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KEENE, N.H. -- GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul told college students Monday he understands where they are coming from and is "very much involved in the 99" percent, after about a dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters spoke out at the end of his question-and-answer session at an evening campaign stop.
Approximately 15 students in a crowd of several hundred in a Keene State College auditorium stood up and began yelling as Paul awaited his final question from supporters this evening.
"We are the 99%! We will be heard! There are criminals on Wall Street who walk free, there are protesters in jail," they chanted. "There's something wrong with this system. We are the 99%! We will be heard!"
When the protesters finished, the Texas Congressman -- who smiled throughout their delivery -- leaned into the microphone and asked, "Do you feel better?" The audience erupted in cheers and applause.
"Let me address that for a minute, because if you listen carefully, I'm very much involved in the 99," Paul told the students. "We need to sort that out. But the people on Wall Street got the bailouts and you guys got stuck with the bills and I think that's where the problem is."
Paul is popular among college students in New Hampshire, a state where he enjoys 17 percent of support among likely Republican primary voters, according to a recent state-wide poll by Bloomberg News.
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At least he didn't tell them to take a bath & get a JOB like one overly pudgy, pasty, grey haired dude!
I wonder if Newter prefers black or red pepper spray??
Just by listening to the Occupy folks, he sunk his chances with the GOP base.
Black pepper spray for Newt. Matches his soul.
If he could influence the other Republicans to his way of reasoning, the GOP may have a future instead of all of them following the right wing-nuts over the political suicide cliff!
For all the posters here who bewildering state that they do not understand why the Occupy Wall Street Movement exists and what is the problem here is part of the problem - from the Lips of a Republican...
Ron Paul:
"Let me address that for a minute, because if you listen carefully, I'm very much involved in the 99," Paul told the students. "We need to sort that out. But the people on Wall Street got the bailouts and you guys got stuck with the bills and I think that's where the problem is."
Occupy Wall Street is trying to positively change this dichotomy that stubbornly persists in our society.
@ Feisty:
Not even showering Newt would take away the stench. He was born that way.....
Yea, kind of like Pelosi. Like lipstick on a pig.
Oh No! You are confusing her with Sarah Palin...
This is my problem with the Occupy protestors. They're protesting the wrong people. Businesses are in business to make money. The government giving tax dollars to businesses is the real problem.
Occupy a voting booth and move all incumbents out is a movement I can get behind.
BTW Fiesty.... What's with bringing Newt into this? He's done some despicable acts but he wasn't in office for the Bush TARP bailouts nor the Obama Stimulus bailouts. Stay on topic.
No confusion. Both of them are dim wits, but at least Palin is easy on the eyes.
Mindless people: YOU'VE BEEN DIVIDED AND CONQUERED. The OWS people and a few more turns of economic bedlam are all that's keeping the militant-corporate-banking state (AKA NWO) from knocking on your door. VERY interesting times we live in.
Funny thing is, for people who refer to themselves as 'liberal', you, as a bunch, are the most intolerant, childish, quick-to-assign-blame cadre of group-thinking baboons this side of the Westboro Baptist Church.
On a personal note to Ms. Firebush... I understand that your self-classification of yourself as 'feisty' is meant to paint you in a confident, self-assured light. However, your comments have betrayed you as a total idiot. You can neither formulate ideas, nor articulate them.
Is it entirely too late for your mother to have an abortion, or have you fully slithered your way out of the womb at this point?
A little off subject, but,
I just saw the video of the police spraying the protesters. Now the cops are in trouble with the authorities and the chancelor may have to go too.
I hope the cockroaches don't get support like the protesters because that's exactly the way I spray the bugs.
Granted! Sarah Palin is the brighter of the bunch in the GOP!
Sad fact is that she is brighter than 85% of the Dems as well.
Rob, actually she is smarter than all of the dems, or at least the ones in Congress. They voted for Obamacare and they continue to vote for socialist agendas. The rest of the world is running away from socialism and only Obama and the dems and RINOs are running towards it. Sorry, but that is dumb, just plain dumb. It's like continuing to try to reinvent the wheel as a square. Didn't work then, won't work now.
Dr. Paul respectfully listens to some that claim to be OWS, and posters here react like this?
I wonder what his odds were with the base before this? Gimme a break, Dr. Paul has been ignored and marginalized by the media and Republican party, since the debates began why stop now?
All politicians in the last decade or so have handpicked crowds, so as to stifle dissent and avoid answering difficult questions they are not coached for. My guess and opinion is Dr. Paul takes on anyone that wants to be in the audience, that is the way old school politicians did it and I believe the same of Dr. Paul.
Note: I do not support either corrupt political party. Vote out the incumbents, for true term limits.
There has been some sincere remarks about voting out incumbents, one thought I have about voting that way is if enough of us do it, it will scare the stuffing out of our politicians. Our government needs to fear the people.
Finally the O W S protesters are doing it right .. going to town hall meetings and political rallies and shouting down the speaker .. just like the Tea Party did .. now they are on the right track Occupy Town Hall Meetings
I'm starting to like this guy. Bachmann could take lessons on how to handle hecklers.
What you are witnessing is a transformational movement in this country.
The "Occupy" movement is a Progressive Tea Party!! Long overdue.
What do you think the right wing fears of this disjointed, ad hoc collection of right wing waste matter?
That's right, I wrote it, but don't misunderstand me. Not to be crass, but these people are not Republicans. THEY ARE WHAT REPUBLICANS CRAP OUT!! These people are Republican droppings. They are the waste product that results when Republicanism has stripped humans of whatever money, jobs, promise, retirement, health care, or voting voice they once had. These jobless, hopeless people are what are left after 30 years of "trickle on" economics embraced by the party of the wealthy. They are the by-product of this nation's orgiastic intercourse with laissez-faire economics. They're there because they have nothing to lose. They are a Progressive kamikaze run.
These disaffected people are the by-product of outsourcing, offshoring, cut Pell grants, exhausted unemployment and a changing economy that does not include them.
They may not be purely aligned with the Democratic Party, but the reflexive reaction of the GOP to these rag tag rebels is telling. The speed with which the right wing propaganda networks worked to neutralize them was impressive. First they ignored them. Then when ignoring them did not work, the denial of coverage turned to showcase the less-than-articulate among them. When this failed, they turned to show their hygiene and bodily functions. Pulitzer material that.
Will this movement translate to the voting booth? These 21st-Century Hoovervilles lay bare the inequities in this country in an uncomfortable manner. So did Wisconsin.
Now that the Republican handiwork is exhibited on the radar; the Republicans have every right to fear what they have wrought, and their "collateral damage", like a stenching corpse, will not allow them, or next year's voters, to forget it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/21/ron-paul-gets-mic-checked-by-new-hampshire-protesters/
This link has a video of the mic check, but, one thing to notice about it, is that they actually waited until he was at the end of his speech to do their thing, then the first guy to talk during the check is applauding Dr. Paul's responses. (Very cool of them to do it the way they did, totally shows respect for the one candidate that really gets their message!)
And, to put a really positive spin on this, it gets Ron Paul some MSM headlines!!!
Very nice job guys!
Ron Paul…….I am not surprised, Ron tells it as he sees it without the spin and excuses. .....a rare skill and intellect in the world of politics.
Maybe Republicans are more reasonable than some of you think? Maybe we just have not phrased our positions properly -- on the left and on the right.
Perhaps there is a way through this political quagmire after all!
Newt was absolutely correct, the protesters need a political bath to wash off the brainwashing from the Protester in Chief who initially gave his nod of approval and sympathy.
Now he is completely missing in action since the protests have gone nationwide and getting uglier.
At least Gingrich had the courage to address the issue unlike the Failure to Act in Chief who is still hiding behind the curtains in the Oval Office hoping this would all go away like yesterday.
His political pandering to the protesters are coming back to bite his boom boom.
selfmade13,
RE: your post #1.11
selfmade, the results of your post post #1.11 is proof positive that you are an ID-10T type of person! Congratulations!
Dr. Ron Paul is the best chance our country has to get out of the mess we are in.
Ron Paul 2012: Join the Revolution
It just struck me that the name of the movement pretty much says it all...."occupy" is a pretty passive verb....and it seems that a large number of these kids want everything the people on Wall Street have without having had to work a day for it. I am not saying that there are not criminals on Wall Street, but there are in every single walk of life, every single occupation....that being said, nobody deserves a free ride because somebody else broke moral or legal codes. I think I would be much more inclined to listen if I wasn't hearing "I want, I want, I want....Gimme, Gimme Gimme." Boil it all down, and none of us were guaranteed anything in life other than an equal chance.....that doesn't guarantee and equal outcome. Ten people line up in a race, and there will be a first place and a tenth (last place finisher), but everyone starts at the same point with the same goal.
A group of thugs start screaming and disrupting a question and answer session and First Read calls it "Speaking Out".
How very supportive of First Read. Pretty sure that is how they charachterized the Tea Partiers at the Town Halls as well.
Oh wait, no they didn't.
Great news though, here in Detroit, the "Occupiers" are planning to disrupt the Thanksgiving day Parade. A decades old family tradition televised nationally.
Sponsored by those "evil" corporations.
I always knew Santa Clause was part of that evil 1%.
Explains the Elf slave labor
.
@Brad,
look at this--back to back empty posts.
Don't know about you, but I was left speechless....
Santa Claus is a socialist. He gives those little parasites handouts every December.
Im not shocked that they would disrupt the Parade- they did, after all, chase schoolchildren in New York last week.
These mindless idiots are thinking, okay- of themselves. A gang of them stayed at the W hotel after Zuccotti Park was closed to tents and tarps- at the cost of $700.00 per night.
Certainly, they are members of the poor and disenfranchised.
I guess their parents collectively booted them out of the house recently. . .
White Collar Auto
And a worse group of thugs steal 80% of the wealth this nation built over 200 years and continue to take immoral advantage of fellow human beings and attempt to impose their will upon others and cheer when the disadvantaged are refused health care that they have access to themselves and enjoy immunity from inquiry and prosecution for their actions....
yet wca make the worse group out to be the heros.
What is wrong with this picture?
OWS! Support the 99%!
p.s. Republicans - WE OUTNUMBER YOU - we are the majority!
if they are the 99% please explain this poll
http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2011/11/16/poll-support-for-ows-now-at-3345-below-tea-party/
You go stupid. Open defication on the streets is just fine with you. Urinating all over buildings and on the street is okee dokee. Multitudes of arrests, rapes, murders, occupying private property and defacing it is your idea of making a statement. I have an idea... let's let all the OWS people move onto your street. It won't negate the function of their protest. They can be as loud and as boisterous right in front of your home... they can fertilize your grass. How about it? You willing to openly invite them to your block?
Hey Not as Stupid as You Think,
Yes, I think you are.
Too easy gop:
look at the IP; www HOTAIR
Hey wca: ask me if I care. In fact, I'd venture that very few care what you think. JMO
White Collar Auto
Because of the Wall Street and Big Bank Scammers and Corporate Exploiters - many families have been kicked out of their homes and will not have a Thanksgiving.
The Detroit Thanksgiving Parade is televised nationally?
When and Why?
really that is the best you got a comment about the name of the site
that = pathetic
plus here is another source fool
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-favor-fading.html
These guys are "thugs" to you? LOL, quit being a pansy. Scared of a bunch of kids. Pathetic.
Gee gop... you sound worried.
Have you been to a OWS site to offer support, or are you too busy with your gop pirates support? Maybe you should check it out.
You guys are just so out of touch in your little comfortable environments. Better look out because that 1% will come after you too - wait and see. Better not burn your bridges because some day soon you may find yourself in the same situation the OWS is complaining about.
Just sayin'
really then why is there support so low by the way how does it feel for you and the rest of thw ows to have been endorsed by the nazi party I bet you fools actually think it's good thing
Hey, clueless...
That happens to be the same article.
Duh!
Let's have the Wall Street and the Big Banks Con Artists give back all of the Cash and the Homes that they deliberately stole.
As Christ walked on water, it would be a miracle if some of the posters who constantly Bash the protesters who are fighting for economic, political and social equality for all of us - to address the crimes that the White-Collar criminals committed.
....yes, I know "White-Collar" crimes do not hurt anyone.
We have a 14 million and a 9% unemployment rate that disproves this lie.
I'm going to refrain from commenting on your screen name-
No, I will never find myself in the position of the OWS rabble.
Nor will I EVER find myself in a position of losing my home. See, I have never bought a home I could not afford. Never took on a ballon mortgage. Never paid "interest only" for five years. Never capped out the equity in my house to pay off credit card bills.
Never had a student loan- I paid as I went, and worked forty hours a week, to boot. Never saw work that was beneath me. I've cleaned houses, bussed tables, and my husband did janitorial work and worked in a car wash- where most of his money was in tips.
We had no student loans- it can be done.
We also majored in disciplines that rendered us employable, rather than over educated imbeciles with debt- and nothing else to show for it. We spend wisely, and save appropriately.
Now this band of hooligans wants their loans forgiven?
Get real, grow up- and get whatever job you can. Chasing schoolchildren is NOT a noble endeavor.
GOPsupporters,
Punctuate much?
25walker - For as much as the liberals, and other posters claim the wall street crowd are criminals for stealing the wealth away from... someone... not sure exactly who, but you sure are making the claim. From what I've seen, in the criminal scene... Maddoff was placed in prison... I personally know someone that was given 25 years for scamming people through false hedge funds... He's still in there. I'm trying to figure out names... names of those that are criminals on wall street. There has to be some proof, other than a jealous bigotry. Lots of claims.. not many names...
Not to mention that supporters is plural. Sounds like Multiple Personality Syndrome. Better replenish your meds.
You'll have to excuse White Collar Auto. He claims to be a centrist, but comes on here daily to rail against Liberals.
Thank God he and the rest of the "income redistributors" have no idea what they are dealing with.
Please continue to ignore them and the societal symptoms they represent.
Please.
Brianb-999431
Brianb,
By you, what a desperate attempt to "prance" around the truth.
Your clawing at evasive and deceptive tactics will not work.
You feign not knowing about any bank fraud.
You feign not knowing about specific names.
If you rely only on Conservative "news" media trash such as Fox News and Limbaugh on the air waves - that would be your only plausible excuse for not knowing who the true criminals are - that have caused America to economically collapse. Government regulators are suing 17 Banks - for Fraud!
Here a link in "a laborious" attempt to educate you:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/business/in-sec-fraud-cases-banks-make-and-break-promises.html?pagewante
Madoff?
Your fruitless attempt to pin the banking scandal on one thief - Madoff - will not work.
Madoff is already in prison.
Place your focus on the other crooks who still walk.
Brianb, the hour is getting late. Stick to the fact or do this forum a Favor and go to bed!
25walker - In an attempt to respond to your rediculous claim that I need to be educated I sit here laughing. If there are 17 banks under investigation by the government regulators, why not let them do their jobs? You rally against these banks because you feel there is fraud. Let me remind you that this society is built on innocent until proven guilty. OWS has already judged the banks before the trials begin. They are making claims that haven't been proven in a court of law. Again, let me remind you, this is a society built on laws. If fraud was committed, just penalties will be meted out.
It sounds to me like you and the entire OWS crowd is trying to usurp the law of the land and take matters into their own hands. They are acting like vigilanties run amok.
Let's contrast this to the Tea Party. The left claims the Tea Party are criminals. They do this without any proof that a crime has been committed by a single Tea Party member. OWS has had at least 700 arrests. The Tea Party doesn't occupy a space without permits, permission or being invited. They don't deficate on, destroy or ruin any area they assemble in. Their meetings are organized, peaceful and very pointed in nature. OWS is loaded with violence, rapes, arrests and they definitely are a health hazard. The left upholds OWS as if they are heros. The left denegrates the Tea Party. Why?
Ideology. The left holds true to disruption, are anti-Constitution and will not ever associate with personal responsibility. Take a look at who supports OWS. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, most of the democrats holding office. Are these the ideals they want for this country? Apparantly so. Forget about law and order... a society run amok because some claim they have been stolen from and refuse to use the court system to vindicate their claims... I wonder why that is... probably because a lot of the claims are tied in to personal responsibility and those making the claims don't have a leg to stand on.
Let's cross the first threshold of truth before sticking up for a band of jealous people that have the same opportunity, but not the brains to put that opportunity in motion.
Brianb,
Deception - you continue to spew.
Desperately, you continue to cling to lies and you insist on "waltzing" around the truth.
Unless you are one of the 1% you are supporting your own demise.
The 1% will continue to financially crush America and these elites will leave you with nothing.
How absurd you are.
These thieves should be stopped from perpetuating the well-thought out grand thefts that they committed against America. Wall Street and the Big Banks are begging state Attorney Generals for Immunity. The truly "innocent" do not beg for immunity from prosecution.
These white-collar Con Artists know that a full investigation by the State Attorney Generals will reveal the full scope of their crimes. Thus, they hope to cut an early "deal" with the State Attorney Generals to save their "cans" from criminal prosecution.
You mimick a "Brown Shirt" denying that the Holocaust ever happened.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/business/in-sec-fraud-cases-banks-make-and-break-promises.html?pagewante
Realistically, these well-connected crooks will probably never be hauled into a court of law.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904070604576521282894534152.html
...how undemocratic.
More bunk from you.
Bank of America, Chase, Verizon, Exxon and the other exploiters of America - have already "usurped" our system. There is a "no vacancy" sign in the political area - there is no room left for the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
It is Wall Street, the Banks and Corporate America that "ran amok"
The 3 above entities have cost America: lost Investments; lost Retirement Funds; millions of Home Foreclosures; trillions of dollars drained from our treasury and millions of lost Jobs.
What an unfailingly "fibber" you are.
The Tea Party supporters pack GUNS. In a twisted "patriotic" manner these reactionaries bring assault weapons to their dying rallies.
http://www.examiner.com/pasco-county-independent-in-tampa-bay/tea-party-protesters-bring-their-big-guns-to-protest-rally
From Chris Mathews:
“They bring it [guns] to make a statement against the political people in this country they don’t like and they use it as a threat,”
The backwards Right Wing hope to drag America back to a time in which our people did not have any rights. The Tea Party's dogma is repression.
Our citizens have been treated very badly.
This is a smear tactic used by the Right Wing in its attempt to discredit the Occupy Wall Street movement. It will not work.
Disruption is the GOP's/Tea Party political platform:
The elimination of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, W.I.C., Planned Parenthood, the minimum wage, voting rights, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, defunding of the Arts, defunding of National Public Radio, and shutting down the Internet
You talked about "personal responsibility."
Brianb - the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are attempting to hold the irresponsible financial "stewards" in our society (Wall Street, the Big Banks and Corporate America) responsible for the economic chaos that they have America.
No sane and moral American is jealous of the robbers that caused our financial collapse.
"Brains?"
These felons have diabolical brains.
The hour is getting late - go to bed!
correction:
for the economic chaos that they have caused America.
That was one of the finest smack-downs I have ever seen 25Walker!
KUDOS!
Thank you, Feisty...Hats off to you too!!!
Ron Paul and OWS are two sides to the same coin. OWS in many ways mirrors the Tea Party. We're both tired of the current corrupt two party corporate oligarchy.
Only the Tea Party is run by corporate interests. OWS isn't run by anyone, which can be a good and a bad thing.
except the unions and the democrats and the commies or and they were endorsed by the nazis
Compare OWS to the Tea Party. What do each stand for? How does each of them equate to the civility of our nation? We never hear of those in the Tea Party deficating on the streets, involved in rape, open sex, murders and multitudes of arrests. I guess those that support OWS feel that civil discourse is the way to go and at the same time, have decided that the Tea Party are the lawless ones.
"OWS isn't run by anyone."
Best. Comedy. Ever.
But Brian, the TEA Party carry guns and get permits to protest, don't you know? That's not the right way to do things.
GOPsupporters said:
except the unions and the democrats and the commies or and they were endorsed by the nazis
My, what an eloquent response. You sir, are a natural born communicator. ROFL.
Absolutely correct Paul-Florida - uh... excuse me while I go outside and relieve myself...er... protest!
You know, if OWS had a message and protested the right way, I think people would understand. Getting arrested and terrorizing people don't work.
"Terrorizing people?" I think you're drinking from Appalacian's kool-aid. He seems to think the Nazi party still exists, and endorsed the Occupy protests...
If Paul wants to lay with the pigs he's sure to get some of their slop on them.
Oh Please! As if the Republicans were really considering him for the nomination.
I think that he would get better results by being an Independent, and leave those lunatics of the Tea Party.
They do not care about him anyway.
wow you have not been pay attention but what can you expect from a left lemming ron paul is doing quite well in the polls
OK Before you start calling names -as the supporters of Ron Paul always do- please read my POST AGAIN. It is the REPUBLICANS not giving a gloryifying S**t about Ron Paul.
I personally don't give a rat's A if they like him or not. You and your other Ron Paul fanatics should start insulting the REPUBLICANS, instead of the Democrats. THEY ARE THE ONES not giving any time to Ron Paul durante the debates, -NOT THE MEDIA OR US-
you do realize it is the media that are the moderators for the debates right you do know at least that much I would hope you at least know that
"GOP SUPPORTERS"
Your name says it all...Please do not try to say any more stupidities
FOX did not give him ANY TiME EITHER.....
your calling me stupid now that is funny and yes I saw fox not give him time I also say mnsbc not gibe him time
GOPsupporters,
Spell much?
Ron Paul is the only one on that entire panel that is worth anything more than a turd. He will never get the GOP support because he isnt a GOP puppet like the rest of them. The media will never help him like they do romney, cain, etc because he doesn't partake in the BS drama stories like the rest of them. But that's America for you, let's vote Snooki into office or maybe Jerry Falwell. The crooks in Washington aren't the problem, it's the dumb ass american's who keep voting for them and putting them in office.
The fact that the banks got the bail out is only the tip of the iceberg. The fact is the people in charge of the banks and hedge fund operations and Wall Street made criminal decisions that ruined our economy. If Ron Paul can make such condescending remarks regarding "feel better" and then blame the bail out without going deeper, then he is, to me, a paternalistic, shallow man. Dig deeper Mr. Paul!
The problem is that he is the only candidate that thinks that it's even close to criminal and will try at least in campaigning to do something about .The rest of the candidates would prefer to protest for votes and than continue to keep shoveling money in...ala obama speak.
Jocare, have you heard of the Federal Reserve? Dr. Paul has only been talking about it for how long now?
college kids dont vote..Paul must be running out of ideas to campaign...hes better off going to a radio station and get a free blather gig. would work better.
Paul is a Republican. Legislates as such. The party that will fight to the death against tax increases on the wealthy. Anyone who supports the core concept of OWS would not support Mr Paul. Good try though.
I would support no tax increases against anyone. Any govt that can spend 800 billion just on defense while only taking 1.2 trillion it tax revene....which makes it the largest army in the world by x10 doesnt need another tax dollar to waste on anyones behalf.--it needs to go bankrupt just like the roman empire.
Not to be contentious joker, but the 2011 defense budget request was $738 billion. While I will agree that's a huge number and much could be cut from it, we spend even more than that on all of our social programs. $738 billion, social security, $498 billion, medicare, $381 billion, health, $567 billion, Income security. On top of that we spend $251 billion just on the interest for our debt.
It would stand to reason that money can be cut from defense, but what about the social programs? What does the Constitution call for the government to provide? Defense. It doesn't call for a social net to provide for every American.
Yeah, killing people is more important than caring for people. A true conservative!
There is a difference from "DEFENSE" and "NATIONBUILDING"
How about instead of having troops still stationed in Korea, Japan and Germany and come home and defend OUR boarders.
Eisenhower said in his farewell address to the nation "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
I couldn't agree with you more Bestadamire. I think we should shut down 90% of our European bases, 70% of the Pacific bases and bring those troops back to our soil. We need them on the borders where they can stop the drug cartels. That will never happen though... with either republican or democrat. The government makes way too much money off of drug running.
Thats why im voting for the Doc
I believe it's far more than 738 billion. They can't even tell congress where all the money they admit to having is going. Unless of course they give them a few more billion and a few years to figure it out.
IF Paul had his way, there would be nothing in the way of corporate global domination. We need our democracy back - not an even weaker government as Paul would have it. The only thing standing in the way of total domination and mental servitude to corporations are the people willing to take a stand right now.
Must be getting cold out there protesting..... I wonder if the snow in New York will finally put an end to the foolishness? What's their message? I want your spare change?
How about economic inequality and someone finally paying for the financial crash? We want our own bailout too...
attempts to diminish the voices of OWS will fall short. indoors or out they will keep speaking up. fed-up are you ok with the status quo, no problems at all with the financial sector? ok with the cozy relationship between business and some members of the government? everything just fine and dandy, nothing to shout about? dismiss the movement at your peril. they are just getting started.
The messsage is smoke em if you got em.
Sacredfire: It will not happen. Your plight is futile. It will take a full on Revolution and most of you don't have the heart.Talk is cheap my brothers and sisters of poverty.... I am furious about the current debt and betrayal from Wall Street, but I also realize the Three Branches of Aristocracy must go in order to evoke any real tangible change. Take a look at all the candidates.... 100% more of the same old scum.
Uh- are you aware that the TARP funds to the banks were fully repaid- with interest?
That the only funds NOT fully repaid were the funds that went to the UAW at Chrysler and GM?
That we are going to have to cover those losses?
Then, of course, there are the losses we have to cover for Dollars to Donors- Solyndra, Evergreen, etc?
Obama has really done a great job, hasn't he? Five trillion and counting. . .
Bailout or handout?
"We want our own bailout too..."
SacredFire
And how will you pay back your bail out?? The Banks paid theirs back at 5% interest. What interest will you pay?
Loan me a few billion, and I'll start a bank. Since you get to loan out money you don't have and charge intrest on it. How do you go broke when you can create money?
Or loan me half a billion. I'll start a oil company and my share of the oil subsidies will pay off my loan.
Nothing wrong with the system at all.
I find it amazing the Republicans don't see the freight train heading their way, but then, they didn't see 9/11, Katrina, or the financial crisis coming either.
Amy, it is that bubble they live in. It has tinted windows.
didn't see them coming or turned a blind eye?
Guess you guys forgot about the 2010 elections, the loss of the sacred Kennedy seat, etc.
The freight train is when the GOP wins in 2012 and owns both houses as well... just like the Democrats had in 2008
Republicans took the house in 2010, even the seat vacated by Kennedy, and look what they did with it.
Is the public happy with the Republican House? Can you say "historic low approval ratings?" Stupid, ridiculous and disgusting, were the top three words offered by Americans in regard to the debt ceiling crisis that lowered our nation's credit rating. I hear the train whistle in the distant, I can't believe Republicans don't hear it too. Maybe that's why they're trying to get as much for their wealthy patrons as they can before 2012. Last chance before the train comes in...
Katrina? Really? How is either party supposed to predict a natural disaster? That is just as dumb as blaming Obama for the tornadoes that tore up alot of the midwest this summer.
9/11? Perhaps we should have had the body scanners earlier. The ones everyone (ok, not everyone but many) are complaining about now? We don't have access to the intel available that the government does. Even after the 9/11 commision it is a pretty safe bet that a good deal of the intel that was available is still classified. I don't think the planes cared if a D or an R was in office.
The financial meltdown. Agreed. Both parties should have seen where the economy was going.
Obviously you didnt see Dr. Pauls warning of the economy crisis from the past like, thirty years?
Ask the vet about foriegn policy
Ask the Doctor about healthcare
Ask the chairman about monitary policy.
He warned about 9/11 as well.
So are you being sarcastic? Or..
Interesting, Roger. "Owns both houses"??? How much is a Senate seat going for in Norquist-land? Was that a Freudian slip or just a cocky admission that the GOP can not run on it's own merit and has to purchase a place in the Congress?
Oh yeah mr. ramjet. In 2010 the Grand Ogre paty promised jobs, jobs, jobs. Guess those "job creators" got teabagged!
No, those jobs got "shoveled" along with the other shovel-ready jobs.
I love it. Obama makes things worse in 3 years, and the left screams "he can't fix the mess he inherited in just 3 years!"... but the republicans should be able to in just 11 months, right?
Said they would. Lied. Moved on to more important stuff like limiting abortions and stuff. Then they tried for default. You right wingers are a scream. Must be a 1 percenter or a big time wannabee.
I don't think it's all that hard to track hurricanes.
or levee failures
Paul was sure a hell a lot more polite than those OWS people
also they say "there are protesters in jail" gee lets see @!$%#ting on the ground illegal, rape illegal, ten million dollars of property damage through arson in Fort Collins Illegal, camping out in the parks illegal, blocking streets illegal, tresspasing illegal, and so much nire
last word is supposed to be more
Good for you--you found the comma key.
Right On White Collar
Forgive them for they are Libertards
It's about time Ron Paul finally sided with the American people.
Let them protest. I don't even mind the comment about members of the government being cozy with business. Just keep in mind it is rampant on both sides of the aisle.
Both parties are at fault. Period.
How dare the protesters interupt the Doc. Haha, but on a serious note.... Paul has been talking about the economy crisis for years and about the Federal Reserve as the same.
He is the only candidate serious about changing our ways..
I know he has my vote.
I have admired Ron Paul for years. His insight to the workings of the politicians, businessmen, and financiers has been spot-on all this time. I would vote for him myself if he weren's so bat-s**t crazy. There are too many people and governments out there that would love to have our military stand down and our government locked in to spending limits. He would do so much good for this country as it slipped beneath the waves.
If each of the protesters would get an unloaded gun and march into the closest bank and ask for one dollar then it would be a federal crime with a firearm and they would get free meals, warm beds, libraries, workout rooms, recreation rooms...the solution to thier problems. That is what I plan to do for retirement. It is about the only option left for many of us who had thier pensions and retirement funds stolen. Thinking about becoming a drug runner or dealer. Maybe a 62 year old male hooker. I'm trying out the "blind faith retirement plan" for now until the food and rent runs out then we'll see what's next. Life sure is exciting.
Ron Paul has always been for "We the People"...just read one of his books, view some of his videos. Do some research and you will find a very sincere man who cares alot about everyone, and wants to stop Wall St. cronies who are in bed with our leaders. Look up "Ron Paul tells CBS camera man how rude" he was to push on a lady while he was doing an interview. Ron Paul has alot of class! Stop listening to the mainstream media.
Do you think at some point the OWS will maybe occupy Wall Street instead of parks, resturants, ports, campaign events, etc? Because up to now, I don't see a darn thing that they are doing that is focusing on the issues that they say they are protesting.
Annabelle,,, There are many issues, if you don't know what is going on, I'd suggest you change channels, there are more news channels than Fox
Never watch TV news, I can't stand news anchors. But you didn't really address my statement, just made an incorrect assumption about my news-viewing habits.
If the folks who are running right now are the best we can find then God help us all. We're doomed to third world status.
'Do you feel better?' What a smarmy, dismissive comment by Paul.
He hasn't got a prayer in this race and except for one or two things is as politically nutty as a Xmas fruitcake.
They were interrupting his question and answer session. Paul handled their rudeness graciously and actually addressed them.
Until Ron Paul or any of the rRepublican clowns start talking about shared sacrafice, the will never deserve any support from OWS. Stick with your teabaggers Ron.
Dr. Paul didn't invite them, they invited themselves.
Oh, so you have to be invited to hear a candidate for president speak? Fair and balanced democracy?
your statement implies he was pandering to the OWS people, while in fact he told them exactly what he meant, you obviously know nothing about Dr. Paul, he is exactly the candidate that deserves OWS support, try educating yourself on Dr. Paul before spewing meaningless drivel.
they picked the wrong candidate, they chose the one who already cares and is trying to make a difference.
Really? Perhaps you would like to pull his House voting record. I could be wrong, but I've never heard "All of the Republicans voted "no"...oh...except for Ron Paul..."
Perhaps you can show us all how he was trying to make a difference when we were sliding into this financial mess...and I mean by referencing his voting record. No one cares about the rhetoric the Republicans are barfing anymore.
Dr. Paul is running on the Republican ticket but he's in fact a Libertarian.
votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/296/
it only shows his record going back to 1992 but have at it.
you'll notice some pretty important ones on there for just this year.
2009)
2009)
(Sep 2008)
2006)
2003)
(May 1998)
http://www.issues2000.org/tx/Ron_Paul.htm
http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/296/
Uh, BA? You do realize he voted AGAINST the constitution on both HR 2028 and HR 2389, right?
I have never in my life witnessed the lack of comprehension from the majority of these post! People talk about cutting this or trimming that. Our country is broke! The time for denial is over! Our politicians want to sugar coat everything, here is the reality!
A little-noticed event occurred at approximately midnight on Monday, October 31, 2011: The national debt of the United States exceeded, for the first time since World War II, the country’s gross domestic product. The website USDebtClock.org showed the gross domestic product crossing the $15 trillion mark for the first time on Monday, while earlier in the day the numbers from TreasuryDirect showed the total public debt outstanding at $14.993 trillion and growing by more than seven billion dollars a day.
And Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate to address this problem!
So, please. Show us Ron Paul's voting record and point out, through votes and bills introduced, everything that Ron Paul has done to avoid this situation. Use his record to make your argument. Has he been a leader in the Republican party, or has he just caved in to the dictates of Boehner?
H.R. 1098, introduced by Ron Paul in March is known as the "Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011".
Also voted for cut cap and balance
Proposes cutting over a trillion dollars first year of presidency.
Ron Paul has NEVER caved for anyone! If you would like to know more about him, look up his record yourself! He has never wavered in his beliefs, not even when it would have been to his political advantage!
Shocked I gave you the link when you asked for it you have to go read it yourself it's to lengthy to copy and paste
votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/296/
This one goes back to 1992