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12-20-2008, 10:44 AM
Walter Block & I Refute Franklin DelanObama (http://www.mikechurch.com/joomla/surf-reports/walter-block-&-i-refute-franklin-delanobama.html)
Walter: So your point is roughly correct. I would say that in the good old days, in the 1800s and the 1900s, we didn’t have public education which ruined the minds of the people. And people appreciated the gold standard much more. Now, Ron Paul has been talking about the gold standard until he’s ready to burst. And you know, nobody was listening to him, and the people on Fox and, you know, ABC and NBC were dismissing him.
Mike: But you notice now, Walter, that Ron Paul is a favorite of Neil Cavuto. He’s a favorite of John Roberts in the morning on CNN. He’s a favorite now on CNBC. Peter Schiff is also a favorite now. And people are going – I’ve even read some conservatives that were just doing cartwheels over why is Ron Paul even on the stage with our great guys like Fred Thompson and what have you, now saying we’re sorry, yeah, Ron Paul kind of called all this. He doesn’t seem like such a kook now, does he.
Walter: No, he – well, he never seemed like a kook to me.
Mike: Well, he didn’t seem like a kook to me, either, once I got religion, once I found Hayek and Mises. I totally, when I began to study this stuff, came around. That was my enlightenment, Walter, was reading “The Road to Serfdom” twice from cover to cover and going, like, wow, never thought of it like that. What an – and I’ve encouraged my listeners. You want to read a book and try to understand this, that’s a great place to start. It’s not long. Hayek wrote in ultimately understandable terms so everybody could understand it. And it’s just brilliance. And he witnessed it in Germany. He saw it happen. So it’s basically an account of what happened to Nazi Germany. But I didn’t mean to interrupt you. Your answer, your take on the question I asked about the currency....
He was also saying the other day he supported a new Con Con, because there was no way the Socialists would get enough states to go along with their madness. I wasn't able to listen to the whole thing and haven't found anything on his site about it yet.
Walter: So your point is roughly correct. I would say that in the good old days, in the 1800s and the 1900s, we didn’t have public education which ruined the minds of the people. And people appreciated the gold standard much more. Now, Ron Paul has been talking about the gold standard until he’s ready to burst. And you know, nobody was listening to him, and the people on Fox and, you know, ABC and NBC were dismissing him.
Mike: But you notice now, Walter, that Ron Paul is a favorite of Neil Cavuto. He’s a favorite of John Roberts in the morning on CNN. He’s a favorite now on CNBC. Peter Schiff is also a favorite now. And people are going – I’ve even read some conservatives that were just doing cartwheels over why is Ron Paul even on the stage with our great guys like Fred Thompson and what have you, now saying we’re sorry, yeah, Ron Paul kind of called all this. He doesn’t seem like such a kook now, does he.
Walter: No, he – well, he never seemed like a kook to me.
Mike: Well, he didn’t seem like a kook to me, either, once I got religion, once I found Hayek and Mises. I totally, when I began to study this stuff, came around. That was my enlightenment, Walter, was reading “The Road to Serfdom” twice from cover to cover and going, like, wow, never thought of it like that. What an – and I’ve encouraged my listeners. You want to read a book and try to understand this, that’s a great place to start. It’s not long. Hayek wrote in ultimately understandable terms so everybody could understand it. And it’s just brilliance. And he witnessed it in Germany. He saw it happen. So it’s basically an account of what happened to Nazi Germany. But I didn’t mean to interrupt you. Your answer, your take on the question I asked about the currency....
He was also saying the other day he supported a new Con Con, because there was no way the Socialists would get enough states to go along with their madness. I wasn't able to listen to the whole thing and haven't found anything on his site about it yet.