“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams once said. “And whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

Since presidential candidate Ron Paul is a great admirer of our Founder Fathers, I’m sure he would agree with President Adams on this point.

So that’s why it’s surprising to hear Paul—who just finished speaking at the Little Rock Baptist Church in Detroit’s North End—talk favorably about a Caterpillar plant currently being built in his

back in Texas.

Paul contrasts that good economic news with Michigan’s economic misery that Paul says is created by too much government interference in what should be a perfectly free market economy.

“Local governments can interfere and tax and regulate. Some states are worse off than others,” Paul told the crowd this morning. “Unfortunately this state is worse off than other states. In Texas, right now, they are building a Caterpillar plant and looking for workers. At the same time, this state is still suffering.”

One problem, Caterpillar went to Texas because that state gave them over a million dollars to locate there.

Facts are, as John Adams told us, stubborn things.



Check back with MLive shortly for a more comprehensive report on Paul's speech at Little Rock Baptist Church.