{"id":399,"date":"2008-09-24T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T00:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2008-09-24T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T00:43:14","slug":"email-from-ron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"email from Ron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/><meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"Word.Document\" \/><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 10\" \/><meta name=\"Originator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 10\" \/>\n<link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CUsers%5CRyan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml\" rel=\"File-List\" \/>\n<link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CUsers%5CRyan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_editdata.mso\" rel=\"Edit-Time-Data\" \/><!--[if !mso]>\n\n\n<style> v\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} <\/style>\n\n <![endif]--><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"country-region\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"place\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"time\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"date\"><\/o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>  <w:WordDocument>   <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>   <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>   <w:Compatibility>    <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>    <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>    <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>    <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>   <\/w:Compatibility>   <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>  <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object  classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/object>\n\n\n<style> st1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <\/style>\n\n <![endif]--><\/p>\n<style><!--  \/* Font Definitions *\/  @font-face \t{font-family:Tahoma; 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\tmso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 \t{page:Section1;} --> <\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><strong>From:<\/strong> updates08@ronpaulforcongress.cp20.com [mailto:updates08@ronpaulforcongress.cp20.com] <strong>On Behalf Of <\/strong>Ron Paul 2008<br \/>\n<strong>Sent:<\/strong> <\/span><st1:date year=\"2008\" day=\"24\" month=\"9\"><st1:date year=\"2008\" day=\"24\" month=\"9\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Wednesday, September 24, 2008<\/span><\/st1:date><\/st1:date><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"> <\/span><st1:time minute=\"6\" hour=\"9\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><st1:time minute=\"6\" hour=\"9\">9:06 AM<\/st1:time><\/span><\/st1:time><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><br \/>\n<strong>To:<\/strong> nomosian@gmail.com<br \/>\n<strong>Subject:<\/strong> Time is running out<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><u1:p><\/u1:p><st1:date year=\"2008\" day=\"24\" month=\"9\"><st1:date year=\"2008\" day=\"24\" month=\"9\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Wednesday, September 24, 2008<\/span><\/st1:date><u1:p><\/u1:p><\/st1:date><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">The events of the past week are no exception.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress&#8217; throat is not just economically foolish.\u00a0 It is downright sinister.\u00a0 It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect.\u00a0 It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder.\u00a0 Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made <\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">America<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"> more communist than <\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">China<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">!\u00a0 &#8220;This is welfare for the rich,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is socialism for the rich. It&#8217;s bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters.&#8221;<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">That describes the current bailout package to a T.\u00a0 And we&#8217;re being told it&#8217;s unavoidable.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it.\u00a0 But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences &#8211; predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics &#8211; are being let off the hook.\u00a0 The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Treasury Secretary is authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets at any one time.\u00a0 That means $700 billion is only the very beginning of what will hit us.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Financial institutions are &#8220;designated as financial agents of the Government.&#8221;\u00a0 This is the New Deal to end all New Deals.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s this: &#8220;Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.&#8221;\u00a0 Translation: the Secretary can buy up whatever junk debt he wants to, burden the American people with it, and be subject to no one in the process.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">There goes your country.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this &#8220;sadly necessary.&#8221;\u00a0 Sad, yes.\u00a0 Necessary?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t make me laugh.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people.\u00a0 The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind &#8211; another example of the big choice we&#8217;re supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes.\u00a0 Now, with a backlash brewing, they&#8217;re not quite sure what their views are.\u00a0 A sad display, really.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Although the present bailout package is almost certainly not the end of the political atrocities we&#8217;ll witness in connection with the crisis, time is short.\u00a0 Congress may vote as soon as tomorrow.\u00a0 With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it.\u00a0 Call them!\u00a0 Let them hear from you!\u00a0 Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom?\u00a0 Do we care about responsibility and accountability?\u00a0 Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for?\u00a0 Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government?\u00a0 Do we care?<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">In liberty,<\/span><u1:p><\/u1:p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Ron Paul<u1:p><\/u1:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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