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11 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
Ron Paul a modern day hero, 2008-05-01
Ron Paul's voice is rarely mentioned in the press because people might find it to be a good cause.
He preaches for a small government, lowered taxes, restoring our civil liberties, getting rid of the patriot act, having a solid currency (getting rid of the inflation), states rights, property rights (no eminent domain bs), a strong national defense, giving money to the court systems, getting rid of government subsidies to whatever industry has the strongest lobby, balanced budgets and preventing the state from becoming a nanny state and no more undeclared wars.
Buy this book, it'll truly open up your eyes to a viewpoint that is rarely discussed in schools, academic universities and almost all TV networks. He preaches the novel idea that instead of threatening countries or subsidizing them with money, we should just talk to them ?
Worth the read
12 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
A history book I'll be having my kids read, 2008-05-01
I am a history graduate and of all the books I've read on American history this ranks among the best. It will be required reading for my kids!
15 of 19 customers found the following review helpful:
Freedom -- or more interventions?, 2008-05-01
Throughout his book, regardless of topic, Paul's message is clear: Intervention works only for the politically privileged. Freedom works for all the rest. History bears it out, theory supports it.
If anything is obvious about our political - economic scene today it's the high level of government intervention. Point: intervention is not freedom, in spite of how politicians dress it up. But claiming their interventions "secure" or "protect" freedom allows them to blame the latter when things invariably go wrong. The prescription for failed "freedom" is always more intervention. If the people don't act to stop them, the interventions keep coming until we reach the "Freedom is slavery" and "War is peace" stage.
That's called tyranny. It's also called a racket writ large.
But statists see things differently. We need troops in 130 countries. We need the federal reserve to fight inflation and protect the value of the dollar. We need an income tax to care for the poor and helpless. We need withholding to ease the taxpayer's suffering. We need Social Security to make sure old folks are taken care of. We need a war on terrorism to stop terrorism. We need a war on drugs to keep people from taking harmful drugs. We need gun control to keep people from killing each other. We need FEMA to save us from natural disasters. We need the NEA to keep artists from starving. We need foreign aid to buy influence and support corporate welfare. We need to invade other countries to bring them democracy. We need to suspend personal liberties to preserve our liberty.
The Justice Department investigates crimes against the state. Public schools educate our children, for "free." The Department of Defense defends our country, overseas. The Department of Homeland Security color codes perceived threats. We need hordes of lobbyists to promote the general welfare. We need hordes of spies to protect us from terrorists. We need more and bigger prisons to "correct" those who don't get it. We need a multi-trillion dollar budget and a huge deficit to pay for it all.
All of these interventions and countless others are needed to establish an authentic free society, say the interventionists -- a free society that's compassionate, responsible, and stands tall in the world. A free society totally run by the state.
Imagine if Paine had written something like this in Common Sense: "We need government! More and bigger government!" It would have died on the printing press. Instead he wrote this and changed the course of history: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
Ready to stop tolerating it?
Ron Paul:
"We have lost our belief that freedom works, because we no longer have the imagination to conceive of how a free people might solve its problems without introducing threats of violence -- which is what government solutions ultimately amount to." [The Revolution, p. 85]
Ron Paul's Revolution: a Manifesto brings us closer to reality. I give it five stars.
See also:
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax
Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market (Scholars Edition)
and in fiction,
The Flight of the Barbarous Relic
11 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
A Breath of Fresh Air!, 2008-04-30
This book was phenomenal! Ron Paul is known for his "Texas Straight Talk" and for calling it like he sees it and that is exactly what he does with this book. If you love freedom, liberty, and the Constitution, there's no doubt you will love this book as well!
11 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
"Armies can't stop an idea, when the time has come.", 2008-04-30
For both those new to Dr. Paul's message, and for those who want further explanation of his ideas on things like foreign policy and the Federal Reserve System, this book will put it all into perspective. It's filled with amazing facts and figures that aren't talked about in today's mainstream media. For instance, did you know that our federal government is currently borrowing $2.2 billion EVERY DAY?? (mainly from China and Japan)
This is truly one of the most important books written in recent history, and it's Ron Paul's best yet.
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