“Inflation of any currency is always caused by government, and by nobody else. It is the result of a dishonest and deceptive increase in the amount of money in circulation. — Robert Welch

Ron Paul advocates that we should not prop up a failing financial system and but it fail to clean out the muck, so to speak, to improve things for everyone go through a year of extremely sharp pain.

Same thinking as other monetariets.  Humanity failed to understand the philosophy of Karl Marx.  They think Marxism = Socialism.  This is quite wrong.  It is recognising the points of change in a society and changing the focus when it does that allows great countries to continue.   We look at why empires fail and avoid what we see as patterned behaviour.  It is like driving at the back of the bus.  

Forward thinking, planning and infrastructure in Obama’s books are education, health and the lives of the common man.  Ignore the population and you ignore the point.

The Ron Paul approach is tough, and it would eventually work.  But is  the suffering of hundreds millions of people truly necessary when the infrastructure for success is already there.  The garden just needs to be tended and again America will progress with its next generation.

The Bush era has produced far too many successful idiots.  The Obama era was starting to look over earnest and too serious.  Obama’s appearance on the Jay Leno show – he was able to speak to the individual and the community and Iran – all in the same week.

Being an American is no longer a dirty dirty word to the rest of the world.  Obama is raising the profile.

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Excellent – elucidating point. Politics evolve – Ron Paul is not quite JBS (John Birch Society) but I think it is a case of the wrong medicine for the times. This idea of “it worked before” is non-progress.

It is great that monetarism can control inflation but when the ship is sinking you save lives.

Ron Paul however does represent a potential focus for the GOP more useful than Sarah Palin’s, for example.