Looking for Ron Paul supporters in foreign countries for interviews

[RonPaulVolunteer]

If you're a Ron Paul supporter in a foreign country AND have a group of others to meet with and would like to do a Skype video interview with me to encourage us Americans to keep going, please email me at: info [at] ronpaulflix.com with subject Foreign Interviews

 

[Eric39]

Foreign intervention?

Best intentions, but I don't think foreigners picking for Americans will sit well with most people who see it.

 

[PolicyReader]

I know there are some folks on here that qualify (not sure about them having a group)

As to the response to this, depends on who the audience is some demographics would appreciate this quite a bit
(it's not as if it's asking a foreign power to get involved, it's talking to individuals about liberty I know I'm not alone among Indys in considering that worth watching)

 

[qh4dotcom]

If you're a Ron Paul supporter in a foreign country AND have a group of others to meet with and would like to do a Skype video interview with me to encourage us Americans to keep going, please email me at: info [at] ronpaulflix.com with subject Foreign Interviews

There are plenty of international Ron Paul supporters on Facebook...contact them there.

 

[Constitutional Paulicy]

How about Americas living abroad. You might get more than you bargained for. I'm and American who has lived in various countries for over a decade, and I could speak for the average international expat. It's not pretty though.

 

[andrer]

I'm one. However, my english could be a lot better.

What could be good to inform the US supporters is Swedish history. We were one of the richest countries, with low taxes an relative open market. However, when other countries started to get their own competence and Swedish goods were too expensive so did the Swedish economy started to decline. But instead of letting the market handle the situation (lower salaries, push for more specialized competences etc.) so did the politics become a lot more socialistic. They said that "capitalist had failed" (of course, it was not the politicians fault). The government grew dramatically, the companies couldn't get hold of cheap labor because government "took care" of the unemployed and taxes escalated until the people had no more money and then they started to borrow and the state started to confiscate the companies. Companies fled to other countries and Sweden almost went bankrupt from reckless politics. It was so bad the government wanted took control over the media to trick the people that in other countries everything was worse (while in fact, it was the other way around). In the end everyone else claimed Sweden as a failed state, and all the other countries sold our currency and it crashed and Sweden lost it's earlier position. They were eventually forced to open the market again, but we never really recovered.

Sounds familiar? What I'm seeing now is US and EU doing exactly what destroyed Sweden before. They are just repeating the failed history, socialism.

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

Bump.

 

[PolicyReader]

bump

 

[RonRules]

I'm one. However, my english could be a lot better.

What could be good to inform the US supporters is Swedish history. We were one of the richest countries, with low taxes an relative open market.

Your English is fine! BTW, my sister is visiting Sweden right now. She's loving it.

In case you don't know exactly where Sweden is at financially, check this out:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/30308959/The_World_s_Biggest_Debtor_Nations

20. United States - 101.1% (It was 60%, just 4-5 years ago)
External debt (as % of GDP): 101.1%
Gross external debt: $14.825 trillion
2009 GDP (est): $14.66 trillion
External debt per capita: $48,258

7. Sweden - 282.2%
External debt (as % of GDP): 282.2%
Gross external debt: $1.001 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $354.7 billion
External debt per capita: $110,479

In this particular respect, it is worse than Greece. This last figure is very important. That's YOUR personal federal debt to your government in Sweden. You probably also have provincial/city debts as well. Is your local media saying anyting about this?

 

[arsenius]

I'm an American living in South Korea. Unfortunately I don't know of any other Paul supporters here. Heck, even in the states the only supporters I know are my family. There is a South Korea Paul group on meetup.com, but I work during their meeting time.

 

[fatjohn]

Foreign intervention?

Best intentions, but I don't think foreigners picking for Americans will sit well with most people who see it.

Mhh one could spin it about being a capitalist trapped in a socialist society.
I´m belgian but i don´t know other people that follow him like i do. One of my friends whom i most opened up to Ron Paul and the propaganda in the western world lives in Michigan now, but even he never talked much about the political circus coming through his state. My brother is pro Paul and my dad too but follow it a lot less though and I know them and I won´t be able to convince them for this, sorry.

 

[Tinnuhana]

Might have trouble with current employees of the DoD, but I can get an expat or two and some Okinawans. Probably too late for Hawai'i. There are 12,000 ethnic Okinawans on Hawai'i, and I doubt if any of them disagree with Ron's foreign policy. I can give her a call, but she's got a couple of boys she has to care fro and p robably can't get out as it's almost time for them to go to bed. I'll ask her if she has Skype on her computer.
If I had a decent camera, I could go down to the sea wall and just talk with people.

 

[andrer]

Your English is fine! BTW, my sister is visiting Sweden right now. She's loving it.

In case you don't know exactly where Sweden is at financially, check this out:



20. United States - 101.1% (It was 60%, just 4-5 years ago)
External debt (as % of GDP): 101.1%
Gross external debt: $14.825 trillion
2009 GDP (est): $14.66 trillion
External debt per capita: $48,258

7. Sweden - 282.2%
External debt (as % of GDP): 282.2%
Gross external debt: $1.001 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $354.7 billion
External debt per capita: $110,479

In this particular respect, it is worse than Greece. This last figure is very important. That's YOUR personal federal debt to your government in Sweden. You probably also have provincial/city debts as well. Is your local media saying anyting about this?

Our media is a poor and our government is even more secret than US. Unfortunately this goes for the whole EU.
The problem with debt, internal or external, is to get hold of how much it actually is. Also, the liabilities, private savings, taxes, public sector etc. are important factors.

E.g. An average Swedish person has more personal debt than the american ones. But the Swedish person also pays much more in taxes (almost 70%) and the public system is much more generous (whether you have an income you can still use a lot of the resources) which makes it even less flexible. This means that Sweden is very sensitive and right now our country has an balanced budget because our biggest markets, North America and EU, are taking huge loans to finance their over consumption. If these two "crashes", Sweden will crash and probably much worse then the others. Also, our government-take-care-of-you-from-cradle-to-grave-policy have made sure no one saves any money! The situation is so sensitive that our government keeps the numbers secret and constantly feeds the MSM (which often are financed by the government) with news that this "house bubble" rumors are false. Our government has decreased the employment number through increasing the university/college, which means that we will have over educated (with degrees with no or little values) unemployed people with more debts in the future.

Our national debt is only 40% of GDP, but as you see this could swift extremely fast because many of the factors are really bad. Since our government is secret so are we doing our own research with what we can find, and what we really would need is our own debt clock like this one, http : // usdebtclock .org/
I could email some people university professors in economics to see if they would wan't to participate in an interview and maybe they know more than me.

Glad your sister likes it. She's studying at Lund? If she want's an Swedish/European citizenship so can it be traded for an american one.

 

[RonRules]

Glad your sister likes it. She's studying at Lund? If she want's an Swedish/European citizenship so can it be traded for an american one.

My son studied engineering in Lund for 6 months (student exchange). My sister works for a "do gooder" organization that is teeming up with Sweden to go help women in Senegal. The training before going to Africa is in Sweden.

I confirmed you Debt-to-GDP ratio of 40% (from Wikipedia). I don't know why CNBC has such a different number.

 

[Lishy]

I sent my (long) email. Hope we have lots to talk about!

 

[andrer]

My son studied engineering in Lund for 6 months (student exchange). My sister works for a "do gooder" organization that is teeming up with Sweden to go help women in Senegal. The training before going to Africa is in Sweden.

I confirmed you Debt-to-GDP ratio of 40% (from Wikipedia). I don't know why CNBC has such a different number.

Because they probably look at total external debt. As you can see in the usdebtclock.org so is the total debt far larger than the public debt.

Sweden is probably larger in total debt per capita than the US, and information like this is hard to find for Sweden and EU.

 

[Lishy]

So what's happenin'?

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

Bump.

 

[Columbus]

But how can international people help Ron Paul other than donations?

 

[Crotale]

Well, I'm an Englishman and am part of the facebook group "Brits for Ron Paul".

I managed to convert two of my friends to supporting Ron Paul, do we count as a group?