Ron Paul's Blog, page 356

Myth-Busters: The Debt Will Defeat The Fed

In a few months, the federal government's debt is going to cross $20 Trillion or $160,000 per taxpayer. Governments (and central banks) always reach the checkmate point. The U.S. federal government and Federal Reserve will not be an exception. Today on Myth-Busters!

Trump Can't Avoid The Coming Financial Crisis

By Ron Paul

The Federal Reserve's policies of printing trillions of dollars back in '08-09 have locked into place a serious financial crisis at some point in our future. It's unavoidable, and even Donald Trump can't stop it. Trump will unfairly get the blame though. I discuss this and much more below: [image error] [image error]

Has the American Dream Become the American Nightmare?

“Most Germans, so far as I could see, did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their splendid culture was being destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work were being regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation … On the whole, people did not seem to feel that they were being cowed and held down by an unscrupulous tyranny. On the contra...

How To Really Reform Military Spending: Is Cutting Waste Enough?

Several new proposals to tackle out of control military spending have been released by Washington think tanks. They all identify areas of possible savings, but they are all missing the central point...
(Apologies for technical difficulties in the clip)

Trump Orders Media Blackout At EPA: Bans Use Of Social Media, Bars New Contracts

By Tyler Durden

The Trump administration has instituted a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants according to the AP.

BREAKING: Trump bans EPA employees from providing updates on social media or to reporters, bars awarding new contracts or grants.

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 24, 2017

Emails sent to EPA staff since President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday and reviewed by The Associated Press,detailed the spec...

Trump's 31 Airstrikes - A Taste Of Things To Come?

Over the weekend, President Trump indicated that he would continue in his predecessor's foreign policy. The US conducted some 31 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq and two drone strikes in Yemen. Will we achieve different results doing the same thing over and over?

No, President Trump Didn't Get Rid Of "A Free Trade Deal"

By Chris Rossini

Government is a destroyer, but it doesn't just destroy physical and tangible things. It also destroys intangible things like language and the meaning of words. For example, did you know that originally "liberals" were individuals that believed in liberty and were against government intervention? Today, the word "liberal" means the exact opposite.

Today, we read in the government-licensed press that President Trump has signed an executive order removing the U.S. from a "free tra...

Is Medical Marijuana A Crime? - W/Special Guest Shona Banda

When authorities found out that Shona Banda treated her severe Crohn's Disease with cannabis, they took away her child and are trying to send her to prison for 30 years. But she is fighting back! We speak with Ms. Banda about her struggle for health freedom in today's Liberty Report...

Trump’s Foreign Policy: An Unwise Inconsistency?

By Ron Paul

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions have been anything but consistent. One day we heard that NATO was obsolete and the US needs to pursue better relations with Russia. But the next time he spoke, these sensible positions were abandoned or an opposite position was taken. Trump’s inconsistent rhetoric left us wondering exactly what kind of foreign policy he would pursue if elected.

The President’s inaugural speech was no different. On the one...

What Trump Could Do

By Jeff Deist

Today Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. American voters rejected the devil they know so well — Hillary Clinton — for the devil they don’t. Why they did so, and how Trump prevailed, is the biggest political story of our age. But the rejection of progressive hubris, what Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit” of those who would presume to plan our lives, is at the heart of that story.

The Left views Trump’s election as an absolute calamity, desp...