Comments on: Paul credits success to tea party; says he can win without GOP’s help

By: The New Media Artist

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By: Buck Feshear

Buck Feshear — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:29:18 +0000

I agree with Robbie. Johnson is the true conservative in the race. Paul is .. well, I’m not sure what he is, probably 75 percent Libertarian. And Grayson’s one of these politicians who is all things to all people and doesn’t have a set of core values and principles.

By: KathyB

KathyB — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:52:30 +0000

If Rand Paul doesn’t need Republicans, who is he going to get to vote for him in the primary?

That is the strangest thing I have heard in a while.

By: robbie

robbie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:39:46 +0000

The Tea Party is more of a state of mind….and because, as Mr. Paul states, no body can tell us how to vote, I’m votin’ for Bill Johnson; he may not have the big bucks on his side, but he is the most determined and qualified.

By: The General

The General — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:49:34 +0000

First of all 90% of the stimulus funds are not being created out of thin air. Second while I despise the TARP program, something had to be done. A collapse in credit is what led to the Great Depression. If you read Milton Friedman, he explains what caused the Great Depression was the failure of the Fed to rescue the banks. Sitting around and doing nothing is what led to the Great Depression. I should note that over half of TARP has been repaid. I would like to see the big banks broken up, however I don’t believe that will happen.

The automobile industry would not have been bought up as you explained. There was no credit available, and had there have been a buyer available.

The auto industry failed because consumers demanded gas guzzling SUVs. When gas went up people no longer wanted them. I know what you are going to say, they should have made more fuel efficient vehicles. Well my father worked in the replacement parts industry, and you cannot simply have a plant that makes SUVs one day and hybrids the next. It takes years to convert a plant from producing one type vehicle to another. On top of that the auto parts suppliers would have gone under, and many did even with the bailout.

I will finally challenge you on the Federal Reserve causing the recession. Yes lowering rates to one percent was not a good thing, however the bulk of the problems came from financial institutes like Countrywide giving mortgages to anybody who could fill out an application. They sold the mortgages to Citi, JP Morgan, and Bank of America because they believed housing prices would continue to go up. This process continued even after the Fed raised the key rate 5.25%.

By: ellsworth_toohey

ellsworth_toohey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:21:11 +0000

General,
You are wrong. This progressive notion that intervention is necessary for correction is one that is losing its hold, thankfully.
Schiff and Paul argue for letting the economy correct on its own, because in the end, it will anyway. You are just trying to outrun something with infinite stamina.
You can’t run monetary policy like Greenspan was allowed to do for all those years, and not create a huge bubble that will necessarily correct itself one way or another. We need to take our lumps and get through it. If the GM were to have gone under, it would have been bought up by competitors and production would have kept going, it would have simply been sold for $.50 on the dollar and those at the very top would have paid the worst price, which is what you want anyway, I’m sure.
Dinking around with the economy and trying to engineer it is what got us into this place. You guys have to start learning this.

By: Jack McCock

Jack McCock — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:27:23 +0000

The TARP bailouts, stimulus plan, and cash for clunkers have all been failures. The Federal Reserve is not going to resuscitate the economy by continuing to print money out of thin air. This is what played a big part in our current economic problems. It is impossible for America to spend its way into prosperity.

By: Buck Feshear

Buck Feshear — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:23:19 +0000

There is no such thing as the “Tea Party.” A tea party is a political protest, not a group of people organized into a political party.

By: The General

The General — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:30:42 +0000

Barack Obama is the man whose stimulus helped lower unemployment, increased the stock market, and lowered taxes on working families.

He saved the auto industry from losing hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs.

We are poised for job growth by the end of the quarter. Rand Paul’s father and his even crazier friend Peter Schiff even admitted they would send this country into a Great Depression rather than allow the president and allow the Federal Reserve to do what is necessary to rescue the economy.

By: Chingo

Chingo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:03:15 +0000

give credit, are you a communist, a socialist, a presidential term limit remover, or pelosi?