Top 5 Ways Ron Paul Predicted the Future in 2002

3. Dramatic Government Spending Increase:

“The Congress and the President will shift radically toward expanding the size and scope of the Federal Government,” Paul said, and boy was he right. The USA PATRIOT Act, which took effect just five months before Paul’s speech, was the beginning. Once those floodgates were opened, they could not be stopped. “This will satisfy both the liberals and the conservatives,” indeed. According to this nifty website, military, Social Security, unemployment, labor, Medicare, and health spending totaled over 76% of government spending in fiscal year 2015. That’s insane. In fact, it’s 2.89 trillion dollars by itself. That’s more money than the government spending – every last cent – in 2002.