There's much wrong with how America trades on its status in the world, says Ron Paul. He's got fixes.
Comment: Panama is set to double its traffic of ships through the Panama Canal by 2014, which will further erode US sovereignty since more and more East-West trade will go through "them" rather than us. We need to heed Dr. Paul's legislative attempts to regain sovereign control of the Panama Canal. As Paul tells us, Panama has only the population of Atlanta. They and the global bankers who support them should not be dictating so much of our future.
Comment: Great interview!
If you want to see the importance of US sovereignty and Constitutionalism, also examine Dr. Paul???s attempts to maintain American sovereignty over the Panama Canal in the 1970s, shown in his newsletter.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/freedomApril1978.pdf
When the US gave up sovereignty over the Canal to Panama, it helped empower, as he eloquently puts it, a ???two bit dictator??? with ties to Castro. Dr. Paul argues with great passion that a country as strong as America should not let little countries be the boss. After the Canal was given up, the globalist international bankers got a lot of payback, and now you can see the result. A war to get back the Canal failed in 1989, and young people don???t even remember it. That group of greedy bankers and small Marxist countries now threaten to take over the entire United States. Go figure. The great US once had sovereignty over other areas of the world as well, but now all is being lost, but that would not be the case if we had obeyed the wise advise of Dr. Paul 30 years ago.
Wilbur Klein
Comment: The fourth quarter FEC reports reveal that Congressman Paul has received more donations from the military than all other republican candidates combined.
Comment: The fourth quarter FEC reports reveal that Congressman Paul has received more donations from the military than all other republican candidates combined.
Comment: The fourth quarter FEC reports reveal that Congressman Paul has received more donations from the military than all other republican candidates combined.
Comment: According to a report released Tuesday by the National Taxpayers Union, Texas Congressman Ron Paul is the only remaining presidential candidate who proposes net spending cuts.
According to the report, Congressman Paul???s proposals would cut government spending by over $150 billion, a conservative estimate of the spending reductions Dr. Paul has proposed. The report concludes that the other remaining Republican candidates, Mitt Romney, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, have proposed spending increases of $19.5 billion, $6.9 billion and $54 billion respectively.
???It should come as no surprise that when you crunch the numbers Ron Paul is the only Republican who would actually shrink the size and cost of the federal government,??? said Ron Paul campaign economic advisor Don Luskin. ???Romney, McCain and Huckabee don???t hold a candle to Ron Paul ??? the only true fiscal conservative running for President.???
Comment: I wonder if any of the mainstream news outlets will report on the fact that Ron Paul was the top Republican fundraiser in the 4th quarter.
Comment: Sorry, I was addressing the video on Ron Paul on Romney, Huckabee
Comment: Very critical of both canidates? Who's asking the questions? At the end, Ron Paul tells him flat-out that he would like to be talking about his own views!
Comment: Why does it take Ron Paul to make America aware of the hole we have been falling deeper into...his views are simple and no one can name another person in the race that can see what is happening to America...GO RON PAUL...you have my vote!
Comment: How about the fact that RON PAUL just raised an ALL-TIME RECORD of $6 MILLIOIN DOLLARS IN ONE DAY!
All without even trying.
THE PEOPLE WANT RON PAUL!!!
Comment: I liked the featured video. Great interview.
Comment: What a shame the good ones are not elected!!
Comment: Dr. Paul, if elected, will immediately eliminate many of the Presidential Directives that have been enacted over the past several decades, especially PDD51. That, and the immediate drawdown of troops overseas are all I need to cast my vote for this man.
Comment: Problem is that he doesn't have a chance in hell of winning and even if he were to pull off that unlikely miracle, he doesn't stand a chance in hell of getting his policies through Congress. They are never going to agree to abolish the IRS or social security or any of the other ideas this man wants to implement. So exactly what good would it do us to elect him?
Comment: If Ron Paul got elected there would be enough pressure from the people who voted him in to pressure congress to go along. The only forces opposing Ron Paul are not the PEOPLE, but the INSTITUTIONS that have taken that power away FROM the people.
The people will take their power back! RON PAUL 2008!
Comment: Check out this new Ron Paul video!
www.aChangeIsGonnaCome.info
Comment: Check out the new Ron Paul video:
www.aChangeIsGonnaCome.info
Comment: Donna, half of my family are disabled. Dr. Paul knows that the people are expecting Social Security NOW are still going to need it and get it. He's talking about us 35 and younger who won't see any of it anyway. Sorry that you can't understand that. As far as taxes, he wants to get rid of the income tax which is illegal and unconstitutional in the first place. The only thing OUR income tax goes for is to pay the interest on the deficit. You need to study Dr. Paul, please.
Comment: Thanks Newsweek for the article. And thanks to Representative Paul for all he does for the United States.
Comment: Thanks Newsweek for the article. And thanks to Rep. Ron Paul for all he does for the United States.
Comment: donna, sorry you're disabled but that doesn't entitle you to confiscate other people's money. Sick people, poor people, disabled people, blind people, uneducated people, and ALL disadvantaged people can still make a living and get by on charity, work, and some government aid - but that doesn't give you the right to confiscate half of the nation's income at gunpoint.
Comment: i am disabled and anyboby that says will should abolish social security and doesn't believe in taxes needs his head examined....
Comment: The more I look at this guy, the closer I am to voting for him. Thought he was waaaayyy out there (and his followers even further out...) at first but then I started reading some of his positions and that he has held these positions for years. Don't know yet, but Congressman Paul is starting to sway me.
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Comment: Posted By: hoopes_az
"We can't have a President that is a propenent of civil disobedience[...]It's hared enough getting people to pay taxes[...]I can only imagine how complicated collecting taxes becomes when the President himself thinks there is some value to the argument[...]"
@ 12/11/2007 11:07:14 AM
What you apparently fail to recognize is that Ron Paul sees the current system as illegitimate, as antithetical to The Constitution, which he reveres -- the same constitution that was designed to restrain the government, not The People. According to your position, no one who opposes an outlaw agency is qualified for political office. On the contrary, I propose that ONLY those in opposition to this currently rogue government are qualified to take its reins.
"President Ron Paul." It has a ring to it. Let freedom ring!
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Comment: Green Party FTL!!!!!! Smoke another joint and do some more acid!!! lol!
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Comment: Re: tax resistors, he says, "In many ways it's heroic that people are willing to risk their freedom to defend what they think is freedom. It's just, I do not promote it and do not participate in it." I suppose I have a fundamental disagreement with his use of the word "promote". Calling it "heroic" is promoting it.
We can't have a President that is a propenent of civil disobedience, particularly as it relates to taxes. It's hared enough getting people to pay taxes as it stands. And, I can only imagine how complicated collecting taxes becomes when the President himself thinks there is some value to the argument that if you don't agree with how tax money is being spent, perhaps you should take the gamble and resist.
Poorly thought out position by Ron Paul IMO. He won't get my vote.
Comment: Would you also vote against the politicians that supported the civil disobedience during the Civil Rights Movement - something that was very un-popular is areas of the country, but was the right thing to do.
Comment: hoopes: You should know that not only is there no clear authority for having an income tax (actually quite the contrary, and the IRS codes states it is voluntary, but will send armed agents to your door if you do not "volunteer "your money), but, more importantly, income taxes do none of the things most Americans believe. They are not used for building highways (that is paid for by gasoline tax), they are not used to fund schools (that is paid by property tax), or to subsizie HMO's and Insurance monopolies (that is done by tabacco taxes etc.). All income tax (every last cent) is turned over to the international banks as payment for the debt on our own money. So all your income tax money is turned over to the owners of the Federal Reserve in exchange for letting us use their paper currency as a medium of exchange. Worst and most deceitful transaction of all time. Get rid of it. Vote Ron Paul. Do you really support a system where those who do nothing fleece everyone who actually works for a living?
Comment: one of the clearest, most articulate explanations about the income tax i have ever read. thank you. i will be voting for ron paul.
Comment: What about all of the politicians that supported the civil (ie non-viloent) disobedience during the civil rights movement? Would you say that they were also wrong to support a movement that at the time was very un-popular in some areas?
Comment: Posted By: hoopes_az
"We can't have a President that is a propenent of civil disobedience[...]It's hared enough getting people to pay taxes[...]I can only imagine how complicated collecting taxes becomes when the President himself thinks there is some value to the argument[...]"
@ 12/11/2007 11:07:14 AM
Actually, Paul's statement is completely consistent with his position of abolishing the IRS, as an outlaw agency. I would expect to see a President Paul turning not only a blind eye to Americans resisting the theft of their property by federal "authorities," but would also expect to see mass pardons for peaceful resisters, and for those wrongly imprisoned under current "laws" [William Blackstone himself said that "bad law is not law at all"]. The first step toward abolishing a rouge institution is to delegitimize it; toward that end, a Ron Paul presidency is the perfect 1st step.
Comment: Thanks for the article. Why don't your articles concerning Huckabee or Obama ask them if they will run as a 3rd party candidate? Ron Paul has many libertarian views, but he is a Republican candidate for president - your first paragraph may be misleading to some.
Comment: we can no longer AFFORD to fight wars abroad......Ron Paul has my vote as well...
Comment: Integrity, straight talk, an Economist, and the Champion of the Constitution. He's got my vote.
Comment: Straight shooter, does what he sayss, now that's leadership. He's got my vote
Comment: Integrity, straight talk, an Economist, and the Champion of the Constitution. He's got my vote.
Comment: I may not agree with everything Ron Paul says,but I think he would be the best candidate for president. I trust him,and he won't pander to special intererests.
Comment: Wild geese vs Sheep Continued.....
In the Miami debate, Ron Paul showed us he is the wildest of the wild geese. A few loud boo???s can???t knock him off course from his tried and true flight plan, the U.S. Constitution.
He will be as great a President as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln served only 1 term as a congressman before winning the Presidency. Paul has served 10 terms as a congressman.
I think he will be 10 times as great as Lincoln. He will have to be. Lincoln had one major issue, slavery. Paul has at least 10 major issues: national bankruptcy, overextended military, energy shortage, broken tax code, broken borders, crumbling infrastructure, sovereignty threat from North American Union schemers and the UN, restoration of civil liberties, an obese bureaucracy that has burst the limits of the Constituion, and failed foreign policy which has lost international good will.
I know he will have a lot of good help from We the People to pressure Congress and the Senate to solve these problems. Gridlock as usual from two flocks of sheep butting heads over who controls the national pasture won't be tolerated by the wild geese.
Comment: Baron, you wrote, "He will be as great a President as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln served only 1 term as a congressman before winning the Presidency. Paul has served 10 terms as a congressman."
So, he should be 10X as great as Lincoln? I tend to believe there is a negative correlation between terms in congress and effectiveness as President. Lincoln was somewhat of a failure as a politician before becoming president. I tend to believe that Ron Paul is 10X less likely to be as good of a President as Lincoln was.
Comment: I also have a hard time believing Ron Paul would be a great president. However, how could anyone be as bad as Lincoln? He made war against his own countrimen based on unconstitutional pricipals. Lincolns presidency was directly related to the beginning of the civil war as he was seen as a hard liner who would never recognise the legitimate soverign rights of the states. The Union victory in the civil war ensured that a bloated out of control federal government would develope. Todays social security system is based on the "veterans penshion system" that developed after the war and allowed generations to live off the hard work of others due to claims as decendants of Civil War Vets (of course this was only offered to Union Vets, southern vets were deprived of their land and property w/o compensation and stripped of voting rights,thanks Abe). If Ron Paul were by some miracle elected he would actually be undoing the devilish work that Lincoln began.
Comment: The 2008 election isn't about Democrat versus Republican.
It is really a contest between sheep and wild geese.
Both sheep and wild geese like to dine on green grass.
Sheep need a shepherd to guide them to green pastures. The shepherd controls his sheep so that he can either fleece them or make mutton stew.
Wild geese can find the next green pasture on their own. The wild geese poop on the shepherd's head as they take flight to fly in a V for victory formation with the Ron Paul blimp.
Those who support Ron Paul will appreciate this metaphor. Those who don't are sheeple who like to be chased around by the shepherd's border collies.
The cackling of the wild geese is rising in a deafening crescendo as they prepare to darken the skies and blot out the sun on the coming election days.
And they will manage this phenomenal feat without air traffic controllers! The FAA could learn a thing or two from these wild geese.
Comment: First, I think it is Baron von Munchausen; it seems this person likes to leave out details. Although I agree with some of what Ron Paul says, the person who posted the previous statement obviously wants to return to a simpler time when rich land barons just ran off settlers or had them shot because they didn't want them around. Kill all the Indians too; Manifest Destiny. Too many people seem to think that the Founding Fathers should have the last say, and although I think that most of them were visionaires and brilliant, there are many aspects of today's society that they didn't and couldn't forsee. It is easy to talk of "free market" forces; but do they really exist? If a large company with resources wants to take over your business, or run you out of business, what's to stop them? Also who or what will protect us from those who choose to rape the environment or flood the market with dangerous and deceitful goods?
Comment: Monkeyman, I agree with you that the "Founding Fathers" could not have foreseen what America has become today. But that is why there is the elastic clause in the constitution for making necessary changes as America changes. But currently our government has chose to ignore some contents of the Constitution rather than address what changes need to be made. If we start ignoring the constitution in parts, then what good is it. For example, based on the constitution, the Federal Reserves (should be called Private Reserves) and the IRS is illegal. Federal Reserve is owned by private bankers forge in 1913 along with the IRS to collect taxes from citizen to pay the interest on the money it prints out of thin air to lend to the American Government. That alone is death to the Constitution; since the American citizens have ultimately become financial slaves to the Federal Reserve. Please understand that the Federal Reserve is by no way part of the Federal Government.
Comment: monkeyman is in error there is no "von".
Also wild geese don't fly backwards and have a very good memory of where they have been. They won't repeat the tragedies of the past.
All good questions but I'll allow Helen Keller to reply, ""Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
Wild geese fly through all kinds of rough weather to get where they want to go.
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