is that gold and silver would not be any better so long as the same greedy, selfish monopolists control the supply of gold and silver.

A credit system is not inherently flawed - the problem is that it MUST NOT be privatized, centralized OR interest-based.

The problem is anchored in greed, selfishness, monopoly and exploitation.

THOSE are what need to be eliminated.

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Truth Seeker--Dr. Paul is the best hope for the US future..He will restore the constitution and Abolish the foreign owned fed as well as abolish the for profit IRS..vote to keep your money and not put in strangers bank accounts..other articles from ron paul..

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html

just saying gold and silver is not the answer.

Serious debate must be undertaken to get past the rhetorical appeal of gold and silver backed currency.

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Protect this man around the clock so that he does not slip into a depression and takes his own life by shooting himself in the neck three times!

And make sure that he does not travel by small airplanes!

It does not sound as if he has been approved by the Zionist king makers. Therefore, expect outrageous media attacks on him and be prepared with alternative media to inform the people who has become fed up by being served propaganda.

Ron Paul's election as president of the United States is the real test whether there is still a role for democracy.

He is America's "Second Chance". He is the last chance before political and economic collapse of the USA.

Hear, hear to you, qrs.

Gold and silver are not the solution on the long run, I think. I'm still reading in Ecological Debt by Andrew Simms, who has some great insights. For example that the gold and silver robbed from the Americas started, more or less, the 'western' industrial revolution and western capitalism along with all it's problems we see today (see the Golden Hind).

p87:"a world living on money that has, quite literally, been imagined into existence. While that might sound both esotheric and head-spinning, its consequences are very real. All that borowing means that people consume more stuff and use up more natural recources." (for those with 'Malthusianophobia': this observation does not imply how to respond to the problem.)

or, p90:"The industrial revolution was based in large part on the exploitation of natural recources in ways which did not reflect the TRUE costs."

We (the disproportionally rich) have got to pay our ecological debt to the rest of the world and future generations and base - in some way - our ECOnomic system on reality and fairness instead of greed and magic. Which should be common sense regardless your religion, paradigm or other. How to do this exactly, I don't know. But the next American president should.

I guess qrs agrees with Bill Still who made the money masters video. He cites the cases of colonial scrip and Lincoln greenbacks as examples of fiat currency that "worked".

I would comment that they did not work long term (let us say more than 50 years) and did not work internationally.
We now have a global fiat monetary system which is weighted in favour of the USA as many commodities are priced in US dollars. The USA can create those dollars out of thin air (though deflationist economists like Mike Shedlock and Bob Prechter would argue only if people or other entities will borrow those dollars into existence - however history shows the temptation to really create currency out of thin air fraudulently is irresistible)

Do you think a global network of inherently honest politicians can be found and elected? I'm sorry if that comes accross as a mocking remark but I am well past the first flush of youth, and I think that possibility is rather unlikely!

I think Ron Paul has it right but I would be very surprised if he gets anywhere with his honest message. It will take a series of crises (monetary and energy based) before people start thinking where did it all go wrong.

That is on the assumption that the gang of Zionist fools in Washington do not usher in WW3 first.

It is amazing to me that we, as a species, have managed to learn from previous generations so well when making technological and scientific advances, but seem to learn so little about money, politics and other humanitarian issues.