Ignore Ron Paul are the new marching orders?

[briansd1]

[quote=ucodegen]
This is a bit of a strawman argument. Simply put, if we don’t pay off the bondholders, they will not lend to us or will charge us prorated based upon what the expected chance of default is. Want to see interest rates spike? Don’t pay off the bondholders. The Feds purchasing can’t counter market behavior, just dampen it out a bit. The Thai government tried to counter the devaluation of the Baht.. and lost badly.

The real thing is that we need to live within our means. Blaming the bondholders for letting us borrow the money to buy the rope to hang ourselves with is stupid and childish.

To say that no borrowing should be done is wrong. During times of financial stress, the gov. should spend more (borrowing to do that). That also means that during times of good, the government should cut spending including on social services (paying back the loan). Problem here is that our government currently acts as a child who seeing a dollar, has got to spend it.
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I very much agree with you.

However, I was more specifically referring to the populism of the Tea Party.

The Tea Party has some anti-populist positions, IMHO. Paying bondholders ahead of Federal employees and beneficiaries, contractors, farmers, and everybody else is one such non-populist view.

Another non-populist view of the Tea Party’s is to give a free pass to the banks for the bailouts they received. Granted, the Tea Party is against bailouts. But now that they bailouts have happened, the Tea Party is against taxing the banks to recover the money. So the banks essentially got a free ride.

The Tea Party claims to be the party of working middle-class Americans. I don’t see how average Tea Party adherents reconcile Tea Party positions to their own populist anger.

[briansd1]

[quote=jpinpb] In any case, back to RP. It does appear he is glossed over.[/quote]

I don’t think there’s a conspiracy by the press.

Ron Paul always runs and never gets any traction. So he’s old news.

As someone said earlier, news is a business. The news has to be fresh for the consumers.

jp, did you listen to the show on NPR yesterday afternoon? There were talking about a study on how news coverage, and bombastic news coverage in particular, affect how we make decisions.

I believe that eveasdropper has is right. She wrote some excellent comments on the 24-hour news cycle on some other threads.

[briansd1]

[quote=jpinpb] In any case, back to RP. It does appear he is glossed over.[/quote]

I don’t think there’s a conspiracy by the press.

Ron Paul always runs and never gets any traction. So he’s old news.

As someone said earlier, news is a business. The news has to be fresh for the consumers.

jp, did you listen to the show on NPR yesterday afternoon? There were talking about a study on how news coverage, and bombastic news coverage in particular, affect how we make decisions.

I believe that eveasdropper has is right. She wrote some excellent comments on the 24-hour news cycle on some other threads.

[briansd1]

[quote=jpinpb] In any case, back to RP. It does appear he is glossed over.[/quote]

I don’t think there’s a conspiracy by the press.

Ron Paul always runs and never gets any traction. So he’s old news.

As someone said earlier, news is a business. The news has to be fresh for the consumers.

jp, did you listen to the show on NPR yesterday afternoon? There were talking about a study on how news coverage, and bombastic news coverage in particular, affect how we make decisions.

I believe that eveasdropper has is right. She wrote some excellent comments on the 24-hour news cycle on some other threads.

[briansd1]

[quote=jpinpb] In any case, back to RP. It does appear he is glossed over.[/quote]

I don’t think there’s a conspiracy by the press.

Ron Paul always runs and never gets any traction. So he’s old news.

As someone said earlier, news is a business. The news has to be fresh for the consumers.

jp, did you listen to the show on NPR yesterday afternoon? There were talking about a study on how news coverage, and bombastic news coverage in particular, affect how we make decisions.

I believe that eveasdropper has is right. She wrote some excellent comments on the 24-hour news cycle on some other threads.

[briansd1]

[quote=jpinpb] In any case, back to RP. It does appear he is glossed over.[/quote]

I don’t think there’s a conspiracy by the press.

Ron Paul always runs and never gets any traction. So he’s old news.

As someone said earlier, news is a business. The news has to be fresh for the consumers.

jp, did you listen to the show on NPR yesterday afternoon? There were talking about a study on how news coverage, and bombastic news coverage in particular, affect how we make decisions.

I believe that eveasdropper has is right. She wrote some excellent comments on the 24-hour news cycle on some other threads.

[jpinpb]

brian – if you’re referring to How Does Financial News Impact Your Brain I did listen to that. Transcript.

Which I would agree that certainly the media coverage has a certain amount of influence of people’s views.

[jpinpb]

brian – if you’re referring to How Does Financial News Impact Your Brain I did listen to that. Transcript.

Which I would agree that certainly the media coverage has a certain amount of influence of people’s views.

[jpinpb]

brian – if you’re referring to How Does Financial News Impact Your Brain I did listen to that. Transcript.

Which I would agree that certainly the media coverage has a certain amount of influence of people’s views.

[jpinpb]

brian – if you’re referring to How Does Financial News Impact Your Brain I did listen to that. Transcript.

Which I would agree that certainly the media coverage has a certain amount of influence of people’s views.

[jpinpb]

brian – if you’re referring to How Does Financial News Impact Your Brain I did listen to that. Transcript.

Which I would agree that certainly the media coverage has a certain amount of influence of people’s views.

[briansd1]

yes, jp, that’s the show I was referring to.

I believe that the way news is delivered affect us tremendously.

I personally like the more monotone delivery of NPR, PBS and BBC. At least I can think for myself.

I have a friend who likes the entertainment value of Fox. He even likes The Views for “the chicks arguing with another”. His views are very different from mine. He jumps to conclusions much faster and he wants quick simple solutions to complex problems.

Ron Paul’s problem is that he’s not telegenic. He’s too old and too thin and badly dressed. His delivery is boring. RP’s anti war message goes against the bombastic delivery of Fox. For maximum coverage he should say something like “Let’s drop some nukes on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. As president, I will nuke anyone that messes with us. But I will not do nation building.”

Ron Paul ran too many times and in America (unlike other countries and unlike at the founding) candidates now only have one chance at the presidency. A second run is not viewed favorably.

Unlike RP, Michele Bachmann is telegenic. She’s got “star qualities.”

We live in a very visual television world.

[briansd1]

yes, jp, that’s the show I was referring to.

I believe that the way news is delivered affect us tremendously.

I personally like the more monotone delivery of NPR, PBS and BBC. At least I can think for myself.

I have a friend who likes the entertainment value of Fox. He even likes The Views for “the chicks arguing with another”. His views are very different from mine. He jumps to conclusions much faster and he wants quick simple solutions to complex problems.

Ron Paul’s problem is that he’s not telegenic. He’s too old and too thin and badly dressed. His delivery is boring. RP’s anti war message goes against the bombastic delivery of Fox. For maximum coverage he should say something like “Let’s drop some nukes on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. As president, I will nuke anyone that messes with us. But I will not do nation building.”

Ron Paul ran too many times and in America (unlike other countries and unlike at the founding) candidates now only have one chance at the presidency. A second run is not viewed favorably.

Unlike RP, Michele Bachmann is telegenic. She’s got “star qualities.”

We live in a very visual television world.

[briansd1]

yes, jp, that’s the show I was referring to.

I believe that the way news is delivered affect us tremendously.

I personally like the more monotone delivery of NPR, PBS and BBC. At least I can think for myself.

I have a friend who likes the entertainment value of Fox. He even likes The Views for “the chicks arguing with another”. His views are very different from mine. He jumps to conclusions much faster and he wants quick simple solutions to complex problems.

Ron Paul’s problem is that he’s not telegenic. He’s too old and too thin and badly dressed. His delivery is boring. RP’s anti war message goes against the bombastic delivery of Fox. For maximum coverage he should say something like “Let’s drop some nukes on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. As president, I will nuke anyone that messes with us. But I will not do nation building.”

Ron Paul ran too many times and in America (unlike other countries and unlike at the founding) candidates now only have one chance at the presidency. A second run is not viewed favorably.

Unlike RP, Michele Bachmann is telegenic. She’s got “star qualities.”

We live in a very visual television world.

[briansd1]

yes, jp, that’s the show I was referring to.

I believe that the way news is delivered affect us tremendously.

I personally like the more monotone delivery of NPR, PBS and BBC. At least I can think for myself.

I have a friend who likes the entertainment value of Fox. He even likes The Views for “the chicks arguing with another”. His views are very different from mine. He jumps to conclusions much faster and he wants quick simple solutions to complex problems.

Ron Paul’s problem is that he’s not telegenic. He’s too old and too thin and badly dressed. His delivery is boring. RP’s anti war message goes against the bombastic delivery of Fox. For maximum coverage he should say something like “Let’s drop some nukes on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. As president, I will nuke anyone that messes with us. But I will not do nation building.”

Ron Paul ran too many times and in America (unlike other countries and unlike at the founding) candidates now only have one chance at the presidency. A second run is not viewed favorably.

Unlike RP, Michele Bachmann is telegenic. She’s got “star qualities.”

We live in a very visual television world.

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