Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. 'far gone'
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Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. 'far gone'
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Originally Posted by Washington Times
Rep. Ron Paul, whose maverick presidential bids shook the GOP, said in the wake of this week's elections that the country has already veered over the fiscal cliff and he sees no chance of righting ship in a country where too many people are dependent on government.
"We're so far gone. We're over the cliff," the Texas Republican told Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop" program. "We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5-10 years who will do wise things." The video can be seen at
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/ron-p...XZL9Tvxkw.html.
Mr. Paul, who is retiring after 12 terms in the House, said voters on Tuesday rejected Mitt Romney because he had opposed the government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler.
"The people in the Midwest voted against him: 'Oh, we have to be taken care of!' So that vote was sort of like what we are laughing at in Greece," Mr. Paul said.
"People do not want anything cut," he said. "They want all the bailouts to come. They want the Fed to keep printing the money. And they don't believe that we've gone off the cliff or are close to going off the cliff. They think we can patch it over, that we can somehow come up with some magic solution. But you can't have a budgetary solution if you don't change what the role of government should be. As long as you think we have to police the world and run this welfare state, all we are going to argue about is who will get the loot."
Well I think he's more or less sadly right. Think about it in terms of the Eurozone comparison, how on earth can these vast amounts of money be paid back? it's near impossible and is impossible whilst we have a culture of free education, free healthcare, free benefits, free everything - and one day the music is going to stop as the people in the likes of Greece have found.
The debt ceiling in the United States is expected to be hit again just before Christmas. And what will happen? both Republicans and Democrats will vote to raise the ceiling yet again, thus only moving the goalposts. Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, the government has yet to even make a dent in public spending.
Thoughts? can you see anyway out of it or is the 'I want' culture simply too ingrained?
