dated 2-24-10 by an American blogger carried on RT (Russia Times) website. Let me be clear about one thing--I am no fan of Ron Paul, the Congressman from Texas. He is a libertarian capitalist who essentially wants a form of capitalism that existed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Thus he is an old fashioned conservative and very different from the neo-conservatives. As such he wants as little government as possible (except on the issue of abortion which he thinks the government should prohibit), everything decided by the market, mostly anti-union and against minimum wage laws, against any government measures to extend health insurance coverage, against gun control laws, etc. Lately he has been attacking the Federal Reserve, the mostly private consortium of big banking institutions that control our money supply and are at the core of the American ruling class. This is an irritant to the ruling class which otherwise likes to have a few eccentrics like him around to give the illusion of choice, but they mostly ignore him. The author of this article provides a recent illustration of this latter point.
