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We'd Love It If We Could All Just Come Home And Not Worry About The Rest Of The World. But The Problem Is, They Attacked Us On 9/11. We Were Here; They Attacked Us.

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We'd Love It If We Could All Just Come Home And Not Worry About The Rest Of The World. But The Problem Is, They Attacked Us On 9/11. We Were Here; They Attacked Us.

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Unlike Newt Gingrich And Rick Santorum, I Never Voted To Provide Taxpayer Funding To Planned Parenthood.

I Have My Shortcomings. But The Message, It Has No Shortcomings. The Message Of Liberty Is What America Is All About.

We Need A Smaller And Elite Military, As [donald]rumsfeld Said - And Also A Smaller And Elite Foreign Policy.

Your Money Has Never Been Safe In The Government's Hands, And It Never Will Be. Governments Spend Money; It's Just Their Nature.

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Unconstitutional

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First Reason Is, It's Not Authorized In The Constitution, It's An Illegal Institution. The Second Reason, It's An Immoral Institution, Because We Have Delivered To A Secretive Body The Privilege Of Creating Money Out Of Thin Air; If You Or I Did It, We'd Be Called Counterfeiters, So Why Have We Legalized Counterfeiting? But The Economic Reasons Are Overwhelming: The Federal Reserve Is The Creature That Destroys Value.

Welfarism And Excessive Spending And Deficits And Socialism Divide Us, Because Everybody Has To Go To Washington. Those Who Have The Biggest Clout, Whose Who Are The Best Lobbyists, Those Who Go And They Grab. And Whether It's The Medical Industrial Complex, Or The Banking Industry, Or The Military Industrial Complex, That's Who Ends Up Controlling Our Government...

I Do Not Have Much Confidence In The Political System And Never Did. My Goal Has Always Been To Change People's Minds Because As Long As People Demand More Government, They Will Get It.

What If The American People Woke Up And Understood That The Official Reasons For Going To War Are Almost Always Based On Lies And Promoted By War Propaganda In Order To Serve Special Interests?

Why Does The U.s. Care Which Flag Will Be Hoisted On A Small Piece Of Land Thousands Of Miles Away?

We Are Talking About An Awesome Power. It Is The Power To Weave Illusions That Appear Real As Long As They Last. That Is The Very Core Of The Fed's Power. Of Course Not Everyone Is Instinctively Against This Illusion-weaving Power, And Many Even Welcome It. Tragically, The Innocent Who Understand Little About The Complexity Of The Monetary System Suffer The Most, While Those Who Are In The Know Reap Great Profit Whether The Market Is Going Up Or Down.

American Voters Should Understand That Congress Will Always Find A Way To Spend Every Last Dollar Sent To Washington. Remember, Politicians Get Votes By Promising Everything To Everyone, Always At The Expense Of Some Other Invisible Taxpayers. ...the Federal Government Cannot Maintain A Budget Surplus Any More Than An Alcoholic Can Leave A Fresh Bottle Of Whiskey Untouched In The Cupboard.

Of Course I've Already Taken A Very Modest Position On The Monetary System, I Do Take The Position That We Should Just End The Fed.

The Only Thing We Learn From History, I Am Afraid, Is That We Do Not Learn From History.

The Sad Thing Is, Our Foreign Policy Will Change Eventually, As Rome's Did, When All Budgetary And Monetary Tricks To Fund It Are Exhausted.

General Welfare Is A General Condition - Maybe Sound Currency Is General Welfare, Maybe Markets, Maybe Judicial System, Maybe A National Defense, But This Is Specific Welfare. This Justifies The Whole Welfare State - The Military Industrial Complex, The Welfare To Foreigners, The Welfare State That Imprisons Our People And Impoverishes Our People And Gives Us Our Recession.

In Time It Will Become Clear To Everyone That Support For The Policies Of Pre-emptive War And Interventionist Nation-building Will Have Much Greater Significance Than The Removal Of Saddam Hussein Itself.

If It's Not Accepted That Big Government, Fiat Money, Ignoring Liberty, Central Economic Planning, Welfarism, And Warfarism Caused Our Crisis, We Can Expect A Continuous And Dangerous March Toward Corporatism And Even Fascism With Even More Loss Of Our Liberties.

It Is Incumbent On A Great Nation To Remain Confident, If It Wishes To Remain Free. We Need Not Be Ignorant To Real Threats To Our Safety, Against Which We Must Remain Vigilant. We Need Only To Banish To The Ash Heap Of History The Notion That We Ought To Be Ruled By Our Fears And Those Who Use Them To Enhance Their Own Power.

As Recent As The Year 2000 We Won Elections By Saying We Shouldn't Be The Policemen Of The World, And That We Should Not Be Nation Building. And Its Time We Got Those Values Back Into This Country.

If You're Really Serious About Protecting People's Incomes, You've Got To Consider How You're Going To Protect The Dollar. If You Don't Have The Dollar Maintaining Its Value, No Matter Where You Put The Money You're Not Going To Have Any Value.

Privacy Is Freedom. Leave Us Alone!

Why Is Patriotism Thought To Be Blind Loyalty To The Government And The Politicians Who Run It, Rather Than Loyalty To The Principles Of Liberty And Support For The People? Real Patriotism Is A Willingness To Challenge The Government When It's Wrong.

Right Now, Nobody Legalized Paper Money. Where Did That Come From.

Failure Of Government Programs Prompts More Determined Effort, While The Loss Of Liberty Is Ignored Or Rationalized Away...whether Is It Is The War On Poverty, Drugs, Terrorism...or The Current Hitler Of The Day, An Appeal To Patriotism Is Used To Convince The People That A Little Sacrifice Of Liberty, Here Or There, Is A Small Price To Pay...the Results, Though, Are Frightening And Will Soon Become Even More So.

Everybody Complains About Pork, But Members Of Congress Keep Spending Because Voters Do Not Throw Them Out Of Office For Doing So. The Rotten System In Congress Will Change Only When The American People Change Their Beliefs About The Proper Role Of Government In Our Society. Too Many Members Of Congress Believe They Can Solve All Economic Problems, Cure All Social Ills, And Bring About Worldwide Peace And Prosperity Simply By Creating New Federal Programs. We Must Reject Unlimited Government And Reassert The Constitutional Rule Of Law If We Hope To Halt The Spending Orgy.

We Must Educate Ourselves And Others About Our Precious Civil Liberties To Ensure That We Never Accept Demands That We Give Up Our Constitution So That The Government Can Pretend To Protect Us.

What Can You Do? More And More Americans Are Carrying A Gun In The Car. An Ex-cop I Know Advises That If You Have To Use A Gun On A Youth, You Should Leave The Scene Immediately, Disposing Of The Wiped Off Gun As Soon As Possible. Such A Gun Cannot, Of Course, Be Registered To You, But One Bought Privately (through The Classifieds, For Example.)

Don't Steal - The Government Hates Competition!

Big Government Flourishes Under Republicans.

Believe Me, The Intellectual Revolution Is Going On, And That Has To Come First Before You See The Political Changes. That's Where I'm Very Optimistic.

As Bank Customers, We Tend To Believe That We Can Have Both Perfect Security For Our Money, Drawing On It Whenever We Want And Never Expecting It Not To Be There, While Still Earning A Regular Rate Of Return. In A True Free Market, However, There Tends To Be A Tradeoff: You Can Enjoy A Money Warehouse Or You Can Hope For A Return On Your Investment. You Can't Usually Have Both. The Fed, However, By Backing Up This Fractional-reserve System With A Promise Of Endless Bailouts And Money Creation, Attempts To Keep The Illusion Going.

Under The Constitution, There Was Never Meant To Be A Federal Police Force. Even An Fbi Limited Only To Investigations Was Not Accepted Until This Century. Yet Today, Fueled By The Federal Government's Misdirected War On Drugs, Radical Environmentalism, And The Aggressive Behavior Of The Nanny State, We Have Witnessed The Massive Buildup Of A Virtual Army Of Armed Regulators Prowling The States Where They Have No Legal Authority. The Sacrifice Of Individual Responsibility And The Concept Of Local Government By The Majority Of American Citizens Has Permitted The Army Of Bureaucrats To Thrive.

We Need To Surrender Our Attachments To Government In Every Aspect Of Life. We Need To Give Up Our Dependencies On The State, Materially And Spiritually. We Should Not Look To The State To Provide Us Financially Or Psychologically. Let Us Give Up Our Longing For Welfare, Our Love Of War, And Our Desire To See The Government Control And Shape Our Fellow Citizens.

Americans Are Tired Of The Games And The Lies Of Today's Media. They Want The Truth. Imagine This. No Censors, No Barricades, No Statists. We Will Be Able To Engage Viewers Directly On Subjects That Matter Most To Them, From Finances To Civil Liberties To Foreign Policy.

When The Goal Of Political Action Is No Longer The Defense Of Liberty, No Word Other Than Demagoguery Can Describe The Despicable Nature Of Politics.

We Get Our Rights From Our Creator As Individuals. So Every Individual Should Be Treated The Same Way.

When We Finally Decide That Drug Prohibition Has Been No More Successful Than Alcohol Prohibition, The Drug Dealers Will Disappear.

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