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John Stossel: Tonight, we explode a few myths about elections and natural disasters. Here’s the first: I’m told that Hurricane Sandy is proof that we need a powerful federal government, namely FEMA, which provides emergency management. This just makes sense to people: we have a big disaster across state lines, who but the feds can help. Just like New York Times declared, week, “A big storm requires big government”. Very few politicians are skeptical about that, so it’s a relief to turn to former presidential candidate, Ron Paul. Dr. Paul, you say it’s a myth that we need FEMA?
Ron Paul: I certainly think so, because it causes more harm than good. We’ve handled floods and disasters for 204 years before we had FEMA, and the states and the volunteers and the local communities did quite well. I’ve taken this position for a long time, it’s not just recently. I’ve taken it since I was first in office, and I kept getting re-elected, because people in my district got tired of FEMA. All they had was headaches, they got locked into their insurance and it’s a bureaucracy and I’ve tried to help them get through the bureaucracy. But they just come in and take over.
John Stossel: But it’s a big problem, it crosses state lines, the Feds have to have some role?
Ron Paul: No, they don’t have to. What we should have is a real insurance. The problem is, the insurance program causes many of the problems, because they say, “Well, you have to have insurance”. The market won’t sell insurance to you, and that’s telling you that it’s too dangerous. So rich people get insurance subsidized by poor people, and they go and build on beaches and they have a good time and their houses get washed away and the poor people pay to rebuild their houses.
John Stossel: It was interesting that this week, before the storm hit, the President held a press conference, not at FEMA’s offices, but at the Red Cross. Here’s a clip:
Barack Obama: The reason we’re here is because the Red Cross knows what it’s doing when it comes to emergency responses.
John Stossel: So what’s he saying there, the Red Cross, not FEMA, knows what it’s doing, and FEMA doesn’t? Sounds like he’s admitting it.
Ron Paul: Yea, that was good politics, but, unfortunately, from my experience here in my district, the Red Cross and others were inhabited by FEMA. They would come in and stop it. Think of the difference between how evacuation occurred in New York after 9/11, all the volunteers shipped boats and things, thousands of people there were evacuated. And the opposite happened in Katrina, because FEMA got in and had control. But this giving up on individuals helping neighbors and local government doing things is a serious problem and it’s one of the reasons why we’re totally bankrupt. Because all this money that’s going to go out here in the next few months because of this storm … there is no money in the bank and there’s really no money in FEMA, the insurance is broke. So they’re going to just borrow it and print it and make our problems worse. They’ll take and centralize the power, the power will be in Washington DC, and it’s bureaucratic and it’s very inefficient.
John Stossel: Well, thank you, Dr. Paul, and thank you for all you’ve done to wake people up.
Ron Paul: Thank you, John.
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Obama 2016.
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Ron Paul is a sellout….please
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what are you talkiing about the bozo got re-elected
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what are you talkiing about the bozo got re-elected
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Thank the gods he has been effectively kicked to the curb. THe man is a menace
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The ARC didn’t help then and they don’t help now. It was the the People helping the People that Saved my Mothers Family!
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Back in the mid 50s there was a flood that washed out my Mother house, when she was a child. Her father contacted the ARC for help. All they was given was a few mattresses that she said was used and full of bed bugs. What saved there asses was the fact that her father was a fisherman and sale fish to the “Black Bars” in KC. These Bar owner got the word and and bunch of African-American drove down with clothes and the likes to help a White Family. Even threw a party to Raise Money For them.
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sadly he is always gonna be pushed out by our own government … He would be the only man to run this country like it should be and give us morals and a true standing for government !!!!!! like our fours fathers did….. We need a leader like Ron Paul and now they are coming to lock me in a FEMA camp for saying that ….. and also thinking of putting me on the red list!!!!!!
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Interesting. So rich people should live in high risk areas on their own accord. Insurance companies should pay up. But if you dont have a federal organization with the man power and equipment who does the search and rescue and provide food clothing and shelter for those who are suffering from the storms? It may be inefficient but instead of getting rid of it how do we make it more efficient? Can it be?
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thats right they weasel out of most of it its the evil pukes who let our courts spend trillion on shit and lawyers suck a trillion out of economy , when that money could of made homes storm proof. this is what they mean by evil people wille drag usa down , the five biggest crimanl in usa courts and lawyers and medical field and manufactoring field and hollywood puke of mindess entertainment . unesecessay wars and bankers and the illegals who suck half a trillion out of usa
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ron paul 2016
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i like how all the democunts say they support the ma and pa business and then drive right by the ma and pa busines and go into a chain store
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If you like austrian economics… LIKE THIS COMENT
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And that’s why I followed with the rest of the country jumps in and donates.
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Hope he will be gracious enough to run for us again. I’ve read his books and I’ve done the research. He is for real.
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I’ll be able to Vote 2016 Be shure i’ll vote for him!!
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“insurance pays for all the damage done…”
No, it doesn’t.
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Very few, Micheal Moore points out a few in “Capitalism, A Love Story” and there’s two popular ones close to where I live. I really can’t say if a democratic workplace is effective at production because I have never worked in one, nor, I have never been in a “socialist” viewed country for any length of time. My definition mainly targets money expansion. It can only grow with the population and new materials to exploit. 7 billion people is too many for a monetary system(s) to work.
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Your definition is too vague, and can be applied to almost any economic system.
Socialism is control of the means of production by the workers. This is most certainly not the case in the United States. What company can you work for that allows its workers to direct the company’s practices, rather than dictating it to a few higher-ups?
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Red Cross is a wicked McKinsey & Company program. Don’t trust em.
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Please quote where I mentioned anything about Ron Paul. You can’t. Because I didn’t. Perhaps if you take a course in reading comprehension, you will realize I hold contempt for the whole ugly system. My critique was non-partisan. But maybe I’m still using too big of words for you to understand.
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If you bought a house close to any source of water, or below sea level, or in an area prone to severe weather or earthquakes, without proper insurance; you’re a moron.
It’s that simple. The government should not be protecting and subsidizing morons with the taxpayers of intelligent, hard working individuals.
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so…..all the countries in the world who don’t have their own FEMA….
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dat nigga gone die NIGGA!
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YEAH RIGHT
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Can you run for president how many times you want?
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Socialism – a monetary system that a country uses to operate trade. The purpose is exactly the same in communism, capitalism, and fascism. I honestly feel we are broke because there is no more expansion room for a monetary system, a natural resource based ecomony, IMO, is the correct alternative.
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In 2001, Red Cross advertised to get multiple millions of dollars in donations for victims of 9/11. Then, Red Cross gave only $3000 each to families of victims of 9/11.
Where did the rest of the money go? It went straight into the pockets of the people who ran Red Cross franchise operations. There is no law that requires Red Cross franchises to forward donations to disaster victims. As a result, little money, if any, makes its way to victims.
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bullshit paul is right
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bullshit paul is right
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Occupy Sandy>FEMA
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Look at about any devastating disaster. Insurance pays for all the damage done, then the rest of the country jumps in and donates, regardless of the state of the economy. The only purpose the Government serves, is to control the masses. And the Red Cross, really? Their reputation for money squandering 60% of every dollar goes to administrative costs. Don’t think for a second that the higher ups of ARC aren’t being paid huge salaries. F’ the red cross!
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Define ‘socialism’.
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Ron Paul 2016
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Ron Paul 2016
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