{"id":41344,"date":"2020-12-13T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41344"},"modified":"2020-12-13T15:01:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T19:01:52","slug":"ron-paul-this-worries-me-much-more-than-covid-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41344","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: THIS Worries Me Much More Than Covid (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleFull_body__3kFg9 NodeBody_container__2N7hs\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/ron-paul-this-worries-me-much-more-than-covid\/\"><em>Via PeakProsperity.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If you\u2019re concerned about the overreach of government in juicing asset prices to dangerous levels, picking economic winner and losers, and constraining our personal freedoms &#8211; you have very good right to be.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So says lifelong champion of free markets, sound money and civil liberty, former US Congressman Dr Ron Paul:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=bDxzUNp1\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=bDxzUNp1\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=62kQvVQP 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=62kQvVQP 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=62kQvVQP 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=62kQvVQP 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=62kQvVQP 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=bDxzUNp1 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/PP_Ron_Paul-288x209.jpg?itok=bDxzUNp1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b87f2bde-ffa8-4313-b7c7-7d8d5866ff9d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having spent decades in Washington serving as a member of the House of Representatives, Dr Paul is intimately familiar with both the institutions and the individuals currently running our country. And he has \u201czero\u201d confidence that they will competently handle the major challenges facing America today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020 has given politicians a golden moment to capitalize off of the old DC strategy to \u201cnever let a crisis go to waste\u201d.<\/strong>\u00a0And they are making the most out of the current anxiety and uncertainty, using it to justify increased government intervention in nearly every aspect of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>More monetary and fiscal stimulus has been injected this year than ever before in history, by a long shot. Same for Federal borrowing and deficit spending.<\/p>\n<p>More limitations on how we\u2019re allowed to conduct commerce, travel and gather with our families \u2014 even what information is permissible to voice publicly \u2014 have been imposed than at any time since WW2.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Paul sees\u00a0<strong>this accelerating grab by the government for expanded power and control as exactly what we DON\u2019T need to effectively and sustainably tackle the truly massive tasks ahead of us<\/strong>, such as beating the coronavirus and addressing our nation\u2019s truly massive debt overhang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The solutions to those, and nearly every problem a society faces, are rooted in expanded freedoms, self-determination, and fair systems that allow the best ideas to prevail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To understand why,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tfJVu32rOjE\">play our recent interview<\/a>\u00a0with Dr Ron Paul&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tfJVu32rOjE\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/ron-paul-worries-me-much-more-covid\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/ron-paul-worries-me-much-more-covid<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"ArticleFull_footer__2AHte\"><i class=\"fas fa-eye\"><\/i><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}