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Title: Paul returns to DC to assail Bernanke
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-mon ... itol-hill-to-lay-into-bernanke
Published: Feb 29, 2012
Author: Peter Schroeder
Post Date: 2012-03-01 07:57:56 by Phant2000
Keywords: None
Views: 239
Comments: 18
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) took a break from his presidential bid to pursue one of his favorite pastimes — criticizing the Federal Reserve. Paul returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to question Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who was appearing before the House Financial Services Committee to deliver his semiannual testimony. The longtime central bank critic and author of End the Fed opened with a lengthy critique of the central banking system, which he maintained is a wrongheaded experiment that has fueled bubbles and bursts in the financial system. "Nobody's smart enough to have central economic planning," he said. "Our time has come for serious discussion on monetary reform." "The Fed's going to self-destruct eventually anyways," Paul added later. He went on to criticize the Fed for its monetary policy, reiterating his longstanding desire for currency backed by hard assets like silver and gold. He pressed Bernanke on why existing fiat currency couldn't coexist with hard currency like silver. "You love paper money. I believe money should be honest," he said. Paul went so far as to hold up a silver ounce to Bernanke, explaining that that tangible item had appreciated in value to the point that what bought four gallons of gas in 2006 now could buy 11 gallons. A bemused Bernanke listened to Paul's lengthy speech, finally responding with, "First of all, good to see you again." He went on to say he would be willing to discuss the idea of a parallel currency with Paul in the future. Before leaving shortly after concluding his exchange with the Fed chairman, Paul asked Bernanke if he purchased his own groceries. Bernanke said he did. Poster Comment: I wish I could live to see the day where Bernanke would be FORCED to "discuss the idea of a parallel currency with Paul"!
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#1. To: Phant2000 (#0)
I would be better satisfied to see the SOB in prison for life.
That's a perfect solution. Then Paul could challenge his history of managing our currency through bars!!!
When living in NYC years ago I learned this. "When you see two grown men in suits fighting over a quarter in the gutter, what is their race?"
Sounds like a joo, but they aren't a "race", but a culture.
This would make him a victim. I agree w/Phant; force him to publicly defend his monetary policy on national TV for a few uninterrupted hours. After that, do what you want with him.
Nitpicker. Just for that not gonna send you the dollar you won. In Noo Yawk City its race, jeeez. Trample all over my joke, just damn.
I picture him in a gulag doing life.
When he refused to tell Senator Levin ? where two Trillion dollars went at a congressional hearing app. one year ago ?, that alone earned him a spot in a gulag. It sure was a window into the DeeCee power structure.
Rep. Charles Lindbergh started educating Americans to the dangers of the Jews/FedRes over a hundred years ago. For that, attempts were made on his life and he was run out of politics by the NY Times. Since then there has been a short list of admiral Americans that have tried to warn of the Fed. Currently Paul is the only well known standard bearer and nlo one seems to want to take up his calling. The Fed wins via default/power/money and corrupt politicians.
I'm watching CNBC now and Bernanke is repeating the exact same answers to the same stale questions I've been hearing x 2-3 years. We're in the grips of a political coup financed by the Banking cartel.
Cooked up in hell and served steaming hot to those in the great American soup line ! "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul." Mahatma Gandhi
revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/: Ron Paul vs Bernanke ∞ Do You Do Your Own Shopping? Inflation is Theft Revolution 2012 9 min. video. The topic of parallel, competing/alternative currencies (like gold and silver), which Bernanke tried to brush off as a foreign-investment type of thing (along the lines of Euro and Yen holdings) rather than a sound money medium of exchange for purchases and payments and such, starts at 6:19. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I think that would be the best place for him based on the problems he has caused. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
James... That is how smug and confident those people are, knowing that a few of them own and control this country and its government. The only scum lower is the politicians that they own and we "elect" to send to Washington. What a damned charade.
Thank you for the reference. It was worth the length to hear Paul berate Bernanke's "plan".
You're welcome. Am glad that you brought the topic to our attention but my impression of The Hill article's author, Peter Schroeder, is that he unethically intended to mislead readers with his last paragraph on the groceries question that was inexplicably mis-sequenced and deadended to deviously paint Ron Paul as nonsensical. The video shows that the question was raised long before the end of the meeting and had to do with the issue of inflation. The Fed's orchestration of inflation and monetary policies contrary to the General Welfare is an Unconstitutional impairment of Contract obligations and values that Congress is prohibited from facilitating as a scofflaw accomplice. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I got that as soon as I saw Paul's questioning went beyond asking Bernanke about shopping for his own groceries. It is videos like this one that show to what degree our press goes to manipulate how we think about others. Most in this country have not the slightest idea of how poorly the media reports to its listeners/viewers/readers.
Yes and they are also robbing us of our rightful form of government in the process by election fraud with their underhanded maneuvers to sway voters against Constitutional candidates like Ron Paul. Perhaps legislation is necessary to obligate the press to prominantly stamp all of their production-products with disclaimers to dispell any misperceptions of them as providing a public service when they are actually a twisted conglomeration of self-serving, corporate interests and aggressors against our Republic. Smoking Out The Monster: The [Edit to add: Media] Monster is attempting to get rid of and/or silence anyone who is against the corrupt criminal warmongers that rule this country. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I wish I could live to see the day where Bernanke would be FORCED to "discuss the idea of a parallel currency with Paul"!
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
I would be better satisfied to see the SOB in prison for life.
#3. To: Phant2000 (#2)
#4. To: Cynicom (#3)
"When you see two grown men in suits fighting over a quarter in the gutter, what is their race?"
#5. To: Cynicom, Phant, 4 (#1)
I would be better satisfied to see the SOB in prison for life.
#6. To: Phant2000 (#4)
Sounds like a joo, but they aren't a "race", but a culture.
#7. To: Jethro Tull, Phant2000 (#5)
Bernanke
#8. To: Cynicom, 4 (#7)
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#10)
We're in the grips of a political coup financed by the Banking cartel.
#12. To: Phant2000, All (#0)
#13. To: Cynicom (#1)
I would be better satisfied to see the SOB in prison for life.
#14. To: James Deffenbach (#13)
#15. To: GreyLmist (#12)
revolutionarypolitics.tv/video
#16. To: Phant2000, All (#15)
Thank you for the reference. It was worth the length to hear Paul berate Bernanke's "plan".
#17. To: GreyLmist (#16)
... he unethically intended to mislead readers with his last paragraph on the groceries question ...
#18. To: Phant2000 (#17)
It is videos like this one that show to what degree our press goes to manipulate how we think about others.
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