sailingaway
11-28-2012, 10:46 AM
The boxes were packed. The pictures of Mises, Hayek and Rothbard had come off the wall they’d adorned since 1997 in Suite 203 in the Cannon House Office Building. A maintenance crew stood outside, garbage cans at the ready, perhaps a little too eager to swoop in and finish the job of making way for the next occupant.
Rep. Ron Paul was moving out. We had the privilege of meeting with him on Wednesday, Nov. 14, moments after delivering his final speech on the floor of the House — the one in which he declared the Constitution had failed in the Founders’ stated objectives.
The speech is now a matter of public record… as are transcripts of the testimony from every hearing the good doctor presided over as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology during his final term.
Our friend Nathan Lewis, author of Gold: The Once and Future Money, testified at one of them last August. He suggests Dr. Paul carefully crafted those hearings with an eye toward leaving something behind for the next generation. “The ideas will be on the public record, even if they’re never implemented in our lifetimes.”
In addition, Lewis believes the ideas do have a contemporary audience — overseas. “People in emerging markets pay attention long before Americans do.”
Read more: The World is Not Flat http://dailyreckoning.com/the-world-is-not-flat/#ixzz2DEh7bqPQ
more at link
Rep. Ron Paul was moving out. We had the privilege of meeting with him on Wednesday, Nov. 14, moments after delivering his final speech on the floor of the House — the one in which he declared the Constitution had failed in the Founders’ stated objectives.
The speech is now a matter of public record… as are transcripts of the testimony from every hearing the good doctor presided over as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology during his final term.
Our friend Nathan Lewis, author of Gold: The Once and Future Money, testified at one of them last August. He suggests Dr. Paul carefully crafted those hearings with an eye toward leaving something behind for the next generation. “The ideas will be on the public record, even if they’re never implemented in our lifetimes.”
In addition, Lewis believes the ideas do have a contemporary audience — overseas. “People in emerging markets pay attention long before Americans do.”
Read more: The World is Not Flat http://dailyreckoning.com/the-world-is-not-flat/#ixzz2DEh7bqPQ
more at link