December 2, 2008
Dear friend of Liberty,
This past presidential season I saw a renewed enthusiasm from our country’s youth.
An excitement for liberty gripped the college campuses unlike I have ever seen before. Young people were energized for real change.
Still to my amazement, our college rallies attracted thousands of young people. Students were hungry for the message of freedom, peace, and prosperity.
For this reason, a youth-based movement for liberty is essential to our cause. It is these young men and women who will become tomorrow’s champions of liberty.
That's why I am giving my enthusiastic endorsement to Young Americans for Liberty (YAL); an organization that is built directly on the success of Students for Ron Paul.
My National Youth Coordinator, Jeff Frazee, is launching this organization with an ambitious goal of starting over 100 campus chapters in 2009. They have already started 47 chapters this semester.
Jeff worked with me exclusively to start the Campaign for Liberty (C4L) and host the Rally for the Republic in Minneapolis. Now, he is leaving to follow his real passion and lead Young Americans for Liberty.
The Campaign for Liberty has supplied $25,000 in seed money to help start YAL. I hope you will join in support as well.
Young Americans for Liberty is the continuation of Students for Ron Paul.
Students for Ron Paul established over 500 college chapters in all 50 states. Over 26,000 students joined our campaign. With this network and my support, Young Americans for Liberty is essential to building a genuine liberty movement in America.
You and I must remain serious about our ideas and goals. I am. I believe you are too.
Back in the 1960s, an influential youth movement formed around another anti-establishment presidential candidate. His name was Barry Goldwater. The organization was called Young Americans for Freedom; and without it, we may have never seen Ronald Reagan in the White House.
I have high hopes for Young Americans for Liberty, and wish them a similar fortune.
Please visit the Young Americans for Liberty website, sign up for their weekly E-Newsletter, and read about their plans for next semester.
Their website is at http://www.YALiberty.org
The importance of YAL to the future of liberty cannot be overstated.
Young people have the passion, energy, and dedication that many of you can relate to from this past year and a half. But, young people do not have very much money. It is up to you and me to give them our support.
So please go to Young Americans for Liberty's website http://www.YALiberty.org , sign up for their free E-Newsletter, and read about the future of our youth.
In liberty,
P.S. – Join me today to continue the Revolution on campus. Please visit the Young Americans for Liberty website http://www.YALiberty.org to read about their mission and join their effort.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Free Affiliate Program Update
I have been working with my team pretty intensely over the past 36 hours on releasing a free version of our SuperAffiliate program that offers Free Websites, services and support. This is in response to our initial launch that saw strong success among our partners but little outside of that.
The Free Affiliate Program will have 2 tiers of recurring commission payouts of 20% (tier 1) and 5% (tier 2) and there will be no bonus for referrals. The commissions will be paid on subscriptions to Paid Website Plans. There are two plans that can be purchased:
Ad-Free
$14.95 per month
$149.50 per year
Value
$24.95 per month + $19.95 Setup Fee (one time)
$249.50 per year + $19.95 Setup Fee (one time)
Commissions are paid upon each time the plan is renewed and the setup fee is a onetime charge and therefore is only given commission on once. We hope you all will check it out, as there are no catches to signing up and we have worked very hard in getting all of this up and running in such a short time. We have also put up lots of marketing tools, banners and ads to help our Affiliates and SuperAffiliates promote themselves without having to come up with their own advertising!
That's all for right now and hopefully I can bring you good news of the new program before 6:00pm EST.
The Free Affiliate Program will have 2 tiers of recurring commission payouts of 20% (tier 1) and 5% (tier 2) and there will be no bonus for referrals. The commissions will be paid on subscriptions to Paid Website Plans. There are two plans that can be purchased:
Ad-Free
$14.95 per month
$149.50 per year
Value
$24.95 per month + $19.95 Setup Fee (one time)
$249.50 per year + $19.95 Setup Fee (one time)
Commissions are paid upon each time the plan is renewed and the setup fee is a onetime charge and therefore is only given commission on once. We hope you all will check it out, as there are no catches to signing up and we have worked very hard in getting all of this up and running in such a short time. We have also put up lots of marketing tools, banners and ads to help our Affiliates and SuperAffiliates promote themselves without having to come up with their own advertising!
That's all for right now and hopefully I can bring you good news of the new program before 6:00pm EST.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Network Marketing...HELP!!!
Since I have delved into the world of network marketing with the omnEpresence launch of website services and their new affiliate program I have come across several places along my journey. Just looking around for sites that offer pointers and people that can help me better the product offering or tweak affiliate settings to better promote the program and increase leads I have found the number of people that feel you spam them when asking for advice is astounding ( I really shouldn't be surprised on the internet, but I digress). I recently joined a site: http://www.netmarketingforum.com and have had my share of ups and downs. I learned about Traffic Exchanges which seem to offer a mixed bag of results, I get hits on the site and some look around but not really any generated leads or signups.
I also learned about affiliate networks are REALLY big on free stuff. The more you give them, the more they are willing to give you program a try. Since joining that forum there has been a "revelation" on my part as to needing a free Affiliate program before asking people to just shell out $199.00 and so this was brought up to my employers and we are revising the program. I tried asking for some advice on the forums as to the nature of free affiliate programs and what should be offered but got little help See This Thread. I was really disappointed in regards to more people were concerned with me trying to spam the forums, and while I respect their effort to help keep their forums free of people joining to just spam the forums with affiliate marketing nonsense, I was actually asking for help. One post was actually helpful while the others wanted to shower me with spamming and yet a mod hasn't removed the post (thank you). I found a few people their who have messaged me privately and are working with me so I view it had moderate success, but I also feel that I shouldn't have to defend myself when asking for legitimate help, again, I digress.
I have spent the last 6 months working as a developer for this project and so when I ask for help it tends to be legitimate and I have a lot of attachment to here with all the work and effort I have put into it.
Anyone who runs through this entry please, if you have any advice to give me on what would make this program better feel free to let me know what I am doing wrong, right, or just offer advice. It would all be much appreciated. Thanks and the FREE affiliate program is in the works right now.
Affiliate's Rep Site
Affiliate Marketing Page (coming soon)
SuperAffiliate Marketing Page
Free Website Product Page
I also learned about affiliate networks are REALLY big on free stuff. The more you give them, the more they are willing to give you program a try. Since joining that forum there has been a "revelation" on my part as to needing a free Affiliate program before asking people to just shell out $199.00 and so this was brought up to my employers and we are revising the program. I tried asking for some advice on the forums as to the nature of free affiliate programs and what should be offered but got little help See This Thread. I was really disappointed in regards to more people were concerned with me trying to spam the forums, and while I respect their effort to help keep their forums free of people joining to just spam the forums with affiliate marketing nonsense, I was actually asking for help. One post was actually helpful while the others wanted to shower me with spamming and yet a mod hasn't removed the post (thank you). I found a few people their who have messaged me privately and are working with me so I view it had moderate success, but I also feel that I shouldn't have to defend myself when asking for legitimate help, again, I digress.
I have spent the last 6 months working as a developer for this project and so when I ask for help it tends to be legitimate and I have a lot of attachment to here with all the work and effort I have put into it.
Anyone who runs through this entry please, if you have any advice to give me on what would make this program better feel free to let me know what I am doing wrong, right, or just offer advice. It would all be much appreciated. Thanks and the FREE affiliate program is in the works right now.
Affiliate's Rep Site
Affiliate Marketing Page (coming soon)
SuperAffiliate Marketing Page
Free Website Product Page
Friday, November 7, 2008
New Free Website Service
There are a lot of little startups out on the internet that offer free website services. Most of them, to be honest, are just down right terrible. They offer no support outside of a small, useless FAQ, or if they have any kind of support you find yourself wishing you had just gone and spent the money to get a paid hosting plan and hiring a developer before you even get a response back from the company. I do a lot of web development work personally, however not everyone needs to pay for a developer to make a site that just fits basic needs. A developer, like myself, does have various site templates at my disposal that just require tweaks in colors, Look and Feel, and content to speed up production and ease however there still is a price tag to be paid.
I do a lot of affiliate marketing and ended up stumbling upon a free website service to resell. www.omnegold.com/jameys
The site links to both the website service and the affiliate service but that carries a $199.00 price tag and I won't bother ranting too much about that until I start getting paid back on my work. If you take a look at the free website section it goes into detail about the various plans they offer. I was really shocked to see that they offer technical support with the free plans. You get a phone number to call, leave a message and someone calls you back, or you can submit trouble tickets and get responses in < 24 hours (I played dumb and sent a few just to be sure).
I decided to give it a sample run and signed up for the free website service and a free subdomain so I could get out without paying anything. After I was all signed up I had to wait about five minutes to actually be able to log into my account. I was immediately presented with breaking down the categories so it would narrow down my choices of which templates I would look at. I selected a template and began customizing my site. Once I was finished with the customizations I published my site, and everything looked pretty good. I didn't care for only being restricted to 4 pages, but I guess that's where they make their money. They also have a lot of features locked out of their control panel, such as e-commerce shopping carts, picture galleries and other nice configurations that you have to purchase any plan other than the free plan to gain access to.
Anyhow, that's my short, sweet little review of this little nugget I found. Let me know what you think, or comment with your own review.
I do a lot of affiliate marketing and ended up stumbling upon a free website service to resell. www.omnegold.com/jameys
The site links to both the website service and the affiliate service but that carries a $199.00 price tag and I won't bother ranting too much about that until I start getting paid back on my work. If you take a look at the free website section it goes into detail about the various plans they offer. I was really shocked to see that they offer technical support with the free plans. You get a phone number to call, leave a message and someone calls you back, or you can submit trouble tickets and get responses in < 24 hours (I played dumb and sent a few just to be sure).
I decided to give it a sample run and signed up for the free website service and a free subdomain so I could get out without paying anything. After I was all signed up I had to wait about five minutes to actually be able to log into my account. I was immediately presented with breaking down the categories so it would narrow down my choices of which templates I would look at. I selected a template and began customizing my site. Once I was finished with the customizations I published my site, and everything looked pretty good. I didn't care for only being restricted to 4 pages, but I guess that's where they make their money. They also have a lot of features locked out of their control panel, such as e-commerce shopping carts, picture galleries and other nice configurations that you have to purchase any plan other than the free plan to gain access to.
Anyhow, that's my short, sweet little review of this little nugget I found. Let me know what you think, or comment with your own review.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Ron Paul's Letter on the Great Bailout
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Dear Friends,
Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.
The events of the past week are no exception.
The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress' throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder. Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China! "This is welfare for the rich," he said. "This is socialism for the rich. It's bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters."
That describes the current bailout package to a T. And we're being told it's unavoidable.
The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook. The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!
• The Treasury Secretary is authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets at any one time. That means $700 billion is only the very beginning of what will hit us.
• Financial institutions are "designated as financial agents of the Government." This is the New Deal to end all New Deals.
• Then there's this: "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." Translation: the Secretary can buy up whatever junk debt he wants to, burden the American people with it, and be subject to no one in the process.
There goes your country.
Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this "sadly necessary." Sad, yes. Necessary? Don't make me laugh.
Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people. The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind - another example of the big choice we're supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes. Now, with a backlash brewing, they're not quite sure what their views are. A sad display, really.
Although the present bailout package is almost certainly not the end of the political atrocities we'll witness in connection with the crisis, time is short. Congress may vote as soon as tomorrow. With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it. Call them! Let them hear from you! Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.
The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?
When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?
Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.
In liberty,
Ron Paul
Dear Friends,
Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.
The events of the past week are no exception.
The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress' throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder. Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China! "This is welfare for the rich," he said. "This is socialism for the rich. It's bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters."
That describes the current bailout package to a T. And we're being told it's unavoidable.
The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook. The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!
• The Treasury Secretary is authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets at any one time. That means $700 billion is only the very beginning of what will hit us.
• Financial institutions are "designated as financial agents of the Government." This is the New Deal to end all New Deals.
• Then there's this: "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." Translation: the Secretary can buy up whatever junk debt he wants to, burden the American people with it, and be subject to no one in the process.
There goes your country.
Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this "sadly necessary." Sad, yes. Necessary? Don't make me laugh.
Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people. The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind - another example of the big choice we're supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes. Now, with a backlash brewing, they're not quite sure what their views are. A sad display, really.
Although the present bailout package is almost certainly not the end of the political atrocities we'll witness in connection with the crisis, time is short. Congress may vote as soon as tomorrow. With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it. Call them! Let them hear from you! Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.
The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?
When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?
Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.
In liberty,
Ron Paul
Friday, August 29, 2008
Site Launch: Copacetic Computers
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to post an update that I have started my own company: Copacetic Computer Corporation. The site is officially live but still undergoing some minor development. We currently service the Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches of Florida and are looking to expand soon. If you need any assistance with computers, we are here to help you. If you found the company through this blog, mention 'In the course of Human Events' and receive 15% off your visit.
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Computer Backups, Wireless Security Analysis, Virus/Spyware cleaning and prevention, Hardware Upgrades, Custom Built Computers.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The downfall of American pseudo-capitalism
Some say capitalism is failing, but it's not really capitalism when it's plagued with fiat money manipulated by a central bank, incomprehensible rules on mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, not to mention wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, managed trade, punishing taxes, and privileged government contracts.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Economics? Did Someone Forget?
So I came across an article today that analyzed the economic plans of the candidates both Dem and Republican. I initially started this letter because Ron Paul was neglected and I address that briefly, but actually address the general economics that people seem to forget or just utterly disregard. Enjoy my letter and feel free to correct me if I made some mistakes so I can learn, because in the end, that is all that matters.
Here is the article that got me inspired: Whose Stimulus Makes the Grade
Here is my Letter to her:
Dear Ruth Marcus,
Thank you for your article explaining the candidates new economic plans. I see a lot of the Democratic candidates are all about spending money to stimulate the economy and this I do not agree with. Yes, our economy is going through a rough time and a lot of people are hurting, including myself.
I don't understand how George Bush's plan to send money back to Americans is going to help stimulate the economy in the long run. Once the American people get their money, Bush is hoping the spend this money so it will go right back into the economy. This does nothing to help the actual income levels of these people and does nothing to create new jobs. Coming from the business side, this will not create any new jobs because this will be a predictable, one time increase in revenue for businesses because Americans will spend it, and then go back to the same hurt they were feeling before.
The other candidates on the Democrat side, Obama wants to send more tax credit out, which will cause the same issue, as I have mentioned, about George Bush's plan. If the economy continues to go badly, and it will for reasons discussed later, He will issue another $250 tax credit. Then Obama wants to issue another set of credits to a specific class of citizens, in hopes they will spend this money.
Edwards, I am not entirely clear on everything he wants to do, aside from stimulate jobs, is to be seen as another deficiency. Why invest in a certain job type and try to stimulate that way? Sure, it is a better plan for economic relief in the long run, but which jobs specifically do you stimulate? How do you stimulate them? Tax credits? Reduced tax rates? This part is very unclear for me and I hope you can clarify this part.
Hilary wants to just dump money is needless things, like heating saving. This really makes little sense, because this does nothing for energy independence and will not be recognized by Americans. If your heating gets cheaper, most people will see that as a good thing and will do little to watch their cost for this area and it will end up staying around the same.
I watched the debate last night from Florida and most everyone on the stage seemed reluctant to say they support the Bush program but wants to expand it. This can generically be applied the 4 of the 5 candidates about cutting taxes to businesses but not individuals and nothing to help the savings of the people and helping them have something to look forward to at the end of this economic downturn.
Now in your article, you did not mention Ron Paul's plan. This is most upsetting since there were 5 candidates on stage in Florida last night and you only care to talk about 4. In your article I noticed a few basic, and incorrect assumptions and strangely enough Ron Paul's plan addresses these assumptions and the consequences of these, while at the same time will provide a permanent relief.
The first assumption is that of economic cycles and business cycles, apparently we think we are exempt and our economy grows somewhere between a linear and exponential rate. A free market economy will always have recessions and growths, booms and busts. That is just the natural tendency of any economy. I don't know why so many people do not seem to understand this very basic nature that I was taught back in Macro-Economics in College. Austrian economics This recession has been predictable and expected. The reasons behind, why this one is expected to be pretty bad will be discussed in the second false assumption made by the general public about the economy. We have been living in a great time of economic growth, that has jumped by double digits for some 19+ quarters and that is great. The problem is that according to the business cycle, this will eventually come to an end for a period of time and then return to a greater or equal growth prior to the downturn. So, since this is expected, why is everyone trying to stop it, it is the same as trying to prevent a hurricane or tornado. It happens, its natural, just ride it out and wait for the sun to come out.
The second assumption is a major failure that results from the first assumption and comes down to government involvement in delaying or correcting a recession and is precisely what the Austrian School of economics addresses. Although the Austrian School blames government regulation for the business cycle in general, it does attribute worse recessions with regulation and trying to correct the inherent problems with the Federal Reserve. The answer given by Bush to pour more money into the economy, which Democrats want to expand up is precisely the problem. Pouring money into a broken system will accelerate and/or worsen the downturn. Since 1971 the US has printed over 13 Trillion dollars. That is 13,000,000,000,000 of new wealth that came out of thin air. Why has the dollar's inflation gone up and is only worth .04 compared to the dollar of 1913? Why is the price of gold floating around $900? These questions are simply answered to our intervention in markets and the money supply. As long as the government is will to create new money and play with the natural realm of interest rates there will be booms and busts as the market tries to compensate for the fluctuations.
Now, that was a very brief thought so I can move on and not write another book. Ron Paul understands these concepts and wants to remove the tax burden, but that is only a small step. Unlike the other Republicans, he understands that it is impossible to lower taxes and at the same time increase spending. Our foreign policy is costing us over 600 billion per year and that doesn't include Iraq and Afghanistan. We give out hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to countries around the world because we can print money and borrow. This has to stop if we want to take care of ourselves. Taking care of countries around the world with aid and troops is something an empire does. We are not an empire!
I am getting tired of talking about this becuase I am sure you will read this and discard it, however I could not just be silent. I am sick of people disregarding general economic theory and thinking that just because they want to do something, everything will turn out ok. Ron Paul does not want to do anything. He wants to do less, because we can't afford what we are doing anymore. We have no more money, inflation is around 10-12 percent, we are out of money so we borrow from China and other countries and print more. ANY business would have long be under with these circumstances. Why should a government be any different if it is playing a role in the economy? The only bodies that play roles in economies are businesses, therefore the Government is not exempt from this.
Here is the article that got me inspired: Whose Stimulus Makes the Grade
Here is my Letter to her:
Dear Ruth Marcus,
Thank you for your article explaining the candidates new economic plans. I see a lot of the Democratic candidates are all about spending money to stimulate the economy and this I do not agree with. Yes, our economy is going through a rough time and a lot of people are hurting, including myself.
I don't understand how George Bush's plan to send money back to Americans is going to help stimulate the economy in the long run. Once the American people get their money, Bush is hoping the spend this money so it will go right back into the economy. This does nothing to help the actual income levels of these people and does nothing to create new jobs. Coming from the business side, this will not create any new jobs because this will be a predictable, one time increase in revenue for businesses because Americans will spend it, and then go back to the same hurt they were feeling before.
The other candidates on the Democrat side, Obama wants to send more tax credit out, which will cause the same issue, as I have mentioned, about George Bush's plan. If the economy continues to go badly, and it will for reasons discussed later, He will issue another $250 tax credit. Then Obama wants to issue another set of credits to a specific class of citizens, in hopes they will spend this money.
Edwards, I am not entirely clear on everything he wants to do, aside from stimulate jobs, is to be seen as another deficiency. Why invest in a certain job type and try to stimulate that way? Sure, it is a better plan for economic relief in the long run, but which jobs specifically do you stimulate? How do you stimulate them? Tax credits? Reduced tax rates? This part is very unclear for me and I hope you can clarify this part.
Hilary wants to just dump money is needless things, like heating saving. This really makes little sense, because this does nothing for energy independence and will not be recognized by Americans. If your heating gets cheaper, most people will see that as a good thing and will do little to watch their cost for this area and it will end up staying around the same.
I watched the debate last night from Florida and most everyone on the stage seemed reluctant to say they support the Bush program but wants to expand it. This can generically be applied the 4 of the 5 candidates about cutting taxes to businesses but not individuals and nothing to help the savings of the people and helping them have something to look forward to at the end of this economic downturn.
Now in your article, you did not mention Ron Paul's plan. This is most upsetting since there were 5 candidates on stage in Florida last night and you only care to talk about 4. In your article I noticed a few basic, and incorrect assumptions and strangely enough Ron Paul's plan addresses these assumptions and the consequences of these, while at the same time will provide a permanent relief.
The first assumption is that of economic cycles and business cycles, apparently we think we are exempt and our economy grows somewhere between a linear and exponential rate. A free market economy will always have recessions and growths, booms and busts. That is just the natural tendency of any economy. I don't know why so many people do not seem to understand this very basic nature that I was taught back in Macro-Economics in College. Austrian economics This recession has been predictable and expected. The reasons behind, why this one is expected to be pretty bad will be discussed in the second false assumption made by the general public about the economy. We have been living in a great time of economic growth, that has jumped by double digits for some 19+ quarters and that is great. The problem is that according to the business cycle, this will eventually come to an end for a period of time and then return to a greater or equal growth prior to the downturn. So, since this is expected, why is everyone trying to stop it, it is the same as trying to prevent a hurricane or tornado. It happens, its natural, just ride it out and wait for the sun to come out.
The second assumption is a major failure that results from the first assumption and comes down to government involvement in delaying or correcting a recession and is precisely what the Austrian School of economics addresses. Although the Austrian School blames government regulation for the business cycle in general, it does attribute worse recessions with regulation and trying to correct the inherent problems with the Federal Reserve. The answer given by Bush to pour more money into the economy, which Democrats want to expand up is precisely the problem. Pouring money into a broken system will accelerate and/or worsen the downturn. Since 1971 the US has printed over 13 Trillion dollars. That is 13,000,000,000,000 of new wealth that came out of thin air. Why has the dollar's inflation gone up and is only worth .04 compared to the dollar of 1913? Why is the price of gold floating around $900? These questions are simply answered to our intervention in markets and the money supply. As long as the government is will to create new money and play with the natural realm of interest rates there will be booms and busts as the market tries to compensate for the fluctuations.
Now, that was a very brief thought so I can move on and not write another book. Ron Paul understands these concepts and wants to remove the tax burden, but that is only a small step. Unlike the other Republicans, he understands that it is impossible to lower taxes and at the same time increase spending. Our foreign policy is costing us over 600 billion per year and that doesn't include Iraq and Afghanistan. We give out hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to countries around the world because we can print money and borrow. This has to stop if we want to take care of ourselves. Taking care of countries around the world with aid and troops is something an empire does. We are not an empire!
I am getting tired of talking about this becuase I am sure you will read this and discard it, however I could not just be silent. I am sick of people disregarding general economic theory and thinking that just because they want to do something, everything will turn out ok. Ron Paul does not want to do anything. He wants to do less, because we can't afford what we are doing anymore. We have no more money, inflation is around 10-12 percent, we are out of money so we borrow from China and other countries and print more. ANY business would have long be under with these circumstances. Why should a government be any different if it is playing a role in the economy? The only bodies that play roles in economies are businesses, therefore the Government is not exempt from this.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Ron Paul's Secret Plan
Just passing along a word from GodLikeProductions
Remember the secret plan? You’re about to see it
The money was purposefully saved, prepare to get sick of Ron on national TV.
and,
I just gave you all I knew.
They were undershooting so they could get 3rd in the first two states…they weren’t far off in either. They didn’t WANT first, as it’s politically bad with super tuesday so far off (call it the buchannon effect).
Then comes the media blitz, you WILL see the money, and they WILL be targeting proper demographics now that they have the info, this is how he has won all of his elections. No other republican can effectively use the demographic information (fix the economy, end the war).
I don’t know anything beyond that other than they are hoping for others to drop out so he gets more air time during debates.
Others shared these thoughts:
“The media has been saying all along he is not viable, so we didn’t really lose much, yet.”
“It was hardly a very far fifth place finish it was damn close.”
“I have heard this too from the campaign! I had a good cry last night, but I am over it and ready to keep fighting the fight!
This aint over till the fat lady sings!”
“This would be good, especially since all the candidates have blown all their money on the first couple of states, and then Ron Paul comes in and blasts all the states on Super Tuesday with ads to take the lead right out from under everybody….BRILLIANT!”
“Facts we do know here
Based upon expenditure reports from air time being bought in NH and IA
1. RP appears to have about $20 million still stashed
2. RP is asking for another $23 million
3. RP Campaign has played it low key at first - look at the first few ads
4. RP Campaign came out with 4 great ads recently
5. RP campaign is starting tv and radio ads in 10 states this week based upon press releases
6. RP campaign definitely didn’t do an early state strategy in spite of funds raised and looking back if you think how much time and resources spent there by all campaigns RP was never going to stand out from the pack in IA and NH.”
“Gotta really think about it. It would be a good idea. This giga Tuesday thing is new. We cannot look at Iowa and NH as significant at all. It may be that Ron’s campaign has thought outside the box on this. If you think about it…here in California, I talk about the primaries with people and the majority cannot even name a candidate. This especially applies to the republican candidates.”
“The more that I think about this….and from the snippets I heard while in IA the more it becomes obvious that they have taken this course.
For three reasons:
1. Its impossible to stand out from the crowd in IA and NH
2. The field is way too crowded right now… let it settle out some first and let everyone beat up on each other and get bloodied up
3.. Most of their money in all honesty came in in the last month… too late to be spent on IA and NH but perfect for laying out a post IA, NH media blitz that will be unrivaled as other campaigns starve for cash”
“Is Ron Paul not the “thinking man’s candidate?” Once you consider this, “aiming for 3rd” strategy, it really does make sense, whether the poster was privvy to inside info or not. If Ron is sitting on a pile of cash now, why the hell would he continue to hold onto it? I’ll assume he plans on spending it!
Without having to spend a dime, Ron Paul, in a clever way, could be said to have used these two events in IA and NH to fish out all manner of valuable demographic information. Now that he’s got this info on so many important particulars, he can put his war chest to better use than ever before, instead of having to dump piles of cash into various efforts and cross his fingers. If you’ve got less money, overall, than people like Romney, Giuliani, Clinton, Obama, you’d better do your research first so you can get the most for your money when it comes time to spend. Does this not make perfect sense?
This is an intelligent man and regardless of what happens, this is not over until 2009.
Eyes on the prize”
“Ahh I love speculation… though so much of it makes sense… because if you think about it… the campaign really didn’t try hard at all for either of IA or NH, RP and Kent Snyder have had 20 years to plan this… RP has beaten the establishment before big time so everyone cheer up, don’t lose heart and donate some more money!”
“I’ve been mulling this all over tonight, and in reading this, the thought occured to me - does Ron Paul now hang his head and hang it up? and I honestly think the man would laugh at such an idea. He’s been a lone voice for decades - these results are nothing but encouragement for him.
The votes have not proven he’s a front runner, but they do NOTHING to prove his ideas wrong. Nothing whatsoever. He knows he’s right, we know he’s right. He’s got the Constitution, the founders, history and economics on his side, and he’s going to keep fighting the good fight as long as we stand with him.
Let’s stand with our man and march with him all the way, to the end.”
“Remember the field was too crowded at first.
Now Romney is hurting bad, Rudy is tanking, Thompson is sleeping, Huckabee is bogus, and McCain is still insane.”
“You all are missing the big picture.
We are a few % points away from #3. You want everyone else to kill everyone else. Then you step in to fill the void.
It is political strategy. If you think Dr. Paul is smart enough to understand the fed, the war, and so on: Why not understand that he knows what he is doing. He is playing the fiddle just like Huckabee….
Wait and watch”
“This thread is making me think. Even moreso, maybe Paul is crazy… just crazy like a fox.
1) You’re sitting on the largest Republican war chest
2) All your opponent’s fundraising is on life support, or they blew all their money in the first two or three primaries.
3) Each of the other candidates has a huge huge negative that will show up and turn off republican voters
If they can pull the following off, it would be the greatest election coup in history:
Parity of wins gives each candidate a few days in the sun, or a few days of good grilling by the conservative media for their undesirable chances. Huck’s vast tax and spending, McCain’s amnesty fiasco and McCain-Feingold, all of Rudy’s baggage from NYC, and Thompson’s lack of enthusiasm and personality all weigh on the mind of the Republican voters. Look at the first two primary winners for Iowa and NH:
Do you think people from the more liberal states are going to look at Huckabee and actually say, “I’ll vote for him”? No, they’re gonna see that record of his and remind themselves that they would never do that. He won Iowa, now he placed 3rd in NH.
Do you think people from the South and West are going to look at McCain and not remember the amnesty BS? They’re not going to vote for him. He placed 3rd in Iowa. In NH he pulled off a win. Is he going to win in Michigan or SC? No way.
As for second place, do you think people are going to look at Romney after he blew all his chances on two states, and consider him an electable candidate? When he polls at 12% nationally? And all of those flip flops from his days as governor?
He notices that Hillary is being built up as the comeback girl, which causes splinters in Obama’s support among independents. They end up looking for a new option, and it ain’t Edwards.
Meanwhile, Paul sits back; he lets the media in Iowa and NH do his polling work for him - with real election results, not opinion polls. He lets his opponents spend themselves into debt. He allows each one of them a few days in the spotlight to allow Republican voters to remember why they suck. He figures out what voting blocs are voting on what issue, and how independent voters are swinging. Using this he super-targets on the winning issues with his 20 million dollar war chest in the 2 weeks prior to super Tuesday (to get the most bang for the buck) while the grassroots continues, and the blimp flies on in SC and Florida.
Remember the secret plan? You’re about to see it
The money was purposefully saved, prepare to get sick of Ron on national TV.
and,
I just gave you all I knew.
They were undershooting so they could get 3rd in the first two states…they weren’t far off in either. They didn’t WANT first, as it’s politically bad with super tuesday so far off (call it the buchannon effect).
Then comes the media blitz, you WILL see the money, and they WILL be targeting proper demographics now that they have the info, this is how he has won all of his elections. No other republican can effectively use the demographic information (fix the economy, end the war).
I don’t know anything beyond that other than they are hoping for others to drop out so he gets more air time during debates.
Others shared these thoughts:
“The media has been saying all along he is not viable, so we didn’t really lose much, yet.”
“It was hardly a very far fifth place finish it was damn close.”
“I have heard this too from the campaign! I had a good cry last night, but I am over it and ready to keep fighting the fight!
This aint over till the fat lady sings!”
“This would be good, especially since all the candidates have blown all their money on the first couple of states, and then Ron Paul comes in and blasts all the states on Super Tuesday with ads to take the lead right out from under everybody….BRILLIANT!”
“Facts we do know here
Based upon expenditure reports from air time being bought in NH and IA
1. RP appears to have about $20 million still stashed
2. RP is asking for another $23 million
3. RP Campaign has played it low key at first - look at the first few ads
4. RP Campaign came out with 4 great ads recently
5. RP campaign is starting tv and radio ads in 10 states this week based upon press releases
6. RP campaign definitely didn’t do an early state strategy in spite of funds raised and looking back if you think how much time and resources spent there by all campaigns RP was never going to stand out from the pack in IA and NH.”
“Gotta really think about it. It would be a good idea. This giga Tuesday thing is new. We cannot look at Iowa and NH as significant at all. It may be that Ron’s campaign has thought outside the box on this. If you think about it…here in California, I talk about the primaries with people and the majority cannot even name a candidate. This especially applies to the republican candidates.”
“The more that I think about this….and from the snippets I heard while in IA the more it becomes obvious that they have taken this course.
For three reasons:
1. Its impossible to stand out from the crowd in IA and NH
2. The field is way too crowded right now… let it settle out some first and let everyone beat up on each other and get bloodied up
3.. Most of their money in all honesty came in in the last month… too late to be spent on IA and NH but perfect for laying out a post IA, NH media blitz that will be unrivaled as other campaigns starve for cash”
“Is Ron Paul not the “thinking man’s candidate?” Once you consider this, “aiming for 3rd” strategy, it really does make sense, whether the poster was privvy to inside info or not. If Ron is sitting on a pile of cash now, why the hell would he continue to hold onto it? I’ll assume he plans on spending it!
Without having to spend a dime, Ron Paul, in a clever way, could be said to have used these two events in IA and NH to fish out all manner of valuable demographic information. Now that he’s got this info on so many important particulars, he can put his war chest to better use than ever before, instead of having to dump piles of cash into various efforts and cross his fingers. If you’ve got less money, overall, than people like Romney, Giuliani, Clinton, Obama, you’d better do your research first so you can get the most for your money when it comes time to spend. Does this not make perfect sense?
This is an intelligent man and regardless of what happens, this is not over until 2009.
Eyes on the prize”
“Ahh I love speculation… though so much of it makes sense… because if you think about it… the campaign really didn’t try hard at all for either of IA or NH, RP and Kent Snyder have had 20 years to plan this… RP has beaten the establishment before big time so everyone cheer up, don’t lose heart and donate some more money!”
“I’ve been mulling this all over tonight, and in reading this, the thought occured to me - does Ron Paul now hang his head and hang it up? and I honestly think the man would laugh at such an idea. He’s been a lone voice for decades - these results are nothing but encouragement for him.
The votes have not proven he’s a front runner, but they do NOTHING to prove his ideas wrong. Nothing whatsoever. He knows he’s right, we know he’s right. He’s got the Constitution, the founders, history and economics on his side, and he’s going to keep fighting the good fight as long as we stand with him.
Let’s stand with our man and march with him all the way, to the end.”
“Remember the field was too crowded at first.
Now Romney is hurting bad, Rudy is tanking, Thompson is sleeping, Huckabee is bogus, and McCain is still insane.”
“You all are missing the big picture.
We are a few % points away from #3. You want everyone else to kill everyone else. Then you step in to fill the void.
It is political strategy. If you think Dr. Paul is smart enough to understand the fed, the war, and so on: Why not understand that he knows what he is doing. He is playing the fiddle just like Huckabee….
Wait and watch”
“This thread is making me think. Even moreso, maybe Paul is crazy… just crazy like a fox.
1) You’re sitting on the largest Republican war chest
2) All your opponent’s fundraising is on life support, or they blew all their money in the first two or three primaries.
3) Each of the other candidates has a huge huge negative that will show up and turn off republican voters
If they can pull the following off, it would be the greatest election coup in history:
Parity of wins gives each candidate a few days in the sun, or a few days of good grilling by the conservative media for their undesirable chances. Huck’s vast tax and spending, McCain’s amnesty fiasco and McCain-Feingold, all of Rudy’s baggage from NYC, and Thompson’s lack of enthusiasm and personality all weigh on the mind of the Republican voters. Look at the first two primary winners for Iowa and NH:
Do you think people from the more liberal states are going to look at Huckabee and actually say, “I’ll vote for him”? No, they’re gonna see that record of his and remind themselves that they would never do that. He won Iowa, now he placed 3rd in NH.
Do you think people from the South and West are going to look at McCain and not remember the amnesty BS? They’re not going to vote for him. He placed 3rd in Iowa. In NH he pulled off a win. Is he going to win in Michigan or SC? No way.
As for second place, do you think people are going to look at Romney after he blew all his chances on two states, and consider him an electable candidate? When he polls at 12% nationally? And all of those flip flops from his days as governor?
He notices that Hillary is being built up as the comeback girl, which causes splinters in Obama’s support among independents. They end up looking for a new option, and it ain’t Edwards.
Meanwhile, Paul sits back; he lets the media in Iowa and NH do his polling work for him - with real election results, not opinion polls. He lets his opponents spend themselves into debt. He allows each one of them a few days in the spotlight to allow Republican voters to remember why they suck. He figures out what voting blocs are voting on what issue, and how independent voters are swinging. Using this he super-targets on the winning issues with his 20 million dollar war chest in the 2 weeks prior to super Tuesday (to get the most bang for the buck) while the grassroots continues, and the blimp flies on in SC and Florida.
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