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There's much wrong with how America trades on its status in the world, says Ron Paul. He's got fixes.

By Howard Fineman | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Dec 17, 2007

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  • Posted By: Wendeen @ 02/04/2008 12:30:47 PM

    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.

  • Posted By: WKlein @ 02/04/2008 8:45:08 AM

    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

  • Posted By: djonesss @ 02/03/2008 9:46:45 PM

    The fourth quarter FEC reports reveal that Congressman Paul has received more donations from the military than all other republican candidates combined.

  • Posted By: djonesss @ 02/03/2008 9:46:38 PM

    The fourth quarter FEC reports reveal that Congressman Paul has received more donations from the military than all other republican candidates combined.

  • Posted By: djonesss @ 02/03/2008 9:46:29 PM

    The fourth quarter FEC reports reveal that Congressman Paul has received more donations from the military than all other republican candidates combined.

  • Posted By: deahunt @ 02/01/2008 2:51:20 PM

    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.???

  • Posted By: libertyinmo @ 02/01/2008 8:41:24 AM

    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.

  • Posted By: nobodysprisoner @ 12/30/2007 12:27:14 AM

    Sorry, I was addressing the video on Ron Paul on Romney, Huckabee

  • Posted By: nobodysprisoner @ 12/30/2007 12:25:26 AM

    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!

  • Posted By: jr466 @ 12/23/2007 8:26:18 PM

    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!

  • Posted By: angelus1967 @ 12/14/2007 12:15:44 PM

    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?

    • Posted By: uknowwhat4 @ 12/17/2007 11:30:36 AM

      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!

  • Posted By: uknowwhat4 @ 12/17/2007 11:24:27 AM

    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!!!

  • Posted By: DanMorin @ 12/16/2007 5:30:56 PM

    I liked the featured video. Great interview.

  • Posted By: i.d. @ 12/15/2007 10:16:30 PM

    What a shame the good ones are not elected!!

  • Posted By: barista4drpaul @ 12/14/2007 3:03:05 PM

    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.

  • Posted By: Baron Munchausen @ 12/10/2007 7:41:05 AM

    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.

    • Posted By: hoopes_az @ 12/11/2007 11:11:36 AM

      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.

      • Posted By: danaugust @ 12/13/2007 10:01:31 AM

        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.

  • Posted By: dmc4rp @ 12/13/2007 8:14:32 AM

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  • Posted By: dmc4rp @ 12/13/2007 8:13:48 AM

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  • Posted By: Pleefer @ 12/13/2007 7:56:50 AM

    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.

  • Posted By: Joey @ 12/13/2007 6:45:18 AM

    Thanks Newsweek for the article. And thanks to Representative Paul for all he does for the United States.

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