{"id":8084,"date":"2008-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T00:00:00","slug":"Paul: Secretive elite controls America","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=8084","title":{"rendered":"Paul: Secretive elite controls America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential hopeful Ron Paul says he traces America&#8217;s problems to the flawed monetary policy controlled by the wealthy and secretive elite. <\/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.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:12px\">http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=41302\u00a7ionid=3510203<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MD\/AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian web site Press TV reports that Ron Paul says America\u2019s problem\u2019s stem from a flawed monetary policy controlled by a wealthy and secretive elite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}