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By RonPaul.com on October 11, 2010
A Spooked Economy in October by Ron Paul Last week we received worse than expected unemployment numbers, challenging recent claims that the recession has come and gone. Also, as the economy continues to suffer the after effects of the Federal Reserve-created bubbles of the last decade, there is renewed interest in gold. Fears that the [...]
Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk |
By RonPaul.com on October 5, 2010
Date: 10/04/2010 Free Markets Create Jobs by Ron Paul In this struggling economy it is essential for politicians to take a step back and think about what government has been doing to business in this country. In less than 200 years, the free market, property rights, and respect for the rule of law took this [...]
Posted in Economy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Bureaucrats, Job Creation, Stimulus |
By RonPaul.com on September 26, 2010
This week marks six months since Congress passed the healthcare reform bill in what has become all-too-typical legislative chicanery. Those in power crafted a mammoth piece of legislation and rammed it through Congress under a dire sense of emergency. Insisting on time enough to read the bill was dismissed as dangerous and crazy in a [...]
Posted in Health Care, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged 1099, Doctors, Free Market, Obamacare, Patients |
By RonPaul.com on September 17, 2010
Elizabeth Warren: Credit Czar or Bankster Puppet? by Ron Paul This past week the administration announced its choice for the first credit czar at the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This bureau was created as part of the supposed Wall Street reform bill recently passed by Congress. This new bureau, which represents nothing more than [...]
Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren, Ivory Tower Leftist, Regulatory Capture |
By RonPaul.com on September 13, 2010
Date: 09/13/2010 On More Stimulus Spending by Ron Paul Faced with continuing economic decline and an impending election, the administration, predictably, is entertaining the idea of another stimulus package. To explain why the last one didn’t work, adherents to the Keynesian economic philosophy are claiming that they actually did work – it just looks like [...]
Posted in Economy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Bailout, Keynesian Economics, Keynesianism, Public Sector, Public Unions, Stimulus |
By RonPaul.com on September 7, 2010
Congressman Ron Paul today issued the following statement about a Florida pastor’s plan to ban copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. A professed Christian pastor in Gainesville, Florida, Terry Jones, plans to burn copies of the Quran on 9/11. He indicts all Islam for 9/11 and argues that [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged Islam, Quran |
By RonPaul.com on September 6, 2010
Successful Economic Policies? For Whom? by Ron Paul Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that their economic policies were working, just not fast enough. This administration inherited an unemployment rate of 7.7% and promised a peak of no higher than 8% if their [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Fiat Money, Inflation, Too big to fail, Unemployment |
By RonPaul.com on September 1, 2010
Congressman Ron Paul today released the following statement on President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office last night: The President’s announcement that all U.S. combat troops have left Iraq is no more believable than the ‘Mission Accomplished’ declaration was in 2003. Once again, we are being told the mission has been accomplished and our brave [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged Combat Troops, Iraq, Mission Accomplished, Mission Not Accomplished, Obama, Speech, War, Withdrawal |
By RonPaul.com on August 29, 2010
Date: 08/30/2010 Iraq – An End or an Escalation? by Ron Paul Amid much fanfare last week, the last supposed “combat” troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq War and a change in the role of the United States in that country. Considering the continued public frustration [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Combat Troops, Iraq, Mission Accomplished, Obama, Peace, War |