IMHO, sound monetary policy is the only answer. And, producing our own goods employs our own people. Worked fine up until GATT NAFTA, but spiraling downhill ever since, and neither party will admit it or try to fix it.

It is as if some nefarious higher power has them by the fiscal short hairs and refuses to let them. A higher power that purposefully keeps the US in debt. The ‘drug dealer’ of false monetary policy who feeds the ‘addicts’ with their fix, keeps them slaves to wars and their constituents slaves to welfare nanny state.

No answers from the two parties, just go back to the troff, get more free money, spend it, devalue it, create more debt and more inflation. Then stick their heads in the sand, and do it again. The devaluation and the debt is perpetual in this scenario, and the economy doesn’t ‘grow’, the only thing that does is a devalued money supply.

Just another one of my biased and uniformed opinions.

ejgnik: That would be YOUR biased and uninformed opinion of someone (or likely, more than just one person) you know nothing about. Also, there is a distinction (perhaps difficult to comprehend by someone [you] who unflinchingly refuses to “criticize” someone who stole money from a volunteer, critically-need community service organization) between “criticism” and stating mere facts.

But go ahead with your blind criticism – I will continue with my factual “criticism.”

When you’ve been purposefully hit by one and you pick the ball up…

When these things occur to folks of his character, a type of disorder is implied (npd or something similar, perhaps) that they cannot control; no different than a person with any other kind of disorder, untreated, and kept private. Apparently, until it could be hidden no longer and he could not bear the thought of what had happened.

All of Mr. Garcia’s comments are true. He did incredible things for the community. Things of a quantity and magnitude that no one who, rightfully or not, criticizes Paul, could come close to matching. He was emcee of the Joe Gibbs Youth for Tomorrow benefits and countless others in the area; he put together the community effort to bring the little league world series to Loudoun. While certainly not an endorsement of anything he is accused of, in monetary terms he gave far more to the community over his lifetime than he is accused of having gleaned through the sad demon of his condition. Yes, he gave more than any of us who might criticize him ever could or will.

The community needs to support his family and Middleburg VFD in every way, as neither knew what was afoot, are shocked, devastated and need it now more than ever.

…freely devoted his time to a lot of causes, from the USO to the Middleburg Fire Department…

So his time wasn’t devoted all that “freely” after all .. it will cost the Middleburg FD and Loudoun taxpayers quite a bit for this guy’s “time.”