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Entry: Ron Paul: It's Payback Time Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/ron_paul_its_payback_time#11180 Post contents: A scene from a small business center in rural but nonetheless generally Blue and formerly Taft Republican southern New England: A 65 something woman at the Print desk wearing a Ron Paul Button Me walking by her and remarking "Hey a Paul supporter" to which a middle aged man walking by remarks, "Nuthin wrong with that" . To which the young 20ish woman working the desk says "Yea, he's the only one telling the truth" and I say "Back to Basics" and then, several other people in the place say "Thats Right". I do believe we could have had a spontaneous Ron Paul meeting right then and there. I have seen several Paul lawn signs and bumper stickers around here. His supporters support him and his stances, as opposed to holding one's nose while supporting one's candidate as an instrument of defiance against an opponent. But, Mr. Gottfried is correct in doubting the ability of Paul to get elected in this media besotted country and after that, the ability of the industrial-suckled American to wean themselves from the Nanny State in order to function within the type of country Paul reminds us we once had. It is illuminating that this impromptu Paul Meet-up happened in a local self-service "Business Center". As to Mr. Friedman and his Nobel Prize, so what, Tulips were once currency in Amsterdam and it took a wheelbarrow of Deutschmarks to buy a loaf of bread in late Weimar Germany. To say the Gold Standard is dead is a safe enough claim in this Land o Conventional Wisdom but to look at the Sub-Prime Mortgage debacle is to get a perfect illustration of why Mr. Friedman's Nobel had a weak spot. The Fractional Reserve Banking of our Federal Reserve System may not invent these occasional Wall Street lapses into Bunko but it sure provides a great incubator for them. We must love the regular whipsawed beating we get In the end, we will not need any "revenge" on these Neo-con reprobates because the special hell they are leading this former Republic into will punish them soon enough. Unfortunately, we'll all suffer but perhaps a proper diversion will be hunting down these floor flushers who will attempt to escape to their villas in Provence at first sign of trouble. We've become so inured to everyday ironies that we actually countenance the naming of crypto-Royalists as neo-conservatives. It is like calling Hannibal Lecter a Neo-Cannibal instead of simply a murderous sociopath. Not that I think all neo-cons are sociopaths, they're simply murderous, some suggesting murder for the broader good and welfare. Sent at: 2008 05 15