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What's not true and unrelated to health care? I found my candidate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXux37wzQeQ

You mean this health care plan??? "Obamacare Summed Up in One Sentence" From a video posted on YouTube that shows Dr. Barbara Bellar speaking at a Women for Romney/Ryan rally last month: Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/02/doctor-seeking-illinois-senate-seat-offers-brutal-diagnosis-obamacare-in-viral/#ixzz28FVcTRZD "So let me get this straight. This is a long sentence. We are going to be gifted with a healthcare plan that we are forced to purchase, and fined if we don't, which reportedly covers ten million more people without adding a single new doctor, but provides fo

Maybe you should read this and open your eyes to reality... The Fed Plays All Its Cards http://lewrockwell.c.../schiff181.html Here's an interesting bit of info from a website most of you here will respect... ACLU Report: Obama administration expands domestic spying http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/spy-o01.shtml

The third song "What a Fool" has the bass player Toby Leaman doing vocals. I've been fortunate to see them live three times this year and they are pretty damn good. They are growing on me more each day. Two of the songs here 3. What A Fool and 4. Exit For Sale are already available on iTunes.

Lou, you'll be back. I've said the same thing many times but you guys keep pulling me back in. This is currently the most read thread on this forum. You've got to give the people what they want. Most are not posting but I don't know why. I'm not the one going to call them crazy heartless hippie bastards. The more participation the merrier. I don't understand why you guys don't find this obvious or reasonable. It makes perfect sense to me... This is going to happen to the Keynesians as surely as it happened to the Marxists. (not wanting to admit they were Keynesians after the collapase) Th

Again, the ad hominem attacks continue. (An attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or unrelated belief of the person supporting it.) Why do you folks believe these lying bastards? Are they relatives of yours? They are concerned with the welfare of the banks and the banks alone. It is a private banking cartel which has been allowed to savage our economy for decades without nary a wimper from our elected representatives who benefit from their policies of printing endless streams of money to fund their pet projects, wars, bailouts, etc. They have done n

Revival of Nuclear Arms Race: US Conducts New Underground Nuclear Tests http://www.globalresearch.ca/revival-of-nuclear-arms-race-us-conduct-new-underground-nuclear-tests/

For the one or two of you who care... Fed Chairman Admits His Economic Model Is Japanese Economic Stagnation Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in an October 1 speech that his U.S. central bank would copy Japanese economic policy to get the U.S. economy moving, despite the fact that the Japanese economy hasn't seen significant economic growth since the 1980s http://thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/13065-fed-chairman-bernanke-admits-his-economic-model-is-japanese-economic-stagnation

I never watch CBS,NBC, etc. Their version of the news is controlled, filtered and biased to support the corporate interests that own them. Manufactured dissent. I get my news from various alternative news sites on the internet. Used to watch Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano on Fox Business news until they took him off the air back in the Sping for being too anti-establishment. Haven't watch TV news since. No worse for it. Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read http://theeconomicco...h-hear-and-read 3 Time Emmy Award W

How should our nation's leaders avoid us pitching in our hat next to Israel for a war with Iran? That's been addressed a few times. They won't avoid it. Israel has both of them by the balls. The fun starts after the election. How about, how does a candidate that has bashed 47% of the country get elected? He has an interest in the company that supplies the voting machines in 6 states including Ohio and Texas. What do you expect to see in the debates? Two talking heads basically supporting the same policies. You mean you are going to watch them? Does Romney still have pull with the T

Analysis of Bernanke's speech... http://www.tfmetalsr...taking-audacity Call me crazy, heartless or a hippie I don't rightly care, Lou. I have looked through the laundry list of libertarian beliefs and philosophies and put together a list of those I can say I believe in just for you so you can stop painting me with such a broad brush. I'm not perfect and I am changing my views on issues everyday as I learn more about them. I don't know why so many are afraid of liberty? I'm sure some of you here will agree with many of these ideas. Is there something wrong with wanting a society that refle

http://www.spin.com/articles/dr-dog-wild-race-ep-stream

And if you believe any of what Bernanke says heaven help us. Have you ever seen Ron Paul question him at banking hearings. He destroys him. Lou, Nixon proves that there is no differnece between the Republicans and the Democrats. They both support the statist way of solving problems and dealing with issues. They both believe government has all the answers and we should trust their hands on the wheel. Is say governemnt is what is screwing things up and that it needs to pull back gradually and let the free market help decide prices, interest rates, etc., etc. What the government is doing is not

A thought from Alexis de Tocqueville: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.” Lou, this might help with your

One socialist to another... Chavez to Obama: I'd vote for you, and you for me http://www.reuters.c...E8KU37A20120930 Dollar Falls Most Since 2011 as Central Banks Bump Up Stimulus http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-29/dollar-falls-most-since-2011-as-central-banks-bump-up-stimulus.html

Well, he does conspire with the neocons here in the US. Good article here on the situation... Netanyahu believes his maximum leverage over Obama, the president of the “world’s only superpower,” is just prior to the election. Israel cannot attack Iran on its own without the risk of Israel’s destruction. But Netanyahu reasons that if he attacks Iran the week before the US election, Obama will have to join in or lose the Jewish vote for not supporting Israel in states such as Florida, which has a large Jewish population and many electoral votes. If the election is close, Netanyahu, a person c

Good morning Lou... New Yorker editor now a crazy conspiracist? New Yorker magazine editor says Netanyahu is 'arrogant and dangerous' David Remnick accuses the Prime Minister of endangering Israel and making himself a factor in the U.S. elections. By Haaretz New Yorker magazine editor and Pulitzer-Prize winning author David Remnick accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday of endangering Israel, interfering in U.S. elections and aligning with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a "neocon strategy" against U.S. President Obama. In a biting blog post in the ma

Not much to read here... Just think how many cell phones this could buy... U.S. Move to Give Egypt $450 Million in Aid Meets Resistance The Obama administration notified Congress on Friday that it would provide Egypt’s new government an emergency cash infusion of $450 million, but the aid immediately encountered resistance from a prominent lawmaker wary of foreign aid and Egypt’s new course under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/world/middleeast/white-house-move-to-give-egypt-450-million-in-aid-meets-resistance.html?_r=0

There's more... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008RTE09S/ref=pe_298240_26038890_pe_epc_dt2

So the very thing that will most affect the policies of whoever wins the White House is not relevant to the election discussion? Will either candidate be able to live up to their promises to create jobs and lower taxes if Fed policy prohibits them from doing it? Don't you want to know why they really will never be able to live up to those promises instead of accusing one candidate or the other of being a liar or an incompetent or a panderer? Look, if that is the sentiment of the majority of posters here in this thread I will acquiesce. I'll let the market of ideas dictate.

You are missing the point about its' inclusion. All that you wish your chosen candidate to accomplish if he wins the election and all the debates here about welfare, social security, taxes, bailouts, job creation, etc. are mute if that issue is not addressed because Fed policy will determine if there will be money to pay for those things or not. Those issues are affected and controlled by Fed policies of money inflation, interest rates, borrowing and spending. What the Federal Reserve does or doesn't do determines the fate of those issues dear to all of us. It is the elephant in the room no on

Look, Heartbreak, there should be a safety net for those folks as desperate as your brother. I was not trying to be a heartless bastard as you and others implied. But, I believe the government should not be subsidizing close to 100,000,000 people as it does now. I'm sure you agree we can't afford that. If this continues, there will be no money available to provide your brother and others like him with the services they desperately need and deserve. What will he do then? I doubt the majority of those receiving these benefits are as bad off as you describe your brother to be. No offense intended

This (expansion of the money supply) has never been done on the scale it is being done currently. To keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is insanity.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptMrAgWqRfg This is a very good article if you have the time. Why do folks have such a hard time with common sense? Statism Is Finished by Jacob G. Hornberger You see, for both liberals and conservatives, the welfare state is a given. As far as they’re concerned, the welfare state has now become a permanent part of American life. According to them, we should just acce

Will your vote really count in November? Like Stalin said, It is not important who votes, it's who counts the votes that matters... Vote counting company tied to Romney http://www.opednews....-120927-75.html For those who are taking some interest in the Fed issue... 13 States Now Considering Gold and Silver as Money http://www.profitconfidential.com/gold-investments/13-states-now-considering-gold-and-silver-as-money/

Ok, Kevin, I'll bite. I don't care who came up with this idea or when they did. This is a typical example of a government required mandate that is paid for by the consumer, as the article states, when the phone companies tack the cost of these "free" phones on to our phone bills to pay for it. Thus the government has raised the price of phone service by interfering in the market place. So this does relate to the economic discussion in a round about way. From the libertarian viewpoint the government has no business providing free (subsidized) phone service to anyone rich or poor. Nothing is fr