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Host: This week is the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, which coordinated the national relief effort in hurricane Irene’s wake. Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate, Ron Paul, is calling for the agency’s elimination. He said, “FEMA has one of the worst reputations for a bureaucracy ever. It’s the system of bureaucratic central economic planning which is a policy that is deeply flawed”. Now that statement drew attention, but it is utterly consistent with the Congressman’s libertarian philosophy. We spoke with Ron Paul earlier this week and asked him to explain that position.
Ron Paul: I got that impression from having lived on the Gulf Coast and having been a Congressman here for a long time, because if I add all the phone calls and all the work that I’ve had to do with all the agencies of government, FEMA has caused more problems than all the rest put together. And most of the time it’s the fact that when FEMA comes in and there’s a disaster, they interfere with the local people, the local people and the land owners can’t do what they want. And then when they’re promised payouts, they can’t get it, they can’t get their insurance, so we always have to go to bat for them. But I was opposed to it a long time before I knew it was so inefficient, that was when they introduced the notion that the federal government should guarantee this insurance because literally what that does is it eliminates the principle of insurance. Insurance is supposed to measure risk, and if the government takes care of it, there’s no more risk. Matter of fact, it encourages risk, it encourages the moral hazard. The people who like their beach houses are more likely to build there because they feel, “What the heck, you know, I can’t get my insurance, the tax payers will bail me out”. But the government doesn’t have any money, and matter of fact FEMA is broke, they’re about 20 billion dollars in debt. So if you add all that up, it doesn’t have a very good reputation and I think there are other ways in which we could handle these
Host: At first when you talked about insurance making it possible for people to build their beach houses back, I’m sure you’d agree we have to point out now there are a lot of people sitting on rubble in Vermont who never thought they had a beach house. Irene was a hurricane that spread widely beyond what would be, if I might refer to it this way, the traditional points of impact. And, in a way, isn’t that also part of the whole idea of getting the federal government involved, because these disasters don’t know state boundaries?
Ron Paul: Well, the question is why? Why does all of a sudden somebody in Vermont need to get insurance from you if you live in Alexandria? You haven’t been hurt. I mean, what is the moral principle there? I’ve lived in Texas for a long time and I’ve had a fair amount of damage and I call up my insurance agent. So people should have responsibility for themselves, their neighbors should help, the states should help, the communities should help, state guards should help. And you know under extreme circumstances, our military could surely have assistance in rescue operations, but they can’t if there over there fighting wars that shouldn’t be fought.
Host: So when you warn against foreign adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya, you call those foreign adventures, that’s all a part of the same philosophy of when you say that FEMA is a bad idea?
Ron Paul: Yea, it’s all the use of force. A person who truly believes in liberty rejects the use of force to change people or mould people, change the economy or tell other countries how to live. So I apply the same principle down the line, I don’t want to force people. They have to follow laws, but the laws are that you can’t hurt other people and fortunately for me, the little bit of test we’ve had for that system, it’s been most prosperous system ever known to man. So I approach it as a humanitarian. I’m convinced to be a humanitarian you have to believe in property and free choices, both individually as well as for the marketplace.
Host: Mr. Paul, you announced last month that you’re going to retire from Congress when your term runs out in 2012. Of course, it’s possible you’ll be elected president, but are you in any way handing off your political name to your son, the Senator from Kentucky?
Ron Paul: Well, we’ve never talked about that at all. I mean, he’s very interested and his views and mine are pretty close. But he’s a pretty independent person and I’m sure he will continue. But I don’t think you can hand Rand off to anybody. I hope he continues to do what he is doing and I will probably be in or out of office or whatever because we believe that the principles of liberty are so important.
Host: You won a straw poll at the Republican leadership conference in New Orleans, you finished a close second in the Ames straw poll in Iowa, you’re raising money, may I, like the federal government, better than the federal government, perhaps at this point.
Ron Paul: We’re very solvent, I’ll tell you that. No debt in my campaigns.
Host: So how do you have an answer for people who say, “Yea, but he’ll never be President”?
Ron Paul: How do you know? I don’t know that for sure. Nobody knows what the future will bring, so I don’t worry about that. I’m running a race, I’m running hard and I know where the finish line is and we’ll see what happens.
Host: Republican presidential candidate, Congressman from Texas, Ron Paul, speaking with us from Clute, Texas. Thanks so much, sir.
Ron Paul: Thank you.
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Be sure you register as a REPUB. There are about 20 states where U cant vote Ron Paul in the critical primary if you are a registered Dem. SO many loopholes by state with this – I know Ron Paul has many young voters /party crossover supporters who may not know this . Let’s not get cheated out of our votes and let’s not allow Ron Paul to be cheated out of the election . U can always change back after he wins if U want . Pass it on .
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Veritas odium parit
Truth begets anger and denial!
Ron: they cannot stand the TRUTH!
Remember Jeremiah Wright.
(More Wright than wrong!)
Clinton said she would have walked out…
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Ron Paul 2012!
Lets all consider donating to his campaign on Sept. 17th for the constitution day money bomb. Lets all join together and get him the funds necessary to win this thing and BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!!!
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Ron Paul 2012!
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I challenge everyone reading to talk to someone elderly about Ron Paul. They, unfortunately, don’t have the knowledge or access to real news via YouTube and they sadly think their only choices are Perry and Romney. We all know the elderly take their voting rights seriously so please step out of the box and stop being politically correct and start changing the world TODAY!
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3 dislikes from Fox news viewers because there are no “moving pictures”.
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RP is the only honest politician I’ve heard since Truman and JFK. He truely loves this country and doesn’t want us enslaved by the UN’s One Worle Government and that is exactically what Obumer is doing. He is a pawn, nothing more. He is being directed by the most powerful people in the world.
If you think he’s just another stupid dumbocrat guess again…………..
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Plz go to MSN(dot)com and scroll down and vote for Ron Paul…
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2012 is for Real Change…2012 for History…2012 for Us…2012 for Ron Paul…
1. Rick Perry – 51,090 votes
2. Mitt Romney – 36,905 votes
3. Ron Paul – 29,146 votes
4. Michele Bachmann – 10,190 votes
“Thumbs Up” so that everybody can see this and vote for Ron Paul…
Let Media know that Ron Paul Deserves more Attention…
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Go to “Rick Perry” Channel (governorrickperry — Subscriber 369) = He doesn’t even have the balls to give readers/viewers the option to Comment or Like/Dislike.
Go to “Mitt Romney” Channel (MittRomney – Subscriber 1,386) = seems “Dislike Button” is most popular option.
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If you want to learn about the FED, how it works and what Ron Paul plans to do about it, Visit my channel. There is also an online petition to “Abolish The Federal Reserve Act of 1913.” Learn how you can get your signature on this petition and help us destroy the dept cycle thats plaguing America.
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Ron Paul will make a great POTUS!
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OMG…Google firstread msnbc debate poll, vote…..btw, RP is in #1place by 2 1/2 times the 2nd place candidate in tonights 9/7 GOP Debate. The U.S. is waking up, i knew it would.
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OMG…Google firstread msnbc debate poll, vote…..btw, RP is in #1place by 2 1/2 times the 2nd place candidate in tonights 9/7 GOP Debate. The U.S. is waking up, i knew it would.
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People saying Ron Paul is NWO are out of there minds
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RON PAUL IS A DUMBFUCK. He will destroy all public programs, like social security, FEMA, all disaster relief, minimum wage, workers’ rights, union rights, and so on. RON PAUL WILL DESTROY AMERICA. If you want AMERICA to look like CHINA, then vote for RON PAUL. He wants to deregulate the EPA, he wants to deregulate the banks, he wants to deregulate wall street, and he wants to do away with income tax (so you, the citizen pay for 100% and corporations and the RICH pay 0% for roads, and such).
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WOW, I think you, electronicoffee, might be drinking way to much coffee or perhaps something even stronger. It’s obvious you don’t have a clue of what you are talking about. In my opinion, the only thing more dangerous to the future of this country than are extremely biased news media are the people how are so naive as to believe the slanted crap that they are putting out. If you even knew 1% of what you thought you know you wouldn’t be spouting out these ridiculous comments. Spend a little time doing some research and I don’t mean sitting in front of the TV and letting some biased news channel tell you what to think. Go to the candidates web sites and actual read what they have to say. Sometimes the 10 second sound bite just doesn’t give all the information you need to make up your mind.
After you have done the research let me know what you think then!
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This man could be the last chance for Americans to avoid disaster.
When was the last time you saw or heard a more honest politician
? The only one i can remember was assassinated in Dallas on 22nd November 1963. He dared to speak the truth.
But it needs more than a change in government to avert the imminent collapse of the dollar, freedom, free speech, etc.
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This man could be the last chance for Americans to avoid disaster.
When was the last time you saw or heard a more honest politician
? The only one i can remember was assassinated in Dallas on 22nd November 1963. He dared to speak the truth.
But it needs more than a change in government to avert the imminent collapse of the dollar, freedom, free speech, etc.
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Buddy Roemer and Ron Paul for 2012
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I only wish when NPR interviews Rick Perry they end it with the question “Some people think that working for Al Gore and forcing inoculation by the executive order make you a RINO. How would you answer to them?”
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Better yet,ask Perry about his support of the Nafta Superhighway.
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Yes, can I help you??
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1 – Google Ron Paul in 60 minutes petition
2 - Petition - CBS News 60 minutes - Get Ron Paul go to change.org
3 - sign the petition
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Ok look you can’t tax the rich enough to pay for all the services that the poor people use. So the government prints more money to cover what they don’t have “hey why not tax em more then?” well if you tax them at 100 percent I still don’t think it would cover the cost, so what to do? print more money to cover what you don’t have and by default you lower the value of the dollar. Now how is this bad? well when bread costs 10 bucks everyone is fucked.
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Ok look you can’t tax the rich enough to pay for all the services that the poor people use. So the government prints more money to cover what they don’t have “hey why not tax em more then?” well if you tax them at 100 percent I still don’t think it would cover the cost, so what to do? print more money to cover what you don’t have and by default you lower the value of the dollar. Now how is this bad? well when bread costs 10 bucks everyone is fucked.
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LOL–kewlio–my truck driving bro is a Texan as well and proudly so–lol! As for me I was kinda like George Carlin in that I rarely voted if I didn’t think either candidate was worth it–LOL!!! That said, I tended to lean more left than right , albeit conservatively. This time my friend, you will see me going to the polls for the first time in years to happily cast my vote–even if he doesn’t win I would so feel it was worth it…but you are right–I think he can win it!
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Whatt??
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That’s the thing. We ALL need to get past this: “Ron Paul cannot win”, thing. We need to work to get his message out there, in the forefront, to make SURE that those (generally) who only vote for the name they know, best, WILL vote him in,
The very worst future this country COULD have would be if Perry were (s)elected over anyone else (well, maybe Obama is as bad). We need someone like Paul and we need to ALL stick to our guns and NOT vote for whomever else seems popular!
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