Montel Williams: Representative of 14th District of Texas, south and southwest of Houston, including Hurricane-ravaged city of Galveston. He is a medical doctor. He has delivered over 4,000 babies. He ran for president and has a very, very strong base of support. As a matter of fact, on the December 16th, I think it was on 2007, raised $6 million in support of his presidential campaign and we should remember that the original tea party was on December 16th, 1773.
Ron Paul has made statements; he believes that rights belong to individuals, not groups. Properties should be owned by people, not government. All volunteer associations should be permissible, economic and social.
President Obama: I know there is a criticism out there that my administration has been spending with reckless abandon, pushing a liberal social agenda while mortgaging our children’s future. The worst thing that we could do in a recession is to try to cut government spending at the same time as families and business around the world are cutting back on their spending.
News Anchor: President Obama spoke to his critics directly earlier today saying the last thing the government should be doing during a recession is cutting back on spending and one of the critics of the president has been Republican Congressman Ron Paul. He joins us now live on the phone from Jackson, Texas. Thank you so much for joining us, sir.
Ron Paul: Thank you, good to be with you.
News Anchor: Let me get your thoughts on what you heard today from the president saying that they got a plan, they have seen some success, but are not out of the woods yet.
Ron Paul: Boy, that’s for sure. I think that we haven’t even come close to having a policy that might get us out of the woods because we’re doing exactly what got us into the problem; we’re spending more, regulating more, having new programs, printing more money and they’re trying to re-inflate the bubble. And it’s the bubble that was the problem in the first place. And he assured us today that he is never going to let this happen again, never have another bubble and everything he said today, he was pushing, you know, inflating the financial bubble. He even talked about how fractional reserve banking contributes to the bubble. So, I don’t think people can be very hopeful that this is going to solve our problem. Continue reading “Ron Paul on Obama’s New Bubble”
News Anchor: …eventually went to John McCain, and Congressman Paul is on the line with us. Congressman, thanks for your time, we appreciate it.
Ron Paul: Thank you, good to be with you.
News Anchor: Hey congressman, do you give the president’s policies credit for thawing markets and auto sales and student loans? What do you think about what the president said in his speech?
Ron Paul: Well, I don’t think a whole lot of it. I think we had a new deal and a fair deal, but I think this is going to be a bad deal and not help at all. But I don’t blame him for the problems, I blame him for the prolongation of this, because he was very explicit by saying that government shouldn’t cut back on spending. He wants to massively increase the spending. And therefore, he is going to prolong it.
But this was a long time in building. This took 25-30 years to build the bubble. And everything he talks about is re-inflating the bubble and buying up bad assets and then later on we’ll deal with discipline. But he had mentioned that individuals don’t want to spend money because they’re doing the correct thing. They’re cutting back, they’re saving. That’s what an individual is supposed to do. Continue reading “Barack Obama, Inflation and Economic Fascism”
Ron Paul: Hello, kids. How are you doing there. [...]
This is what established our government and this is what we in the Congress, anybody who works for the government and when you get to go in the military, you swear to uphold the Constitution. But my concern is that a lot of people don’t take that seriously. Otherwise, the size of government would be this big.
But today, when we have a piece of legislation, you know, a law that comes up that we have to vote on in the House, the law, the book might be that big. Thousands and thousands of pages, we don’t have time to read it and when you read it, it’s very complicated. Sometimes it comes up and you have to vote on it within an hour or two. [...]
You, as you get older and become voters, you’re going to find out that our government doesn’t follow the rules very well and I’m sure you have some rules in this school, and you have to follow the rules.
This is a rule book and the people in Washington don’t follow those rules very well.
Source: Campaign for Liberty Recorded on: April 12, 2009
Today the American people heard the good news that the American ship captain who was being held hostage by the pirates in the Indian Ocean off the shores of Somalia was released and this is very good that his life was spared. But it does raise some questions on exactly what’s going on in that region and if we’re to solve this problem, we ought to try to understand exactly what is happening.
This is not an isolated incident. As a matter of fact, the piracy has been going on for a good many years, more than a decade, and it mainly started over in Indonesia and Malaysia, but now it’s moved over into the Indian Ocean and near the vital oil routes into the Persian Gulf.
But we, as Americans, should know exactly our involvement in Somalia. Most people do, at least, I hope most people do remember the foolish attempt when Clinton went into Somalia in the early 1990s and a fiasco resulted. We got involved in a civil war there and supported one faction and several of our helicopters went down and a dozen or so of our people were killed, but we left.
But we didn’t get uninvolved in the region. Under George Bush, we actually stayed involved in a very deliberate fashion by hiring out the Ethiopians to go in and act as our proxy army to go in and invade and try to set up a government friendly toward us. That hasn’t been successful either and there is civil strife. There’s a civil war going on and this is ripe for those who want to radicalize the Islamic religion and take advantage of it, and they have. So there’s civil strife over there. Continue reading “Ron Paul: Allow Ships To Defend Themselves Against Pirates”
Ron Paul will be in Winston-Salem, North Carolina as the guest of honor at an early morning breakfast fundraising event on Tuesday, April 21st. The event will be held at the Graylyn International Center, 1900 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem.
Tickets are $200 each and there will be no more than 30 individuals at the event.
In his latest column, Ron Paul talks about Tax Freedom Day, a hypothetical holiday which is “celebrated” today, April 13, and symbolizes the fact that Americans are slaving away 3.5 months, or 28.2% of this year to fulfill the government’s voracious appetite for confiscatory taxes, corrupt bailouts and wasteful stimulus efforts. Ron Paul wants to abolish the income tax and replace it with nothing, and until that dream becomes a political reality, he fights for every tax cut and tax credit possible.
Fewer Taxes for Real Economic Stimulus
by Ron Paul
Taxes are the issue this week as Americans struggle to make the April 15th deadline to file their returns. It is a good time to contemplate the effects of big government and what it does to our country. The income tax is one of the most egregious encroachments on our liberties today. It is a form of involuntary servitude, which was supposed to have been outlawed by the 13th Amendment.
Tax Freedom Day is defined as the day when the nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to fund its annual federal tax burden. For all of the days of the year before this day, you are a slave to government. For 2009, Tax Freedom Day will come on April 13th. Almost a century ago in 1910, before the mistakes of 1913-namely the inception of the Federal Reserve and our current income tax, Tax Freedom Day was January 19th, signifying a mere 5% tax burden. Somehow, our country functioned just fine.
If calculated to include government spending and the deficit, rather than just collections, Tax Freedom Day would actually fall on May 29. The annual deficit adds to the growing debt of future generations and adds insult to injury to those that struggle to make this economy work. It is a slap in the face that this is not enough to prevent this crushing governmental burden from falling on the next generation.
For months now, Washington has been desperately throwing taxpayers’ money at various programs to stimulate us out of the recession, to no avail. Seeing hard-earned money confiscated from the people and spent in such wasteful ways, such as the recent bailouts, is almost too much to bear. Getting rid of the income tax altogether, while very beneficial, may be a while in coming. In the meantime, I am fighting for every tax cut or tax credit possible.
I can think of no better economic stimulus than letting people keep their money and spend it how they see fit. For this reason, I am an original cosponsor on a bill that would give Americans a two month employment and income tax holiday, while taking unused TARP money back from the Secretary of the Treasury and putting it in the Social Security trust fund instead.
In addition, I have recently introduced the Child Health Care Affordability Act. If passed this legislation would provide parents with a tax credit of up to $500 for health care expenses of dependent children. I have also re-introduced the Tax Free Tips Act, which would make tips exempt from federal income and payroll taxes. I am also an original cosponsor of a bill that would make permanent the deduction of state and local sales taxes. My bill HR 162 exempts Social Security benefits from income tax.
These are just a few of the many tax related bills I am fighting for in Congress, but without a corresponding cut in the size of government, which I am also fighting for, we are simply adding to the future tax burden of our children.
McKenna: All right. Well, we’ve got Congressman Ron Paul on the phone. Hello?
Ron Paul: Hello.
McKenna: How are you?
DanK: The one and only.
Ron Paul: I’m just fine.
McKenna: Okay, we’re very excited to have you on this evening.
Stoner Circle: Yes, indeed.
McKenna: Thank you so much.
DanK: Yes.
Stoner Circle: Thank you very much. You’re really outspoken about your opposition to the drug war and that’s one of the reasons we’re really pining to get you on.
Ron Paul: Well, good.
Stoner Circle: And do you think we’ll see an end to the drug war in our lifetime?
Ron Paul: You know, it’s funny I’m such a pessimist and cynic about government, but for many years, I’ve always said that, you know, someday the country will wake up and discover that Prohibition isn’t really a good idea, and we’re going to take a different attitude and it’s just going to be like overnight it’s going to happen. And I almost sense that we’re getting closer to that period of time. I might be overly optimistic about that, but that is essentially what happened, you know, in the 20s, in the late 20s, and then in 1932 in the presidential election that, I think, the Democrats came out first to say, “Hey, let’s repeal Prohibition”, you know, with alcohol because of all the side effects that Prohibition brought.
And then the Republicans joined in and it was just assumed, you know, we had enough and maybe they will come about it. It’s a little more difficult this time because it wasn’t quite so dramatic.
The only thing I marveled about was when they tried to do it with alcohol, they had enough respect for our Constitution that they actually amended the Constitution. They don’t do that any more. They just march on and they pass all these laws and make these decisions, so it’s not so easy and there’s so little respect for, you know, the rule of law that it has to change people’s attitude.
But I think it’s shifting. I think the fact that… I’ve spoken out on this for many, many years and it was always thought by my opponents that any idiot, that would be against the war on drugs, could never be elected to Congress. Continue reading “Ron Paul on Marijuana Radio”
This Wednesday, Campaign for Liberty Director of Development Steve Bierfeldt joined Peter Schiff, Daniel Hannan, Lew Rockwell, Michael German and Michelle Muccio on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s online show “Freedom Watch”. The primary topic of discussion was Steve Bierfeldt’s courageous defiance of police state and intimidation tactics he was subjected to during his brief detention by the TSA after the Campaign for Liberty’s recent conference in St. Louis.
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