>>>>WND POLL: PAUL for GOLD STANDARD<<<<

[billyjoeallen]

Wold Net Daily poll asks "Should we return to the gold standard?"

One of the options is "Yes, and tha's why we need to elect Ron Paul"

Please vote in this poll. Worldnet daily had a HUGE viewer base and it is a great way to steer votes from Huck. Many viewers are from the Christian Right.


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/polls/

[goldstandard]

"Should we return to the gold standard?"

Yes, of course.

[billyjoeallen]

lol. Goldstandard thinks we should return to the Gold standard! Who would have guessed?

[billyjoeallen]

keep this thread going.

[Joe3113]

I think you need to buy your gold back before going back on the gold standard. It all got sold to Europe.

[ihsv]

You might want to break up the link

[JimInNY]

Should we? Ron Paul says we should. While I believe most of what he says, at his word, this one I am too ignorant about to cast a vote.

I have heard arguments for and against. Someone convince me, please. ;)

[JimInNY]

You might want to break up the link

Curious, why should we break up links? Is it to keep server logs from knowing where the traffic is coming from?

Another way to do it and make it easier for people to copy and paste is to use the HTML Wrap tags shown as < > on the post form.

Just highlight the link text on the post form and then click on < > and get this:


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/polls/

[BeFranklin]

Didn't want any potential spam, but I went ahead and signed up my gmail account and voted. I think its important for WND to have a better idea how many of us are out here.

[mmink15]

You might want to break up the link

true for polls

[billyjoeallen]

Should we? Ron Paul says we should. While I believe most of what he says, at his word, this one I am too ignorant about to cast a vote.

I have heard arguments for and against. Someone convince me, please. ;)

Thechnically, RP's platform plank is "competing currencies"-ending the federal Reserve's monopoly on issuing money.

This is an opportununity to persuade Joseph Farah, the Editor there to endorse Ron Paul. He is wavering between Huck and Doc P. He has already ruled out all other candidates.

[zakkubin]

woa guys wait.

Paul wants to allow gold as a competing currency. Saying anything further than that at this moment turns most people off.

[freedom-maniac]

"Ye shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," William Jennings Bryan

I believe we should have a silver standard, which is also Constitutional.

[BeFranklin]

Thechnically, RP's platform plank is "competing currencies"-ending the federal Reserve's monopoly on issuing money.

This is an opportununity to persuade Joseph Farah, the Editor there to endorse Ron Paul. He is wavering between Huck and Doc P. He has already ruled out all other candidates.

That's how we played freemarketopoly. Competing currencies with both a bank and an investment fund. It was a lot of fun :D

Competing monopoly currency. End the Money Monopoly!
http://www.freemarketopoly.com/prototypes/50bucks_prototype.jpg

[billyjoeallen]

I started a new thread with a broken link.

[billyjoeallen]

"Ye shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," William Jennings Bryan

I believe we should have a silver standard, which is also Constitutional.

The plank is "competing currencies." any privately issued scrip backed by a commodity would be legal. Any commodity. May or may not be an intermediary step to a return to the gold standard.

If a new currency standard emerges, it should be the market that determines it, not the government.

Just vote for RP in the poll, please.

[billyjoeallen]

woa guys wait.

Paul wants to allow gold as a competing currency. Saying anything further than that at this moment turns most people off.

If you have ever been to World Net Daily, it is full of gold bugs. It's mostly a conservative Christian site, but they HATE the Fedral reserve and love the idea of sound money.

This is a way to get the people who are leaning Huckabee to see how much they have in common with US.

[billyjoeallen]

I think you need to buy your gold back before going back on the gold standard. It all got sold to Europe.

The poll doesn't ask when we should return to a gold standard. It doesn't ask it the standard is market standard (like MS Windows) or a government mandated standard (like federal reserve fiat currency).

[BeFranklin]

The plank is "competing currencies." any privately issued scrip backed by a commodity would be legal. Any commodity. May or may not be an intermediary step to a return to the gold standard.

If a new currency standard emerges, it should be the market that determines it, not the government.

Just vote for RP in the poll, please.

Vote for Ron Paul, and then send a letter to WorldNetDaily thanking them for the Ron Paul poll, and correcting them on the position.

Ask them to print a story correcting the error!!!!!!
:D

[BeFranklin]

bump (fyi this poll requires registration, so not so true)

[billyjoeallen]

You might want to break up the link

I tried posting a second thread with a broken link, but it didn't work. Is there a way to edit the original thread post?

[billyjoeallen]

Should we? Ron Paul says we should. While I believe most of what he says, at his word, this one I am too ignorant about to cast a vote.

I have heard arguments for and against. Someone convince me, please. ;)

The poll isn't quite accurate. RP believes the gold standard was preferable to the currenct system of paper money backed by nothing, but that's not saying much. Just about any other system would be better than the one we've got.

What Doc P. is proposing is allowing a willing buyer and seller to use any medium of exchange they both agree to. Market standards would emerge, but not be mandated by government. Real competition or even the threat of competition would be a powerful incentive for the issuers (whether government or private) to not devalue the currency.

[BeFranklin]

Bump - 400 votes to go. Come on, lets dominate this poll

[haigh]

Ron Paul applauds the integrity of a monetary unit backed by gold but as for a specific proposal his is competing currencies. See this proposal of his presented less than two months ago:

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2007/cr121307h.htm

[Phenom24]

voted

[steve254]

bump

[billyjoeallen]

can someone post this over at DailyPaul.com, please?

[BeFranklin]

Ron Paul applauds the integrity of a monetary unit backed by gold but as for a specific proposal his is competing currencies. See this proposal of his presented less than two months ago:

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2007/cr121307h.htm

Don't forget to write WND, and tell them that, and that ought to do a story to correct it :D

[jake]

legalize competing currencies !

[billyjoeallen]

Two columnists at WND have officially endorsed Dr. P: Ilana Mercer (Return to Reason) and Vox Day (Vox Populi). Editor in Chief Joseph Farah has narrowed his possible endorsement to either Huck or Doc. Paul. A win in this poll could put him on our side.

[BeFranklin]

Guys, the gap is widening the other way. I think freerepublic or someone must have found out about the poll, and is voting against us. We got to win this!

[billyjoeallen]

vote for Paul.