I volunteer to translate to spanish any Ron Paul promotion material

[hugolp]

Hi

I am from the south of Europe. I have been watching Ron Paul videos over Youtube, and that got me into monetary policy and economics in general. I was a leftist socialist before but during this months I have completely switched, and support free-market. Now everything makes a lot more sense. I say to my friends that Ron Paul has saved me from socialism. They still give me the weird look, but hopefully Ill get them interested too. There is lots and lots of socialism arround here, believe me.

To the point: I would like to colaborate, and since spanish is one of the languages I speak and write fluently I think I could be useful translating any kind of material (audio or video) to spanish, for the spanish speaking comunity in USA. I think that having articles in spanish or video subtitles in spanish could help spread the message.

Leave a message here or send me a private message to contact.

Hugo

[Jeremy]

cool =o

[ClockwiseSpark]

Awesome, thanks! :D

[fr33domfightr]

Hi

I am from the south of Europe. I have been watching Ron Paul videos over Youtube, and that got me into monetary policy and economics in general. I was a leftist socialist before but during this months I have completely switched, and support free-market. Now everything makes a lot more sense. I say to my friends that Ron Paul has saved me from socialism. They still give me the weird look, but hopefully Ill get them interested too. There is lots and lots of socialism arround here, believe me.

To the point: I would like to colaborate, and since spanish is one of the languages I speak and write fluently I think I could be useful translating any kind of material (audio or video) to spanish, for the spanish speaking comunity in USA. I think that having articles in spanish or video subtitles in spanish could help spread the message.

Leave a message here or send me a private message to contact.

Hugo


That means, Castillian Spanish, right? Is Latin Spanish much different??


FF

[ronpaulhawaii]

ditto^^^

[fatjohn]

Hi

I am from the south of Europe. I have been watching Ron Paul videos over Youtube, and that got me into monetary policy and economics in general. I was a leftist socialist before but during this months I have completely switched, and support free-market. Now everything makes a lot more sense. I say to my friends that Ron Paul has saved me from socialism. They still give me the weird look, but hopefully Ill get them interested too. There is lots and lots of socialism arround here, believe me.

To the point: I would like to colaborate, and since spanish is one of the languages I speak and write fluently I think I could be useful translating any kind of material (audio or video) to spanish, for the spanish speaking comunity in USA. I think that having articles in spanish or video subtitles in spanish could help spread the message.

Leave a message here or send me a private message to contact.

Hugo

off topic, but are you from Spain? How's it going there? I've read jobs are getting slaughtered unemployment rate at 13 percent or so. I'm from the lowlands actually and haven't been keeping much of a focus on outer europe.

[hugolp]

That means, Castillian Spanish, right? Is Latin Spanish much different??


FF

Yes, castillian. But they are very very similar. Its just like british english and american english. Each south america country have their expression and their special words, but all of us have no problem understanding each other.

So I was thinking on adding spanish subtitles to the youtube user aravoth video: "The philosopher stone" (or something like that). That video is awesmo. But I am open to suggestions. If anyone have anything that they think it will be helpfull to translate to spanish just send me a private message.

Hugo

[hugolp]

off topic, but are you from Spain? How's it going there? I've read jobs are getting slaughtered unemployment rate at 13 percent or so. I'm from the lowlands actually and haven't been keeping much of a focus on outer europe.

I can explain you mainly about Spain. Things are bad. People is starting to miss on mortgage payments and here the housing bubble was the mother of all bubbles we have ever had.

The main key to understand the spanish recession/depression and why not even one bank has been into trouble and have been even buying other countries banks, when we are one of the less productive economies is this:

- 2 or 3 years ago, a law was passed "silently" that converted mortgages into personal loans. Basically, if you default in your mortgage the bank tries to sell your house, discounts what it gets from the house from the debt you had, and the difference you still ow it to the bank. So, for example, if you asked for 200.000 for a house and still have to pay 170.000, and now that the housing bubble is bursting and prices are going down, you loose your job and can not pay the mortgage, the bank sells the house and gets (f.e.) 120.000 euros. So you are still in debt for 50.000 euros. If you have any other possesion (even if it was not in the contract) the judges will take and give it to the bank. If that is not enough and your parents garantized your mortgage, they will go for your parents house or any other posesion they may have. If non of that is posible the goverment will intervine your salary (if any) and give a big part direclty to the bank until you pay the debt. Imagine having no house, the economy in rescession and trying to get a job, and when you do the goverment takes almost all of it, and you need to pay the rent, food and whatever on whats left. You literally become a slave of the bank.

The best part is that the law was passed by the socialist party. I guess they think thats looking after the workers....

And that is why nobody is defaulting and everybody is trying to pay the banks in any way they can. And that is why the spanish banks are still healthy. And I say still because we are the country where unemployment is growing bigger of all the European Union, and next year is going to be very very hard. Our whole economy was based on the housing bubble and now is gone for good.

2009 will be crusial, and the president has promise that by summer things will be better. But I believe they wont and the situation will get tense as people go into the situation I explained. We'll see.

As for the rest of Europe, England is fucked. Really fucked. But the European Union is kind of ok. Its suffering the recession but as Germany had its housing bubble years ago, they are taking it easy, they are even creating employment. France is not as good as Germany, but not as bad as the south countries. Spain and Greece are the big EU problems.

Hugo

[danberkeley]

I can explain you mainly about Spain. Things are bad. People is starting to miss on mortgage payments and here the housing bubble was the mother of all bubbles we have ever had.

The main key to understand the spanish recession/depression and why not even one bank has been into trouble and have been even buying other countries banks, when we are one of the less productive economies is this:

- 2 or 3 years ago, a law was passed "silently" that converted mortgages into personal loans. Basically, if you default in your mortgage the bank tries to sell your house, discounts what it gets from the house from the debt you had, and the difference you still ow it to the bank. So, for example, if you asked for 200.000 for a house and still have to pay 170.000, and now that the housing bubble is bursting and prices are going down, you loose your job and can not pay the mortgage, the bank sells the house and gets (f.e.) 120.000 euros. So you are still in debt for 50.000 euros. If you have any other possesion (even if it was not in the contract) the judges will take and give it to the bank. If that is not enough and your parents garantized your mortgage, they will go for your parents house or any other posesion they may have. If non of that is posible the goverment will intervine your salary (if any) and give a big part direclty to the bank until you pay the debt. Imagine having no house, the economy in rescession and trying to get a job, and when you do the goverment takes almost all of it, and you need to pay the rent, food and whatever on whats left. You literally become a slave of the bank.

The best part is that the law was passed by the socialist party. I guess they think thats looking after the workers....

And that is why nobody is defaulting and everybody is trying to pay the banks in any way they can. And that is why the spanish banks are still healthy. And I say still because we are the country where unemployment is growing bigger of all the European Union, and next year is going to be very very hard. Our whole economy was based on the housing bubble and now is gone for good.

2009 will be crusial, and the president has promise that by summer things will be better. But I believe they wont and the situation will get tense as people go into the situation I explained. We'll see.

As for the rest of Europe, England is fucked. Really fucked. But the European Union is kind of ok. Its suffering the recession but as Germany had its housing bubble years ago, they are taking it easy, they are even creating employment. France is not as good as Germany, but not as bad as the south countries. Spain and Greece are the big EU problems.

Hugo

Did the law only affect future mortgages or did it also affect current mortages? Also, after the law was enacted, was there a drop in the purchases of houses? Lastly, is it still possible to create a mortgage that limits buyer's the liability to the house? Or does the law prohibit that?

[fatjohn]

I can explain you mainly about Spain. Things are bad. People is starting to miss on mortgage payments and here the housing bubble was the mother of all bubbles we have ever had.

The main key to understand the spanish recession/depression and why not even one bank has been into trouble and have been even buying other countries banks, when we are one of the less productive economies is this:

- 2 or 3 years ago, a law was passed "silently" that converted mortgages into personal loans. Basically, if you default in your mortgage the bank tries to sell your house, discounts what it gets from the house from the debt you had, and the difference you still ow it to the bank. So, for example, if you asked for 200.000 for a house and still have to pay 170.000, and now that the housing bubble is bursting and prices are going down, you loose your job and can not pay the mortgage, the bank sells the house and gets (f.e.) 120.000 euros. So you are still in debt for 50.000 euros. If you have any other possesion (even if it was not in the contract) the judges will take and give it to the bank. If that is not enough and your parents garantized your mortgage, they will go for your parents house or any other posesion they may have. If non of that is posible the goverment will intervine your salary (if any) and give a big part direclty to the bank until you pay the debt. Imagine having no house, the economy in rescession and trying to get a job, and when you do the goverment takes almost all of it, and you need to pay the rent, food and whatever on whats left. You literally become a slave of the bank.

The best part is that the law was passed by the socialist party. I guess they think thats looking after the workers....

And that is why nobody is defaulting and everybody is trying to pay the banks in any way they can. And that is why the spanish banks are still healthy. And I say still because we are the country where unemployment is growing bigger of all the European Union, and next year is going to be very very hard. Our whole economy was based on the housing bubble and now is gone for good.

2009 will be crusial, and the president has promise that by summer things will be better. But I believe they wont and the situation will get tense as people go into the situation I explained. We'll see.

As for the rest of Europe, England is fucked. Really fucked. But the European Union is kind of ok. Its suffering the recession but as Germany had its housing bubble years ago, they are taking it easy, they are even creating employment. France is not as good as Germany, but not as bad as the south countries. Spain and Greece are the big EU problems.

Hugo

Wow. Don't really know what to say. For Belgium and the Netherlands though no one seems to suffer yet except for those who had stocks. Sure our banks failed horrendously but hey, government stepped in so no biggie. They will even try to pay back those who used ice save or hauthink bank of iceland. Yeah sure they get in with 10k let it go for 10 years at 8 percent to 20k and then the government pays them the full 20k. Pff come on no risk, no fun right? Wrong appearantly.
Anyway as you might know Belgian government has recently fallen, again, so guess thats good. Government cant do much then. But i think this year our housing bubbel will pop. Unemployment is just recently on the rise but picking up pace but fairly low still. 8% Belgium, 3% The Netherlands. But now since it's picking up it will lead to lower demand for expensive housing and will cause that bubble to pop. Will be interesting. BTW why is UK fubar?

[lucius]

Hi

I am from the south of Europe. I have been watching Ron Paul videos over Youtube, and that got me into monetary policy and economics in general. I was a leftist socialist before but during this months I have completely switched, and support free-market. Now everything makes a lot more sense. I say to my friends that Ron Paul has saved me from socialism. They still give me the weird look, but hopefully Ill get them interested too. There is lots and lots of socialism arround here, believe me.

To the point: I would like to colaborate, and since spanish is one of the languages I speak and write fluently I think I could be useful translating any kind of material (audio or video) to spanish, for the spanish speaking comunity in USA. I think that having articles in spanish or video subtitles in spanish could help spread the message.

Leave a message here or send me a private message to contact.

Hugo

Thanks!

[hillertexas]

As for the rest of Europe, England is fucked. Really fucked.

What's going on in England?

[kathy88]

What a wonderful offer! This is a great idea.

[canadian4ronpaul]

i read BBC all the time, even though its a total lefty propaganda news site in my opinion. anyways, a lot of people have said the recession will hit the UK the worst, and if even the BBC is saying it, i would think it would be doubly worse.

On another note, its good to see some europeans coming around, they tend to have the stigma of being more left than us canadians. I live with a german dude this semester and he too is a "liberty minded" person (mostly because his dad is Hans-Werner Sinn).

I think that subtitling the "philosopher's stone" video is an excellent idea, that is one of my favourite video's as well. Good luck, and spread the good news throughout europe!

[qh4dotcom]

Bump

[hugolp]

I was asked about Ron Paul in Spain and I answered that nobody knows him here. It turns out I was too pesimistic.

This is a mainstream newspaper: Ron Paul: "The bailout plans based in fear are a form of economic terrorism" (http://www.libertaddigital.com/economia/ron-paul-los-rescates-economicos-basados-en-el-miedo-son-una-forma-de-terrorismo-1276348100/)

And in meneame, the "spanish digg", it got to the front page. http://meneame.net/story/ron-paul-rescates-basados-miedo-son-forma-terrorismo-economico

The other day, I saw another new about Ron Paul in meneame, but it was in english and it did not made it to the front-page.

It seems Ron Paul is geting international.

Hugo

[lucius]

I was asked about Ron Paul in Spain and I answered that nobody knows him here. It turns out I was too pesimistic.

This is a mainstream newspaper: Ron Paul: "The bailout plans based in fear are a form of economic terrorism" (http://www.libertaddigital.com/economia/ron-paul-los-rescates-economicos-basados-en-el-miedo-son-una-forma-de-terrorismo-1276348100/)

And in meneame, the "spanish digg", it got to the front page. http://meneame.net/story/ron-paul-rescates-basados-miedo-son-forma-terrorismo-economico

The other day, I saw another new about Ron Paul in meneame, but it was in english and it did not made it to the front-page.

It seems Ron Paul is geting international.

Hugo

That's good, because our common problem, Leviathan, is international as well.

[haymor]

Hey Hugo, you are not the only spanish in this forum hehe. I'm from barcelona and although i don't use to write, almost every day i read this website to see what's going on in the US. Last autumn i wanted also to translate some videos to help spreading the word but it turned out to be very hard so I left. One of the most interesting youtube videos for me to translate would be, "money credit and the federal reserve" from misesmedia's channel. The first 10 minutes are already subtitled by someone but the documentary is much more long. Take a look if you want.

I also discovered Ron Paul recently, and i really think that he is the hope for the world.

Cheers,

[eduardo89]

That means, Castillian Spanish, right? Is Latin Spanish much different??


FF

I speak Mexican Spanish, and yes, Spain Spanish is quite different.

I can help with translating into Spanish, German and Russian if need be!

[heavenlyboy34]

Thanks for sharing all the info, hugo. Very interesting stuff.

HB34.