I'm a RP fan but this video was not worth posting. That being said, go suck a dick VT.

Damn, I was sure the 4th guy was going to say ''I am not a ginger''.

Blah, blah, blah. All I hear from you 2 is meaningless left-wing talking points. You 2 might as well be working for Howard Dean. "Military industrial complex" this, "corporatist" that. You sound like a f*cking informercial for the 9/11 conspiracy. You gonna tell me that Bush blew up the WTC? Gonna call Fox News "Faux News"?

F*cking losers.

Ok, point 1: support for NDAA has nothing to do with individualism, capitalism, or the rule of law. Just because you say it does doesn't make it so. NDAA is a lot more complex than what you're making it out. Typical for Ron Paul 19-year-old cult members.

Point 2: Fox News isn't the Republican Party. That's the dumbest comment I've ever heard. Because Fox News is covering how the candidates are doing among the different voting blocs that makes the GOP like Orson Welles characters? Moronic position. Absolutely moronic.

Point 3: the bailouts were a travesty, not because of the bailouts--which were necessary--but because we got to the point where we needed them. If you truly supported a capitalist candidate you'd vote for Romney, who is one of the most successful businessmen of our generation rather than Ron Paul, who is a career Washington politician.

Edit: on point 3, the GOP actually voted against this bill--the bailouts--pretty convincingly.

I clicked the video because I saw what might be a hot-looking blonde in the background but then an unemployed dude with a chinstrap beard is the first one to pop up. I feel cheated. Boo

Dude, first of all, are you even an American? If so, your high school did a f*cking horrible job in teaching you basic English. If you're not an American then you really have no say at all in what happens with this country.

The NDAA is a gigantic defense authorization bill. If those provisions violate the 4th Amendment then they will be overturned. You obviously don't have the slightest f*cking clue how legislation gets past in our republic. We have massive bills. You don't vote against a bill just because there is a line item you disagree with. You take the good with the bad and if something is illegal it gets overturned. Like I said, like a good cult member you have taken reality out of your position.

The bailouts were opposed by the GOP, so it sort of throws out your point. I didn't support the bailouts at the time because I was a 23-year-old moron. Here 4 years later I understand that you don't take a position SIMPLY out of spite or out of principle. They did the right thing in 2008--saved the western world from financial collapse. Live to fight another day so you then can uphold your principles and implement policies to ensure it never happens again (which they haven't, unfortunately).

Ron Paul isn't an oracle. He, like Gingrich, laughed at Ronald Reagan's position on the Soviet Union. Sometimes your predictions are right and sometimes they aren't. Whatever Romney believed or didn't believe he's as rich today as he ever was so obviously he did something right in the 2000s.

Virginia Troll 4ever, why do you hate liberty?

Gross oversimplification of Paul's stance. First of all, Paul doesn't want to give our enemies access to nukes, so don't be dishonest. He does not want Iran to gain a nuclear weapon, and he would exert his influence to divert them away from one, but if they ultimately want to build one that is their right. Every other country in the region has a nuke and even a top Israeli leader points out it would be in their interest to obtain one. They would certainly gain more international respect.

Why fall time and time again for continued war propaganda? We survived the cold war with the Soviet's having tens of thousands of nukes, but we can't survive some country in the middle east with third world resources having a single weapon? Do you honestly feel threatened by Iran? I certainly don't.

He also doesn't want to fuck our allies. Since when did respecting the sovereignty of other nations become a radical idea? We give Israel about $3B in aid each year, and yet we give their enemies about $20B. Makes absolutely no fucking sense. Israel would benefit from us cutting all foreign aid.

I literally laughed out loud at that last sentence. Reminded me of one of my favorite quotes by Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." The government cannot run the economy, it has never worked and will never work. The government has learned nothing from the 2008 crisis, they still blame the free market and it sounds like you do too.

The bailouts were fraudulent, unneeded, and have ultimately set us up for a much worse crisis down the road. Do you really think the US economy would have collapsed completely if Goldman Sachs went bankrupt? Do you actually think that? Wall Street has become a parasite on the economy and the role of banking has far exceeded it's appropriate role in society. Instead of banks serving their customers, everyone now serves the banks. And it's because of government and the permanent bailout mechanism aka the Fed that have allowed banks to overshadow the whole economy. Capitalism is about profit and loss. Losses are just as important as profits. A system that enables private gains while socializing the losses is a fundamentally flawed and unsustainable system. In capitalism if you make the wrong decisions, you lose. A system based on survival of the unfittest cannot survive.

Do you really think that investment banking activity in the US would cease to exist if a few TBTF banks went under? What a joke. There is plenty of capital in this country and additional banks would have been started overnight. Sound, healthy banks would have stepped up and taken the marketshare left by the zombie banks. Do we really need Wall Street slicing up toxic CDOs to keep mainstreet working? Stop falling for this shit man.

The thing is, there are no free lunches. All of Wall Street's debt didn't just magically go away, it's now dumped on the taxpayer. We have shifted massive private risk to the sovereign level which puts us all at risk. The next time there is a crisis, which is now guaranteed because of government's response to the crisis (TBTF banks have gotten even bigger without learning any lessons), we won't be able to bail them out again. And no one is going to bail the USA out.

It's unfortunate that people have fallen for the shit their government has shoveled in front of them ("Don't worry, let the state take care of you"). We have formed a state so antithetical to what the founders' envisioned it's almost unidentifiable. Ron Paul and his supporters feel that vision is worth fighting for, even if the establishment tries their best to discredit the message as best they can. The reality is eventually everyone will see that the optical backstops provided by the state to protect them from all danger are illusory. Governments that overextend themselves and perpetuate a warfare and welfare state inevitably fail, we are no different.

Why does this fucking Canadian think he can tell us how to run our shit? Seriously the vast majority of you guys think the world is fucking black and white. Reality is there are all shades of grey as well as red blue and green.

To your point that Bush "supported" the bail outs is total joke. The president has no real power when it comes to legislation. Congress has that power, sure he can veto it, but there was no time to veto it and send it back to make it better. Shit was melting down faster then a run away nuke power plant. Before all of you guys start talking down to people from your high horse you need to do serious research. People from all major areas of economic though agree to some extent that TARP was necessary. I agree with them, do I wish it was more regulated and only used for its original intentions. TARP was actually not as unpopular as it is today in the moment. It was only after the proceeds were taken away from debt paydown and used to fund all sorts of other stuff such as the stimulus plan, the auto bail outs that everyone knows were nothing more then a payback for a voting block. DC has done a great job of getting America to hate the finance industry despite the fact that the non government owned bail out recepients have paid back over 95% of the loaned out money.

Your telling me that on ~ 300 billion in loans to banks that lasted on average of 4 to 6 months that returned close to 25 billion in interest that is 0% interest....

Actually that gives you no right to tell me how to do anything. You canadians have been riding our coat tail for years, if you are going to ride our wave you keep your mout shut and deal with it.

You seem to be under the impression that the US cares what Canada thinks.

And don't tell me that you saved us from the Germans in WW2 either. There was a motive for you, and for jumping in when you saw that the end of the war was close, because you could benefit from the restructuring of Europe.

You didn't save Europe, you took an opportunity.

Disclaimer: I'm not talking about the US soldiers in WW2, props to them for fighting for morals. Screw the politicians for sending them in the first place.

This thread is getting disgusting. We essentially are Europe's army. The reason those French fuckers can sit on their high horse and gripe about us protecting ourselves is because our army is keeping Europe safe. The European debt crisis our fault? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING? Almost all of Greece's debt (and Italy's and Spain's) was put into place during good economic times by the socialist parties. It is obnoxious that you want to blame America for problems that were caused by other factors. This is why I hate the Ron Paul crowd sometimes. He has good ideas but then you get the apologists like you who want us to bow our heads because we did something that was in OUR BEST INTEREST at the time. Fuck you. If we stepped out of the world state shit would go down almost immediately and the fact is when Europe comes crying about how it needs money for a bailout, how oil prices have skyrocketed, etc. I would LOVE to be the one to tell them "told you so".

How does it have to do with being educated about anything? Did the US go into Iraq to save them from a dictator? Or for oil and other business?

Did they manage to do this because the Iraqi people were not aware of the reason behind the invasion? No, it wouldn't have mattered if they knew the reason. Did they manage to do this because the US people were not educated and were tricked into thinking in terms of ''kids are being bullied, we'll go help them out''? Yes.

Who is the US to think they're the world police anyway?

lol do you think the US gave them weapons for free? Or soldiers for free?

This is definitely part of the rationalle, and America knew that the Soviets would be a problem long before we even entered WWII. In that light, WWII cold be seen as the opening game in the Cold War. Also realize that Germany and Japan were allied and we were attacked, and that there were comprehensive plans to conquer America already being acted on. Our shipping had been targeted by Germany prior to our entry, and had we not supported England it was just a matter of time before they would have been overrun.

We were next on Germany's 'to do' list, and they had active programs in other regions that were important to us (N Africa). To give you an extent of how closely our interests were aligned with England, they actully thought the first waves of troops were to be under the command of British generals (which is nuts, and of course did not happen).

America didn't enter the war initially because the public support wasn't there before Pearl Harbor. That's the long and short of it. There's even a conspiracy surrounding the hours before the attacks, that suggest that Washinton allowed the attacks to happen (not realizing how severe it would be) so there would finally be a reason to enter the war...but no one has proof.

Also, your presidential candidates are retarded and often unqualified. At least Ron Paul is better than the norm, but as I recall it, he doesn't believe in evolution, which is also quite retarded.

A very homoginized society is easy to manage, Norway and Sweeden have very little difference in their populations. If you are hyping social systems you do not have the American mindset and should shut your mouth. Europeans love to sit up on their hill and tell everyone else how much better they are while they dare not get their hands dirty or even try to. You stand behind the back of America and shout insults at everyone while relying on the US to protect you if someone pokes you.