The Fed in the Four-Point Platform...

[anaconda]

I am not an expert on the 3rd Party and Independent candidates, but...

I am not aware that McKinney, Nader, or even Barr previously addressed the Federal Reserve issue. So this was a real happy day for me. I thought only Chuck Baldwin and Ron Paul had dealt specifically with it previously.

Any thoughts on how the soon-to-be-legendary Four-Point platform was crafted? Looks to me like it was all RP, with everyone else signing on. Does this mean that Barr, McKinney, and Nader are going to take the issue front and center? Or, were they using today as publicity on RP's coat tails and will soon forget the issue?

 

[Bradley in DC]

I am not an expert on the 3rd Party and Independent candidates, but...

I am not aware that McKinney, Nader, or even Barr previously addressed the Federal Reserve issue. So this was a real happy day for me. I thought only Chuck Baldwin and Ron Paul had dealt specifically with it previously.

Any thoughts on how the soon-to-be-legendary Four-Point platform was crafted? Looks to me like it was all RP, with everyone else signing on. Does this mean that Barr, McKinney, and Nader are going to take the issue front and center? Or, were they using today as publicity on RP's coat tails and will soon forget the issue?

Barr has been suspicious of central banking for a long time and tried to get the US out of the IMF independently of Dr. Paul (see the first article in my sig).

Dr. Paul has been working on Nader regarding the Fed for a long time. Nader has always been against its use to dole out special favors to corporations. His people and McKinney's and I when I was in Paul's office all worked on an anti-corporate welfare coalition together. I suspect all of the current bailouts crystalized that issue a bit for them.

There have been a lot of left-right-libertarian "strange bedfellows" coalitions with the same cast of characters for long time on these issues. If anything, it was disappointingly narrow and short.

 

[JosephTheLibertarian]

I am not an expert on the 3rd Party and Independent candidates, but...

I am not aware that McKinney, Nader, or even Barr previously addressed the Federal Reserve issue. So this was a real happy day for me. I thought only Chuck Baldwin and Ron Paul had dealt specifically with it previously.

Any thoughts on how the soon-to-be-legendary Four-Point platform was crafted? Looks to me like it was all RP, with everyone else signing on. Does this mean that Barr, McKinney, and Nader are going to take the issue front and center? Or, were they using today as publicity on RP's coat tails and will soon forget the issue?

"or even Barr"

you sure have a thing for communists you either don't care or do not realize how far to the left McKinney and Nader really are. Wow. No wonder this country is in such bad shape. I'm like one of a few that knows what's best for everyone.

 

[anaconda]

"or even Barr"

Please don't be offended. What I meant was that, of the three of them, I am most surprised that I saw no mention of the Fed on Barr's website as an issue. I would not necessarily have suspected to see it in the platforms of Nader or McKinney. Thus the remark "even Barr," as in, even Barr (clearly the conservative among the those three) hadn't made an issue of the Fed, as far as I had seen. Was just wondering what others might have heard from these candidates on the Fed.

 

[anaconda]

Barr has been suspicious of central banking for a long time and tried to get the US out of the IMF independently of Dr. Paul (see the first article in my sig).

Dr. Paul has been working on Nader regarding the Fed for a long time. Nader has always been against its use to dole out special favors to corporations. His people and McKinney's and I when I was in Paul's office all worked on an anti-corporate welfare coalition together. I suspect all of the current bailouts crystalized that issue a bit for them.

There have been a lot of left-right-libertarian "strange bedfellows" coalitions with the same cast of characters for long time on these issues. If anything, it was disappointingly narrow and short.

Very enlightening. Thank you.