Why is the entitlement system hurting America?
Why are the poor and middle classes suffering while the rich benefit?
How does the Federal Reserve "print" gold?
Why is the dollar constantly losing value?

Click the link below to see a 45-minute one-on-one interview with Ron Paul regarding monetary policy. I encourage you to watch the video and post your comments + debate your views.

http://video.google.com/ videoplay?docid=1045924545087333822&hl=en



Ron Paul quotes from this interview:

"If you have a privately minted silver ounce and you tried to transact a business transaction with it, you can go to jail. You're breaking the law. And yet the Constitution says gold and silver are legal tender."

"We fail to look at the guide - not only is it a guide for us and advice for us - it's the law of the land. It's the rule of law. It's the Constitution."

"As long as the people think they're getting something - stuff - and not worrying so much about their freedoms, they're going to tolerate the system. And the point is, should we try to correct it right now or should we wait?"

"Entitlements do not satisfy the best interests of the people. [An entitlement system] eventually destroys a country. So it's the understanding of economic policy which is in the best interests of all of us."

"[Congress is] dealing in a corrupt system, where they're transferring wealth back and forth, and that's their job. And the better they transfer this wealth from somebody else who's paying the taxes to their district... that's the sign of an effective congressman. It's a system that is corrupt and invites a lot of abuse."

"People will recognize that hard work is an honorable thing to do, and we have to work to maintain a standard of living. And it means also that we're going to pull in our horns. We won't pretend that we can tell other people how to live and that we're going to take democracy [abroad] ... and we're expending lives and hundreds of billions of dollars to go over there and tell the Iraqi people how they're going to live? That's going to end. It's going to end not because of great wisdom gravitating to Washington. It's going to end because we're going to run out of our wealth and the entitlement system will be declared bankrupt."

"When you have this right to print money, you produce big government, and government does the wrong things, always at the expense of individual liberties."

"Spending is a tax, because if you don't tax the people directly you tax them indirectly through inflation."

Mike Maloney:

"You know, to be honest with you, I usually don't like or trust politicians, and for some reason there's an exception here, and it's because of your stance and because you're willing to say things that the rest of them aren't."