I have come to the conclusion that I will vote for Ron Paul. “Why vote if the system is rigged”, you might ask? Well, even if the president had the unilateral power to effect the change necessary to rectify our serious problems, that kind of power should not exist for any president. But… someone, somewhere will see the results of the votes regardless of whether or not the public results outcome matches the legitimate status-quo. If anything, it will send a message to the bean counters.
The reason Ron Paul won’t be “elected” in 2012 is simple. The whole system is rigged and government is defacto. The powers that be need to make the followers of Ron Paul believe that he can win because when he doesn’t the people that follow Ron Paul will believe that if he was “elected”, real and positive change could be effected. When this happens, and it will, people that still believe a politician can solve political problems in our current system will continue playing their game and won’t realize that it’s just one giant scam.
Realistically, the president isn’t in control of the nation. The president in our current day and age is nothing but a puppet for the masters pulling the strings from behind the curtain. It has absolutely nothing to do with left / right / Republican / Democrat or any damn political party. There may have been a few presidents in our past that slipped past the power oligarchy when voting wasn’t so easily manipulated with computers, television & radio medias and the indoctrination mechanism labeled as public education.
Assuming the government wasn’t corrupt beyond repair and Ron Paul was actually elected AND was capable of instituting his policies (which by the way, I agree with most of them), removing the Federal Reserve (which also is a good idea) and we went to a gold standard, it wouldn’t work. This is in fact a horrible idea. The reason that’s such a bad idea is; (#1) – If the Federal Reserve goes away, what will it be replaced with? I think the IMF (International Monetary Fund) will take over and create some kind of currency that resembles the European Union with Canada and Mexico. Further, the currency may be digital which could be hugely detrimental to the ability to control your own money without the thieving hands of the elite simply taking it whenever they wanted or shutting off your ability to purchase when you dissented against them in any way they didn’t approve of. (#2) – Going to a gold standard sounds like a great idea at first because it’s always maintained its purchasing power throughout all of our known history. The problem with this of course is that the controlling money and power brokers already have the market cornered on the majority of gold and it would be difficult to have reasonable purchasing power due to the lack of it in the free market.
The real solution to creating a sound money in a free market is to enable the exchange of ALL precious metals. Gold, silver, copper, platinum, etc. – all of them.
Ron Paul is absolutely correct about one major issue though – the government is way too large and has its greedy oppressive corrupt hands dipped in everyone’s business. You just about can’t wipe your ass these days without needing a permit from some bloated useless bureaucracy. Fees, permits (asking permission), unapportioned taxes are rampant and killing everyone’s individual ability to “make ends meet”. Unconstitutional acts are taking place on an hourly interval and the majority of the masses don’t do a damn thing about it or even realize that the house of cards is about to come crashing down around them.
Fascism is defined as the government running corporations. We have a new form of Fascism here in the United States of America and that’s the corporations running the government. The result is the same. In actuality, if you do some research, you’ll discover that 99% of the government IS a corporation.

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