Geez...
Ron Pauls chances seem to be growing... More and more people talk about him.
From my point of view, Ron Paul doesn't wanna do much...
It seems all he wants to do is cut the biggest subsidization in earths history and transfer as much power as possible away from the federal government to the states and the congress.
With subsidization I mean that currently the US government is borrowing about 1600$ Dollar a year for every US citizen (Workers, children, elderly) in order to pump it into a industry that does not benefit even 1% of the US Population!
Military spending goes up and up and up, while procurement is going down... programs are cut and the US military is becoming outdated....
How come that the man is called crazy for being the only one who point the finger at the single biggest threat for EVERY american that if it hits, would effect the US and the World for decades? The Collapse of the Consumer-Spending bubble...
There are not somehow different common sense rules when it comes to the Governmets borrowing and spending money...
Even "Deficit Spending" is about borrowing money for
short term investments that improve Infrastructure and modernize the ecconomy. The result would be an increased effience and growth of the ecconomy which would make it easy to pay back the borrowed money.
In Germany we have a huge deficit too, but that's definatly because we adopted/annexed a country with a wracked ecconomy and devestated infrastructure AND the fact that we have a huge & universal healthcare/social welfare system.
And even considering that it will take even another 10-20 years to get East Germany on the same level as the west, I would be angry and amuesed about a politician who said that the defecit is no problem.
So why is Ron Paul crazy to put the attention of the fact that the US is heading into bankrupcy?
[I mean, wasn't it the plan to win the Cold war by forcing the Soviets into bankrupcy through increased military spending? So why shouldn't the same happen to the US since the US didn't stop that policy at all and even extended it? BTW: Russia/Soviet Union has 0$ Debt now...]