians, but many people wonder what he could accomplish as president, facing a contrary Congress. While some of this is speculation and it’s not my intention to put words in Dr. Paul’s mouth, his inaugural address might sound something like this:
January 20, 2009
"My fellow citizens:
On November 4th of last year, you, the American people, overwhelmingly rejected the erosion of liberty that has occurred in this country during the 20th Century and into the 21st.
"You rejected having your money stolen through taxes and the inflationary fiat money of the government’s central bank.
You rejected deficit spending.
You rejected corporatism – the suppression of competition by government, at the behest of politically-connected businesses and at the expense of their competitors and of you, the consumer, under the guise of ‘consumer protection’; forced cartelization of industry; and of businesses profiting through the theft of being financed by tax dollars.
You rejected government healthcare.
You rejected nation-building and wars of foreign aggression.
You rejected the erosion of your civil liberties under the guise of fighting ‘terrorism.’
I know this because I promised, backed by a 30-year record of honesty and integrity, to do my best to put a stop to all of these things, and more, if you elected me to serve as your president. You had a choice to make that day: My agenda or the status quo. You chose my agenda. I humbly thank you, and I hope to repay your confidence during the next four years..."
What is Ron Paul talking about when he refers to "sound money"? Read the following essay by Alan Greenspan. The former head of the FED wrote this in 1967 BEFORE he came to power...
"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense - perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire - that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other. In order to understand the source of their antagonism, it is necessary first to understand the specific role of gold in a free society. Money is the common denominator of all economic transactions. It is that commodity which serves as a medium of exchange, is universally acceptable to all participants in an exchange economy as payment for their goods or services, and can, therefore, be used as a standard of market value and as a store of value, i.e., as a means of saving. The existence of such a commodity is a precondition of a division of labor economy. If men did not have some commodity of objective value which was generally acceptable as money, they would have to resort to primitive barter or be forced to live on self-sufficient farms and forgo the inestimable advantages of specialization. If men had no means to store value, i.e., to save, neither long-range planning nor exchange would be possible..."