I was listening today to a video from Senator Ron Paul on his Campaign for Liberty site (see my Blogroll). He’s one of the few intelligent, outspoken critics of US policy in congress. Everyone who cares should listen to what he has to say.
What’s happening and has been happening in the US and elsewhere is of course to any reasonably intelligent person a farce. Policy is being determined by those who are guided only by selfish and undemocratic motives. The fact that other western governments effectively condone and duplicate US policy only makes the farce greater.
As he indicates:
The answer to unfavorable (empire building) foreign policy is to continue to expand and build upon it.
The answer to inflation is more inflation.
The answer to too much borrowing is more borrowing.
The answer to the cash shortage is to print more money.
Increased government influence (meddling) is decreasing civil liberties.
The new US administration has not shown any desire, so far, to introduce any changes to present policy, although this was promised in the election campaign. As influential foreign governments also show no desire to reverse present trends, it looks as though when change does come, as it eventually must, it will inevitably arrive in an uncontrolled form and therefore with unforeseeable consequences.
Prevailing wind
January 5, 2009 by Jan Freeman
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