In a message dated 02/11/2008 12:45:30 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
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As to  Ron Paul, just today it seems his campaign is essentially over.  
I  don't blame him for pulling back. Ahead lies . . . what?
Tom:
 
Actually, Ron Paul is taking a break to focus on a re-election to  his 
congressional seat.  He will be back on board for the Convention.   As for the gold 
standard, what his stance is built on is to get away from the  fiat currency 
and counterfeiting out of thin air that is the policy of the  Federal Reserve 
System that was illegally fostered on us by the 16th Amendment,  which in 
itself is unconstitutional.  Ron Paul wants our money to be backed  up by something 
of value like gold or silver and to reduce the size of  government to keep 
our expenditures within the means we have available to  us.  In 2004 our DAILY 
interest payment on our debt was 1.6 BILLION dollars  !  That is what Ezra 
Pound was talking about when he moaned about usury as  a banking practice.  It 
hits the lower economic classes the hardest in  order to feed the rich pig.  
 
Another major part of his platform to achieve this is his  
"non-interventionist" foreign policy.  That IS NOT isolationist, as John  McCain claims.  It is 
the only truly Constitutional foreign policy.   The founding fathers warned us 
against entangling alliances, but have commerce  with all nations.  That is a 
friendly foreign policy that will prevent a  lot of "blowback" actions by 
other governments that  have resented our  intervention into their lives.  We 
send close to one trillion dollars a  year feeding that overseas empire, so bring 
all of our military home and take  care of our borders with a strong defense, 
and then take care of OUR people and  have commerce with all nations, rather 
than telling them how to run their  lives.
 
--Bob Bowen






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