Which GOP Presidential Candidate Should Drop Out of the Race Next?

Very well laid out points, but I have some questions. You must show me in history where a commodity backed currency has failed over and over again? This fiat currency is the reason most of our ports and some of our mainland is no foreign owned and the reason we have lost our A+ rating because we cannot pay our debt. Historically speaking, the biggest booms in our economy came when the government issued it's own Currency based on Gold, the Greenback of President Lincoln's Creation. Andrew Jackson's dissolution of the Central Bank, and Kennedy's Silver Certificates. This unlimited credit with no end to spending only works as long as those the Country owes do not call in their loans and there is no run on the bank. Catastrophic? Please. Most of the debt would be transfered to those that own the Privately Owned Federal Reserve, and while the dollar may fluctuate for the first year, it will be worth 500% more than it is worth today based on how well Gold is doing in the market, which is at record highs--by the way, because our dollar is worth so little.

Internationalism, as I understand it, would mean that we would not fund countries hostile to our allies, spending Trillions of Dollars in foreign aid to build Humungous embassies, Not keep bases in countries that do not want us there, which would exclude bases in South Korea and Europe for example, and spend more time developing our gross domestic product so that we can contribute to the world's economy instead of being the country that just buys from everyone else. Fear does not keep the courageous in check, just makes them lie in wait to make allies big enough to work together and overthrow you. Fear is the way dictators and Empires work, not America.

Ron Paul wants us out of the U.N. because they are starting to make policy for "sovereign" nations. We should not be dictated to on how we make our laws, what we believe in, or what we adhere to. That is the job of Congress, The President and The Supreme Court. That is what our Constitution states. Contributing to this "World" Army and One World Government that the U.N. is beginning to subscribe to is giving them way too much power, and leaving no check and balance with the rest of the world. The U.N. was an advisory body, a place to talk over problems, and find resolutions together. It has ceased to be that original entity wanting the formation of it's own army and enforcing of it's will on Sovereign Nations. If it continues down it's path, then it is best for us to not be involved in anything that would go against American law to uphold U.N. Law.

I would like to hear more, because I want to know how supporting someone like Romney or Gingrich, who wants to run things the same way Obama and Bush did are going to be a better solution?

In ancient times if there wasn't enough gold to back currency because of a growing economy, they would inflate the value of the paper while decreasing the amount of gold each bill was worth.. All ended horribly. Gold backed currencies reached there limit in the late 1800s with 5 recession in 5 years. Then again during the industrial revolutions, along with the the time leading up to the industrial revolution. It was too hard to take out loans because there wasn't enough money in a banks reserves. They came up with fraction reserve banking, the problem was now if too many people come back to take money out there wouldn't be enough since the gov cant "print" anymore money. Convertible currencies also give people an incentive to save their money. Because it appreciates since its backed by a commodity. Businesses would just save capital and less and less money would be i circulation...Its happened many times before.
It doesn't matter if countries dont want us there....Of course they dont we rain on their parade. We keep them in check.
Our GDP is 3-10 times more than the top 10 countries. Producing low quality goods like China and India is good for us. The costs to even reproduce the low quality items china and India make is much more expensive. They serve a purpose. America is known for high quality manufacturing.
The constitution states any treaties (UN,NATO)voted for here in the states must be upheld. There is no way the US congress would vote in a one world government or vote in U.N laws supreme to US'. Its a scare tactic.

I see your point on an ever expanding economy and a finite commodity or Gold Based system, but it seems to me that those systems allow you to balance a budget and Spend based on what you have instead of on Credit. Fractional Reserve Banking has made everyone debtors to the IRS and the FED. Taxes go up, and the value of our money goes down. People spend more and more, which theoretically helps an economy; however, they spend what they don't have. They rack up huge debt and the courtrooms are filled with people filing bankruptcy, unable to pay for what they have purchased. See, everyone, but the Government and the FED have to pay their debt, they just print more money to compensate for what they don't have. This makes balancing the budget impossible in a system that continually raises the ceiling. We may have a GDP of 14 Trillion but have a debt of 16 Trillion. The first time in History that this has happened. So, it may be more than the top 10 countries combined, but I bet our debt is more combined as well, and we are not covering our debt. It seems to me that calling this in could do worse damage than 5 recessions in 5 years have done. Most people consider us in a depression worse than 1929, Greenspan just won't let the rest of the world know it yet. We are also spending on day in day out things, which you say is better to get from foreign shores, but almost every U.S. based business and industry is suffering. More and more jobs are outsourced, and it seems to me that the only reason it costs catastrophically more is that we give imports Tax exemptions and Heavily Tax domestic items made in this country and double Tax our exports going out. Stifling our own economy while making China, which has gone to a Gold Backed economy far better off than we are.

It should matter to you. What if the situation was reversed with Islamic Countries coming in and forcing our people to submit to their ways because we were considered by the rest of the world to be unfit with this idea of Freedom and Prosperity. It's too radical. Left unchecked, it could infect the rest of us. Say a group of UN people came in during the Cold war and stopped us from advancing while allowing the Soviet Union had free reign to develop their Nuclear Arsenal. Plus, we are saying that the 2nd Strongest Military in the world, and the Strongest in the Middle East--Israel--cannot handle their own affairs, they have to have the U.S. come in and do it? I don't think so. We just need to take the leash off, and let Israel take back what is rightfully theirs.

That last part is why Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and the majority of the founding fathers were against the U.S. being apart of groups like the UN and NAFTA because we are required to uphold a treaty above our own laws. This makes it even more dangerous to be apart of such things, and just rely on the fact that no embassador or President would ever do that. I am not willing to bet this country on that, are you?

I am all for less spending because at the current rate we might get hit with some deflation if the economy falters. However, the 16 trillion in debt litterally means there is 16 trillion more dollars the public has either as assets, forms of capital, investments, or hard cash. Not as bad as the conservatives will have you believe. I am a republican by the way. I just dont follow the herd. I look at the facts.
As far as debt which is defaulted on my individuals, this is entirely the fault of them. Its their irresponsibility and mismanagement of funds that got them to bankrupt.
As far as the US' debt goes. A third of the debt is held by China and Japan, and about another trillion held by various countries. Realistically, our Debt to GDP ratio is lower than most countries. Like I have said, the politicians namely Ron Paul does a good job of obscuring the facts.
Greenspan isn't involved in our system anymore. Bernanke is chairman of the FED.
The U.S businesses are booming look at the DOW 13000. Mainly retail.
Not helping our allies is isolationism...Its why RP is an isolationist. Israel is surrounded by enemies. Literally, one nuclear bomb can wipe them off the planet. It's why Iran poses a huge threat. We have no idea when they will complete nuclear grade plutonium. They can sell it to anyone they please.
The constitution US sovereignty and the supreme court is above all international law. Its why our constitution is so great. The frames envisioned all possible situations the US might face and wrote the constitution to last forever.

I don't entirely agree with that explanation of 16 Trillion because we wouldn't have lost our A+ rating if our assets and credit were still that good. I look at the facts too, and i see an ever increasing oil and tax, no cost of living raises, and nothing to balance this ever expanding debt to asset ratio. the old expression "a dollar cannot buy you what it used to" isn't more true than it is today.

I agree that people mismanaging their own debt is their problem, but being driven to debt by overvalued housing, interest only Equity lines, and other traps that people cannot control is not their fault. Also, a study has shown that 91% of Americans do not heven know how to adequately budget, and have a low financial management IQ, which is the education system and prior generations dropping the ball, not them. If I didn't learn how to budget becomong a business owner, I would be in the same soup.

That may be, but this is the first time in our History that our Debt has been this much more than our GDP. We convince other countries to take some of our debt for some of our land and ports. This should never have been done.

Also, don't be fooled. Greenspan may have stepped down, but don't think he still isn't pulling Bernacke's strings. Half the time the guy looks like he gives canned answers anyway.

Who said anything about not helping our allies? It just seems to me that the foreign policy has been that we do everything for our allies, and also in the interim, make them of no account, force them to give more and more land away, and funnel Billions and Billions of Dollars to Egypt, Jordan, PLO, Iraq and Afghanistan--All of whom are violent toward Israel. Tell me how that is helping our allies? I think Ron Paul has the right idea for helping allies. Lets go help them when they ask us to, not before, and stop funding our allies enemies.