Ron Paul easily won re-election to the House today. According to early reports Paul gained 76.6% of the vote, delivering a crushing defeat to Democrat Robert Pruett (23.4%). Ron Paul represents Texas’s 14th district and will be serving his 12th term in Congress.
In Kentucky, Ron Paul’s son Rand Paul was elected to the U.S. Senate with 55.9% of the vote.
Ron Paul’s family and supporters celebrated Ron Paul’s reelection to the House and Rand Paul’s Senate race victory at the Lake Jackson Civic Center in Lake Jackson, Texas on November 2, 2010.
Date: 11/02/2010
00:30 – Mark Elam (Ron Paul’s Campaign Manager)
04:05 – Ronnie Paul (Ron Paul’s oldest son)
07:40 – Carol Paul (Ron Paul’s wife)
09:14 – Ron Paul
15:55 – Rand Paul (live from Kentucky)
23:33 – Ron Paul
51:55 – Mark Elam
Thanks to George Butler and http://www.liveonlocation.tv/
Saudi Arms Deal is About Iran
by Ron Paul
This month the US Administration notified Congress that it intends to complete one of the largest arms sales in US history to one of the most repressive regimes on earth. Saudi Arabia has been given the green light by the administration to spend $60 billion on some 84 new F-15 aircraft, dozens of the latest helicopters, and other missiles, bombs, and high-tech military products from the US weapons industry.
Saudi Arabia, from where 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers came, is a family-run dictatorship, where there are no political parties, no independent press, and where any form of political dissent is met with the most severe punishment. We are told that we must occupy Afghanistan to encourage more rights for women, an issue on which the Saudi regime makes the Taliban look rather liberal by comparison. We are told that our increasingly aggressive policies toward Iran are justified by that country’s rigid Islamic laws and human-rights violations, while the even more repressive Islamic rule in Saudi Arabia is never mentioned.
So why would the US government, which spends hundreds of billions of dollars yearly and maintains hundreds of bases overseas to push global democracy, approve a deal like this with such a regime? As Stockholm Institute scholar Pieter Wezeman told the Washington Post, “Of course it’s against Iran. Of course it’s against Yemen. You can read between the lines … but there are not any official statements about it.” Although the deal must be approved by Congress, there is little chance of any significant Congressional opposition for the above reason.
Imagine if China had armed an aggressive, anti-American Mexico to the teeth. How would we feel? Threatened? That is likely how Iran feels with this massive arms sale to Saudi Arabia. To underscore this message, the US quietly announced early this month that it was selling 20 F-35 Stealth fighters to Israel. As Israeli military purchases are paid for with US foreign aid, we must realize that the weapons pointed at Iran in the Middle East are American made and largely paid for with American tax dollars. Certainly Iran understands this. Will such a provocative move, arming two anti-Iranian powers in the region to the teeth, lead to a trigger event to bring about a full invasion of Iran? The economic tsunami that would result from such a horrific turn of events would only be eclipsed by the death and destruction in the region — and likely beyond.
Some will argue that these arms deals are international trade which we should encourage and applaud. Sadly, the United States does not build much that we can export these days. But the fact is that the US weapons industry is underwritten by the American taxpayer. From research and development to acquisition by the US military, the costs of the US arms industry are borne by American citizens. But, as so-called “private” companies, the enormous profits they make selling weapons to countries like Saudi Arabia are of course privatized. So the costs are socialized and the profits are privatized. There is a word for this arrangement and it is not “capitalism.”
Ron Paul at Indiana University Bloomington
Date: 10/25/2010
YALatIU.com – YALatIU on YouTube – Yaliberty.org – Mark Scibilia
Thanks to Kevin Winkler
Marc Scibilia: “The Freedom sound rings past politics and all its empty words.
Can’t be put down, the broken bell will be heard.
Would you listen to a poet, or a prophet
journal all this world’s injustice? Or try to stop it?
Can you feel the comin’ change?
Though hell is here today,
Hope is on its way.”
Jeff Frazee: Young Americans for Liberty is the continuation of Students for Ron Paul. We started during the presidential campaign and since then have formed over 150 active informing chapters on college campuses. Our mission is to advance the ideas of life, liberty, and property. Indiana University is one of the most active chapters we have. They are really a bunch of rock stars and in fact, I’d like to recognize a few of them.
If you’re a member here at Indiana University of the YAL chapter, please stand up. I know you guys are right here in the front. These guys and gals have participated in every national event we have held since the beginning. They have won numerous awards from the organization and I want to start this evening by introducing the president of the chapter, Sam Spaiser.
Sam, along with his members, have collected over 1,600 signatures to bring Congressman Paul here tonight and we are honored to have him here. Sam is a major in Evolutionary Perspective on Human Diet. He’s the president of the chapter here in Indiana University and he graduates here in May. Without further ado, I want to introduce Sam Spaiser.
Sam Spaiser: Wow! This is incredible! Let’s give ourselves a hand! This is great that we could all come together! Wow.
Now, I just want to take a minute. Let’s look at the back page of the program. I don’t know if you guys all got the program here, but we have a lot of great sponsors. We have a lot of support from the businesses in the community and we’re just so thankful that they could come and help us and support us in this event. Let’s see here… Alright, if you look in your program also, there’s an art auction here. You saw some paintings displayed outside and those are actually going to be auctioned off at our after-party, which is at The Irish Lion, and that’s going to be right after this. So, hopefully we’ll see you there and you can pick up a really cool painting. I believe they’re signed by Dr. Paul.
You know, I made a speech in my Public Speaking class about two years ago. I think it was just around this time. Funny thing, it was actually introducing Dr. Paul. So, you know, the moral of the story is: you never know it’s going to happen, so you should really pursue your passion. I’m so honored to be able to introduce him tonight and I never thought that I would be on this stage and we have a packed house. I mean, this is absolutely incredible.
You know, there’s a lot of politicians out there, but Dr. Paul is unique in that he represents something that’s much greater than himself. He represents… He’s a messenger of ideas; ideas that are timeless. They were fresh 200 years ago. They’re fresh today and 200 years from now, they are still going to be fresh. Those ideas that get people really excited — why this house is filled. You know, I was lucky to be able to watch his ideas grow and spread through his campaign for presidency 2008, and beyond that. And it’s just… There are millions of people that love his message, and I’m just touched to be able to be a part of it and to be able to stand on this stage. I think it’s absolutely wonderful.
Something that he taught me is that you can legislate all you want, but it’s not laws that change people. It’s ideas that change people. Once they’re internalized by the individual, that’s when you get real change. It kind of goes back into the concept that politics reflects the will of the people and if the people demand smaller government… Well, you can’t guarantee that the politician is going to give you a smaller government, but at least they’ll run on that as their platform. And you can kind of see things starting to move that way, but you do have to be careful because you don’t know who’s actually genuine. So you have to look at their voting record and what not; it gets very complicated. Of course, Dr. Paul- you don’t have to worry about him.
Ron Paul addressed the Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law Government Law Society on returning to the Constitution, restraining government at home and abroad, and the need to embrace liberty to create a free society and bring about real change.
Date: 10/12/2010
Ron Paul: Thank you professor, thank you very much for that nice introduction and, thank you very much for the invitation here to come to the Thurgood Marshal Law School, this to me is a real honor and a challenge to talk about our difficult issues that we face today and it’s an exciting political year, a lot of people have been paying attention to politics this year, so it’s nice to come and visit, matter of fact, I have a hard time turning down invitations that I get to a college campus. Because I don’t know if anybody noticed in the last go around in the presidential race that we did generate a lot of enthusiasm with young people.
And that to me gave me a lot of hope because if I’m on the right track, if I’m really trying to get people to go in a certain direction, if it is the right thing to do, I mean you have to have the young people, if the next generation grows up and they still think “well let’s do it like it’s been done for the last 50 years.” And I think that’s been happening, there’s always been some who have been disgruntled and there’s always a dissent, and if you come from a conservative view you might say “well we heard about that with Goldwater then we heard about it with Reagan and then we heard about 1994 and then in 2000″ and…
Continue reading “Ron Paul at TSU: Let’s Bring About REAL Change!”
Date: 10/25/2010
Government and Job Creation
by Ron Paul
As the current economic downturn shows no signs of lifting, we hear quite a lot of rhetoric from current and potential office-holders about what government can and will do to create more jobs. This is especially disconcerting to those who understand that the best thing government can do for job creation is to simply get out of the way.
Jobs are properly created by businesses. Government-created jobs are either fueled by fiat money and manipulated market conditions or directly funded by taxes paid by businesses and individuals who then have less to hire people for real wealth creation. Government-created jobs destroy wealth and sap potential from the economy. The several stimulus bills passed by Congress have done much to expand government but not much to keep money in the hands of real job creators — the entrepreneurs.
Keynesian economists don’t see things this way. They see government spending as a stop gap measure that tides us over through rough economic patches. But is this really the case?
Far from it. The reality is instead of sustaining us until the economy can catch up, government spending perpetuates the problems the bureaucrats and the politicians created. Maintaining a high level of employment is one of the main objectives of the Federal Reserve, which is just one reason it is ill-conceived at its very core: it legitimizes economic intervention which is always destructive. When unemployment rises after the bust of a Fed-created bubble, you can be sure Congress will attempt to rescue the economy through various policies that will always prolong the agony and expand the downturn.
In the late 90′s, it was thought that encouraging home ownership would have a stimulative effect that would ripple throughout the rest of the economy and create jobs. Various government policies favorable to home ownership were enacted and the Fed kept interest rates artificially low so everyone would be able to buy a home, whether or not they could really afford it. For awhile, it worked. The housing boom increased demand for realtors, mortgage lenders, and construction workers. However, as reality sank in, not only are we back to where we were when the bubble began, but we are actually worse off. For example, not only have we lost all of the one million extra construction jobs the bubble created, but we lost another one million on top of that! So not only did the artificial wealth evaporate, but real wealth has been destroyed as well.
Even more sinister are jobs created by war. Recent reports highlight the increasing dependence on contractors to support our war efforts in Afghanistan. Massive corruption is endemic to these highly lucrative positions. Almost half of the contracting companies we use are Afghan owned and include such business models as recruiting away the very same Afghan police force we are training at great expense to the American taxpayer. Meanwhile we have pledged not to leave until the police force reaches a certain level. We also bribe many Afghans to simply not attack us. We are in a proverbial hole in Afghanistan. Our leaders need to just stop digging.
Neither a Keynesian big spending program, nor the military-industrial complex can create long-lasting employment or economic prosperity for our country. The only way to restore both peace and prosperity is to draw down our overseas commitments, along with unconstitutional spending at home and return to the founders’ vision of a limited republic that neither straddles the globe, nor micromanages the domestic economy.
Ronald Reagan: "Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."
Ron Paul is a proud Air Force veteran. He served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force from 1963 to 1965 and then in the U.S. Air National Guard from 1965 to 1968. During his military service Ron Paul spent time on the ground in Iran, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey, Ethiopia and other countries.
Ron Paul is very popular with the military. He receives more donations from active duty military personnel than all other Republican candidates combined.
Ron Paul has been married to his wife Carol Wells since 1957. They have five children: Ronald, Lori, Rand, Robert, and Joy. Paul's son Rand is the junior senator from the state of Kentucky.
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