That is the standard line but i think there is a more logical and simpler explanation for why we became a "Power House," viz., we were the only major, mechanized nation left standing after two world wars twenty years apart! The nations of western Europe, the British isles (who learned less well than the others) Scandanavia and Japan, essentially those countries with an educated populace, learned how childish, useless, destructive and stupid war is. They learned not to glorify it, but to recognize it as a disastrous result of human weakness and failure. We, on the other hand, never learned, and we go on celebrating war as if it were something to be proud of. We Americans have all become slaves to the industrial military complex and endless wars. Naturally, this will eventual destroy everything worthwhile about our country. We are already well on our way down that ignominious path.
The US was already very very wealthy by then, and, that our infrastructure did not get destroyed by the wars hid the fact that the socialists had already started to take away the founding fathers legacy, early 20th century.
Few American's recognize the depth of the doo-doo we're in. If we were to get a President who did ANYTHING constructive, that one thing would be justification for his election. Do you realize that in 1987, if I recall the year, there was federal legislation called "Gramm, Rudman, Hollings Act"... which mandated the Gummint STOP deficit spending!!! When it came time to obey that law, it was chucked into the trash... I guess it was no fun living with such fiscal constraints. Federal legislation. Passed by Congress and Senate. Signed into law by the President... then TOTALLY DISREGARDED. And we've done nothing but continue to slide down that slippery slope ever since.
Ron Paul Addresses Banking Hearing on Moral Hazard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeHWW5gbc0w Ya, he's really clueless.
Indeed, the Founding fathers would be horrified to learn that we let everyone vote, even women! Now i don't have any objection to women voting, risky as that may be!, but letting the uneducated vote-- that is a recipe for disaster in any republic such as ours. We have let political correctness trump common sense. :eek:
Actually, he is the only one who has a clue. If he's so clueless why you don't see Hillary, Giuliani, Romney or even Thompson, debating economics in congress with Greenspan and Bernanke? Because Ron Paul is the only one who does not get conned by economists b.s. and esoteric jargon and the only one who understands how ordinary american citizens are getting conned with confiscatory taxes and inflationary fiat money.
Ron Paul is the only candidate that has any integrity. He's also the only one who thinks logically. That's why the voters will not vote for him! He doesn't have the flash or the political propaganda machine behind him.