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Pastimes : The Justa and Lars Honors Bob Brinker Investment Club Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joefromspringfield who wrote (6901)	1/17/2012 1:42:15 PM
From: gronieel2	Respond to of 10065

Joe: "Brinker get several calls Sunday from Ron Paul supporters. The last caller in the second hour was Bob in Chicago. He claimed there was a WSJ article that said Ron Paul predicted the collapse of the housing bubble. I haven't followed Ron Paul, so this was the first time I heard that. I did my own research and found a video that appears to back up the caller" That little speech was where Ron Paul was once again calling for the abolition of the Federal Reserve and a return to the gold standard. Here's the full written text so you can just skip over the usual Paul cockamamie rhetoric ... paul.house.gov Ron Paul has "predicted" just about everything including the 9/11 attack on the WTC.

To: joefromspringfield who wrote (6901)	1/17/2012 3:04:02 PM
From: Boca_PETE	Respond to of 10065

Joe, Thanks for the interesting YouTube clip link. Mr. Paul's halting reading of the speech gave me the impression that his lengthy speech was written for him by someone else. Throughout it, I was wondering if he personally understood the meaning of the words he was saying, and, if anyone watching the speech understood. In last night's debate on Fox, I was disappointed in many of Ron Paul's responses. Many were run-on rambling sentences that made no sense or had contradicting points. I disliked his weasel answers differentiating military spending that needed to be but compared to defense spending that needed to be inccreased. I saw his answer about authorization to kid bin Laden as dishonest in that he disapproved because the event occurred 10 years after HE SIGNED OFF ON THE AUTHORIZATION. It made me wonder if he was beginning to suffer from early symptoms of dementia. Whether or not he predicted the coming credit implosion makes not difference to me. The value of my home is still down 30% from what I paid in mid-2006. I sure hope he is not the nominee. If he won, we'd be stuck 4 years listening to his whiney complaining and would be at a minimum reliving America's isolation and disarmament of the 1930's and all that led to. By the way, Brinker said this past weekend that Ron Paul's idea to back the US Dollar with gold was incapable of working because America no longer owns most of the existing mined gold, and, he claimed there wasn't enough mined gold in the world in total to back the US Dollars now outstanding. His hair sure is a lot more gray now than it was in the clip :-) JMHO, P