"Paul builds campaign on doomsday scenarios" - Yahoo! News

But I give him credit for this:   At a campaign stop in this small city of about 7,000, Paul told breast cancer survivor Danielle Lin that insurance companies should not be required to offer coverage to people who are already sick.   "It's sort of like me living on the Gulf Coast, not buying insurance until I see the hurricane," said Paul, whose Galveston-based district was devastated by a hurricane in 2008. "Insurance is supposed to measure risk."   The response left Lin in tears. While her insurance covered her treatment, she said, several of her friends were not so fortunate.   "I watched three friends die because they didn't have insurance," said Lin, a registered Democrat who is looking for a Republican candidate to support this time.   "Nobody can afford private insurance, nobody can. And they're dead."

Paul builds campaign on doomsday scenarios - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/paul-builds-campaign-doomsday-scenarios-161301486.html WASHINGTON, Iowa (Reuters) - The man who might win the Republican Party's first presidential nominating contest fears that the United Nations may take control of the U.S. money supply. Campaigning for the January 3 Iowa caucuses, Ron Paul warns of eroding civil liberties, a Soviet Union-style economic collapse and violence in the streets. The Texas congressman, author of "End the Fed," also wants to eliminate the central banking system that underpins the world's largest economy. ... Read the full story