Jeesh Loup, even you??
Your logic was going good but fell apart in the last and second to last sentence.
I don't look at things short term, at least not before I look at things LONG term. I understand that Ron Paul is going to be next to impossible to get in as President (I do see the possibility as VP though).
Think about the lineup that we had, and the choice of presidents back during the first Great Depression...
Woodrow Wilson (D) 1913-1921 This is the complete idiot that allowed the Fed Res to happen
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Herbert Hoover (R (Progressive)) 1929-1933 This progressive (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Policies ) RINO did the exact same thing that Obamanation is doing now. (From that same page: When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25% to 63%, and increases in corporate taxes. These initiatives did not produce economic recovery during his term, but served as the groundwork for various policies laid out in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. )
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FREEKIN' RAT B@$T@RD SOCIALIST)
1933-1945 <--Note, 12 years of hell. He DELIBERATELY kept the Great Depression going for as long as he could, knowing that as long as people are in pain, they will be willing to give up freedoms for temporary, local anesthesia.
Harry S. Truman (R) 1945-1953 This man, thanks to WWII, is the one that broke the Great Depression, mainly by getting our MANUFACTURING back up and running in this country.
Here is what I am thinking. Which one would you rather have in the presidents seat AFTER our economy crashes (because we all know that it will crash, the Fed Res guaranteed that a century ago):
Obamanation = Wilson + Hoover + FDR
Romney = FDR
Ron Paul = Truman
All polls show that Ron Paul would lose in a head to head match up against Obama.
Face it, the country isn't ready for a libertarian candidate yet. Maybe in another 2 or 3 election cycles, but the crash is coming before that.
Oh, I get that. But I'm not looking at a president for now, but after the crash.
Your only mistake is that there are 3 flavors of KoolAid not 2.
Obama - foot on the gas as we drive over the cliff
Romney- foot tapping the brake so we don't lose control as we drive over the cliff
Ron Paul- foot on the brake, but Congress cut the brake line, as we drive over the cliff
NET RESULT - WE ARE GOING OVER THE CLIFF
Best be checking out your parachute
Here's the point I am trying to make:
As you said, we are GOING to crash. The issue is that for every DAY that we try to keep this car on the road, we are just making the end result that much more painful (and TPTB know this and are hoping to keep it going for as long as possible, that way getting the last drop of wealth out of people's hands.
You can't make citizens into serfs if they still have wealth). We SHOULD have crashed back in the 90s, or even earlier. But the progressives didn't want to make it happen then, and let a LOT of people come through with their land, homes, and wealth still partially intact. They wanted to make SURE that as many as possible were destitute. They tried all of this back during the first Great Depression, but failed because they didn't string us along long enough before the crash, and couldn't get the crash deep enough, or wide enough to crush everybody back then.
This time, they have made sure that it is a LOT wider, and a lot deeper.
I know that we are going over the cliff, guaranteed. That was evident to me back in the 1980s. It doesn't take a rocket scientologist to figure out that you can't pay back P+I if you are having to BORROW all of "P". Ron Paul may be trying to press the brakes, with the lines cut. We are doing nothing but climbing up the debt mountain, and doing it exponentially. What he should be doing is floor the accelerator and steer hard for the edge. The sooner we get this over with, the less the damage will be since we won't be going UP the debt mountain anymore, gaining altitude exponentially, and doing nothing but guaranteeing more pain, suffering, and loss of wealth.
Loup