BOB BRINKER SLAMS RON PAUL HARD on 1/23/10
Bob Brinker, host of the radio show "Moneytalk" slammed Dr. Paul hard today regarding the re-appointment of Bernanke as Fed chairman and regarding HR1207, the proposed bill to audit the Fed.
Brinker kneels at the alter of the Fed and loves Bernanke beyond words.
This guy has no business hosting a show about money while being so in love with the Federal Reserve System and seeing NO CONNECTION between the Fed and the economic booms and busts.
A caller early in his show today said he was a follower of the Austrian School and Brinker immediately wrote him off as a kook.
Brinker disrespected the caller as being "all seeing-all-knowing" regarding how the Austiran School DID foretell the latest financial collapse.
This guy gets my blood boiling and I have included a link to streaming his show.
His website has no way to contact him without paying a fee and joining his organization. I assume that is because he doesn't want to see all the negative email he would get from moral thinkers like those on this site.
This particular Ron Paul-bashing show was on Saturday, 1/23/10 and he brought up the subject of the Fed early on in the show.
You MAY be able to stream it here:
http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?showid=51
Here is a link directly to his site: http://www.bobbrinker.com/
Brinker doesn't know what he doesn't know and ..
that Ron is likely the most economically and constitutionally astute Senator on the hill.
I was listening to that show on the day it was broadcast and for those of you who do not know and do not give Mr Brinker his due it is YOU who need to take note. Bob and his "Marketimer" has a huge syndicated radio and blog following that predicted the end of the dot com era with almost a years advance notice and put many people into the land of (as Bob would say), critical mass. That means they do not have to concern themselves with money ever again. That is at least until the fiat system leaves them literally hungry and they cannot eat their "greens" - the very problem that Paul warns of. Brinker makes people money while Paul saves their very lives.
That is the time that Bob and his groupies might need to concern themselves with and ... I would have never given Brinker that kind of slur prior to the remarks he made about Paul.
Fact is, what he said about Paul for those of us who know both him and R Paul >> made Bob look like a real boob. He like many other rinos would not even say Pauls name... THAT is the kind of disrespect he has. Similar to the Limbaughs, Hannidy's , and most all the Fox affiliates, he worked *hard* for his fiat dollars, and his hawk feathers.
He stated that the reason 'the Senator from Texas" does not know economics is because he is "but a Doctor after all" and is thus clueless. That was where he is so very VERY wrong.
For those of you who have not read Paul's "The Revolution a Manifesto" you need to read it. Paul's economic and accounting mentor was and is Luwig von Mises. It would be good to bombard Brinker with a 1k copies of Mise's book "Human Action". A seminole dissertation on socialism and how accounting inside of it is impossible from the premise that when one does not believe in a truth outside of himself he is then accountable to nothing making socialism and accounting a virtual and hilarious conundrum. Fact is that mathematical truth is the very basis for accounting, something that evaporates when that truth becomes owned individually, something that brinker (I just decided to give him no respect) would likely agree with.
Fact is I had not heard binker for several years as political correctness (the new state socialist religion) has robbed me of any investible funds, and he did an interview that day I finally did re-tune him in with a man whose thesis prompted BB to say "that money was indeed our new god". I was blown away. That BB would admit to THAT and then do a statesman such as R Paul such a disservice with out even knowing the degree to which he is actually on the same page was in a word = amazing.
Brinker as with so many in his rino league has been too interested in the evil root$ to know the degree to which it ha$ deceived even him. It makes me wonder if I myself am fully awake yet.
It really is too bad that collectively we do not yet deserve such a president as Ron Paul.
What a truly amazing day that would have been eh?
I will never forget the day that Ron Paul was asked ".. and Senator, I understand that you would abolish the IRS sir?" and he pauses and squares himself directly in front of the camera and stated emphatically, "immediately!"
That to me was the day that hope for America was reborn. Viva the r'evol'ution!!
Gary
Brinker out of dot coms?
That ain't the way I remember it.
Is that anything like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk
Ron Paul "Sign Wave Across the USA" -- November 5th!
Brinker is a shill
He keeps the sheep in their pen.
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"Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you." -- Patrick Dixon
Don't give him any attention.
Don't give him any attention. That is what he's looking for. I had never heard of the guy till now. Cut off his air and ignore him. He and other failures like him will wither on the vine.
"The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that." — Alan Greenspan
If someone gets cancer and just ignores it...will it go away???
We should be aware of what fools like this have to say because he has a large national radio audience.
On one hand, Brinker is doing a lot of damage to Ron Paul's reputation.
On the other, he IS bringing up the subject and introducing Dr. Paul to millions who may know nothing about him.
By staying vigilant and confronting this idiot (especially LIVE on his NATIONAL radio show) those of us, including me, who choose to defend Dr. Paul may shed some understanding where IT IS MOST NEEDED.
A guy called yesterday defending Dr. Paul as the most frugal man in government after Brinker claimed that Congressman Paul is wasting taxpayer money on subjects like auditing the FED.
UNBELIEVABLE!!! WHAT A TOTAL STOOGE for the BANKERS.
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
What, you want me to waste my
What, you want me to waste my time on every loudmouth who disagrees with common sense? No chance.
Support freedom and liberty candidates in 2012... Ron Paul... Gary Johnson...
YouTube is a good place to slam Brinker
Check out segments of his show from 2007 and early 2008.
If he has been wrong consistently, select the links for the clips and post the links here. I'll do the rest.
Ummmm WHo
Who is this Bob Brinker and why does he matter?
Here is why.
Bob Brinker has more than twenty five years of investment management experience. He is the host of the weekend financial talk program MoneyTalk. The program is nationally broadcast live from 4pm to 7pm Eastern time on Saturdays and Sundays.
Here are all of the radio stations that he is on:
http://www.bobbrinker.com/radio.asp
Brinker's a socailist.
He had no clue the crash was coming and even when it did he said the stock market fell because of unwarranted fear.
Brinker also suggested that the american people should be taxed more for the war in iraq. He's good at picking the best mutual funds but 90% of them are American stock based funds. He did spot the 1987 crash and the 2001 crash.
Your ignorance is showing //
Bob is FAR from a socialist and saying so reveals a lot about you..
I fully agree.
He's all over the board, even interviewing a Keynesian last year and agreeing all the way.
Yet now he slams all the government spending.
I called him this weekend to tell him to read "The Creature From Jekyll Island" because he's so madly in love with Bernanke and the FED.
His call screener did not like one bit that I was suggesting this book.
I heard several Ron Paul supporters call Brinker this weekend and try to talk sense to him, but he's too far gone to ever get it.
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
Brinker did again today: 1/31/10. I wrote him a letter, but
there is nowhere to send it. Miserable. This guy is the poorest excuse for a radio advice show about financial issues. Here is the letter anyway.
Bob Brinker's MoneyTalk Talk Radio Show
Dear Bob:
Although I agree with you in many areas, I was very disappointed in how you responded to the very first question on your show today concerning auditing the Federal Reserve.
Why did you not emphasize the fact that the Federal Reserve in NOT Federal, but a private bank answering to one?
The Fed has kept interest rates artificially low, so that there is no incentive for people to save their hard earned money. It is better for them to keep their money in their pillow case if they are receiving less than 1% interest for a regular savings account.
The dollar has lost 95% of its value, since the Fed came into existence (by stealth) in 1913. That the Fed is responsible for dollar “stability” is an oxymoron.
An audit is needed because the Fed has not told us where all of the Trillions of dollars went and to whom. The Fed is NOT transparent. Do you know of the questioning of Bernanke by Rep. Alan Grayson and of Bernanke’s evasive non-answers?
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ECLxK2YTs
Why did Thomas Jefferson write that the following?
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Is Thomas Jefferson also like Rep. Ron Paul in his “distorting” (to quote you) the truth?
Is a Central Bank Constitutional?
Is not a Central Bank one of the ten tenets of Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto?
If all of this in incorrect, please correct me about these facts and please inform your many listeners about the truth facts concerning the Federal Reserve.
GOOD FOR YOU!
BRAVO!
But there is no way to contact this idiot.
He does that on purpose because he must know how slammed he would get with differing opinions.
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
pawnstorm: Appreciate your thoughts, but frustrating to...
write the letter first, then find that I cannot send it to Brinker. If I ever did find a physical address to mail it to, like our legislators, he would think that it is laced with anthrax or some other similar toxin and never read it.
Frustrating situation, but it did feel so good to write.
Thomas Jefferson did not write that quote.
It has been attributed to him coming from a letter to another. (I don't recall the details) But examination of the alleged letter, shows that text is no where to be found in it.
All efforts to trace that quote in ANY writing of Jefferson by Jefferson historical societies that archive his writings and are well familiar with them, cannot find any evidence he wrote this.
While it is a great quote, as best as can be determined, it originated 100% on the internet. All references to it online, (and those in print subsequently) either are circular, or point back the original internet source which is not cited to the original printed text.
You can search the net for the quote as well as discussions on its authenticity on the web. I seem to recall a topic here on DP about it.
Jefferson did write that according to this.
Quotation: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Variations:
1. "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
2. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies..."
3. "The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Sources consulted: Searching on the phrase "private banks"
1. Monticello website
2. Ford's Works of Thomas Jefferson
3. L&B (CD-ROM version)
4. UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government, Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson from the Modern English Collection
5. Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
6. Thomas Jefferson Retirement Papers
7. Quotable Jefferson (searching in the index under "banks")
8. Bartleby.com: Quotations
Earliest known appearance in print: 1937[1][2]
Other attributions: None known.
Status: This quotation is at least partly spurious; see comments below.
Comments: This quotation is often cited as being in an 1802 letter to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, and/or "later published in The Debate Over the Recharter of the Bank Bill (1809)."
The first part of the quotation ("If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered") has not been found anywhere in Thomas Jefferson's writings, to Albert Gallatin or otherwise. It is identified in Respectfully Quoted as spurious, and the editor further points out that the words "inflation" and "deflation" did not come into use until 1864 and 1920, respectively.[3]
The second part of the quotation ("I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies...") may well be a paraphrase of a statement Jefferson made in a letter to John Taylor in 1816. He wrote, "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."[4]
The third part of this quotation ("The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs") may be a misquotation of Jefferson's comment to John Wayles Eppes, "Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs." [5]
Lastly, we have not found a record of any publication called The Debate Over the Recharter of the Bank Bill. There was certainly debate over the recharter of the National Bank leading up to its expiration in 1811, but a search of Congressional documents of that period yields none of the verbiage discussed above.
See this article's Discussion page for further insight into the formation and use of the latter portion of this quotation.
Footnotes
http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Private_Banks...
Definitely a modern fabrication
The language is distinctly 20th century, maybe 21st. It sounds modern, and besides, in Jefferson's time, "inflation" did not mean what it does today regarding money, and the word "deflation" did not even exist.
Is this close enough for government work (from U of Virginia)
"Certainly no nation ever before abandoned to the avarice and jugglings of private individuals to regulate according to their own interests, the quantum of circulating medium for the nation -- to inflate, by deluges of paper, the nominal prices of property, and then to buy up that property at 1s. in the pound, having first withdrawn the floating medium which might endanger a competition in purchase. Yet this is what has been done, and will be done, unless stayed by the protecting hand of the legislature. The evil has been produced by the error of their sanction of this ruinous machinery of banks; and justice, wisdom, duty, all require that they should interpose and arrest it before the schemes of plunder and spoilation desolate the country." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Rives, 1819. ME 15:232
I heard Brinker telling a guy
I heard Brinker telling a guy to go ahead and buy a house (with a mortgage, naturally) right at the top of the insane bubble. I haven't listened to him since. Did he ever advise people to get out of the stock market? Is he still all buy-and-hold?
Basically he tries to play it safe and advocates Treasury Bonds,
and stuff like Ginna Mae's. He won't mention specific stocks or companies.
He talks out of both sides of his mouth and is not consistent in philosophy.
During the bailouts he was all for it and even praised Keynesian policies once.
Now he slams the bailouts but won't acknowledge that Bernanke and the Fed had ANYTHING to do with the economy's problems.
I don't know why I bother to listen except that I like when Ron Paul supporters call and piss him off!
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
There's nothing safe about
There's nothing safe about treasury bonds unless you know you can hold them to maturity. If you have to sell them, you may be forced to take a big loss.
My dad loves Brinker.
*sigh*
Family.
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