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 enlarge | Author: Ron Paul
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Pages: 192
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ISBN: 0446537519
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
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A Clear Argument for Liberty -- and a Solution to What Ails Us September 17, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ron Paul's _The Revolution: A Manifesto_ is NOT an anti-government tirade. It is a clarion call for a return to the kind of government the American Revolutionaries fought for.
So, for example, in foreign policy, Congressman Paul calls for a return to the posture toward the world that was favored by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: peace, commerce, and friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. For foreign countries' good, we should stay out of their business; for the sake of our own society, we should mind our own.
When it comes to the economy, Ron Paul opposes having the Federal Reserve constantly inflate our money supply. When government-induced inflation causes temporary bubbles (over-investment) in particular sectors, and then those bubbles inevitably burst (witness Lehman Brothers, Fanny and Freddie, AIG, etc.), our leading politicians blame "greed" and lack of adequate "regulation." Ron Paul points out, on the basis of arguments developed by Nobel Prize-winning economists such as F. A. von Hayek, that the problem is the government's policy of printing more and more money. How to solve the problem? Stop printing the money.
In our current situation, simply bringing the troops home from Korea, Germany, and Iraq would mark a very good start to resolving BOTH of these issues. One wonders, then, why the politicians NEVER talk about this common-sense solution. Could it be that they benefit from being able to hand out military contracts and being able to inflate the money supply? Hmm.
Today is Constitution Day. You may have noticed that, as Tom Woods and I note in Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush, neither McCain nor Obama says very much about the Constitution. Why is that? It's because 1) they're ignorant of it; and 2) it is hostile to their schemes for government control of economic activity and American military intervention in 130 foreign countries. (In case you think that Obama's stint as a constitutional law professor makes him an expert, I invite you to read my other book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, for the skinny on what "constitutional law" actually is.)
Read Ron Paul's book. Notice that the presidential campaign avoids the actual issues altogether. Weep, or get out and do something about it! The choice is yours.
Great for those interested in the principles of Libertarianism September 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is easy to read and understand and provides a great surface explanation for the principles of Libertarianism. From foreign policy to civil liberties to economics Congressman Paul lays out the commonsensical and Constitutional premises that our government should be following. I love his example, being a doctor that has experienced this himself, about how the medical industry took care of less fortunate patients prior to HMO and government intervention in the health care industry and how it has become so much more difficult for the poor to afford it now and why. I think this book should be read by anyone with an interest in correcting the bulk of the fiscal and social issues in our country. I think this book will inspire further research on many of the topics covered as Congressman Paul really only provides an overview. I would recommend this to all those who are concerned with the direction of government or who are disenfranchised with the two party system of politics.
The Founding Fathers modern political party September 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If the founding fathers of the United States were able to create a modern political party that embodied their own wisdom and experience as it exists in the U.S. Constitution, it would be very close to the rational understanding and reading of their constitution as Ron Paul so sanely lays out in this short but powerful little tome. If you believe the most rational constitution ever written was the one which begat the United States of America, you should read this book to understand how it is today being twisted and violated by and for special interests and how clearly it could resolve so many of our modern government problems if simply adhered to as they intended.
 The undisguised truth about liberty in America September 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Revolution is an important and timely work, yet its fiery title belies the quiet, more scholarly approach it advocates. This is most likely a temperament issue: where Jesse Ventura would pound on the podium and call us to the streets to depose modern royalty through mass protest like the 1960s antiwar movement, Dr. Paul would have us read several good books and vote.
I hate to be the one to break it to Dr. Paul: even his book shows us how the deck is stacked with the two-party system. Elections today are contests of one set of pressure groups vs. another--with the controlled media making sure the libertarian alternative is blockaded and ignored. It just so happens this year the Democrats (when they don't rail against the war, against the war crimes, against the corporate welfare system, against the drug war, and against the myriad state violations of liberty courtesy the Republican-fascist caucus that has held power for eight years) propose the same tired old statist nostrums that have made it possible for these neoNazis of the pseudo-right to take over. And the Republicans are unabashedly advocating full-blown tyranny of a theocratic/imperial police state.
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Excellent September 14, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you have not read this book, you are seriously missing out. It's not a book about the biography about his life, what makes him a good person, etc. that you see so many other politicians come out with. Ron Paul brings out the real issues Americans should be concerned with, discusses problems with the current system, and makes recommendations on how to get back to the basics laid out by the people who founded our country.
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