Today is December 16, 2011, and it's the Tea Party Money Bomb for Ron Paul. I just donated. Have you given to the campaign today? by Walt Thiessen
(libertarian)
Friday, December 16, 2011
Four years ago, on this very same date, the Ron Paul Revolution raised $6 million to support Ron Paul for president. That was a seminal day in political history, because it represented the largest ever single day, online fundraiser for any political candidate.
Fast-forward to today, and we see a Paul campaign that is hundreds of times better organized, has a wider, broader range of support, and it doing so much better in the polls. All donations today, even the very smallest of them, will help the Paul campaign take to the voters what has desperately been needed for quick some time now: the only viable alternative to the borrow-and-spend Republicans and Democrats who dominate our government today.
If you ever think that it's impossible to take on the Federal Reserve and win, to turn this nation's foreign policy from a war-based policy to a peace and honest trade-based policy, to change the seemingly overwhelming trend from free enterprise to government dominated economies, then you need to know that the opportunity to change is now. Big changes happen a lot faster than some people would like, and they also happen a lot more slowly than other people prefer. Regardless, one thing is certain: change is inevitable. The only question is: will it be change for the better, or for the worse?
For most of my life, the changes in the area of government and the economoy have been generally for the worse. Contrary to the views of the minority who enjoy making large amounts of money by chowing down at the public trough and financing quasi-private enterprises using public funds or funds created via monetary supply expansion, more people have been harmed economically over the past 50+ years than have been helped by all the monetary expansion. Only Ron Paul, of all the candidates both Republican and Democratic, understands this truth. Not only does he understand it, he also knows how to fix it. He's absolutely right that we need a level, steady money supply, that monetary expansion by the Fed enriches the few at the expense of everyone else. Only Ron Paul has stood firmly and consistently against the ongoing, legalized economic rape of the average citizen, and he has done so for more than 30 years, often alone.
Now, however, he is not alone. He has the support of millions of Americans who, like you and me, are sick and tired of Washington's business as usual.
The way to peaceful change is through the ballot box. Lord knows, the approach is flawed and more often than not works against liberty than in its favor, but as long as it is available, we should take advantage of it and try to restore the original idea of America, the kind of America our leading founding fathers wanted. If you do not think this is a good goal, then by all means you should not give to the Paul campaign. But if the only thing holding you back is the belief that it won't do any good, that nothing will stop the powers that be, then I have a message for you. My message is this: change will come, whether peacefully or through violence. I am committed to peaceful change and reject violent change, but even I know that the more that the government takes its bold leaps into statism and the destruction of liberty, the more likely that the answering rebellion will come.
You can always choose to avoid both, and not participate at all. But when you think about it, you realize that it's really not a choice, because if you do nothing you help insure that the statism will win. Is that the side you really want to support? Donate.
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