AP:
Paul’s vision of the nation’s economic future is not pretty. “When empires go too far their currencies are ruined because all wars are fought through inflation,” he said. “That means the trillion-dollar operation that we have (overseas) is coming to an end. I want to bring it to an end gracefully, not wait for a dollar collapse.”
While Paul says his critics sometimes accuse him of being a good candidate for the 19th century, his campaign appears to be aided to an unusual degree by the energy and enthusiasm of supporters skilled at using the Internet to their own advantage.
You see how these two paragraphs are contradictory? If Paul is a “good candidate for the 19th century,” this must mean the “inflation” and “dollar collapse” he wants to stop must be a natural consequence of progress. It looks like RP’s liberal and neo-con critics’ “vision of the nation’s economic future” is even uglier, and has the added detriment of (what we’re supposed to think is) inevitability.
