Date: 11/13/2010
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Rand Paul: Do we believe in the individual or do we believe in the state? Thomas Jefferson wrote that government is best that governs least, likewise freedom is best when enjoyed by the most.
Judge Napolitano: He was the Tea Party candidate that the Republican establishment said could not win, but Rand Paul bucked his own party, defied the odds and now the libertarian eye doctor is a senator elect. His father, Dr. Ron Paul, has been reelected to the House from Texas and both of these defenders of limited government and constitutional freedom join us now. Gentlemen — first — welcome to Freedom Watch, together — Congratulations on both of your election victories!
Congressman Paul — To you first, the Republicans will have the majority in the House of Representatives come January; you may very well be the chair of the monetary subcommittee of the House financial services committee. The Republicans will have the subpoena power, will you or will the Republicans use the subpoena power to make Ben Bernanke show up and bring his ledger sheets with him? Will we ever find out through the subpoena power what the Federal Reserve has been up to?
Ron Paul: If it’s necessary we have it and we should use it and I think that is one way of circumventing their stonewalling us. They’ve stonewalled all the entities. They have tried to sue them under the Freedom of Information Act and of course they had a lot of influence last year when we had the bill passed to audit the Fed, to get that taken out in committee, so I think if they don’t come clean — the subpoena power should be used.
Judge Napolitano: Over in the Senate, Senator-elect Paul, the bill to audit the Fed will not likely make its way to you. It will pass in the House as it did last time even with the Democrats controlling the House. It will pass in the Senate and then they’ll try and kill it in committee. Can it survive the byzantine ways of Senate politics?
Rand Paul: Well I think, you know, we had 37 votes for it when it went through last time, the Vitter amendment had 37 people in favor of my father’s “audit the Fed.” So I think we try again, and we try to convince a few more people to do it and also convince them that the watered down “audit the Fed” wasn’t enough.
Judge Napolitano: Congressman Paul, a lot of news members will join the House in January who are strong constitutionalists, open libertarians, people embracing the Tea Party. Will they bring the Republican Party to its Ron Paul roots or will the good-old-boys club co-opt them?
Ron Paul: Well, if you go by history, the old club will co-opt it and have control but I think conditions are different. The Tea Party Movement is very strong; grassroots America has awoken, so I’m hopeful that they will stick to their guns and I think the Republicans in the House will do much better, because they don’t have a Republican president sending down the directions. That’s why we were so weak last time. This time they will be standing up to Obama and they’ll be sending him some bills and if we do get it pass the Senate he’ll have to veto them. So I think the House is going to do much better but to have a true revolution we have a lot more work to do because they may call themselves constitutionalists, as you well know Judge, a lot of people, they don’t lose sleep over how they vote and they have a different interpretation.
They don’t think they disobey the constitution, it’s just that they get their authority from the general welfare clause and the interstate commerce clause. So that’s our problem, it’s an educational problem that we have to overcome along with determination to stick to principle.
Judge Napolitano: Senator Paul, I don’t think anybody argued the constitution better and more effectively than you did this past November and it obviously resonated well with the voters in Kentucky. Where do you stand on this divide amongst Republicans and the Senate already over earmarks? Mitch McConnell, your soon-to-be fellow Senator from Kentucky wants them, Jim Inhofe the Conservative Republican from Oklahoma wants them, Jim DeMint who went out of his way to support you in the primary against establishment Republicans, soon to be your colleague from South Carolina — does not want them. Where do you stand?
Rand Paul: Well, I have to be careful because I still want to eat at the adults table at Thanksgiving and my dad and I have a disagreement on this. But I’ve come down with a position that I think even though it’s not in enormous amount of dollars that go into earmarks, that the symbolism of putting unrelated spending amendments on bills that really don’t go through the committee process is what a lot of people perceive earmarks to be, I think it’s not a good thing and I think the whole idea that Mrs. Smith gives money to my campaign and Mrs. Smith’s grandmother was prominent in my community so I name a museum after her and it gets stuck on on related bills — I think that’s what galling to people. Now there is a constitutional question on whether Congress can direct where money is spent and whether the president should, and I understand my dad’s position on that, but I think the symbolism of how earmarks have been used in the past, I mean there were 6,000 earmarks on a transportation bill a few years ago, whereas when Ronald Reagan was around he vetoed one that had 192 earmarks. So the earmarking process has gotten out of control.
Judge Napolitano: Okay, switching from earmarks, here is Jim DeMint just the other day, I want the two of you to listen to this, he’s basically saying you can’t be a fiscal Conservative without also being a social conservative. We have to tell people how to live, take a listen:
Jim DeMint: You can’t be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative, a large part of the expansive government is to make up for a dysfunctional society because our culture is falling apart; the family is falling apart.
Judge Napolitano: Is this going to divide Congressman Paul, the Libertarians in the Congress from those who want to be faithful to the constitution only on fiscal matters but still want the government to tell people how to live their lives?
Ron Paul: Well, I see his statement as incomplete, I think he infers that the government would be involved in social conservatism. But I’m a social conservative, I just don’t want to use force to improve social conditions. So that’s the big difference. If you want to impose social values by law that’s a different story than arguing the case that social conservatism and family life and religious values — these are beneficial but we just don’t want the government to be doing this. So, I like to look at the first amendment. The first amendment is toleration, you tolerate people and freedom of speech, even when they say bad and dumb things and that’s the way it should be in social things. We tolerate people making mistakes with their lives, but that doesn’t diminish our desire and requirement to improve social mores, and that is — Where is the responsibility? I say it’s on the individual, and on the family, and on our churches and our community, certainly not in the government.
Judge Napolitano: Senator elect Paul, we only have about 30 seconds, where are you on this? Should we shrink the government or should we enact more laws and tell people how to live because it’s the way we think people should live, like Senator DeMint has suggested?
Rand Paul: Well I think we need to shrink government and I’m not sure that’s exactly what he was saying but I think we do need to shrink government, the primary problems that face our nation are economic, the Tea Party really is bringing people together on economic issues and isn’t so much about social issues. I am socially conservative, but I see that the Tea Party can bring people together of all walks of life who say “You know what? We can’t continue to run these massive deficits” and it’s primarily economic issues that are driving the Tea Party I think.
Judge Napolitano: Congressman Paul, Senator Paul thanks very much for joining us on Freedom Watch.
Ron Paul: Thank you.
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The US Government is Americas biggest employer: The two wars are costing America 100 billion dollars per year and they R losing the wars. 4 out of 10 soldiers returning from the MIddle-East claim they have PTSD and collect, on average, $1,600. per month FOR LIFE. Your country is on its knees to the Communist Chinese. America has become a JOKE !
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RON PAUL, WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR AN ANSWER! TELL AMERICAN PEOPLE HOW EXACTLY RU GOING TO CREATE JOBS? OK LETS SAY ALL TROOPS CAME BACK AND THEN WHAT? THEY ARE GOING TO SELL IPHONES AND BLACKBERRIES? DUDE BE A MEN, HOW RU GOING TO CREATE JOBS? POPULATION OF CHINA IS 1.4 B CHINESE WORK LIKE ROBOTS, BE HONEST TELL AMERICAN PEOPLE TO BUY UR BOOK U NEED CASH , U LOVE POWER, U LOVE CASH, U WILL NEVER CREATE JOBS, U HAVE NO ANSWER!
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The Fed and Keynesian system is a false standard of living called credit. The fiat dollar will not recover .We must make huge cuts. Welcome free trade.Get rid of NAFTA and GATT.Drill and mine natural resources .Kick out corporate farming Tax large corporations. Competition brings prices down .We need hard money .We didn’t need the fed before 1913 and we don’t need them today
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The Fed and Keynesian system is a false standard of living called credit. The fiat dollar will not recover .We must make huge cuts. Welcome free trade.Get rid of NAFTA and GATT.Drill and mine natural resources .Kick out corporate farming Tax large corporations. Competition brings prices down .We need hard money .We didn’t need the fed before 1913 and we don’t need them today
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The Fed and Keynesian system is a false standard of living called credit. The fiat dollar will not recover .We must make huge cuts. Welcome free trade.Get rid of NAFTA and GATT.Drill and mine natural resources .Kick out corporate farming Tax large corporations. Competition brings prices down .We need hard money .We didn’t need the fed before 1913 and we don’t need them today
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totally watching the Judge on tv and on youtube at the same time
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The Paul fellas. Full of integrity right to the last. Even when the judge cosies up with a clearly loaded question Rand says “well Im not sure thats what he was saying”.
The judge, I just dont like him. He doesnt fly straight if you know what I mean. I can smell it off him. Hes been a Fox goon for years and now the Republicans are on the other side he seems to have time for Ron Paul.
The guys a phoney. His loyalty is with party, not country. Yeah I smell him.
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who’s the numbnuts that disliked this vid??
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who’s the numbnuts that disliked this vid??
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CrooksandLiars is a website where you can find more lies from these people and the rest of the socially conservative since they are the only republicans who are aloud to say anything without reprecautions…. you will see more then social conservatives saying hypocritcal garbage on crooksandliars though.
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way to avoid the last question rand. i dont trust you. rons a champion among men though.
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RON PAUL STARTED THE FIRST TEA PARTY GATHERINGS!!!! LIBERTARIANISM IS THE FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE CONSTITUTION! THEREFORE OF CONSERVATISM! THEREFORE THE TEA PARTY!!! YOU CANNOT DISMISS THE TEA PARTY BECAUSE OF SARAH PALIN AND OTHERS..JUST STOP PAYING SO MUCH ATTENTION TO THE BIMBO AND VOTE FOR POLITICIANS WHO DON”T FALTER AGAINST BIG SPENDING AND BIG GOVERNMENT AND WORK AS HARD AS RON PAUL DOES.. AMERICA NEEDS AN AWAKENING AND I BELIEVE THE TEA PARTY IS THE FORCE TO DO SO.
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Ron Paul 2012 Obama GTFO
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END THE FED!
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Sorry Judge but you took what DeMint said a little too far. He never said “we need to have laws to force people to live this way”. He only said if you are a fiscal conservative you must be a social con & in 98% of cases this is true. I usually respect the judge but this one was blatant twisting of words based on the judge’s opinion. Demint was right to say that many of our $ is spent on cleaning up our society b/c these things use to be taken care of by family & now are put off on the rest of us
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Pal-in the ASS!
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cant you, the people, get the shit out of the house when they dont vote for the fed audit?
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cant you, the people, get the shit out of the house when they dont vote for the fed audit?
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The real consumers of tax revenue are the empire, welfare, and medicaid. The federal gov’t can’t afford to ride two (or three) horses– it’s one thing or another. I say end the empire, end the welfare and medicaid, and expand social security to everyone over 24 earning under 50k a year at a flat amount of 12k dollars. People like getting a 12k dollar check in the mail annually, that increases their earning 20-50% and isn’t taxed as income– they can pay for insurance or a new car or college.
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Who do you join!?! Really smart people have to side with ass clowns in order to get heard. At this point maybe the Dems should join the tea party movement and someone could kick Sarah Palin to the curb. We need someone like Ron Paul fighting for the American people, but there are few of these types of people around. A lot of people voted for Obama because they thought he would destroy the corrupt banking system, but to no surprise, they are best friends.
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I hope Rand can be as good as his dad. power corrupts though
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No question about it… Ron Paul is the leader of the Revolution and I pray will soon be the leader of this Republic!!
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Same Last Name But Not Related and the Also have Similar Face Features. Thanks For the Reply.
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Beautiful example of how a Father and son work together for the greater good for their people, land and mankind. Oh how I wish I’d have had been a better son like Rand Paul to my Dear and great father, RIP paizinho.
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Remove the fed.
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He didn’t joined the Tea Party caucus, he supports the tea party but he feels that the tea party needs to keep with its grassroots, to end the drug war, to end our overseas empire, that has started to bankrupt the nation, to have a sound currency, and to stop telling people how to live they’re lives.
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Ron Paul is awesome!
…And in this life he is MY king!
keep your eye on likes to dislikes- 144 to 0- that’s amazing and CLEARLY showing what must happen 2012
It’s a shame it can’t happen tomorrow, you know!?
I’m 27 yrs- and his message is HONEST and WISE- Peaceful- It’s something you feel in your heart
He is fighting for us and we need to have his back- Like I said 144-0 – We are strong!! Let’s NOT be victims anymore by POLITICS and LIES and WAR-time to rise beyond the constraints!
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He answered that question in another interview (not sure which one) and based on what he said he is NOT related to her.
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Dont get me wrong i do like ron paul and think he and kucinik make a great team ,however why he want to take side with the tea partiers when we all know the real movement was hijacked by the warmongers TRAITORS Fox,baby beck and palin .When u dont have competence and regulations capitalism become fascism.
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QWe will never find out whjat tey been doing.
If you and I had been printing all the money and spending it FIRst WOULD WE BE ABLE TO confess? AFTER 90 YEARS ? NO TELLING WHAT BEEN GOING ON , MAKE SEVERAL noveLS at a Confession.
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