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Wolf Blitzer: Joining us now is a Republican who comes to this debate with his always unique and outspoken point of view, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Congressman, thanks very much for coming in.
Ron Paul: Thank you, Wolf.
Wolf Blitzer: When it comes to the president’s economic policies, his tax policies, is there anything in there you like?
Ron Paul: Well, I understand there will be some tax credits and that means there’ll be lower taxes for businesspeople and encourage investment, although they are short term and we don’t know what would happen after a couple of years. No, anything that will cut taxes I’m for, the fact that he’ll be raising spending, but also because he doesn’t plan to raise taxes on the lower income people under $200,000 or $250,000, I think that’s good. It’d be horrible if he did raise the taxes at the first year on all those. So I have to say that is a little bit of relief to know that those taxes won’t go up.
Wolf Blitzer: Because you’re a deficit hawk, you hate this huge national debt, the annual budget deficits. The White House says if you eliminate the tax breaks for the wealthy Americans, those families making more than $250,000 a year, about 2 or 3% of all Americans out there, you’re going to save $700 billion over the next 10 years. $700 billion, that would be good to have that reduction in the national debt, wouldn’t it?
Ron Paul: Well, it would be, but it would be a horrible way of doing it. That means taxes are going up $700 billion. I could think of a much better thing to do and that would be to read that article by Stiglitz this morning. He said he made an error last year when he did that report that he said the Iraq war was going to cost us over $3 trillion. He says it’s going to be much higher than $3 trillion. Why don’t we stay out of these wars and save this money, that’s what we need to do. We need to cut the spending and we don’t have to tax people and we could solve this problem, but nobody wants to give an inch on these overseas expenditures, the Republicans don’t want to cut overseas expenditures and war, neither does Obama. So, but the American people, the ones I talk to at least, are all for it.
Wolf Blitzer: I know you were…
Ron Paul: So that’s where it should go, we should cut spending overseas.
Wolf Blitzer: We had you on recently with Congressman Barney Frank. You guys have some ideas to save hundreds of billions of dollars in defense related spending, we discussed that. The president also went after some Republicans for wanting to privatize Social Security, listen to what he said.
Barack Obama: As long as I’m president, no one is going to take the retirement savings of a generation of Americans and hand it over to Wall Street. Not on my watch.
Wolf Blitzer: Do you agree with the president on that?
Ron Paul: Well, I have to know what he is thinking about on privatizing what others think about privatizing because it’s two different things.
Wolf Blitzer: He doesn’t want to privatize it, he wants to keep it the way it is now.
Ron Paul: Yeah, but I want to know what privatize means. If we could turn this money over and give the individual money like an investment retirement fund that they manage, that’s a little bit different. But I think most people, what they think about privatizing and I’m not for this type of privatizing, that’s when the government manages accounts and gets involved in the stock market, if that’s what he’s thinking about, I don’t want any part of that. But I want to privatize the retirement funds and put the responsibility on the individual. That to me is a lot different type of privatization. But for government bureaucrats to get involved in the stock market, I don’t like that.
Besides, if you truly have privatization, you can make your own choices, but it’s when, the way we have it now, you only can buy government debt, that’s really not a very good investment. But I think these are academic arguments because, talking about 5 or 10 years from now, we’re facing up such a serious crisis with our dollar and our financial situation. The next 2 or 3 years, this is going to be resolved because we’re going to have a financial crisis based on a dollar devaluation and that to me is going to change all the rules in the game. And talking about the tax code for a year or two I won’t have a whole lot of meaning.
Wolf Blitzer: I’m curious what your reaction is to this pastor in Florida who wants to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday.
Ron Paul: Well, I put a little statement out about that because everybody was talking about it. It’s a shame he’s getting this much attention, and Petraeus made this statement that I agreed with, he said “this could endanger our troops” and I agree with that. But I also went on to add the point, as much danger as burning the Quran might be, what about our invasion, our bombing, collateral damage, arrests and secret prisons and pictures of torture, drone attacks, do you think that isn’t an incitement to violence overseas? I mean, they already have so much.
Yes, we should recognize that this is not good for us, it’s a bad image. Of course nobody is challenging his right to do this thing, I mean we’re even allowed to burn flags in this country, so that isn’t the issue as much, for me it was the issue of saying what kind of a reaction would this be, and I say our foreign policy has a much, much more negative reaction than burning Quran would.
Wolf Blitzer: Very quickly, because we got this new CNN Time Magazine poll in on the race for the Senate in Kentucky, your son Rand Paul is running. Right now we have it as a dead heat among registered voters, Rand Paul 46%, Jack Conway the Attorney General there 46%. Are you surprised by this poll, how close it is?
Ron Paul: I think that’s pure fiction, that’s the biggest surprise of my life. If that happened, it happened within the last 12 hours, I think we better check that one out. But no, the race will be hard for, and hard run and he’ll run as if it’s tied. But those aren’t quite the accurate statistics that I’ve been hearing about.
Wolf Blitzer: Yeah, I’ve heard other polls that had your son way ahead. But this is among registered voters, CNN Time Opinion Research Corporation poll; we’ll stay on top of this race and all the other races. Always to have you in the Situation Room, Congressman, thanks for coming in.
Ron Paul: Thank you, Wolf.
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2:54 Obama is full of shit.
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George W. Bush said that his only regret was that he wasn’t able to privatize social security. Social security is not a hope to get rich plan. Remember, these “free market” republicans are still out there. They are worried about devaluation of the dollar but are responsible for the downgrading of our credit.
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The bill passed by congress on Jan 1, 2013 means that 62 billion dollars per year will not be added to the national debt to give tax cuts to the rich. I question his position about the poor. Have you seen Rand Paul’s recent comments on the fiscal cliff. Search “Rand Paul says NO on fiscal cliff deal.” In the C-Span video, he says, “The problem is that YOUR grandparents had too many children.”
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The “free economy” republicans ideology and plan: Deregulate the financial market, allow stocks to be over-capitalized so those in the know can drain IRA savings and create financial instruments to enrich themselves and crash the housing market. Give tax cuts to the rich and say they will create jobs but hoard the money in bank accounts and campaign to eliminate the capital gains tax. Then blame Social Security, Medicare, the poor, and disabled for the economic crisis.
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Zionist nigger BS? Really is that the best u can come up with? Do u even realize how off ur comment is ?
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NO. SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF ZIONIST NIGGER LIES.
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Ron paul is not about white power… Liberty and freedoms for all good, decent hardworking individuals is more like it…. Power to those people and they come in all races friend… bush = white cheny = white romsfield = white… many of the power elites are indeed white.. Get my point ?
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Read about douchebag Ron Paul –
GOOGLE:
Angry White Man The bigoted past of Ron Paul.
and
Ron Paul: Conspiracy Nut
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And of course!!
Ron Paul told us 2 years of loner ago, that we were in the process of building an embassy bigger than the Vatican in Iraq.
Now a report comes out showing that over 16,000 troops and contractors would stay ther to work in the embassy.
16,000!!!!
We didn’t pull out of iraq! We’re occupying it!
How many times did anybody hear our government tell us, that they were spending untold billions of tax payer money, to build that massive embassy??
I never heard them say anything!
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WINNING STRATEGY: In order for Dr.Paul to win, HE NEEDS THE PRIMARY. That’s the toughest part.
IF YOU WANT TO VOTE IN PRIMARY YOU HAVE TO BE REGISTERED REPUBLICAN! If you don’t switch parties in time, (3 months ahead in some states) YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE!
Switch in time democrats,libertarians & indepedents! Republicans:GET TO THE PRIMARIES!! ALL OF YOU!! YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW DO IT!!Please help spread this message, and also thumb it up when U C these.Thanks 2 all those helping!!
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WINNING STRATEGY: In order for Dr.Paul to win, HE NEEDS THE PRIMARY. That’s the toughest part.
IF YOU WANT TO VOTE IN PRIMARY YOU HAVE TO BE REGISTERED REPUBLICAN! If you don’t switch parties in time, (3 months ahead in some states) YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE!
Switch in time democrats,libertarians & indepedents! Republicans:GET TO THE PRIMARIES!! ALL OF YOU!! YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW DO IT!!Please help spread this message, and also thumb it up when U C these.Thanks 2 all those helping!!
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HOW ABOUT TAKING MONEY FROM THE CORPORATIONS FOR SS?
Ron Paul’s plan will balance the budget in 3 years without raising taxes!
Social programs remain untouched as the BIG problems are resolved.
Government employees will be phased out as they quit/retire or moved to other jobs.
Learn more at /watch?v=IQAHziV3HoM
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Ron Paul2012 if you support ending this bullshit “empire building”
Total spending in Afghanistan and Iraq combined is over 3.5 trillion dollars.
6000+ US soldiers dead. hundreds of thousands innocent civilian casualties.
keep in mind that voting for Ron Paul won’t be enough, we need to change Congress. Make THEM represent the American people too.
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Ron Paul2012 if you support ending this bullshit “empire building”
Total spending in Afghanistan and Iraq combined is over 3.5 trillion dollars.
6000+ US soldiers dead. hundreds of thousands innocent civilian casualties.
keep in mind that voting for Ron Paul won’t be enough, we need to change Congress. Make THEM represent the American people too.
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Ron Paul2012 if you support ending this bullshit “empire building”
Total spending in Afghanistan and Iraq combined is over 3.5 trillion dollars.
6000+ US soldiers dead. hundreds of thousands innocent civilian casualties.
keep in mind that voting for Ron Paul won’t be enough, we need to change Congress. Make THEM represent the American people too.
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Ron Paul2012 if you support ending this bullshit “empire building”
Total spending in Afghanistan and Iraq combined is over 3.5 trillion dollars.
6000+ US soldiers dead. hundreds of thousands innocent civilian casualties.
keep in mind that voting for Ron Paul won’t be enough, we need to change Congress. Make THEM represent the American people too.
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Ron Paul2012 if you support ending this bullshit “empire building”
Total spending in Afghanistan and Iraq combined is about 2.6 trillion dollars.
6000+ US soldiers dead. hundreds of thousands innocent civilian casualties.
keep in mind that voting for Ron Paul won’t be enough, we need to change Congress. Make THEM represent the American people too.
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Neither party will let Ron Paul win because he isn’t for special interests. Corporations and banks own the democrats and republicans, and they also own the media, which explains why Paul gets almost no media attention.
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its basically the stupid americans v.s the smart americans. who ever doesnt vote for ron paul is a fucking moron… mainly women
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Ron Paul slaps down these CFR,IMF puppets .Money, controls these GOP puppets .He’s the only man up there that is not afraid of the Washington machine,same groups that was wrong about Iraq, killed close to a million people, most were innocent people .The money machine just needs to keep the lies going, and fool the world .They create conflicts for profit,and enslave the people thru debt and taxes.Its simply world traders, investors, and banks,even the Fed Reserve, READ HISTORY
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Ron Paul slaps down these CFR,IMF puppets .Money, controls these GOP puppets .He’s the only man up there that is not afraid of the Washington machine,same groups that was wrong about Iraq, killed close to a million people, most were innocent people .The money machine just needs to keep the lies going, and fool the world .They create conflicts for profit,and enslave the people thru debt and taxes.Its simply world traders, investors, and banks,even the Fed Reserve, READ HISTORY
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Ron Paul slaps down these CFR,IMF puppets .Money, controls these GOP puppets .He’s the only man up there that is not afraid of the Washington machine,same groups that was wrong about Iraq, killed close to a million people, most were innocent people .The money machine just needs to keep the lies going, and fool the world .They create conflicts for profit,and enslave the people thru debt and taxes.Its simply world traders, investors, and banks,even the Fed Reserve, READ HISTORY
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Yet FEMA turned back thousands of Americans trying to get food and water into the effected areas, saying that THEY would handle it, and didn’t need the food and water aid, and of course many americans died as a result. Under Ron Paul, that food and water would have gotten to the suffering people., because his governemnt would not dictate to citizens what they can or can’t do.
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Funny how they say people making less that 250k a year are “low income” I wish I could make 250k a year! I think the most I’ve EVER made was about 40k. Right now, I’m recovering from a shattered leg, and my finacial aid amounts to $300 a MONTH. That’s right, I’m struggling to survive on $300 a month with a broken leg, and these idiots in washington (not Ron Paul, I love Ron Paul) act like 250k a year is poverty. Gimme a break!
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I believe Ron will do more for the jobless and poor, than any of them cronies would. Just cut that military industrial complex and give the people a leg to stand on. Don’t cut the little benigets for the poor, give them an opportunity to prosper and they will. We all want to be apart of a system. One that is fair and not corrupt. Ron Paul 2012!
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RECOGNISE THE WORLD TERRORIST
( Kills in name of Civilisation & Democracy)
Hiroshima & Nagasaki: 200,000; Vietnam: 1,100,000 ; Iraq:1,100,000; Afghanistan:65000 Total:2,465,000 [2.465 million]; ( as many people mortally wounded & crippled for life);
( KKK,IRA, AL-QAAIDA should hang their heads in shame for poor performance)
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RECOGNISE THE WORLD TERRORIST
( Kills in name of Civilisation & Democracy)
Hiroshima & Nagasaki: 200,000; Vietnam: 1,100,000 ; Iraq:1,100,000; Afghanistan:65000 Total:2,465,000 [2.465 million]; ( as many people mortally wounded & crippled for life);
( KKK,IRA, AL-QAAIDA should hang their heads in shame for poor performance)
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if under freedom of expression one can abuse Islam then why in many european countries it is a crime to deny the holocaust being a criminal offence in belgium,france,germany, austria, switzerland etc; punishable by fines & a jail sentence; the question is can an individual ridicule & insult the sacred elements of an entire civilisation
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if under freedom of expression one can abuse Islam then why in many european countries it is a crime to deny the holocaust being a criminal offence in belgium,france,germany, austria, switzerland etc; punishable by fines & a jail sentence; the question is can an individual ridicule & insult the sacred elements of an entire civilisation
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The Dumb Americans, Just realize that 9/11 was 100% a inside job! To invade and destroy other countries. Also, the experiment of mind control is being used through media to make and change the way people think. It’s the Illuminati who are behind it. Stop being stupid, Islam is peaceful religion and only religion that can stop the illuminati and the NEW WORLD ORDER! John F. Kennedy was killed because of exposing the truth of secret society (Illuminati). GO see JFK speech on the secret society
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