PENWESTERN (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I do not like the direction in which our economy is going which is straight into the pockets of the fat cats on Wall Street and overseas. Main Street pays and is going broke by the day.

jaybo976 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is my voice in Congress. Not all of us Americans are stupid!!!

Lyndehouse (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

With all due respect you are like the old Pharisees who tried to deny Christ's message--all those with God's spirit in them know you represent the Neocon enemy, which has polluted our money, started our wars, stripped our rights and indebted this country. Ron Paul's ideas will revolutionize the republican party--get ready for a new wave of young freedom lovers

zack9912000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Liberals are so stupid, God bless Ron Paul and others who uses commonsense.

milkman52879 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Forgive me for speaking in generalizations...I was referring to free-market, or lazzie faire capitalism if you like. I agree that capitalism in general is not the same thing as free market liberalism.

RV56 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

That is true... for pretty much half the world. I would rather contribute that to the industrial revolution and not the monetary system.

RV56 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Capitalism is not the same thing as free market liberalism. Capitalism is simply a society with generalized wage labour and commodity production. Capitalism can be regulated or not and it does not really matter if the state or private individuals who administrates the capital as long that it's capital that is being administrated. Pretty much the whole world (except the least developed areas) is capitalists, but of different sorts.

Lyndehouse (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The time period from 1873-1933 was when the US went from being an agrarian nation to the richest nation the world has ever seen. Whatever panics or economic corrections occured, overall the trend was upward.

milkman52879 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

WOW! You have NO IDEA what you're talking about. If ignorance is bliss, you are ORGASMIC!!

milkman52879 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You're WAAAAY off on that one pal. The issues you are blaming on capitalism are not the products of capitalism at all. There have been too many regulations/price fixing/etc for it to be considered capitalism. The gold standard was abused in the past, but its better than what we have now. Notice there was never a depression before the fed red act in 1913. Ron Paul and Meses have it right.