{"id":2352,"date":"2008-02-02T00:19:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T00:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/new-world-order\/ron-paul-secretive-elite-controls-america\/2352\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T00:19:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T00:19:43","slug":"ron-paul-secretive-elite-controls-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/ron-paul-secretive-elite-controls-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Secretive elite controls America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>Presidential candidate Ron Paul says he traces America&#8217;s problems to the flawed monetary policy of the wealthy and secretive elite. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a speech at the University of Washington on Thursday, Paul said the Congress and the Federal Reserve will not be able to stem the recession spurred by the home mortgage meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important thing you can do is nothing,&#8221; said the Texas congressman, who voted against the recent $146 billion economic stimulus package passed by the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-term Texas congressman maintained that a series of wrong economic decisions by the Bush administration has led to a recession.<\/p>\n<p>The government should allow the market to correct itself, Paul added.<\/p>\n<p>Although the mainstream media attempts to keep a low profile on the 72-year-old presidential hopeful, he has managed to find a staunch group of supporters who say he has captured their hearts with his &#8216;message of freedom&#8217; and constitutionalism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Constitution was written for one specific purpose and that was to restrain the government, not to restrain the people,&#8221; Paul has said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=41302&amp;sectionid=3510203\">MD\/AA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Ron Paul says he traces America&#8217;s problems to the flawed monetary policy of the wealthy and secretive elite. During a speech at the University of Washington on Thursday, Paul said the Congress and the Federal Reserve will not be able to stem the recession spurred by the home mortgage meltdown. &#8220;The most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-2352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}