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Which GOP Candidate do you trust with our economy?
The U.S. economy is in shambles. The 2012 Presidential election may be the most important in our lifetime. The GOP primary election cycle will be even more important.
Mitt Romney has the financial institutions on his side. Wall Street and the big banks hold much of the blame for our dire economic situation, a result of their malinvestment, and influence on Congress and government agencies. Their influence in a Romney administration would be a continuation of the status quo, driving our economy to an eventual complete collapse.
Herman Cain served on the board of the Kansas City Federal Reserve and does not think that a full audit of the Fed is necessary. He was clueless about the housing bubble and the financial meltdown. His proposed 999 plan would establish another avenue of federal taxation by adding a federal consumption tax on top of the income tax. He says the rates would be lower, but when has the government ever been able to keep its hands off of potential additional funding? We can’t gamble our futures on whether this man can choose wise advisors, and Congress to hold down the tax rates. Herman Cain needs to be able to understand that the Federal Reserve has devalued the dollar, and that this has been happening since it’s inception, and will continue until it is ended.
Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann have all recognized the problems the Federal Reserve has caused. None, however; spoke openly against the policies of the Federal Reserve until long after Ron Paul began his crusade to obtain a full audit of the private banking cartel.
Ron Paul serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Joint Economic Committee, and the House Committee on Financial Services, and is Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, where he has been an outspoken critic of current American foreign and monetary policy.
Congressman Ron Paul is not a slick talking career politician. He is a medical doctor by trade who became outraged in the 1970’s when President Nixon took the dollar off of the gold standard. This action motivated him to run for Congress to affect change. He is a man of vision, he has impeccable family values, he supports the Constitution, and is a man of peace.
Recent polls show that Ron Paul is competitive in a head-to-head matchup with President Obama. He can win. He must win, if America is to prosper.
Read about Ron Paul and his stances on the issues of the economy, the Federal Reserve, taxes, and more at his campaign web site.
Herman Cain uses Liberals’ tactics to suppress the truth
It seems Herman Cain is using tactics typically employed by liberals to suppress the truth. I know this may be shocking to some, but hear me out.
This first became apparent to me after the October 11, 2011 GOP Primary debate sponsored by Bloomberg and the Washington Post with his comments regarding the Federal Reserve. I immediately knew he was at the very least misrepresenting past comments he had made. However, only later did I realize he was very calculating in his responses.
Watch the following video clip of the debate and then I will comment further.
While Cain did not use the term “ignorant” in reference to those who wish to see a full audit of the Federal Reserve, he did say the following.
“I think a lot of people are calling for this audit of the Federal Reserve because they don’t know enough about it.”
Webster’s definition of ignorant is as follows.
1 a:destitute of knowledge or education <an ignorant society>; also: lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified <parents ignorant of modern mathematics> b: resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence
Herman Cain is at the very least being disingenuous.
Cain went on to say,
“We don’t need to waste money with another commission or an audit that’s not necessary; because folks, we’ve got a lot of other problems we’ve got to worry about.”
I would say that is being “rather critical” of those who would like to see an audit of the Fed, and of Ron Paul in particular.
Now there is no doubt that Herman Cain could see this confrontation coming. Ron Paul’s supporters are extremely active and have approached Cain on numerous occasions to ask him about his past as a director of the Federal Reserve Board of Kansas City. In fact, Cain recently made reference to this in his book, “This is Herman Cain,” and specifically blamed the Paul Campaign as if it was a coordinated effort, as recently reported in the Daily Caller. Cain claims Paul’s campaign “sends one of its ‘Paulites’ everywhere I show up.”
“I get the same stupid question at almost every one of these events,” Cain writes, “I know it’s a deliberate strategy. How can a person randomly show up at a hundred events and ask the same stupid question to try to nail me on the Federal Reserve? It’s really becoming annoying more than anything else.”
And if this wasn’t enough, Herman Cain, in an appearance on The Jay Leno Show, called Ron Paul a “grumpy old man”.
Ok, so now back to Liberal tactics. A while back I printed a listing of “Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation” by H. Michael Sweeney. After the debate I suspected that Cain might have been using one or two of these tactics himself, so I went back to review the list.
I could immediately see that it could easily be argued that Herman Cain used at least 8 of the 25 tactics in his dealings with Ron Paul over the Federal Reserve! Specifically, I found the following:
(Rules have been summarized in some cases.)
Rule #3: Avoid discussing issues by describing all charges, regardless of venue or evidence, as mere rumors and wild accusations. Herman Cain: “You’ve gotta be careful of the stuff you get off the Internet.”
Rule #4: Find or create a seeming element of your opponent’s argument which you can easily knock down to make yourself look good and the opponent look bad. Herman Cain: “You have misquoted me,” he said. “I did not call any of your people ignorant. I don’t know where that came from,” he said. Cain went on to say that he didn’t agree with the recent actions of the Federal Reserve, and that he did not object to an audit — it just wasn’t his “top priority — 9-9-9.”
Rule #5: Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. Herman Cain: calling Ron Paul a “grumpy old man”, and his supporters as ‘Paulites’ who ask “stupid questions”.
Rule #8: Invoke authority. Claim for yourself or associate yourself with authority and present your argument with enough “jargon” and “minutiae” to illustrate you are the “one who knows”, and simply say it isn’t so without discussing issues or demonstrating concretely why or citing sources. Herman Cain: “the Federal Reserve already has so many audits it’s ridiculous”, and “I think a lot of people are calling for this audit of the Federal Reserve because they don’t know enough about it,” Cain said at the time. “There’s no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve to my knowledge.” He added that “we don’t need to waste money … with an audit that’s not necessary.”
Rule #9: Play dumb. No matter what evidence or logical argument is offered, avoid discussing issues and deny they have any credibility, make any sense, provide any proof, contain or make a point, have logic, or support a conclusion. Mix well for maximum effect. Herman Cain: “You have misquoted me. I did not call any of your people ignorant. I don’t know where that came from,” he said. “You’ve gotta be careful of the stuff you get off the Internet.”
Rule #17: Change the subject. Usually in connection with one of the other ploys listed here, find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more manageable topic. Herman Cain: said he didn’t agree with the recent actions of the Federal Reserve, and that he did not object to an audit — it just wasn’t his “top priority — 9-9-9.”
Rule #18: Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. Herman Cain: calling Ron Paul a “grumpy old man”.
Rule #19: Ignore proof presented. To completely avoid discussing issues may require you to categorically deny and be critical of media or books as valid sources. Herman Cain: “You’ve gotta be careful of the stuff you get off the Internet.”
Really Herman? Even when it’s your own voice?
Americans, do you really trust this guy?
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