Waking Jonah

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 9 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul at South Carolina Primary Concession Speech (1/21/2012)
Date: 1/21/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: How do we get away with paying for these bills, and endless spending occurs and government keeps growing?… it cannot occur if you have a sound monetary system; That is why I have emphasized the importance of having a sound dollar and why we need to reign in the Federal Reserve system; If we obeyed the law, we would have sound money… the Constitution still says that only gold and silver should be legal tender; You can understand why government grows… because politicians don’t have to be responsible; That’s why they invented in 1913 this financial system based on fiat money and printing money, because you can delay the pain and penalty; I used to say so often over the years that, “you know, we run up these debts… and we pass them on to the next generation… we shouldn’t do it…”, but you know what’s different today… we are the next generation and we’re suffering the consequences; If you just print money, the value of the money goes down, and the people’s standards go down; Already the people on fixed incomes… their standard of living is going down; The middle class is shrinking; Unemployment, if you look at those honestly, is closer to 20%, and the people are very, very concerned about this; The answers come with a very uncomplicated solution… we got into this mess by too many people in Washington either didn’t care or didn’t understand the Constitution… we need to restore the Constitution and we must restore liberty

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 5 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Speaks to Students at the College of Charleston (1/19/2012)
Date: 1/19/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: Yesterday that vote on raising the national debt limit by 1.2 was a real farce in many ways, because the debt is going to be increased; The debt is automatically going up $1.2 trillion… nobody seems to care… if they did, they would take my advice and cut the budget by $1 trillion dollars in one year… is what we need; The wealth in this country is basically debt… we’re running the world on debt; The dollar will be rejected, and it has been rejected in many ways already; I got involved in politics in 1971 when the last link to gold was undermined and removed… believing then that would mean the politicians could spend money endlessly and have no responsibility… and that’s exactly what has happened; If you take a look at the value of your dollar since 1971, it went down 85%; If someone put their money away 40 years ago and now they’re going to retire… the money they put away has been gradually eroded… the dollars they put away in 1971 would be worth 15 cents; This is criminal… this is immoral… it’s bad economics; This is why we have to look to the Constitution, realizing the Constitution still says only gold and silver can be used as legal tender; There’s no authority in the Constitution to print money, and there’s no authority for the Federal Reserve system at all

Lew Rockwell is interviewed by Jan Mickelson on Newsradio 1040 WHO in Des Moines, IA…

[Part 3 of a 4-Part series]

Show: The Lew Rockwell Show
Full Podcast: 225. Saving the Country by Changing Minds
Date: 9/27/11
Host: Lew Rockwell
Notes: Bailouts of the banks… both in Europe and in this country we have vast economic trouble because we live in sort of a “bankocracy”; When they’re ready to go bankrupt… they should be left to go bankrupt; Ron Paul’s book “End the Fed“; Ron Paul has actually communicated to regular Americans not only that the Federal Reserve is a bad institution, and that it represents the big banks, but it’s also ripping us off; Our country can be saved–we don’t have to decline into more poverty and authoritarianism, but it requires people learning and changing; Taxes is shorthand for wealth destruction; The way they will raise taxes is not going to affect the super rich… what it’s designed to do is to crush young entrepreneurs and up-and-coming businesses; If there’s anything that the establishment hates, it’s competition from young up-and-coming people

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