Beyond Money with Congressman Ron Paul

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February 15, 2008 by Thomas H. Greco:

Dr. Ron Paul is probably the only member of the United States Congress who really understands the “money problem” and is intent on doing something about it. Yesterday, February 13, 2008, Congressman Paul delivered the following message before the US House of Representatives. It is a clear, concise, and pointed statement about what ails, not just the American economy, but American democracy. And since the monetary systems of virtually every country around the world follow the same basic pattern, it behooves everyone to read it.

If the world is to avoid catastrophic economic and political convulsions, the money problem must be solved. How to achieve that has been the focus of my work for almost 30 years. While Congressman Paul and I may not totally agree on monetary design principles or on implementation strategies, what he proposes should receive close scrutiny and strong support. - t.h.g.

Congressman Ron Paul

Statement on Competing Currencies
February 13, 2008

Madam Speaker,

I rise to speak on the concept of competing currencies. Currency, or money, is what allows civilization to flourish. In the absence of money, barter is the name of the game; if the farmer needs shoes, he must trade his eggs and milk to the cobbler and hope that the cobbler needs eggs and milk. Money makes the transaction process far easier. Rather than having to search for someone with reciprocal wants, the farmer can exchange his milk and eggs for an agreed-upon medium of exchange with which he can then purchase shoes.

This medium of exchange should satisfy certain properties: it should be durable, that is to say, it does not wear out easily; it should be portable, that is, easily carried; it should be divisible into units usable for every-day transactions; it should be recognizable and uniform, so that one unit of money has the same properties as every other unit; it should be scarce, in the economic sense, so that the extant supply does not satisfy the wants of everyone demanding it; it should be stable, so that the value of its purchasing power does not fluctuate wildly; and it should be reproducible, so that enough units of money can be created to satisfy the needs of exchange.

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Originally Posted by zengrifter

February 15, 2008 by Thomas H. Greco:

[I]Dr. Ron Paul is probably the only member of the United States Congress who really understands the “money problem” and is intent on doing something about it. Yesterday, February 13, 2008, Congressman Paul delivered the following

Do you really think, with all their education, that none of the others know what's going on? You may be right--they're all a bunch of big dummies! But I suspect that some of them know good and well what's going on, but the lure of big money has them reading off the script. If you and I can see what's going on from afar, how much more they must be able to see up close and personal.

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DRAFT RON PAUL

Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
February 13, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

When I read Ron Paul’s letter, announcing that he is downgrading his campaign for the Presidency, I recalled the lugubrious soliloquy MacBeth intones upon the announcement that Lady MacBeth has committed suicide:

She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

How heavy that load of moan hangs upon America’s shoulders! What are today’s and tomorrow’s Presidential politics save “a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / signifying nothing”? What, indeed? They are a tale told by four very dangerous idiots—McCain, Huckabee, Obama, and Clinton—any of whose accession to the Presidency would plunge this nation into the “sound and fury” of endless foreign wars, perhaps nuclear in scope; international economic turmoil, when the monetary and banking systems implode; and domestic repression, as a para-militarized National police state ruthlessly clamps down on the people in order to salvage the kakistocracy’s wealth and power. But, rather than signifying nothing, the tale predicts “The way to dusty death” for America—bankrupted, deindustrialized, locked down, and submerged within the “open borders” of the North American Union.

In the face of this looming catastrophe, have Americans nothing to say save “Out, out, brief candle”—goodbye to the Constitution, the Republic, the Nation itself, and with them all hope of future freedom and prosperity? Are Americans willing to abide in meek resignation the torrent of terrible troubles that “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” will surely pour down upon their heads? Or will they stop “Creep[ing] in [their] petty pace from day to day” and instead seize control over their own collective destiny?

In his letter, Ron Paul writes: “What a year this has been. And what achievements we have had.” “Has been”?! “Had”?! These verbs sound in the wrong tense. Patriotic Americans must not be satisfied with having stirred up a ripple of resistance on the surface of this country’s political history. Now is the time to transform that history from its depths, before transformation becomes impossible. But who is to stand at the head of that enterprise other than Ron Paul? America can find no one else—in time.

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