Ron Paul Friend or Foe
The debt ceiling hangs like a big black storm cloud ready to unleash its fury on a fiscally irresponsible nation. Actually it doesn’t need to be this way but the republicans insist. What’s worse is they are imploring that fury to be let loose as an agonizing penance that will cleanse us of our misguided ways.
Hey look, nobody likes a good ole fashion flogging more than I do. I need to have some sense beaten into me since that haymaker the Great Recession landed on my glass jaw didn’t teach me a thing. I wouldn’t scream uncle to my Republican masters so now they’re going medieval on me.
I’ve always sort of been the recalcitrant child. Many times the nuns at the Catholic school I attended gleefully inflicted pain upon the event of my real or imagined misbehavior. And who knows more about medieval torture techniques than a cloistered nun.
That frustrated congressman Ron Paul has cracked a smile over the prospect of holding the line on the debt ceiling. This is the only opportunity he’s likely to get in his quest for a smaller government. Like Napoleon at Austerlitz causalities mean nothing to him. He sees an opportunity here and he’s willing to sacrifice innumerable foot soldiers to flood the crack in the enemy line and emerge on the other side victorious.
Per Ron Paul:
“When our creditors finally wise up and cut us off, we will be forced to face economic realities whether we want to or not. It would be easier to deal with the tough choices we face now, on our own terms, rather than wait until we are at the mercy of foreign creditors. However, leaders in Washington have no political will to admit that we cannot afford to continue spending without any meaningful limit. They prefer maintaining the illusion and putting off reality for another day.”
Bet you didn’t think it would be our creditors who would save us from ourselves. Or maybe that’s not what Ron Paul is thinking here? Maybe he’s enlisting them to swell his overmatched numbers in an attempt to use foreign power to subdue socialist tending citizens back under the thumb of free market royalists.
Ron Paul is wrong, dead wrong. He wants government influence on his everyday activities to be at the minimum level possible. We all want that. What he fails to realize is that somebody is going to be the supreme power in this country. If you hog tie the government than guess who will fill the power vacuum. A ruling elite of capitalists that’s who. Multinational businesses will end up telling Ron Paul what to do with this everyday life and there will be no legal redress he can turn to for protection.
We know this from history. Somebody will be in charge. The strongest force will rule. Right now our government is strong enough to hold back the forces that would suck the blood right out of our veins as well as the money out of our paychecks. That is the choice between democracy and libertarianism.
Ron Paul is deceived if he believes that individuals can be king and rule over a skeleton crew government. Only a nation of individuals standing together can maintain liberty. We all witnessed what happened when the Republicans applied there divide and conquer strategy in presidential elections. Once the nation was divided it started to crack. Sure enough business interests filled the breech with devastating results. They collected windfall profits and left us with the Great Recession.
Ron Paul has to stop being the opponent of the people and their laws. The government under the current administration and its policies is acting to protect individuals. If you oppose this you are supporting the powers the would make victims of the individual. The size of government doesn’t matter as long as it’s the biggest and meanest dude in the saloon.
You’re wrong Ron Paul. Very, very, very, wrong.
