Ron Paul’s Warnings Have Come True: Rising Debt, Endless War & Economic Collapse
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What is Ron Paul's perspective on America's rising debt?
If you can judge a man by his enemies, former Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, the long retired obstetrician, the 90 year old three time member of Congress and three time presidential candidate is a very, very good man because he has the best enemies here, for example. is an exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and one of his friends. This takes place in early 2012 when there was conversation, as there pretty much always is in the United States for the last 30 years, about when and how we should bomb Iran. Bomb Iran! And Epstein's friend writes to him this. During an election year, everyone in Congress is falling all over themselves to show support for Israel, except for that dinkus Ron Paul. Ron Paul!
Yeah, Jeffrey Epstein and his friends did not like Ron Paul. But what's not to like about Ron Paul? Ron Paul is, and you're going to see him speak in just a moment, probably one of the most manifestly decent men ever to serve in the Congress. Married to the same woman since 1957, beloved by his children, grandchildren, now great-grandchildren. A man who spends his spare time riding his bicycle and tending roses. A person who has articulated the principles of nonviolence throughout his entire public career. a guy who thinks that it is not just unfashionable but totally immoral to judge people on the basis of their blood, who thinks racism and anti-Semitism are anti-Christian, a guy who's never said a single thing against a group ever, not once.
In short, a thoroughly decent man of principle. Why does everyone hate Ron Paul? Well, there are a couple of reasons. In fact, I personally discovered this. Way back in 2007, when I covered Ron Paul, he was running for president that year. I'd actually voted for him 19 years before in 1988 in college for president. I knew nothing about him, but it seemed like an amusing protest vote. He was running as a libertarian then. But fast forward to 2007, he was running in the 2008 presidential campaign. And I thought, this guy looks kind of interesting.
How does Ron Paul view the current state of U.S. foreign policy?
I really didn't know much about him. So I went on the road with him for a week. And I wrote a long profile for the New Republic magazine. I was working in television, but I thought it was kind of interesting to write magazine stories again. So I did. And I learned a couple of things about Ron Paul. One, as noted, enormously nice person, gentle temperament, decent, not flashy, not greedy, not dishonest. Two, I learned that Ron Paul is very sincere about monetary policy. Paul would give these stemwinders about fiat currency and the gold standard and why the Fed was a scam. And he drew enormous crowds, at least relative to the topic. Now, at the time, again, this was 19 years ago. No one was talking about the gold standard in public and getting anything but laughter and jeers.
Who are the key truth tellers in Washington according to Ron Paul?
You were a gold bug. You were insane. You were a moron. Gold wasn't even a topic anymore. If you could check the transcripts from CNBC for the year 2007, gold probably not even mentioned. It seemed crazy to care about monetary policy then. But Ron Paul did, and his audiences responded. That was the first thing I noticed. I had no idea this was a resident issue. I knew nothing about it, so I assumed since I lived in Washington and was pretty well informed that no one else knew anything about it either. But I was wrong. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, in the end, millions of Americans were thinking about the stability and the strength of the U.S. dollar. And they were convinced that excessive money printing since the early 1970s, when the dollar was detached from gold, which is to say from reality, when it became a purely fiat currency redeemable for nothing, they were convinced that the U.S.
dollar was weaker than their leaders said it was. And they knew this because the price of goods they bought every week seemed to be going up over time and no one was mentioning it. Or the goods themselves are becoming smaller. There was shrinkage. This is a well-known phenomenon now. Back in 2007, people were talking about it quite as much.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Ron Paul's perspective on America's rising debt?
0:00–2:14
2
How does Ron Paul view the current state of U.S. foreign policy?
2:14–3:07
3
Who are the key truth tellers in Washington according to Ron Paul?
3:07–4:45
4
What experiences shaped Ron Paul's views on monetary policy?
4:45–4:50
5
How did Ron Paul become an advocate for gold investment?
4:50–7:22
6
What predictions did Ron Paul make about the economy?
7:22–8:17
7
How does Ron Paul define liberty in the context of government?
8:17–9:39
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What advice does Ron Paul offer to young people today?
9:39–1:20:22
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