What took you so long? I figured your RP radar would have given you a migraine by now. Pardon me if I don't agree with your ignorant view, though I don't think it's so much ignorant as willfully deceitful.
Sorry to disappoint, I'm on vacation in HI.
If you actually knew anything about the current financial crisis and its causes, you'd realize that low rates had absolutely nothing to do with the crisis. This is completely counter to Paul's blathering bullshit boogeyman attacks.
Same thing with our debt. If it were taught early on how the government pays for things and the implications of debt, we'd have less of a problem. However, kids aren't taught the value of money, nor the benefits *AND* dangers of leverage, thus they go into the world ignorant. This isn't wholly education's fault as it is society's fault (parents) for not being smart themselves and imparting the wisdom. Ron Paul's ideas can't fix that any more than public education can. It's change that PEOPLE must make within THEMSELVES. Sure, cutting everything cold turkey might "fix" the problem, but it would also turn us into an economic wasteland dominated by anarchy.
The 18th century ideals of Paul fit with Jefferson's, disaggregation, agrarianism, and little/no involvement in the world (granted Jefferson didn't stick to all of those, but many). All of them are short-sighted and foolish, especially isolationism.
But hey, thanks for debating the points rather than myself, those strawmen and ad-hominem attacks other people throw around get so boring, I'm glad you stick to a much higher road.
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