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By United States Congressman Ron Paul • October 3rd,

The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived.
We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capital misallocation, all the malinvestment - and prevent the market's attempt to re-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets.
[On September 25] the president addressed the nation about the financial crisis. There is no point in going through his remarks line by line, since I'd only be repeating what I've been saying over and over - not just for the past several days, but for years and even decades.
Still, at least a few observations are necessary.
The president assures us that his administration "is working with Congress to address the root cause behind much of the instability in our markets." Care to take a guess at whether the Federal Reserve and its money creation spree were even mentioned?
We are told that "low interest rates" led to excessive borrowing, but we are not told how these low interest rates came about. They were a deliberate policy of the Federal Reserve. As always, artificially low interest rates distort the market. Entrepreneurs engage in malinvestments - investments that do not make sense in light of current resource availability, that occur in more temporally remote stages of the capital structure than the pattern of consumer demand can support, and that would not have been made at all if the interest rate had been permitted to tell the truth instead of being toyed with by the Fed.
Not a word about any of that, of course, because Americans might then discover how the great wise men in Washington caused this great debacle. Better to keep scapegoating the mortgage industry or "wildcat capitalism" (as if we actually have a pure free market!).
Speaking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said: "Because these companies were chartered by Congress, many believed they were guaranteed by the federal government. This allowed them to borrow enormous sums of money, fuel the market for questionable investments, and put our financial system at risk."
Doesn't that prove the foolishness of chartering Fannie and Freddie in the first place? Doesn't that suggest that maybe, just maybe, government may have contributed to this mess? And of course, by bailing out Fannie and Freddie, hasn't the federal government shown that the "many" who "believed they were guaranteed by the federal government" were in fact correct?
Then come the scare tactics. If we don't give dictatorial powers to the Treasury Secretary "the stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the value of your retirement account. The value of your home could plummet." Left unsaid, naturally, is that with the bailout and all the money and credit that must be produced out of thin air to fund it, the value of your retirement account will drop anyway, because the value of the dollar will suffer a precipitous decline. As for home prices, they are obviously much too high, and supply and demand cannot equilibrate if government insists on propping them up.
It's the same destructive strategy that government tried during the Great Depression: prop up prices at all costs. The Depression went on for over a decade. On the other hand, when liquidation was allowed to occur in the equally devastating downturn of 1921, the economy recovered within less than a year.
The president also tells us that Senators McCain and Obama will join him at the White House today in order to figure out how to get the bipartisan bailout passed. The two senators would do their country much more good if they stayed on the campaign trail debating who the bigger celebrity is, or whatever it is that occupies their attention these days.
F.A. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' manipulation of interest rates creates the boom-bust cycle with which we are sadly familiar. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, he described the foolish policies being pursued in his day - and which are being proposed, just as destructively, in our own:
Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion.
To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection - a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end... It is probably to this experiment, together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come, that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression.
The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.
The very people who have spent the past several years assuring us that the economy is fundamentally sound, and who themselves foolishly cheered the extension of all these novel kinds of mortgages, are the ones who now claim to be the experts who will restore prosperity! Just how spectacularly wrong, how utterly without a clue, does someone have to be before his expert status is called into question?
Oh, and did you notice that the bailout is now being called a "rescue plan"? I guess "bailout" wasn't sitting too well with the American people.
The very people who with somber faces tell us of their deep concern for the spread of democracy around the world are the ones most insistent on forcing a bill through Congress that the American people overwhelmingly oppose. The very fact that some of you seem to think you're supposed to have a voice in all this actually seems to annoy them.
I continue to urge you to contact your representatives and give them a piece of your mind. I myself am doing everything I can to promote the correct point of view on the crisis. Be sure also to educate yourselves on these subjects - the Campaign for Liberty blog is an excellent place to start. Read the posts, ask questions in the comment section, and learn.
H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
In liberty,
Dr. Ron Paul

http://vickytoxotis.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post_07.html

Το έργο όμως ξαναπαίζεται με τον ίδιο συγγραφέα. Ένας απ’ τους τελευταίους αντίπαλους του Charlie μετατρέπεται σταδιακά σε αντίπαλο δέος.
Οι σκιαγραφήσεις του στον Δυτικό Τύπο τον κάνουν να φαίνεται σαν ένας ακόμη κακός δικτάτορας και εχθρός της Δύσης. Προς το παρόν τον χαϊδεύουν όπως τότε τον Χίτλερ.
Παράλληλα ετοιμάζεται το εσωτερικό μέτωπο. Ανεργία και τεχνητή οικονομική κρίση θα οδηγήσουν εκατομμύρια στην επιστράτευση. Ένας έγχρωμος πρόεδρος Στην "Βασσαρίδα πόλη" ίσως είναι η καλύτερη λύση για την λευκή εξουσία σε περίοδο πολέμου. Οι έγχρωμοι άνεργοι συμπατριώτες του θα βρίσκουν διέξοδο στα προβλήματά τους με την ένταξή τους στον στρατό. Ίσως όταν σταλθούν στην «ανάβασή» τους να μην επιστρέψουν ποτέ.

……Οι «Ελεύθεροι» θα πολεμούν τους «Βαρβάρους» όταν «ο Νόμος του Ηλίου» θα επιστρέφει ως «Κάδυτις Ροή» στην «Εριώπιδα».

Λουκάς

Φίλε Trexagireve

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Επαναλαμβάνω το κράχ που έρχεται και τεχνητό είναι και θα κάνει χειρότερα για τον απλό πολίτη τα πράγματα και καλύτερα ακόμη πιο πολύ για τους δυνάστες μας...

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ΓΚΑΝΤΙ!!

"ΣΤΟ ΣΚΟΤΑΔΙ ΤΟ ΜΑΤΙ ΣΥΛΛΑΜΒΑΝΕΙ ΚΑΛΥΤΕΡΑ ΤΟ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΟ ΦΩΣ"

ο πλανήτης μας ήταν και είναι ικανός, αλλά δεν θέλουν κάποιοι να είναι πλέον...

Αυτοί οι λίγοι που ελέγχουν ολόκληρη τη ζωή και τη συνείδηση των πολλών δεν χοταίνουν ποτέ από αρνητική ενέργεια. Ο φόβος, ο πανικός και ο πόνος ο ανθρώπινος είναι "ντελικατέσε" γι' αυτούς.

Κι όσο δεν ξυπνάμε τη συνείδηση μας από το λήθαργο, θα βρισκόμαστε πάντα στη θέση της μαριονέτας, αδυνατώντας να φέρουμε ουσιαστική αλλαγή στον ανθρώπινο κόσμο...

Μας έμαθαν συστηματικά να εκτελούμε χρέη γραναζιού σε ένα σύστημα στημένο εξ αρχής να είναι άδικο.
Βάλαμε -και βάζουμε κι εμείς το χεράκι μας σε όλη αυτή την κατάσταση.

Μπροστά στο όποιο προσωπικό όφελος μάθαμε να δηλειάζουμε, πάψαμε να απαιτούμε, γίναμε χειραγωγήσημοι.

Όταν έπρεπε να βροντοφωνάξουμε εμείς ως πολίτες "κάναμε τις πάπιες" γιατί είχαμε κάτι ψίχουλα όφελος...
τώρα "μοιρολατρούμε" και αφήνουμε το φόβο να φουντώνει στην προοπτική ενός τρομερού κράχ και ίσως ενός 3ου παγκόσμιου πολέμου...

Πότε διδαχτήκαμε από την ιστορία? Πότε πάψαμε να κάνουμε τα ίδια λάθη ξανά και ξανά?

Ότι συμβαίνει στην πραγματικότητα είναι αυτό που οι στάση και οι σκέψεις μας έφεραν στην επιφάνεια... Είμαστε "συνένοχοι" αν θες σε κάποιο βαθύτερο επίπεδο. Μόνιμα ψάχνουμε υπέυθυνους έξω από εμάς και ποτέ δεν είμαστε οι ίδιοι μας...

Βλέπουμε να έρχετε το "χειρότερο" και πάλι αναρωτιώμαστε "γιατί δεν κάνουν κάτι?"...

Κι εδώ είμαστε "αύριο" πάλι θα μας καλούν για τη "μαμά πατρίδα" να αγωνιστούμε και πάλι θα είμαστε έτοιμοι να αιματοκυλήσουμε τον "κακό γείτονα" κι ας είναι κοινό μυστηκό πως μόνο οι ηγεσίες έχουν προβλήματα με γείτονες και όχι οι λαοί...

Φωνάζουμε για ευημερία, και ειρήνη για όλους, αλλά πάντα θέλουμε ένα κομματάκι καλύτερο για τον ευτούλη μας...

Όσο μέσα μας δεν υπάρχει ισορροπία, όσο δεν αφυπνηστεί η συνείδηση μας, πάντα θα βρίσκονται 5-6 που θα μας σέρνουν από τη μύτη πετώντας μας στον όποιο κίνδυνο, ενώ αυτοί θα βρίσκονται στο "απυρόβλήτο" και στην ασφάλεια...

Τόσο θα σπέρνουν "τεχνητή διχώνια" μεταξύ μας... Διαίρει και βασίλευε λέει....

Κι εμείς οι "έξυπνοι" όλα τα βλέπουμε κι όλο αναβάλουμε τη συμμετοχή μας στην επίτευξη ισορροπίας... Κι όταν συμβεί το "κακό" καμωνόμαστε τους ξαφνιασμένους...

Λοιπόν? Κραχ ξεκράχ... Έχει κανείς σας καμία ιδέα, ΤΙ ΜΠΟΡΟΥΜΕ ΝΑ ΚΑΝΟΥΜΕ ΟΛΟΙ ΕΜΕΙΣ?

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Aυτός ο πλανήτης είναι ικανός να χορτάσει όλους τους κατοίκους του, αλλά αυτά δεν είναι αρκετά για να ικανοποιήσουν την απληστία ΤΩΝ ΛΙΓΩΝ.

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