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"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas." ~Dr. Ron Paul

I hear this over and over again:

“I support Ron Paul’s economic policy but not his foreign policy,” or “I support Ron Paul’s foreign policy but not his economic policy.”

The thing is, you can’t do that if you really understand both policies. You can’t agree with one and reject the other. They go hand in hand.

His fiscal policies of ending the FED and sound money would make US foreign interventionism and militarism impossible. The interventionism and militarism justify the need for the FED and its inflationary policies. If you want to continue the interventionism and militarism, with bases around the world, then you must support the FED and reject Ron Paul’s economic policies. His economic policies would starve the Beast. You can’t love the Beast and starve it at the same time. And that’s what Ron Paul wants to do.

Same goes for those who like his foreign policy and reject his economic policies. As long as there is a FED, there will be wars. As long as the government can use the FED to create currency to fund the welfare state, it can also fund the wars.

The imperial welfare/warfare state cannot be split. The two headed monster lives or dies with both heads. It cannot live with only one.

“Conservatives” seem to believe that government is dangerous domestically but virtuous abroad, and “liberals” seem to believe that government is virtuous domestically and dangerous abroad. They’re half right and half wrong, except for the neocons, fascists, socialist, and communists. They’re just wrong.

The government is not virtuous. It’s incompetent and often dangerous. Those on both sides who love freedom, need to support liberty completely and stop trusting the government. They need to stop using the government to coerce people with whom they disagree. They must also reject those within their own camp who would coerce others, even if it’s to support ideas and lifestyles of which they approve. There is no virtue in force, and government by its very nature is force.

To “conservatives,” I ask: if government is incompetent in intervening in domestic affairs, how can it be competent in intervening in the internal affairs of foreign nations?

To “liberals,” I ask: if government is dangerous abroad and a threat to civil liberties at home, how can you trust it to make sound ethical economic policies at home?

In order to make correct decisions, government bureaucrats and politicians have to know all the facts and be all powerful, and in the case of foreign interventionism they also must understand foreign languages and cultures, but they can’t. It’s impossible to have such complete knowledge and power. If the government did have that knowledge and power, it would be an intolerable police state, but the government is trying to do just that, to know more and do more. This is a threat to our liberties. The government must not have that power here or abroad, but that is what it desires. Every time they fail they ask for more power and money in order to do a better job next time.

Ron Paul’s policies, both domestic and foreign, support freedom. If you reject one, you are in fact rejecting both and ultimately supporting tyranny.

Recommended:

A Foreign Policy of Freedom: “Peace, Commerce and Honest Friendship” by Ron Paul

End The Fed by Ron Paul

Liberty Defined: Fifty Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom  by Ron Paul

Pillars of Prosperity by Ron Paul

The Case For Gold by Ron Paul

The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul