Thanks for responding and simultaneously illustrating my point. Why would people rather have a president in office that is willing and able to spend! spend! spend! on all sorts of wasteful crap while lying to our fat faces about why we need it and where we need it and how urgently we need it; as opposed to someone that is explaining why we're in this mess and educating people on why these policies are bad. The American people would rather have a liar in office than someone with best intentions.... Because maybe his best intentions won't be successful. Does anyone see the problem in this? You'd rather have someone destroy our economy, because well.... at least they'll be successful in their plans?
Regardless, I don't think you understand what the message Ron and his supporters are in love with. Going back to the gold standard would absolutely stop inflation. while also doing nothing else but... stop inflation. Do you know what's magical about this? There are other ways of stopping inflation. Auditing the fed & creating legislature that prevents our government from printing $$ at will and fiddling with interest rates will also - Stop Inflation. I know there is no way he can get the gold standard back. It's not feasible. It's not likely. It's not possible. But you know what? Understanding the gold standard & educating people on Why the gold standard would fix this - is more the point. As president, Ron Paul will NOT allow our government to do the things we're currently doing that is crippling our dollar. There is not another candidate that is taking this issue seriously. And because people think that "going back to the gold standard is not possible" that he can't fix this problem. Which is simply not true. When Ron Paul Talks about the Gold standard, He's pin pointing the exact moment in which we got into this mess. The next logical question is how can we fix it? To which any person that understands the problem knows is to permanently stop the government from hyper inflating the economy and tie the dollar back to a slowly growing commodity - like gold. Keep in mind, I just said PERMANENTLY solve this problem. A point Ron Paul has illustrated over and over is you never allow a precedents to be set where someone could eventually take advantage of. You never grant power to the president that you wouldn't want your worst enemy to take advantage of. Does that make sense? When war is declared without the consent of congress, it becomes a precedent allowing every president in the future to declare war because he has a personal grudge against this country or that. Or has a vested interest in keeping oil prices at a premium. But anyway, I'm getting off topic here. Alot of the issues with our economy can be fixed if the government would permanently stay out of the market. That's all that needs to be done. Going back to the gold standard is not necessary to address this issue. But it makes it permanent... until some other president - with the best intentions - goes back off of it; paving the way for future abuse.
I guess the more important question is now, When this ends up as an open convention within the next couple of months and Ron Paul switch parties from Republican to Independent. Will his supporters still vote for him because they know that a vote for Romney/Santorum/Gengrich really isn't much different than a vote for Obama? Or will they be fear mongered by the Republican GOP into believing that a vote for an independent is a vote taken away from the republican party.
Love the Man, Embrace the Man, Vote with YOUR heart and DO NOT let the liberal OR the Conservative media change your mind with FEAR.
