Liberty Maven

There aren’t many people opposed to the bailout who oppose it for the right reasons, but both Ron Paul and Bob Barr (whether they are still on speaking terms or not) do oppose it for the right reasons. Ron Paul has been utilizing his Campaign For Liberty mailing list and web site to urge his 100K plus activist supporters to contact their representatives in opposition to the bailout bill. Paul has also appeared on numerous media outlets in recent days beating the drum that no bailout means a year of recession and passing the bailout means a possible decade of recession.

Bob Barr has called it the “bailout from hell”. He released an anti-bailout campaign video and authored an article in the Huffington Post arguing against the out of control federal budget. Barr was given credit in the Politico for being more in line with the people on the bailout than Washington.

At least there are two patriots getting a chance to funnel the liberty message through all of the fear induced acceptance of socializing the financial system that is running rampant in the news media and the halls of Congress.

One only needs to do a little iterative analysis to see how broken and backwards Washington is on just about everything they touch. The first bailout proposal by Henry Paulson was 3 pages long and was easily posted on a web page. It was horrible, but at least it was short. The House turned those 3 pages into 106 pages (full text pdf). It was horrid, and it failed. The bill the Senate passed last night was 451 pages long (full text pdf). In the end there is very little difference between the three plans. The three plans award the federal government more authoritarian power to rob future generations and give tax money to failing financial companies run by people who don’t truly understand the nature or value of a dollar even though they are well paid to do so.

To the 70+ Senators who voted against the American people and the Constitution I say this: You deserve nothing but contempt. You should be in prison for your thievery. I will hold you accountable for your vote on this until the day I die.