• The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch - Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the difference - that threatens to impoverish us by further destroying the value of our dollars.

    Ron Paul: The greatest threat facing America today 
 is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, 
 marked by shameless deficit spending and 
 Federal Reserve currency devaluation. 
 It is this one-two punch - 
 Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, 
 and the Fed printing money to make up the difference - 
 that threatens to impoverish us by further 
 destroying the value of our dollars.