Monday, October 20, 2008

Congressman Paul's Texas Straight Talk: Too Big to Fail?

“In the midst of highly unpopular bailouts of Wall Street, many justifications have been given about why Washington feels the need to act. Some claim that capitalism and the free market are to blame, but we have not had capitalism. If you compare our financial capital to our aggregate debt, this would be obvious. In the same way, we have not had a truly free market. The monetary manipulations of the Federal Reserve, a complex tax code, the many “oversight” agencies and their mountains of regulations show that we are far removed from a free market economy…”

Click here to read the full article.

Weekly Straight Column:

http://www.house.gov/apps/blog/tx14_paul/

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