Thought To Print
29 Aug
I try not to get too involved in politics mostly because of the partisanship and incompetence at all levels but every now and then, someone says something that just rings true.
We are borrowing money from China, to buy oil from the Middle East, so we can burn it in ways that destroys our future.
– Al Gore
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“Today we are living in a fantasy world. Our entitlement programs are insolvent: in a couple of decades they will face a short-fall amounting to tens of trillions of dollars. Meanwhile, the housing bubble is bursting and our dollar is collapsing. We are borrowing billions from China everyday in order to prop up a bloated overseas presence that weakens our national defense and stirs up hostility against us. And all our political class can come up with is more of the same. One columnist puts it like this: we are borrowing from Europe in order to defend Europe, we are borrowing from Japan in order to keep cheap oil flowing into Japan, and we are borrowing from Arab regimes in order to install democracy in Iraq.”
-Ron Paul (From his book The Revolution: A Manifesto)
Yeah, he’s not the first or the last that will say such things. I just thought he said it well.
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