i posted this link
http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/hodges/2006/0106.html
He responded
Your graphs are fundamentally incorrect--the world was on a modified gold standard until the early 1970's through the "Bretton Woods" system.
It wasn't working because (a) the gold standard requires...
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The Treaty of Versailles cannot be considered an interventionist policy for these reasons.
Woodrow Wilson proposed that a U.N.-like body be created after WWI to stop the outbreak of another world war. The League of Nations was not his vision of collective security.
The Treaty of...
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Please explain how Interventionism CAUSED the rise of Hitler.
Intervention, when used in a collective security alliance, can be important to stopping conflict and protecting every states sovereignty. The most clear cut example of collective security intervention is the united nations...
It's still a stupid law. That's like voting for a law to put ***s in a concentration camp to get out the message that you don't think *** marriage should be legalized. Maybe that's a bad analogy, but you know what I mean. It's extreme and doesn't accomplish the purpose he intended.
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Paul voted "yes" on the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorizes the construction of an additional 700 miles of double-layered fencing between the U.S and Mexico.
Dumbest law ever.
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Congressman Paul advocates a...