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harikaried
08-09-2011, 08:40 AM
http://www.newsmax.com/DougWead/iowa-straw-ames-paul/2011/08/09/id/406607


Ron Paul: He is called "the father of the tea party" and described by David Stockman as "the only presidential candidate who really understands the economy." Paul has surged this week and is now coming in third in most national polls. If he beats Romeny or Pawlenty it will be huge. If he beats Bachmann, it will be the talk of the nation for five months.

Paul's surge this week in Iowa is likely linked to the debt limit crisis and the Standard & Poor's downgrading of American credit. In 2003 Ron Paul predicted the housing bubble with its catastrophic impact on homeowners and mortgage lenders. More recently he was the first public figure to predict the credit downgrading.
LadyBastiat
08-09-2011, 08:48 AM
Friggin awesome! Especially this part:


In 2003 Ron Paul predicted the housing bubble with its catastrophic impact on homeowners and mortgage lenders. More recently he was the first public figure to predict the credit downgrading.

RAWR x1776!!!!!
sailingaway
08-09-2011, 09:27 AM
Thing is, I don't think she voted for the bank bailout. Maybe a smaller one, but not TARP, she was attending Ron's meetings against that, too. It is just that she is pretending to understand something she doesn't, and stealing direct lines from Ron's speeches to do it, after he went into her district to help her and supported her with his PAC in her contested election. She will be just as dependent on special interest think tanks for policy as any of the other establishment candidates, which means her policy will be strangely similar to what has gone before. Ron has a true understanding of economics and can carve his own policy.
harikaried
08-09-2011, 10:12 AM
While she didn't vote for TARP (http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2008/h/681), she voted to increase the debt ceiling with the Paul Ryan plan:
http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/h/277
sailingaway
08-09-2011, 10:15 AM
While she didn't vote for TARP (http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2008/h/681), she voted to increase the debt ceiling with the Paul Ryan plan:
http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/h/277

That I know. And that would require the debt ceiling to be raised for 20 years straight. It was just the specific comment on bailouts I wondered about.