Farewell Speech

Ron Paul gave a nearly hour-long speech to Congress.  One media outlet likened his speech to George Washington's.

Ron Paul now leaves office having introduced more ideas into the national debate than any other figure in either party. Not that that was much of a challenge. Can anyone name a single idea introduced by either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? ... And on foreign policy, Ron Paul pretty much singlehandedly made it possible to talk about the rather obvious fact that we're going broke trying to be the policeman of the world - and that we're not very good at it. If only Romney had listened to him he might have made some headway on foreign policy.

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Bernanke’s Nightmare

The bill for Ron Paul's long-standing effort for a full and complete audit of the Federal Reserve has passed the House of Representatives.  The banksters clearly do not want visibility of their books.  This issue will be raised at the 2012 Republican National Convention.

From Bloomberg:
... Republicans are considering including a plank in their party platform calling for a full audit of the central bank.  ... Paul, in an interview, warned that if Romney’s backers resist the effort, it could result in a politically distracting and messy fight in front of the national media. “It’s good economics and it’s good legislation, but it’s also good politics, because 80 percent of the American people agree with it,” Paul said. If Republican leaders “exclude it, I would think some of my supporters would be annoyed and feel strongly enough to take it to the floor under the rules.”

House passes Bill to Audit the Fed

The private cartel Federal Reserve has a fake audit on part of their activities.  We need and deserve a full and complete audit of all activities, including their bailouts and swap lines to other countries.

Today the House of Representatives passed the bill.  Will the Senate stand up to the banksters and pass the bill?

Today's vote marks a high point for Paul, who is retires at the end of the year. His signature bill requires a full audit of the Federal Reserve – a move that critics, including Fed chair Ben Bernanke, dub 'nightmarish.'

Check how your Representative voted.

Central Bankers

Ron Paul wrote an article for the Financial Times that calls out the bankrupt central bankers.  Decades ago, Americans were afraid of the Soviets and their command-and-control centrally planned economies.  Along the way, we have given central bankers authority to centrally plan and manipulate monetary policy.  When did we stop believing in free markets?


Our central bankers are intellectually bankrupt
By Ron Paul

Central bankers neglect the fact that interest rates are prices. Manipulating those prices through credit expansion or contraction has real and deleterious effects on the economy. Yet while socialism and centralised economic planning have largely been rejected by free-market economists, the myth persists that central banks are a necessary component of market economies.

Most Americans Agree

The Christian Science Monitor writes how most Americans agree with Ron Paul's foreign policy on Afghanistan.

Most Americans agree with him on Afghanistan pullout

It is the war that’s gone on for more than 10 years in Afghanistan – a war that is not going particularly well and that has seen a series of incidents where supposed Afghan allies have killed US service personnel – where the public’s agreement with Paul seems most evident.
“Support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats,” the New York Times reported this past week.