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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 07:54 PM Original message |
What is it with the Ron Paul crowd and the Fed... don't they know |
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Duct Tape (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Ron Paul and his cult never quite get it. Sometimes Paul will say |
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negativenihil (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Ron Paul is the Ralph Nader of the 2012 election. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. No, the Paul supporters are pond scum but they are not idiots |
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la la (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 09:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. boy- are you correct on that one! |
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the other one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 01:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Didn't Gore WIN the popular vote by a half million votes? |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
44. not where I live. Some of my neighbors are RP supporters and they just wrote him in for 2008. |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
3. The Fed is government - which is to be blamed for everything. |
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emcguffie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
24. The Fed is not government. It is a private bank. |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 05:32 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Garbage. the Fed pays taxpayers interest --- in fact $125 billion 09-10 |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:28 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. The Fed is paying more in interest.. |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:49 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Who is the Fed paying interest to? |
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emcguffie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:02 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. I think not. But I'll do more research. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:07 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. BfK Is Right |
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emcguffie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 01:22 PM Response to Reply #35 |
49. That terminology is over my head. |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. The Fed is audited - has been every year and the audit is made public. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
50. Deleted message |
blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. Sadly |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. some are here unreccing this - I recced |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:03 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. that's ok.. I'm not looking for greatest |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Net recommendation: +3 votes (Your vote: +1) |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. Shit, some of the organizing members of our #Occypy group are Paulies... |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
9. The Federal Reserve is a major culprit in the destroyed economy |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Alan Greenspan ruined the Fed for many liberals with his Randian |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 05:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
26. We need a central bank, we do not need the Fed. |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. The Fed is the epitome of a Central Bank! |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
12. The Fed and Wall Street pretty much staff from the same pool. |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. the Fed needs to ensure banks don't over leverage |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. We need a regulatory agency... |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 05:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. We don't need the Federal Reserve. |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 12:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
45. Geithner - head of the NY Fed since '03 and now Treasury Sec, - how did he do. n/t |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. The only people you should be singling out are the 1%, the ruling class. |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
42. so seemingly obvious that i'm at a loss why everybody doesn't get it, seriously |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 12:11 AM Response to Reply #13 |
46. + 1000 n/t |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
15. K&R! nt |
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PETRUS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
16. Ron Paul is not my friend |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 01:31 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Deregulation is the problem. |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 01:44 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. We agree. |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 01:43 AM Response to Original message |
21. the Paultards seem to think the Federal Reserve is a government institution. |
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AverageJoe90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 02:03 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Actually, it's the other way around........... |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 05:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. It's quasi-public. |
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emcguffie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:03 AM Response to Reply #21 |
34. That's backwards. They realize that it's a private bank, -- |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #21 |
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emcguffie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. The fed is not government. It is a private bank. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
36. they keep getting warned per the spam - and then they get banned |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
37. The problem isn't the fed. |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:21 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. 16 trillions dollars is chump change to you? |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:29 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. No. |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 09:19 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Already made it, you are unable to understand. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 10:53 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. At risk of restating the obvious... |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:04 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Meglomania problem? |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 02:14 AM Response to Reply #37 |
47. The banking system started falling apart as early as the 1980s |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 09:28 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. The S&L crisis was comparatively trivial, but was also due to deregulation. |
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