Ron Paul: TIME IS RUNNING OUT

[LibertyEagle]

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

[ItsTime]

That is leadership my friends

[Bruno]

So well-written it is worth posting it twice

[Josh_LA]

downright sinister.

damn right.

[Hamer]

When are people going to wake up?

Unite people the time is NOW OR NEVER!

[matthylland]

This is truly an amazing letter, one for the history books.
Our differences can be set aside and settled, now we need to come together as Americans.

The future will look back at today as the day we began the fight to get our country back.

[Menthol Patch]

Lets keep this thread bumped up! Time is running out!

[NEPA_Revolution]

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/9/22/128665870983526948.jpg

[Bruno]

has everyone been calling their senators and congressmen/women?

It works. they are listening. they normally don't get calls, so this will be a huge spike in calls.

[pacelli]

For a man that doesn't like to give marching orders, this should be taken seriously and respectfully:


Call them! Let them hear from you! Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.

[itshappening]

........

[moostraks]

bump...

[LibertyEagle]

bump

[SLSteven]

If Paulson is so worried about his banking cronies, he can reach into his own pocket and pull out part of his 700 million dollars of person wealth.

[tropicangela]

Down with the fed and down with the bankers.

[LibertyEagle]

If Paulson is so worried about his banking cronies, he can reach into his own pocket and pull out part of his 700 million dollars of person wealth.

Did ya mean BILLION?

[SLSteven]

If Paulson is so worried about his banking cronies, he can reach into his own pocket and pull out part of his 700 million dollars of person wealth.

And if they need more, Paulson should take out the loan and stop stealing from the American people.

[Truth Warrior]

Ron is correct again. NO surprise there. ;)

[Mark]

Added to top of Home Page (http://TheFreedomRevolution.com)

[LibertyEagle]

bump

[Mark]

They keep saying it's "for the good of the people" to give them our money.

Yeah... like when it's good for you to give a thug your money when he has a gun pointing at you and says "give me your money or I'll shoot".

[Badger Paul]

He knows where I stand:

"If you're crazy enough to vote for this bailout, then I'm crazy enough to vote for Kevin Barrett. So don't do it."

[D.H.]

Yes, I emailed my congressman & senator. I said no bail out at all. I kept it short and I also mentioned the FBI investigation that is starting.

How can they vote on something with this cloud over it?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302673.html

If this hasn't been posted. Please feel free to make a thread about it.

[SLSteven]

They want us to believe we are bailing out ourselves?

[wizardwatson]

They keep saying it's "for the good of the people" to give them our money.

Yeah... like when it's good for you to give a thug your money when he has a gun pointing at you and says "give me your money or I'll shoot".

hehe, I've been thinking about this "interlude skit" from the song "Criminal" on Eminem's "Marhall Mathers" LP. If you're not familiar it might not be that funny.

Basically its a skit of a stick-up of a convenience store.

Just replace Eminem with Paulson (or the rest of the scoundrels) and the teller with the American people (and Dr. Dre with the enabling spineless congress maybe).


[Dr. Dre]A'ight look (uh huh) just go up in that motherfucker
get the motherfuckin' money and get the fuck up outta there
[Em] Aight
[Dr. Dre]I'll be right here waitin on you
[Em] Aight
[Dr. Dre]Yo Em
[Em] What?!
[Dr. Dre]Don't kill nobody this time
[Em] Awwright...
(whispering) ...god damn, this motherfucker gets on my fuckin' nerves...
(whistling) How you doin'?
[Teller] Hi, how can I help you?
[Eminem] Yeah, I need to make a withdraw,
[Teller] Okay,
[Eminem] Put the fuckin' money in the bag bitch
and I won't kill you!
[Teller] What? Oh my god, don't kill me
[Eminem] I'm not gonna kill you bitch, quit lookin' around...
[Teller] Don't kill me, please don't kill me...
[Eminem] I said I'm not gonna fuckin' kill you...
Hurry the fuck up! {gunshot} Thank you!

Anyway, if you didn't get it he kills the teller at the end after she gives him the money even though she was begging him not to kill her.

[RJB]

That's the angriest letter from the man that I've ever read.

[mconder]

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.


How true.

[SLSteven]

That's the angriest letter from the man that I've ever read.

I thought the same.

[awake]

Standing By to create 'The List' - we must create the digg bomb of the century.

[Mark]

hehe, I've been thinking about this "interlude skit" from the song "Criminal" on Eminem's "Marhall Mathers" LP.

He sets precedents.

[kathy88]

I got all choked up when I read this in my email. :)

[constituent]

That is leadership my friends

yes indeed.

[lucius]

Still waters run deep:


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.

[Join The Paul Side]

Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this "sadly necessary." Sad, yes. Necessary? Don't make me laugh.

Best shit he has ever wrote. :D

[puppetmaster]

Bump

[dsentell]

My Leader - My President

I take my marching orders from Ron Paul . . .

[puppetmaster]

I am printing these out and handing them out everywhere

[Sandra]

They are starting a "scare the public" campaign. News stories are circulating about how it will affect the average Joe by forcing foreclosures and preventing "joe" from accessing his bank account. Now they're hyping it up for the average consumer. what pieces of filth.

[Mark]

They are starting a "scare the public" campaign. News stories are circulating about how it will affect the average Joe by forcing foreclosures and preventing "joe" from accessing his bank account. Now they're hyping it up for the average consumer. what pieces of filth.

FUD - fear uncertainty and doubt strikes once more - When will people stop being fooled again?

[Deborah K]

Send this letter to the media! Start with Glenn Beck and ask him to interview G. Edward Griffin.

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[QueenB4Liberty]

has everyone been calling their senators and congressmen/women?

It works. they are listening. they normally don't get calls, so this will be a huge spike in calls.

What have you been saying? I wrote to them, but I do want to call them, I'm just not quite sure what to say besides, I oppose the bailouts!!!!1111!1111!!

[Indy Vidual]

Lets keep this thread bumped up! Time is running out!

Time to bump...
Bump time.

[ClockwiseSpark]

What have you been saying? I wrote to them, but I do want to call them, I'm just not quite sure what to say besides, I oppose the bailouts!!!!1111!1111!!

Tell them you represent a group and you will not support them in the upcoming elections if they vote for any bailout proposal.

[Indy Vidual]

That is leadership my friends

It's time... :p

[RonPaulR3VOLUTION]

FUD - fear uncertainty and doubt strikes once more - When will people stop being fooled again?

What I wonder is if the Founders would stay and fight, or leave as they originally did?

I'd guess leave, except that there's nowhere left to go.

If you think they'd stay, explain why they left originally. You'd probably find it was for mostly the same reasons one would leave today.

And no, I'm not fearful. I'm just pointing out that we are up against a challenge even the Founders would probably have preferred not to take on.

[Deborah K]

After I harrass some of the democrats in congress tomorrow, I intend to fax RP's letter to every news outlet on that list! We should start a fax blast!

[LibertyEagle]

After I harrass some of the democrats in congress tomorrow, I intend to fax RP's letter to every news outlet on that list! We should start a fax blast!

Hey, that's a good idea. :)

[Deborah K]

What I wonder is if the Founders would stay and fight, or leave as they originally did?

I'd guess leave, except that there's nowhere left to go.

If you think they'd stay, explain why they left originally. You'd probably find it was for mostly the same reasons one would leave today.

And no, I'm not fearful. I'm just pointing out that we are up against a challenge even the Founders would probably have preferred not to take on.

What about the first revolution? They stayed for that!

[Drknows]

i wonder what the market will be like tomorrow.

im guessing it will be bad after all the crazy shit that happen today.

[mediahasyou]

America will be footing the bill for generations. America had a massive debt for 200 years...However, Bush has managed to Gain 5x that amount of debt in 6 years.

Yeah War. Yeah Murder. Yeah Stealing. I dont think this could get any better.

[QueenB4Liberty]

Tell them you represent a group and you will not support them in the upcoming elections if they vote for any bailout proposal.

What group?

lol I'm sorry for so many questions.

[RonPaulR3VOLUTION]

What about the first revolution? They stayed for that!

Well, my question didn't make much sense, I guess. I meant why didn't the colonists stay in Europe, or even go back, and fight for liberty there? And my point was that a lot of us probably feel the way they did when they decided to leave. The problem for us though is that there is nowhere left to go. Which also means there is not really any point to the question, I suppose.

[MsDoodahs]

bump for the info in the FIRST POST. :D