Just in case of Moderation, the case for a Remake of Ron Paul.

[Hardrock]

Dr. Paul has the greatest message of our time, the problem is the packaging. When he starts to talk about monetary policy he losses half the audience. It is not that the American people are stupid, they have just never been introduced to this subject (maybe on purpose). I once had an Econ professor that could not explain how the Fed works, imagine Joe Squash. Dr. Paul needs to use analogy and real world examples to drive the message home. E.G.: In 1974 a Hershey bar was $.15, today it is nearly a $1. The question is, “has the Hershey’s bar become 666% better over time or has your purchasing power been eroded by 85%. Back when money was backed by something that same Hershey’s bar was $.05 from 1921 until 1968. He could repackage basic ideas like this to really drive the point home.
On the notion of the Fed and linking it to Gov’t spending, he could use the analogy of a family using a group credit card. They run up the card, then the credit card company calls that outstanding debt owed to them an asset, and in turn borrow more money against it.

Packaging! EXACTLY!
RP appeals to "thinking" people. They get him, no doubt.
Simple, logical, rational, prudent,........
What about the majority of voters that don't quite understand the world they live in?
To most of them, Ron Paul's economic "packaging" looks like a "magic box" full of the mysterous unknown.
When you start talking about finance reform, spending, fiat currency, Federal deficit, etc. the mainstream voters instantly freak. It's over their head.
Their view of money in general has been so skewed (purposely) that sound monetary principals look like some whacky pyramid scheme.

Honest currency is just THAT foreign to them.

We have been brainwashed to believe money is never ending.
We've been told by our financial institutions that our homes are the largest ASSET that we will ever own! (yeah, right!) It's actually the biggest LIABILITY.
We've been deceived into believing that what an item costs is irrelevant, and only the payment amount is all we need to worry about.
If a 40 hr./wk. @ $12/hr. isn't cutting it, work a 50hr./wk.
Most actually believe getting SCREWED is just part of how money works.

As tight as money is in most households, they don't want to even hear about changing what they have slaved under for years to anything else, no matter how reasonable it might be made look.
They have been scammed with "funny numbers", get rich quick schemes, balloon mortgages, option trading, and every other devious scam out there.
Through it all, they're still breathing and eating regularly, so they cling to a sinking ship, and keep bailing.

Just think of all the self-annointed financial "gurus" that majored in economics!
They only know what they've been allowed to know. Get mine and F* everyone else!

Sound currency will be and currently is the hardest to sell of RP's platform!

Foreign Policy? any Idiot can understand don't stir the sh!t. Most of us learned that lesson in the schoolyard.

But money?

Of all society's ills, our monetary system is the root from which all others branch out.

Sell the monetary policy and connect the dots.......everything else falls in place.

Best bet? Promote financial responsibility in Gov't. and leave it at that until AFTER
RP's elected.....then start re-educating the public one step at a time.

 

[santopia]

The official campaign would be wise to hire a good image consultant at this stage of the game.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

The official campaign would be wise to hire a good image consultant at this stage of the game.

We've been telling, advising, communicating that to the Campaign Staff for like 2 months now...

All to Deaf Ears and Dumb management... hey, are the GEICO CAVEMEN RUNNING THIS CAMPAIGN?

 

[Jeremiah]

Counterfeiting.

He needs to call the government's arbitrary printing of money exactly what it is... counterfeiting. Then ask what would happen if you did it. Jail. So why should the government be allowed to do it?

And I wish he would say it is the Fed, not the government, that prints it. Then the government borrows the counterfeit money and the people pay taxes with the counterfeit money to pay the interest on the counterfeit money the government has borrowed. So, if everyone is happy using counterfeit money why is it counterfeit which usually means it is not acceptable as legal tender? And while we are at it why don't we just really print the money, like JFK or Abe Lincoln and pay off the nine trillion we all owe in counterfeit money, then we really could get rid of the income tax.