By now we’ve all heard that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is Time magazines “person of the year”.  Could the mainstream press stoop any lower in it’s efforts to keep “We The People” dis-informed? Folks like Bernanke, Rubin, Summers and Geithner want us to believe that our financial system is under control and our economy is headed in the direction of sustained growth with full employment right around the corner. The reality? If the Chinese government were to decide to stop buying U.S. debt the American dollar would collapse overnight.

The FFTP 2009 American Of The Year Award goes to Congressman Ron Paul of Texas who also won our award for Best Quote of 2009, “It’s hard to enforce fraud laws when the government participates in fraud.” -Ron Paul

During World War 2 Germany occupied Europe. Following World War 2 the USSR occupied Eastern Europe and later Afghanistan. In 2009, the United States of America occupies Iraq and Afghanistan due to weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. Doesn’t North Korea, Pakistan, India, China and Russia possess weapons of mass destruction? Why have our leaders singled out Iraq? Does Afghanistan hold a monopoly on harboring and training terrorists? Why haven’t we decided to occupy Yemen or Saudi Arabia? Weren’t the overwhelming majority of the 911 terrorists from Saudi Arabia? Representative Ron Paul has been against these foreign occupations since their beginning and for that he’s earned our American Of The Year award. The U.S. Constitution doesn’t contain language to sponsor or promote “nation building” abroad. The bums that support “foreign nation building” should be voted out of office beginning in 2010.

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