Same for me only I am not a Canadian.

And I would for sure not vote on that guy who said 'Bilanguage countries sucks'. 

 That's where the Federal Reserve comes in.  If the US Congress actually coined money, like the Constitution says it is supposed to, instead of borrowing unbacked fiat paper notes created out of nothing by a private banking cartel, then there would be no national debt in the first place.

Also, Ron Paul has voted against the Iraq War from the beginning, unlike most of the Democrats, and advocates a strict non-interventionist foreign policy.

Are you implying that the US holds an estimated 8-10 trillion dollars in the federal reserves?  Even if there was enough to pay off the entire US national debt, then what?

edit: ps, I'm not trying to say your ideas are dumb or anything, I'm curious how you think it would work.

No, the Federal Reserve is not part of the government, it's a privately owned organization. It can be a bit confusing, seeing as how the Federal Reserve is not federal, and has no reserves. Anyways, the Fed is the entity that the national debt is owed to. We need to abolish the Fed, and Congress needs to issue a new gold-backed form of currency.

I am not convinced that abolishing income tax or going back on the gold standard would be anything less than disastrous for the US, nay, the world economy. Seriously, how would this work in a way that wouldn't cause another depression?

Excuse my ignorance for I haven't really put much research into this. It seems to me that only reason to go back to the gold standard is so that we'd have some sort of hard currency to base our monetary system off of. It seems to me that there is a serious problem with this thinking. Gold, other than being an excellent electrical conducter, has the same problem our current system has in that Gold is only really valuble because we make it so. How is this really any different?

Eliminating income tax would just mean that another form of taxation would take its place; the likely candidates would be large sales tax, increased corporate income taxes, luxury taxes, estate taxes, increased capital gains taxes, and carbon taxes. Some of these taxes would have very negative impacts on the ecconomy while others would be far more neutral in effect.

Eliminating the Federal Reserve and moving towards a gold standard would put the US in a very tough position in the global ecconomy. Because most of the developed world uses floating currencies the exchange rate between the US dollar and other currencies would vary widely depending on the current state of the world ecconomy; this would cause instability in the US ecconomy which could potentially result in overall lower employment and productivity.

If you guys (I'm assuming you are a libertarian - just as Paul Ron is) think this is the case, why not put another case and stop Federal taxes. Beleive me - I'd love for that to happen. Would save me a bunch of cash !

Socialist ? Not really. It is a democratic leaning site (I'm surpsrised you haven't heard of dkos).

You still haven't answered why the '91 newsletter was so racist and all Ron said about it - after several years -was that "he didn't write it". Very poor excuse. 

I'm convinced he is just another racist politician trying to wink-wink towards the bigots ... 

Although I could just as easily blurt out an attack on liberal environmentalist alarmist propaganda, I've already posted in the global warming topic if you want to respond.