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Neil Cavuto: Look, they might ultimately do a good job, but we thought it was a little early to do the back-slapping when a lot of their constituents were doing the finger-raising. On the phone with us now is Texas Congressman, Ron Paul. Congressman, I had your colleague from Pennsylvania saying, “Give FEMA another 14 million dollars right now even if you have to go into debt to pay for it”. What say you?
Ron Paul: I think that’s a bad idea. When is it going to stop, where is the limit? And, evidently, there are no limits, they’re already 18 million dollars in debt, and they’ll spend another 14 million dollars for a program that causes people to do dumb things. I mean, this is why people build on the beaches and on the coasts, because the market doesn’t provide insurance for them, but the government does. So people who don’t get to build nice houses on the beach, have to pay for the rebuilding of it. It’s a terrible program, and I’ve had this position for a long time, and I get many, many times more calls complaining about FEMA than I ever get complaining about my position on FEMA. So it’s never hurt me politically and the people aren’t even with this. But I have to say, though, that when the trouble hits, we have this program and I try to make these things work, but, quite frankly, they can’t work. They’re just going to help drive us into bankruptcy and all this will have to end.
Neil Cavuto: You know, – I know you risk it, and I admire you for that – you always look cruel when you say no to FEMA because you know a thing or two about FEMA’s track record. And, even now, I’m worried for people on the scene and folks in Stanton Island, New York beleaguered borough over there where they keep saying, “Help is on the way, help is on the way”. FEMA’s there, but water bottles aren’t there, basic creature comforts aren’t there, the basic supplies they needed were delayed. And if it weren’t for private funding efforts and the likes of Wal-Mart getting involved, as much as that retailer did after Katrina, there would be no help there. But now we’re getting word, Congressman, from FEMA administrator, Craig Fugate, that, “More than 210 million dollars has been approved for individuals to assist with housing and other disaster related needs”. The problem with that money seems to be that it’s not immediately dispersed, you can approve it, but it doesn’t mean it gets into the hands of those affected right away, it could be weeks or month, right?
Ron Paul: Yes, and that’s when their congressman will be called and that’s when we will get our calls and people would beg and plead. They’d been told that they paid their flood insurance, so they ask when are they going to get the relief. And it’s very, very difficult, it’s bureaucratic, it’s very, very slow, it’s very inefficient. And, you know, when the private companies have insurance, I think they do get the checks to the people much, much quicker. But FEMA is an obstacle, it gets in the way of local authority. For the first 200 years of our history, the federal government was never involved in natural disasters. And after Katrina, you think the people and the government and the politicians would wake up and say, “Maybe this isn’t the best way to do things”. But no, it continues in the same way, we never change our way. And none of this is going to end until we declare our bankruptcy and admit that we don’t have any money. And the congressman that casually said “14 billion dollars is no big deal”, well, where does he think it comes from, it comes from poor people. Because, if you borrow it, they’re indebted; if you don’t borrow it and you print it, they get the inflation, or you get the business cycle and they end up without their jobs. And they think it’s for free? They have to wake up and see that everything costs something, every time the government spends money, it is a cost and a tax and it comes back and, unfortunately, it hits the middle class more than anybody else, especially the low/middle income class who try to survive. They suffer the most with all these programs, even with this pretence that they’re going to take care of us forever.
Neil Cavuto: Well, you know, you always look cruel if you oppose it, but then you just say the track-record is such … it’s like these telephones and everything they do. You know their heart’s always in the right place, but if Haiti got a fraction of the money that was pledged to it after the earthquakes and disasters, it would look like Atlantis right now.
Ron Paul: That’s right. And it’s the same thing over and over again.
Ron Paul: Yes, yes, we got to think through this, folks, we got to think through this. Ron Paul, always a pleasure, sir, thank you.
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fema needs to go not health care
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Those grave/coffin liners we’ve heard about are not what you think they are. They are too big to fit into a coffin and too small to put a coffin into. They are body dumpsters for FEMA Crematoriums- US Patent #5,425,163. watch?v=1g1y_F2IA2w&feature=related
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Grammar* lol.
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Ron Paul is the best and most credible thing that has ever been on Fox News…
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“forgotten” makes no sense still. what do you mean by that if you support Ron Paul?
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“forgotten” makes no sense still. what do you mean by that if you support Ron Paul?
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“forgotten” makes no sense still. what do you mean by that if you support Ron Paul?
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Same thing I was thinking LOL.. Because the ending of his comment was “Dr. Paul is the man America needs but doesn’t deserve”.. Totally confused me as well haha
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ha yeah you are right, I have poor grammer. It should be *forgotten*
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Read it again. you said “forgot” – that doesnt make sense.
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Read it again. you said “forgot” – that doesnt make sense.
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Read it again. you said “forgot” – that doesnt make sense.
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FEMA is in place as a mass government control not to help people.
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“Ron Paul has forgot more about economics, foreign policy, and internal affairs than GaryJohnson will ever know.” – HUH? That makes no sense – and why are people giving this thumbs up?
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“Ron Paul has forgot more about economics, foreign policy, and internal affairs than GaryJohnson will ever know.” – HUH? That makes no sense – and why are people giving this thumbs up?
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“Ron Paul has forgot more about economics, foreign policy, and internal affairs than GaryJohnson will ever know.” – HUH? That makes no sense – and why are people giving this thumbs up?
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Ron Paul schools Barack Hussein:
“If you don’t know the Constitution (the one you swore to protect) you shouldn’t be in Office.”
10 minute video — spread it like wildfire!
(also, note how without a teleprompter Lil’ Hussein can’t put two words together without mumbling, bumbling and stumbling)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjt36Txzao&feature=related
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Principles we must stand by!
“A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have….” Thomas Jefferson
“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.” C. WRIGHT MILLS
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.” DOROTHY THOMPSON
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.”—Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” EDMUND BURKE
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN
“We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.” — Written in a letter by then former President Theodore Roosevelt on January 3, 1919 to the president of the American Defense Society.
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