Ron Paul is not a happy camper...

[VonMessa]

Anyway, I'd still love to see Ron Paul in the White House and congress take back its constitutional authority to control the money supply.

That would be the first big leap in repairing the economy.

Imagine a country where the financial institution that is lending the money, will actually be required to HAVE the money that it is loaning out and collecting interest on.   

[Hangtime]

McCain should announce who the key folks in his cabinet will be.. and Ron Paul should be Secretary of the Treasury. I would not care to have his foreign policy implemented.. I do very much like his fiscal policy.

[FrodeMk3]

Because both of the Presidents named Bush are, at heart liberals.  They truly believe government meddling in the private sector is a good thing.  This mess started in 1999 as a program to help minorities and other low income people who did not qualify otherwise to get a mortgage... As a result of easy credit, home prices soared artificially and with more dollars being printed the value of our currency has tanked.

There are many things that would do a better job of kickstarting the economy such as slashing the capital gains and corporate taxes, starting a massive energy campaign, (drilling oil, mining coal, recovering natural gas, nuclear power, building refineries)  none of these proven things are being done.  In spite of what they say in LA, DC or NY, what we need in the US (flyover country) is cheap energy, industry and less government to make America financially strong again.

We have to get away from everything we owe to the Chinese, first.

[Yeager]

We have to get away from everything we owe to the Chinese, first.

that is Five Hundred Billion dollars.  Thats a few hundred billion dollars less than this proposed bail out.

[Bodhi]

We have to get away from everything we owe to the Chinese, first.

If this economy collapses, their debt is bad.  The smart ones here that are not hurt will buy up the Chinese owned assets at fire sale prices.  

Not such a bad idea.

[bsdaddict]

Ron Paul was right.  He still is, in fact.  He's been warning about the turmoil we're currently facing for years now, actually predicting some of the very events we're seeing unfold.  Happy, no.  Repudiated, maybe, but not happy...

[Mr No Name]

We have to get away from everything we owe to the Chinese, first.

Yes and we could do that by keeping our money here.  Why are we stocking communist chinese products on our shelves that could not be produced here in the same manner they are produced there because of our product safety requirements, OSHA regulations and labor laws?  I say if you cant do it the way we have to do it, then that is not fair competition and those products should be removed from all shelves.