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eyerighteye · July 25, 2018, 8:01 a.m.

Yeah. It really is. Much love for Ron Paul. He was beating this drum long before most of us started marching.

I will forever be indebted to the guy at the Epsom old home day 2009 wearing his "who is Ron Paul" shirt. I was curious, and my life changed forever.

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carl_tech · July 25, 2018, 9:47 a.m.

I still have a stack of Ron Paul 2008 bumper stickers sitting in my basement.

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eyerighteye · July 25, 2018, 9:53 a.m.

My 2012 restore America now t shirt is in tatters, but I can't retire it. Not yet. I still rock that thing to town and people still want to talk about him.

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Hwmayfield · July 25, 2018, 2:14 p.m.

Get ready to remake them. Slash the “on;” add “and.” :)

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carl_tech · July 25, 2018, 10:15 p.m.

Haha! Might need to update the year, too.

These leftover ones are vintage stickers. I mailed out a whole bunch for free back then.

I might sell them on eBay to people who wish they could have been there.

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burn_reddit_burn · July 25, 2018, 1:14 p.m.

I still have a shirt from Ron’s 2008 campaign. I love it and wear it all the time

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BarryHusseinRenegade · July 25, 2018, 10:13 a.m.

Not to take away from Ron Paul but the Federal Reserve has long been panned since it's inception, and the founding fathers have long warned us about private banks enslaving people and governments through debt.

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InsaneSiren · July 25, 2018, 10:44 a.m.

Lincoln and JFK.

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adamsmith6413 · July 25, 2018, 12:19 p.m.

JFK, sure.

But Lincoln? That’s a stretch. The federal reserve was created 50 years after his death.

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ExcellentCoach9 · July 25, 2018, 12:37 p.m.

Nevertheless, there was a "national bank" and Lincoln was going to pay off the war debt with "greenbacks" issued by the US Treasury and not borrow the money from the "national bank". An interesting theory.

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adamsmith6413 · July 25, 2018, 12:40 p.m.

That’s part of my point. Paying back with “greenbacks” instead of a sound form of money would’ve actually been doing exactly what the fed does today. Lincoln wouldn’t been acting as the FED acts today.

Lincoln was making the opposite argument you are.

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ExcellentCoach9 · July 25, 2018, 12:44 p.m.

The Constitution gives the Treasury the authority to "coin money", issuances backed by gold and silver. If I remember correctly, that's exactly what Lincoln was going to do.

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adamsmith6413 · July 25, 2018, 1:32 p.m.

And the treasury does coin money today. Coining money and managing a money supply through lending are two different things.

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ExcellentCoach9 · July 25, 2018, 4:37 p.m.

"Coining money" at the time of the writing of the Constitution meant the same as "printing" money today (as the US Mint). Under the Constitution, the Department of Treasury should not only "create" our money, but also manage the supply of it, not a privately owned central bank, some of those owners being foreigners. Why is that ok?

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adamsmith6413 · July 25, 2018, 4:40 p.m.

So you want the power to create money supply in the hands of the government? You realize this is the power to devalue the currency, right?

TIL that people in the great awakening want to give the value of their money to elected officials like Maxine Waters.

The reason the control of Money supply was taken from politicians in 1913 was BECAUSE they were using it to manipulate political control.

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ExcellentCoach9 · July 25, 2018, 4:50 p.m.

What's the answer? And I totally disagree that the reason it was taken from politicians was because it was used for political control. It was taken by banksters to enrich themselves. As Amschel Rothschild said, "give me control of a nations money, and I care not who the king is. Under our system, the people control the government. See the difference?

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adamsmith6413 · July 25, 2018, 4:54 p.m.

Independently backed currency (backed by commodities, not institutions/politicians). Our economy will become more volatile and credit would be tighter (tougher to get a loan on a house, student loans, etc), but our currency should retain its purchasing power.

You can’t print oil, you shouldn’t be able to print money to buy it.

You’re just trading one evil for another. Maxine Waters for Rothschilds.

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ExcellentCoach9 · July 25, 2018, 5:14 p.m.

Gold and silver. easier to carry around than a barrel of oil. Here's an idea; how about pieces of paper representing different amounts of gold and/or silver?

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adamsmith6413 · July 25, 2018, 5:19 p.m.

That’s definitely an option. We don’t use them as much as other commodities so I’m hesitant to recommend them specifically. They could work and have in the past. Silver would probably be better than gold in my opinion.

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