“I’d have Ron Paul take the lead on this one, because he has a solid following, and he’s the only trained economist in Congress.” Marc Malone
I agree with your general point of view so this is just a nit pick: Dr. Paul is a medical doctor, not a “trained economist.” His knowledge of economics, which is moderately good, is based on reading Mises, Hayek, Rand, et al.
Speaking of Rand, Jason, I often find people touting her as “prophetic.” I agree she was brilliant and insightful, but what she wrote about was not in the nature of prophecy because it was happening then (to a lesser degree), and had happened massively in Europe and the Soviet Union.
She drew on direct experience; all the ideas Progressives push now have been around a long time. Dewey and others were developing them around the turn of the 20th century and TR, Wilson, Hoover, and FDR and many others put them into practice long before she published her first non-fiction works and novels.
