Video: Dr. Paul on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher - Friday

Is the panels opinion going to count when the economy totally collapses. When the paper is worthless, and they have no skill except their mouths. Can't grow even grow food lol.

Haha we'll be smiling ear to ear. We will have our gold and silver, our farming to keep us alive. What are these useless sluts going to do then?

I think Maher was kind of a douche... but that's really only because I disagree with him... but at least he didn't get too harsh in his criticism/disagreement with Ron Paul... but I still can't believe Maher considers himself a libertarian... in no way is he one, except maybe on drugs, and that's it. But being anti drug war is no where near enough to be considered libertarian... there's more substance/philosophy to it than wanting to be high (haha).

I'm just sort of surprised now whenever I hear these dumb criticisms... I'm so thankful that I'm young and I got to learn about this stuff and form my opinion uncorrupted by media and other influences. But now that I know what I've learned it is shocking to hear someone say the free market caused the problem (this was actually the first time I heard someone literally say that).

Unfortunately, I think Dr. Paul didn't explain his arguments as well as he usually does. He mentioned that what we've had has not been free markets, but he didn't really go in depth with why they're not. I also don't think he handled the question about regulation as well as he could have.... He usually mentions that yes, we need regulation, but we need to regulate the beauracracy and the FED, and enforce fraud laws. That's important to say because otherwise people think you think it's ok/not a problem that people can screw people and get away with it. No, of course that's wrong, but that's not what caused the problem, that was an effect of government intervention and regulation, but most people don't know/recognize that.

He should always try to just go through a list of basic facts/logic to help his arguments, for example:

Statement: What we've had has NOT been free markets.

Reason 1: Free markets do not have a central bank controlling interest rates, controlling the money supply, and other rules/influences. We have a Federal Reserve/Central Bank, thus, we do not have a free market.

Reason 2: etc.

Reason 3: etc....

Clarity is so important, and it's important to make as many facts/points to your argument as possible, otherwise you'll be misinterpreted or doubted.

It's just like in a job interview. You can't just say you're responsible and organized as an answer, you have to go ahead and explain and give an experience that shows that you were.

I felt that Bill was constantly trying to put Ron into a corner. I don't consider Bill Maher to be a libertarian. He's a socialist, period. He fits right in with Maxine Waters who has videos talking about socializing everything, it actually fell out of her mouth. He's part of the DNC machine.

While I am glad Ron had some exposure this was a dissapointment. So much for Maher's show. Why don't we just call it the Obama talking points hour.

I won't be watching his show again. He threw our guy under the bus.

BTW, has anyone here followed the new state of jefferson movement in Northern CA? There is a meeting on March 1st in Chico, CA. This was a big movement in the late 30's.
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I went to the taping

before the show started, the head writer / producer was pumping up the crowd (called out my RP shirt)

He asked how many liberals are here and the place erupted, they asked how many conservatives and we were among the 5 or so that clapped, mind you this is the same studio they film the "price is right" in, so maybe 200+ people.

As bill went over the liberal talking points everyone clapped, and when he started talking to Ron, you could hear the people around us smack their lips and sigh, during the beginning, as Ron kept speaking and overcoming Bill's setups, they all started coming around, they cheered for Ron more than any other guest there. He sold them

Boy I love the guy, but so far he has rarely been able to really explain his positions to the common listener. When he was asked "Didn't free market get us into this situation?", he responded with the generic republic mantra about how there was "too much regulation and too much spending." It was a non-sequitur to me. So often, he blows his chance to really connect with general audiences by spouting a stream of disconnected libertarian tidbits -- all of which are true -- but without a strong thread to connect them and make a strong impression on the listener.

We need someone else with credibility who really knows how to break it down for people and speak more persuasively. Peter Schiff comes close -- he's much better at that kind of talking. But he's not yet shown himself to be a leader.

ron paul rocked it!

"too much regulation. too much spending too much debt too much inflation by the federal reserve. so we weren't even close to capitalism."

i wish ron paul gave maher specifics as to why we weren't even close to capitalism. maher's response "but that's all in the past" leads me to believe maher didn't understand or believe ron paul's answer.