I notice there's a lot of misinformation in right-wing media, to the effect that Ron Paul has nothing to do with the Tea Party. Here is a collection of news reporting from 2007-08 documenting the fact that RP and his supporters started the original Tea Party movement. Feel free to share it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bNiDx7qTjA

Austrian School of Economics !!!!!

F**K the keynesians..

Hear,Hear!
Now if RP were only bit more up on Foreign Affairs!

Hear,Hear!
Now if RP were only bit more up on Foreign Affairs!


But he is! He says it's none of our business what other countries do as long as it doesn't effect our freedoms and liberties....

Sounds like the BEST foreign policy I've heard come down the pike!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance17.html

Jeffersonian Principles
by Laurence M. Vance

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"The principles of Jefferson are the axioms of a free society." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) was no ordinary Founding Father. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1769), a delegate to the Continental Congress (1775), the governor of Virginia (1779), minister to France (1785), the first Secretary of State (1789), the vice president of the United States (1796), and finally, the president of the United States (1801). He also established the University of Virginia (1810).

Although most high school students are probably taught that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, very few are probably also taught that he wrote the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and the Kentucky Resolutions, which were written in response to the original Patriot Act — the Alien and Sedition Acts. Jefferson also wrote hundreds of letters on a wide variety of subjects. Because most of what he wrote has been published, Jefferson is one of the most quoted persons in history.

Perhaps the most famous quote from Jefferson is that oft-repeated one from his first inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1801: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none."

This quote is part of Jefferson's annunciation of what he deemed "the essential principles of our government." The quote in its context reads as follows:

About to enter, fellow citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper that you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of the revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority — the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia — our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trail by juries impartially selected — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

This often-cited statement by Jefferson ("Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none") was not just empty rhetoric like that which bellows from the lips of all modern politicians — of both parties. The principles embodied in this succinct statement can be found throughout Jefferson's writings.

I really think we need to start focusing on the problems in this country.......... foreign affairs are one of the many things sucking the lifeblood out of the USA. Let pull up our boot straps and fix this country before we start worrying about problems overseas. See how the rest of the world deals with it when ol' Uncle Sam is not there to clean up the mess.