Poor Ron Paul

Over the weekend, we were down in Nashville at the Stansberry Conference Series event, along with Ron Paul, Porter Stansberry, Jim Rickards and others.

The question on the table: Whats ahead for the US?

Ron Paul took up the question from a geopolitical angle. He told the crowd that the military-security industry had Congress in its pocket.

As a result, we can expect more borrowing, more spending and more pointless and futile wars. They may be bad for the country and its citizens, says Paul, but they are good for the people who make fighter jets and combat fatigues.

Weve been at war in the Middle East for decades, he said. We supported Osama bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistanand the result of that was the creation of al-Qaeda.

Then we supported Saddam Hussein against Iran. Saddam and bin Laden hated each other. But after 9/11 we attacked Saddam, using a bunch of lies to justify it. We sent over military equipment worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This equipment is now in the hands of ISIS another enemy we createdand a far more dangerous one.

Ron Paul is such a pure-hearted soul. What was a man like him doing in Congress?

It must have been some sort of electoral accident. Good men rarely run for public office. And when they do, it is even rarer for them to win.

Poor Ron is retired from Congress now. And he spends his time trying to get the word out. He thinks that if people only realised what was happening they would vote for more responsible leaders and more sensible policies.

Alas, thats not the way it works. The further the country goes in the wrong direction, the more people there are who have a financial interest in staying on the same road.

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Poor Ron Paul