tangent4ronpaul
07-31-2011, 04:54 PM
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20110731/BUSINESS/107280360
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The destruction of this debt would have little practical effect on the money supply and probably no real effect other than cutting our debt. So Paul has come up with an earnestly practical idea -- not a common characteristic of Libertarians. But what is most amazing isn't his financial acumen. What stuns me about his proposal is who else proposed the idea before him. You see, Paul, scion of the anti-government crowd is conjuring none other than Woody Guthrie, a guitar-enabled philosopher not widely remembered for his contempt for activist government.
Writing in 1939, the folk humorist opined that, "The national debit is one thing I caint figger out. I heard a senator on a radeo a-saying that we owed somebody 15 jillion dollars ... If the nation is the government and the government is the people, then I guess that means the people owes the people, that means I owe me and you owe you, and I forget the regular fee, but if I owe myself something, I would be willing to just call it off rather than have senators argue about it."
Now, I have been given to observe many a wondrous and unusual thing over the course of my life, but the thought of Ron Paul and Woody Guthrie cozying up on fiscal policy leaves me virtually speechless.
Maybe it is something in the water in East Texas and Oklahoma that cause these two men to inadvertently think alike. Maybe it is the heat that got to the both of them. But, whatever it is, when a Libertarian and Socialist start agreeing about something the rest of us ought to listen to them. They are either crazy or right.
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The destruction of this debt would have little practical effect on the money supply and probably no real effect other than cutting our debt. So Paul has come up with an earnestly practical idea -- not a common characteristic of Libertarians. But what is most amazing isn't his financial acumen. What stuns me about his proposal is who else proposed the idea before him. You see, Paul, scion of the anti-government crowd is conjuring none other than Woody Guthrie, a guitar-enabled philosopher not widely remembered for his contempt for activist government.
Writing in 1939, the folk humorist opined that, "The national debit is one thing I caint figger out. I heard a senator on a radeo a-saying that we owed somebody 15 jillion dollars ... If the nation is the government and the government is the people, then I guess that means the people owes the people, that means I owe me and you owe you, and I forget the regular fee, but if I owe myself something, I would be willing to just call it off rather than have senators argue about it."
Now, I have been given to observe many a wondrous and unusual thing over the course of my life, but the thought of Ron Paul and Woody Guthrie cozying up on fiscal policy leaves me virtually speechless.
Maybe it is something in the water in East Texas and Oklahoma that cause these two men to inadvertently think alike. Maybe it is the heat that got to the both of them. But, whatever it is, when a Libertarian and Socialist start agreeing about something the rest of us ought to listen to them. They are either crazy or right.