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bobbyw24
10-30-2010, 06:04 AM
Ever since I visited Ron Paul ' s office , I ' ve been
fascinated by him . Its walls are festooned with
proclamations from Austrian economists
warning about the perils of debauching the
national currency and inflation . He also has
currency from Weimar Germany on the wall ,
showing how its purchasing power plummetted
during the 1920 s . Eventually it took a
wheelbarrow full of bills to buy a loaf of bread .
One famous anecdote has it that a customer in
a cafe ordered a coffee . When he ordered a
second one ten minutes later , the price had
doubled . " You should have ordered them both
at the same time , " the waiter instructed the
astonished customer.
Paul ' s obsession with currency and the Austrian
school of economics , led by Ludwig von Mises ,
has led a number of commentators to view
him as something of a nut . I didn ' t get that
sense at all . The sense that I did get from Paul
is that he is nostalgic for an older America- -
pre - New Deal America. He seems to think that
the country has gone soft. Its citizens look not
to themselves but to the Federal government
when hard times hit. Paul ' s bugbear is the
Federal Reserve , which he wants to abolish.
Now Paul ' s message seems to be gaining , well,
currency, as the Tea Party trumpets his
message.

Www.nationalinterest.org/blog/domestic-politics/the-rise-ron-paul-the-tea-party-4326

Sola_Fide
10-30-2010, 06:14 AM
Nice.

Number19
10-30-2010, 09:21 AM
Yesterday, at Kroger's, I purchased a magazine titled: Can Conservatives Unite To TAKE BACK AMERICA - Tea Party Leads the Way.

Among others, Ron Paul is presented as one of the dominant influences of the movement. On the origin of the movement, our nationwide series of rallies on Sunday, Dec 16, 2007 is credited as the first, with a photo of Ron in attendance at our Brazoria County re-enactment.

Without emphasizing RP, it was a fair representation.

Three years ago our Doctor was a virtual unknown. Not so today.

libertarian4321
10-30-2010, 12:18 PM
I'm glad Ron Paul is still (sometimes) acknowledged as being the original force behind the "tea party."

Unfortunately, the "tea party" of 2010 has little in common with the 2007 "Tea Party" money bomb in support of Dr. Paul.