Friday, 03 Dec 2010 09:44 AM
By Greg Brown
Texas House Republican and former presidential candidate Ron
Paul says the world could soon wake up to realize that the U.S.
government is the “biggest counterfeit machine in the history of
the world.”
That realization would trigger a collapse in the dollar and
could quickly lead to hyperinflation, Paul warned.
The crisis is “now,” not something for our children or
grandchildren to face, he said.
“It will come to an end. And when it ends with the dollar
crisis, everybody loses . . . and then there's political chaos.
We're not immune to that,” Paul said in an interview on MSBNC.
We’re getting away with it, at least for now, because the
Federal Reserve is printing money and constantly raising the
debt limit, Paul said, enabling profligate public spending.
“If the Fed couldn't monetize debt and the debt limit couldn't
be increased, (Congress would say) ‘Oh my goodness, we're going
to have to change policies, maybe we shouldn't be the policemen
of the world, maybe we shouldn't be the endless welfare state,’”
Paul said.
Everything hinges now on trust in the U.S. dollar, which is
still the most depended-upon global reserve currency.
“One day people will wake up and say 'Why are we trusting this
counterfeit machine?'” Paul said.
“We're the biggest counterfeit machine in the history of the
world.”
President Barack Obama’s deficit-cutting commission has garnered
support from two key Republicans and a liberal Democrat but
remained deadlocked and short of the 14 votes need to move its
recommendations forward to Congress.
Republicans Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma, and Mike Crapo, of Idaho,
joined New Hampshire’s Judd Gregg in support of the plan, which
would cut the deficit by $3.8 trillion over a decade.
Democrat Richard J. Durbin, of Illinois, also said he would
support the plan.
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