What No One Seems to Know About Ted Cruz's Past

PJ Media ^ | September 30, 2015 | ASHEESH AGARWAL AND JOHN DELACOURT

[GodGunsGuts]

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Now that Cruz regularly polls toward the top of an ever-shrinking field, his early tenure bears closer scrutiny. Cruz has gained fame as a social conservative and an unwavering opponent of Obamacare. In his first major leadership role, however, he developed economic policy as the director of the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Policy Planning...

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

I’m with you there. Sadly, a lot of people on here have become the republican version of Obama voters.

[Uri’el-2012]

At the FTC, Cruz's agenda could have been written by Milton Friedman.

Ted studied "Austrian Economics" when he was 14 yo.

Austrian Economics is much older than Milton Friedman.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[patriot08]

Seniors; Cruz wants to cut your Social Security benefits:
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/31/this-presidential-candidate-wants-to-cut-social-se.aspx

Also Google his college days. I’m finding few liked or trusted him and even complained about his body odor.

[CPT Clay]

After election season this would be a good subject for a discussion thread.

Was not one dollar defined as 271.5 grains of silver?
What rate did they use to exchange for gold?

[Blue Collar Christian]

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[LS]

In what year? Up til about 1865, the ratio was 15:1 silver to gold. Somewhere in there it was increased to 16:1. But silver mines kept out producing gold do that by the mid 1870s it was 17:1.

[CPT Clay]

Yep, Comstock Nevada, forever changed the Gold to Silver Ratio. 1859-1874

[Uri’el-2012]

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