Date: 05/13/2011
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Wolf Blitzer: On the whole issue of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, do you want to see that agency ended?
Ron Paul: Well, if you want to live in a free society, if you want to pay attention to the constitution, why not? I think it’s bad economics, I think it’s bad morality, and it’s bad constitutional law. Why should people like myself, who had until too long ago a house on the Gulf Coast – and it’s expensive there and it’s risky and it’s dangerous. Why should somebody from the central part of the United States rebuild my house? Why shouldn’t I have to buy my own insurance and protect from the potential danger? Well, the reason we don’t have market insurance is because it’s too expensive. Well, why is it expensive? Because it’s dangerous. So why should we take money from somebody else who doesn’t get the chance to live on the Gulf and make them pay to rebuild my house? I mean, it’s a moral hazard to say the government’s always going to take care of us when we do dumb things. I’m trying to get people to not do dumb things. Besides it’s not authorized in the constitution.
Wolf Blitzer: But if there’s a disaster like flooding or an earthquake or Hurricane Katrina, what’s wrong with asking fellow Americans to help their fellow citizens?
Ron Paul: Nothing, and I think Americans are very, very generous and they have been traditionally. The big problem is, Americans are getting poorer and they’re not able to voluntarily come to the rescue. But to coerce people to ask them to help, that is fine and dandy. But when you bankrupt our country and nobody has a job and then they say, “Well, FEMA needs to bail out everybody”, then all we do is compound our problems. And believe me, I’ve been very much involved in the hurricanes that have come into my district, and most of the people in my district do not like FEMA. They want to try to get their money out, but FEMA comes in and takes over, they take over their property rights, they dictate, they prevent some of the volunteers from going in. So there’s a strong resentment towards the way FEMA operates because there are bureaucrats who don’t understand the rule of law, nor do they understand local control and property rights. So there’s a very strong argument that this whole program that governments, through coercion and taxation, can bail out everybody when we’re flat broke, then they have to print the money. And now we’re going in to inflationary problems, which are very severe. That’s our big issue right now.
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Brilliant and simple! and to Bernanke and your obfuscating obscure lingo, Fuck OFF!
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I’m 14 and I can realize why we need this man as our president… Why do so many people think he shouldn’t be our president???
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ron paul – the greatest living american, and im british. we have our own ron paul in nigel farage from ukip. two great men cut from the same cloth.
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Ron Paul 2012
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This man is Yoda in human form! Wise you are, Dr paul.
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Great man ! Ron Paul for President !
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I don’t donate to any catastrophes around the world because my govt steals my money and donates in my name. And they waste alot of it, it never really helps anyone and my taxes go up because my country is buried in debt. Ron Paul 2012….save America before it burns to the ground!
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We need privately owned concentration camps, not FEMA camps!!
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He’s so right. If i had money I would be helping out in the south right now. Also, buy insurance !
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I never looked into it but it would be interesting to see how much money came from FEMA for Katrina and compare it to how much as donated by the American people.
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1:49
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1:51 He sooo Gets it. He’s so far ahead of his time. The rest of us are just now catching up…
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Down with FEMA!
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Wolf Blitzer is a Zionist infiltrator.
From AIPAC Lobbyist to CNN’s Chief News Anchor
watch?v=7xatMfqa_C0
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Ron Paul promotes voluntary charity but not charity through the government with tax payers money.
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People quickly forget the mess FEMA made with Katrina? FEMA is utterly useless and expensive. If the people were left to fix these problems themselves, they’d make better decisions.
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Ron Paul is a complete nutjob
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Simple buy insurance,if they don’t give you insurance there’s a reason.
Also if we weren’t taxed so damn much and had more money in our pockets,there would be alot more money given to disaster victims than we give now.
Is Dr. Paul the only person left with any freakin common sense?
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lets throw money at this man untill our hands bleed!!!
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I love JEWS (most) and Ron Paul.
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His arguments for Limited Govt are always intelligent.
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fucking jew wolfacunt
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RON PAUL 2012! IT’S OUR TIME! TRUE FREEDOM ROCKS!
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I love Ron Paul.
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So true. There’s nothing wrong with people doing risky things like owning houses in places prone to natural disasters, but why should others, who can’t afford nor benefit from these homes, pay for them?
And the point about charity is exactly right. There’s a big difference between voluntary donations and coerced theft.
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OMG how much of our own money have we, the American people, sent to OTHER COUNTRIES in times of a disasters like earthquakes or Tsunami’s ?!
And how much MORE would the American people give to help people in OUR OWN country if FEMA were gone?
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I am from southern Louisiana & I completely agree with Dr. Paul. I know where I’m at, and I know that it can storm & flood really badly at times here. I know that we’ll have hurricanes & scorching heat & I wouldn’t live anywhere else.
People got along fine before fema came in taking everyone’s guns, killing people & promising help.
I think I’ll take my chances without fema.
fema=waste of money/unconstitutional
Vote RON PAUL in the primaries!
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Great.
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Wolf, asking and forcing are different.
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I live in the southern coast of Louisiana, and I agree with Ron Paul.
FEMA was an absolute nightmare, here in New Orleans, during post Katrina.
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FEMA is unconstitutional. Did not the commentator HEAR Ron Paul say that???? Just like he says, if you wanna live on the coast line and you get wiped out, don’t make others pay for your problem.
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i love this guy.
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First he gets owned by Dr. David Duke, and now by Dr. Ron Paul
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Keep your dukes up Dr. Paul, we are behind you!
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Dr. Paul, stop making so much sense.
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