Uncle Cranky is Full of It

As long as Ron can point to the Constitution he makes more sense than not.  However, when he gets one step away from it, you have ample evidence that he's an old fart from Texas who really did know exactly what was in those newsletters.

He must be suffering from Ronheimers on the good old days and health care.  Of course life could have been so wretched in Texas, it didn't matter if you had money or not.  At least we do have national data to talk about national problems and not rely on one old sourpuss's very local memory.  Medicare and Medicaid were created for very good reasons.  No one really wants to go back to the good old days--they weren't that good for a whole of folks.

Ron Paul’s claims about life without Medicare and Medicaid