Jon Stewart: Why is Everyone Still Ignoring Ron Paul?

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  1. Blackrook

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    Have you seen the Rasmussen poll? Ron Paul isn't even a contender. The media ignores him because he isn't a contender.
     
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    Have you seen how the MSM bashes or ignores Ron Paul every chance they get? Do you know how many drones listen to and believe their propaganda? Do you realize how Obama was a no-name nothing boosted into presidency by the media? Well, there is your answer. Watch the stinking video.
     
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    If you notice in the clip, all the media, from all the networks, are using the exact same phrases. They are all reading from the same script. No reasonable person of any political persuasion could think anything other than that this is a well-orchestrated plot against Ron Paul. Not that it's surprising in the effort, but the overtness is amazing. They've really gotten cocky...it's like they don't even care who notices. That just shows that it's well past time to put a stop to this crap!!

    Ron Paul In 2012 !!
     
  5. TheTaoOfBill

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    Don't write me off as someone unstudied on Ron Paul. He's a bit of an obsession of mine. In fact I used to be a supporter. Gave $135.00 to his 2008 campaign. His speeches are amazing. He encouraged me to start researching economics. Of course once I did start researching I found many of what he was saying to be complete nonsense. Dangerous in fact.
     
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    To be fair there are others the media does focus on that do much worse in the polls.
     
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    We haven't been following Keynesian economics for 30 years. Not since Reagan. Keynesian policies say you Raise taxes and Cut spending in good times to prepare for bad times. Thanks to Reganomics republicans have put constant pressure for the past 30 years to cut taxes and raise military spending in good times. Resulting in poor preparation for recessions resulting in high debt and endless spending.
     
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    Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters
     
  9. Robodoon

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    How so?

    What was he saying that bent you so much.

    I want the truth, and I think you do too.

    But how so?
     
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    I guess the only option is to let international bankers with no real loyalty to America make all of our fiscal decisions. Guys like David Rockefeller in your quote who says that he is intentionally acting against America's best interest to accelerate globalization.

    The only option is to vote for Obama who broke all of his promises and added another war on top of his failure to get us out of the middle east as the economy sits at a stalemate.

    It is also not worth considering that there are many economic theories, all of which have failed to a certain extent at points in history. Also, do not consider that the people who write economic books and give analysis get it wrong all the time, and have a personal interest to benefit themselves and the upper class.
     
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    Ron Paul would never agree to be on the ticket with any of the buffoons currently leading the pack for the GOP. They are all just a continuation of the BushI = Clinton = Bush II = Obama parade. All of them are owned by corporate war profiteers, usurers and of course the Israel lobby.

    Paul is the ONLY candidate who understands that we need to end the corporate worldwide military empire which is being payed for in American blood and trillions of taxpayer dollars. He is also the only one who will dismantle the fraudulant federal reserve scheme which has ruined our economy. The rest of the GOP pretenders are full of bs and empty rhetoric. Rick Perry, the latest of the parade of GOP clowns is about as big a political whore as can be.

    Cheers

    Cheers
     
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    I'm pretty young to politics. I'm 25 years old. When 9-11 happened I was only 15. All I knew was war and a lackluster and eventually catastrophic economy. I was looking for anyone to give me straight answered solutions. Ron Paul offered that. It took a little growing up before I realized those solution were actually hurtful both economically and in some cases security. Foreign policy and economic policy both require complex solutions that are far beyond what Ron Paul is proposing.
     
  13. Dr. Righteous

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    Your failure to understand economics astounds me. We are headed for a severe depression no matter what. The free market needs to correct itself. You can't just have the central bank and government come in supposedly to override the natural corrective free market forces with inflationary monetary policy. THe bad debt needs to be liquidated and the market must correct itself. Otherwise we are just prolonging the inevitable.

    You also don't realize how much the rich control this country as it is. Big government and central banking are the two largest enablers of that fact. The Free market Paul supports would allow no such thing.

    I really just think you don't understand Ron Paul's positions at all if you're making these claims. You're only believing what the media has allowed you to believe.
     
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    Economics is not "natural". It's the flow of money within a certain market locality. And you absolutely can encourage it to do certain things using government policy. This is proven fact and has been practiced for nearly a century now.

    My economic knowledge comes from researching a large variety of economic schools of thoughts. Austrian, Chicago and Keynesian being the big ones. Then I looked at the data to see which economic schools made the most sense. Austrian school made the least sense. It's like Austrians never even looked at economic data when they formed their school of thought. Which was surprising to me because I supported Ron Paul and thought he knew what he was talking about. But it seemed anytime anything like what Ron Paul was talking about was ever tried all that was accomplished was a huge income gap and high unemployment.

    My research has nothing to do with the media. I don't really watch the news.
     
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    He polls among the top tier candidates, including 14% in a recent Gallup poll. The media ignores him because they don't want him to be a contender. Don't let the talking heads manufacture your reality for you.
     
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    It does not matter because in America the media picks the next president. They tell the people who to vote for and they vote and feel good about themselves. Most don't even bother to vote because they just don't care. Ripe for the picking isn't it.
     
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    Yay! Hip Hip Hooray for bigger government!
     
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    Well, then the system is a failure. And since he's the only one not bought and paid for by the system, that's all the more reason to vote for him.
     
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    So, you absolutely believe that the government can more appropriately allocate economic resources than the private sector?

    After that first statement of your post, I am not sure you can describe your opinions as "economic knowledge".

    Hahahahahahahaha.........a guy that needs foodstamps to subsidize his survival because he can't pass undergrad classes without 30+ hours of study per week is going to weigh in on economic theory. Who could refute such technical analysis as "made the least sense"?

    Name an instance in which Ron Paul's economic policy was tried? If you can do that, explain how it resulted in a huge income gap and high unemployment, please.

    Your research has nothing to do with plausible reality and much more to do with personal bias.
     
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    That's even worse that you used to support him because you still continuously demonstrate a severe lack of understanding of his positions, and just economics in general.
     
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    Congratulations, you are the first former Ron Paul supporter I've come across. A highly dubious honor.
     
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    When was that? It was tried in the Depression of 1920 and solved it. It was not tried int he Depression of 1929 and that lasted seventeen years.
     
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    if ran paul because president white people would not let him their restaurants

    civil rights act is gone
     
  24. Roelath

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    Okay... I guess I understood what you typed.

    To get to the topic at hand concerning Private Businesses not accepting people based upon a number of reasons, I doubt Private Businesses (Smart Ones) would. Considering in this day and age being racist in the Marketplace would effectively cut off supply from a Number sources to the said business. Why would a Private Business or Person directly associate themselves with a racist with the fear of losing business because of their shady business practices? It simply doesn't work in a True Free Market... you may of course have the BBQ on the Highway that cuts up their own Animals saying they don't want any a certain group in their establishment but, who really wants to give a racist money anyways?
     
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    I have a few things to say to you
    1-Learn how to spell
    2-Education may help
    3-Ron paul would never be able to burn the civil rights act
    4-Why is everything about race to you?
     

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