Posted by Alan Smith on 02/10/10 Last updated 02/11/10
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I am reminded that one thing about appreciation, it is important to show it consistently.
Ron Paul has a lot more attention these days. I remember when many of us sent flowers to the Jay Leno staff for putting Ron on TV when he was simultaneously being excluded from debates. (Operation "Flower Shower") We were able to find something to be thankful for amongst all that was unjust.
I am going to be mindful that the increased attention for our ideas and spokespeople means ramping up showing my appreciation by the same amount. If there are 10 interviews where before there was 1, I will now have 10 unique thank you notes to write, about why each interview was appreciated uniquely.
When our hard work creates rewards, it just gives us more reason to work harder!
Posted by Alan Smith on 12/16/09 Last updated 12/16/09
Dear Ron,
I continue to learn from you, not just about the world, but about life, like hard work. You have amazed me again this December between your media and floor speeches and writings and such; you illustrate the hard work ethic no matter the season. How do you keep it all straight bouncing around on these different subjects and always mastering the debates? If you were President, we could even slash the teleprompter budget.
It must be your commitment. Up. Down. Cold. Hot. There you are. Anything just must be possible with hard work. You are proof and inspiration to approach every day with purpose.
Meanwhile, today's Wall Street Journal reports my Republican Senator, "banker-bailout" John Cornyn from Texas, is spending his time drinking Coors Light at heavy metal concerts in Scotland with bankers at taxpayer expense. Good! I'd pay even more to keep him and his foreign policy drunk, distracted, and out of D.C.. Hopefully he will lose his passport.
Bless the Paul family and Ron Paul supporters this Christmas.
Posted by Alan Smith on 10/06/09 Last updated 10/07/09
This question was sent to me by a friend. My response follows. Feel free to comment with your thoughts:
What if we do get this bill passed and the financial system really does totally fail? I realize [an audit] is the fastest way to recovery. However, my fear is that Geithner and the Obama admin will use this as a perfect time to convince Americans and basically force us into a world currency with one central ruling bank. I fear all our hard work could in the end really hurt us.
I don't believe auditing the fed and the financial system failing can ever be related. An audit is just an audit. It doesn't change anything other than to reveal the truth sooner. Decisions based off of truth are more likely to be good ones. So finding out the truth as fast as possible could only be of long term benefit, as less mistakes will be made that need correcting later.
Regardless of an audit, as the currency fails, we will have to replace it with something else. Either something better, like a commodity backed currency, or free market currencies; or something worse, like a world currency (as you suggested). With an audit, we would learn some things, and then more people will understand what the dangers and failures have been, and which direction we should go next to protect from repeating our mistakes.
P.S. Your fears for a world currency are correct. You only have to look at today's news for an example.
Hopefully our hard work will educate people enough on the errors of having a central bank, and we'll take a step in the right direction. That step on which way we go will be the most important thing to come out of this impending crisis.
This is definitely a valid concern, but you raise a good point that with or without an audit, the currency will still ultimately fail (its only a matter of when).
And you're also right in saying that the sooner we find out about the truth, the less worse the pain will be -- although by this point, even if we stopped printing and borrowing today, there'd still be a collapse.
Hate to say it, but there's really no possible way to avoid hard times ahead.
The point of the bill is to ultimately destroy the Fed...if this causes a collapse or not it's not really relevant the system is completely dishonest and is designed to extract wealth from the many for the benefit of the very few and it needs to be dissolved completely because it is not sustainable...either way we will continue to have a fight on our hands with a world currency, the world bank, the IMF, China...ect.ect......the price of freedom is eternal vigilance and this includes economic freedom as well.....
Posted by Alan Smith on 08/25/09 Last updated 10/06/09
According to this Christian Science Monitor article, the Republican base will 'stand on principle' to defend... racism. If that wasn't bad enough, the article then links to another article called "Who will save the GOP?" which has no mention of the libertarian movement or Ron Paul (of course).
I actually like CSM, so I found this as surprising as it was offensive. I blame stupidity, not a conspiracy. But it is amusing (or sad) that if there were a conspiracy, the two stories would be written the exact same way (shout out to Thomas Woods).
I have faith that thinking people interpret the press (whether Fox or CSM or whoever) as being irrelevant. I'm not concerned with what I cannot control. What I can control is whether I stay involved and make the case for freedom.
I like to think these two CSM articles are an example of the last breath of a dying drone generation.
Posted by Alan Smith on 07/07/09 Last updated 07/07/09
A copy of this letter will be on every chair at today's luncheon:
July 7, 2009
Dear Republican Club of Austin,
This July 4th weekend, John Cornyn was loudly booed at the Austin Tea Party. Voters have not forgotten that our two Texas Republican Senators voted for the 2008 bailout.
The 2008 bailout isn't all Republicans have to be angry about:
* In June 2009, Cornyn and Hutchison both voted for a $108 billion loan guarantee to the International Monetary Fund. The Texas State Republican Platform states: "We demand Congress stop funding the IMF."
* In June 2009, Cornyn and Hutchison both voted for the Tobacco Control Act against our party wishes.
* In March 2009, John Cornyn voted to triple the size of the Clinton/Obama AmeriCorps camps. They steal tax payer money to pay for ACORN, poetry readings, and puppet shows.
John Cornyn stated at the Tea Party, "I wish I could tell you that Washington has been humbled; that Washington has repented."
But while finger-pointing, Cornyn failed to ask for forgiveness himself. So the crowd continued with their jeers of "Traitor" and "You're the problem".
How can either of them recover?
They could start by taking a leadership role in co-sponsoring S 604, the "Audit the Fed" bill. The House version of the bill already has 245 Cosponsors (56%), with 73% of them being Republican. But the Senate version only enjoys 3 Cosponsors (all Republican).
The House bill enjoys wide bipartisan support because of the question "Why not?". No matter what one's position is on the bailouts, the audit is just an audit, and not one member of the House or Senate has made a public stance against it.
During the recent economic crisis, the Federal Reserve has poured trillions of dollars into the economy with no oversight, and has refused to tell Congress who is getting the money or what deals are being made.
The Federal Reserve spends WAY more than Congress and without oversight. While Congress and America was side-tracked debating a measly 1 trillion dollar bailout, the Federal Reserve bypassed the arguing and committed $12.8 trillion. That's 14X all of our currency in circulation.
If our '4th branch of government' is the most powerful and unelected, they should at least be open and accountable.
For Cornyn and Hutchison, jumping on the bandwagon late would probably not be enough to earn back credibility with the masses. But taking a leadership position while the bill only has 3 Cosponsors in the Senate could earn them some very needed applause.
I ask the Republican Club of Austin to officially ask Cornyn and Hutchison to co-sponsor S 604.
Alan Smith, Republican National Delegate Alternate 2008 (CD-25)
Cornyn, Hutchinson. They have no principals.
Regardless to whether they support S 604 or not, they should be voted out. People like them will turn a 180 on you and undo all of the good done in the past.
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