Date: 02/07/2011
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Neil Cavuto: Well, if the military can’t force him to stand down, leave it to Hosni Mubarak to try and just pay them off. Welcome, everybody. I’m Neil Cavuto and Fox, on top of some shady Cairo dealings going down, reports today: President Mubarak’s government just approved 50% pay raises for each and every one of the country’s six million government workers. Apparently the country’s got the dough. Or should I say, Hosni’s got the dough. How about 70 billion bucks of it! That’s how much the guy is said to be worth. Not bad for government work. But he isn’t getting it off of a government salary. He’s getting it off of… well, us!
Now you know where a lot of that foreign aid we’ve been giving him has been going. All the more reason for Texas Congressman Ron Paul to demand, “Time for all of this to start ending!” The Congressman joins me on the phone right now. Congressman, I guess this is all the indication you need to prove your basic point that when you give a lot of money to a suspect government, this is the kind of stuff that happens.
Ron Paul: Yeah, I think we have been proving our point, but it’s a pretty expensive way to learn a lesson. But I’m not even sure we’ve learned our lesson. Next week or next month or so, there will be a new dictator over there, and I don’t think the money will quit. I think they’ll keep sending the money. And then there will be a new group come in and rip us off. The American people should know about this. They should object to it. When we’re prosperous, they don’t seem to mind too much. But now that we’re in trouble, maybe they’ll wake up and say, “60-70 billion dollars to people who rip us off?! Maybe we ought to quit.” But I’m afraid they’re only going to quit when we go totally bankrupt and our monetary system doesn’t work at all.
Neil Cavuto: Well, you know, sadly, Congressman, you were way ahead of this. And I’ve started crunching the numbers here with our staff. It is staggering. Our foreign assistance bill alone is about $32.8 billion — a big chunk of that going to Egypt, of course. But over the years we’ve forgiven a lot of countries’ debt to us. Twenty-some-odd years ago we forgave about $21-28 billion in loans to Egypt, so that’s just piled onto money we’ve given them. But look at all these countries that are getting significant dough from us. Your son, Rand Paul, raised some hackles when he even included, in that sum of money we shouldn’t dole out, Israel. But both of your greater point is that there is no point to this aid. We don’t get much bang for the buck for it. Right?
Ron Paul: No, it is money wasted. But I think there’s a negative: Not only is the money wasted; I don’t think it really secures our friendships, either. I think it secures insecurity and disequilibrium in these areas. I don’t think it brings about stability. Those regions are unstable. And what it does, it incites the people who, finally, when they get fed up, they rebel.
Neil Cavuto: You’re right about that, Congressman. Because when you realize the rogues’ gallery that we have funded… Let’s just go through Mubarak first off and just review how much Egypt has gotten: $60 billion in U.S. aid. And as we continue here, the cast of characters gets even more nefarious. We’re riffling through some of these, if we can move on from Egypt to the Shah of Iran in the past and some of these others.
Ron Paul: Right.
Neil Cavuto: Good investments at the time, we were told, until we realized, “Uh oh. Their people don’t flip over these guys.” How do we get ourselves extracted from this?
Ron Paul: Well, the people don’t pay enough attention, and we don’t have enough political leadership in Washington to care about it. And then they rationalize, and they talk themselves into “This is an investment.” And–somebody the other day, I heard them say, after this issue came up and they were challenging me–they say, “We have to have friends over there, don’t you know? How are we going to have friends if we don’t–”, they didn’t say it, but, “How do we have friends if we don’t keep bribing them?” is more or less what they’re implying. We won’t have friends unless we–
Neil Cavuto: Well, they’re also saying–I’m sorry, Sir, but they’re saying, “If we don’t bribe them, someone else will.” I know I sound like a Mafioso crime family, saying that. But I guess all this does sound like a Mafioso crime family, that if the Corleones don’t do it, the Scalinis will, you know? It sounds weird, but that’s kind of the way we’ve been doing business, right?
Ron Paul: Let them do it! Yeah, but we couldn’t stop the Soviets from doing it, and they finally bankrupted their country. So they weren’t building their empire by doing too much around the world, and they finally go broke. So if somebody else wants to get involved, let them get involved. We’ll just–you know, they don’t have an incentive; the whole region over there, not Egypt necessarily, but the region will always want to sell us oil. So for us to say that we need to have troops in there, and we need to secure the king of Saudi Arabia and their very abusive civil libertarian system, we just don’t need to do it. And I think it backfires on us, and this is the kind of results that we should expect. We shouldn’t be surprised at this–I mean, if they ripped us off to $60-70 billion. But the whole thing is, How do they do it? They don’t just take the check and put it in their bank account. What they do is they take their check, then they have to build a big army, 450,000 troops, to protect the kingdom. Not for national security reasons in Egypt, but they buy weapons. Then they make deals with our weapons manufacturers. That’s how that comes about. They get kickbacks on that. So it’s all under-the-table stuff, but it is the generation of the system that comes about by us pouring in these hundreds of billions of dollars around the world.
Neil Cavuto: That’s right. You know, Congressman, I’ve got to give you credit. You were on this when nobody was. And when we started going through the numbers, man oh man, it was scary. Thank you, Sir.
Ron Paul: Sure thing.
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Notice how they dont state the total aid Israel recieved?
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America’s foreign policy is : set up and support puppet regimes and demand it’s all about spreading freedom and democracy.
You know – just like they’ve done at home.
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“Thank you, Sir.”
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Relabel this one, ‘Ron goes off.’……..
First fox clip I actually liked.
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I guess tyranny is a good work out for your pimp hand, good job Ron keep it strong.
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I am sure the USA dioesn’t give money for nothing. There’s is always some kind of shady scheme involved. I imagine there are a lot covert CIA activities. Stuff that congress or the public is not supposed to know about.
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Paul is correct, time to turn off the spigot.
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Our rights are being taken one by one. We have the worlds largest imprisonment ratio and the worlds largest weapons production. We print and spend money like there is no tomorrow (is there a tomorrow?) but don’t have enough money for schools, healthcare and infrastructure.
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mmmmmmmmmm ya Ron’s always been on it he knows the truth…
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Is it just me or does Fox almost always have an “ALERT” going on in the bottom right? That entire network revolves around fear and nothing else. Anyway, Ron Paul is right.
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One man continues to warn America. Ron Paul is RIGHT again. Time to end all foreign aid, along with shutting down Dept of ED, Dept of Energy, BATF, FDA, DEA, EPA etc,etc, etc.
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The US gave $60Billion in aid to Egypt over the last 30 years in return for security guarantees, for being party to various treaties, etc. However, Egypt spent most of that money on weapons systems from US companies. Therefore, most of the money basically comes back into the US economy, and NOT into Mubarek’s personal coffers (Mubarek’s wealth is estimated to be over $70Bil.)
So why is WRong Paul suggesting that Egypt is “ripping us off”? FFS, we GAVE them the money in a voluntary exchange.
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We don’t get much bang for the buck, like tax cuts for the rich
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America get off your fat asses – obey your Constitution – get your guns – organize your militias – and put these Washington tyrants in jail. Or execute them watch?v=jcrR9nrnvP4
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cut them all off, including Washington
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Fox has him on to talk about economics all the time. Maybe they’ll come around on foreign policy, or at least have skepticism.
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Yeah, let’s talk about Egypt while we give even more money to the richest people on earth, & who brought usury & other shyster tricks to planet earth.
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cut off israel watch terrorist not attack us
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-cut off Egypt and Israel
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33 billion could end homelessness in America
stop these traitors
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RP is awesome but nothing he talks about will ever be enacted..it is very frustrating to hear it and know nothing will ever change unless theres some kind of mass revolt by the people and protests
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Ron Paul is a great man. And why call it MOX News when it was actually pretty good reporting.
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The Neo-Cons have to send billions of worthless, printed dollars as “foreign aid”, to those “allies” because it keeps the corrupt heads of state in those countries happy. The corrupt head keeps the “aid” while keeping the citizens there downtrodden & defeated; hence U.S. has a paid puppet to do their bidding. It leaves the U.S./big brother free to pillage those countries of their valuable resources, e.g. precious metals (gold +), oil, natural gas, etc. as well as exchange to build pipelines.
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The US government forces tax payers to pay for despots and weapons that crush freedom.
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Ron Paul For President 2012
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People, I am working on a major video project to clarify everything about Islam, and combat islamophobia. Check out the trailer of the Original Call Project on my channel, we are being called back….
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Next up after paul… Sara Palin.
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Man this stuff is hilarious – No wonder lefties call Fox entertainment. Some of the best shows on the air. Cavuto, Stossel, Napolitano, brilliant stuff compared to Cenk, Olberman or Maddow.
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Respect to Fox news lol
And of course to Ron Paul for his outstanding performance in this clip
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Dr Ron Paul ONLY Hope for America!
info at Daily Paul and Liberty Poet
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Meh I like Ron Paul less after I watched Zeitgeist Moving Forward.
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YES WE CAN DUMP OBAMA’S NARROW ASS IN 2012
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I think Ron Paul is clear and right on this issue. No beating around the bush – a straightforward explanation of the problem.
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This is common knowledge to anyone who follows politics, and it’s kind of frightening that it takes a worldwide economic depression a revolutions for these idiots in the media to talk about how the U.S. government operates.
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Ya, I doubt foreign aide will be the thing that bankrupts a country, not that bankrupting a country is even possible in this day and age.
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