We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard of living is going down today. It's going down and the middle class is hurting because of the monetary policy. When you destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out.
Ron PaulNo matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent.
Ron PaulThe freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.
Ron PaulWithout question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a "patientsโ rights" label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.
Ron PaulThe Fed has one power that is unique to it alone: it enables the creation of money out of thin air. Sometimes it makes vast new amounts. Sometimes it makes lesser amounts. The money takes a variety of forms and enters the system in various ways. And the Fed does this through techniques such as open-market operations, changing reserve ratios, and manipulating interest rates, operations that all result in money creation.
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