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Ron Paul - Struggling for Relevance in Cuba: Close, Still No Cigars

ron_paul_posts — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:00:00 -0600

In the name of helping Cubans, the US administration is calling for "multibillions" of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid and subsidies for internet access, education and business development for Cubans under the condition that the Cuban government demonstrates certain changes. In the same breath, they claim lifting the embargo would only help the dictatorship. This is exactly backwards. Free trade is the best thing for people in both Cuba and the US. Government subsidies would enrich those in power in Cuba at the expense of already overtaxed Americans!

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst102807.htm

Ron Paul - Interventionism? Isolationism? Actually, Both.

ron_paul_posts — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Even though I am no fan of the war in Iraq, keeping positive relations with Turkey is important to protecting our troops who have been sent to fight this war. We are likely to need cordial relations with Turkey so that we can get our troops out of Iraq as quickly and safely as possible, when the time comes.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst102107.htm

Ron Paul - Taxing Ourselves to Death

ron_paul_posts — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:00:00 -0600

The basic tenets of the American dream are that through hard work and ingenuity, you can earn a better life for yourself, and you can give your children a better start than you had. Surveying American history this vision has played out through steady economic progress and growth from one generation to the next. Our prosperity now is our reward for hard work and achievement in the past. Today we are the strongest economy in the world, and have much to be proud of, but Congress doesn't seem to understand that we did not tax our way here.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst101407.htm

Ron Paul - Keeping Promises to Seniors

ron_paul_posts — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Official reports show the trust fund having assets of $2.1 trillion. In reality, those dollars are just IOUs the government is writing to itself when it borrows from the fund to spendon unrelated programs. There are no real assets in the Social Security Trust Fund. This is similar to taking money out of your savings account, spending it, then replacing it with an IOU to yourself, and calling that IOU an asset.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst100707.htm

Ron Paul - Congressional Control of Health Care is Dangerous for Children

ron_paul_posts — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:00:00 -0600

"With universal mental health screening being implemented in schools, pharmaceutical companies stand to increase their customer base even more, and many parents are rightfully concerned. Opponents of one such program, called TeenScreen, claim it wrongly diagnoses children as much as 84% of the time, often incorrectly labeling them, resulting in the assigning of medications that can be very damaging. While we are still awaiting evidence that there are benefits to mental health screening programs, evidence that these drugs actually cause violent psychotic episodes is mounting."

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst093007.htm

Ron Paul - The Sunlight Rule

ron_paul_posts — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." Indeed some of the most malignant growth of our government has been nurtured under a cover of darkness.

Literally, in the dark hours of the morning at the end of the year, it has become tradition for the Appropriations committee to rush the famous omnibus bill to the floor for a vote, mere hours after it is introduced. The vote took place at 4 am the last time an omnibus spending bill was before us.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst091607.htm

Ron Paul - Regulation, Free Trade and Mexican Trucks

ron_paul_posts — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:00:00 -0600

"The problem is a government-managed economy and the burdensome regulation that results. For our economy to remain competitive in the world, we must remember what it is to be truly free. We must lift the regulatory shackles threatening to sink our industries into oblivion."

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst090907.htm

Ron Paul - Surrender Should Not Be An Option

ron_paul_posts — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:00:00 -0600

"The neo-cons claim surrender should not be an option. In the same breath they claim we were attacked because of our freedoms. Why then, are they so anxious to surrender our freedoms with legislation like the Patriot Act, a repeal of our 4th amendment rights, executive orders, and presidential signing statements? With politicians like these, who needs terrorists? Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us? This seems the epitome of cowardice coming from those who claim a monopoly on patriotic courage."

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst090207.htm

Ron Paul - Aging Infrastructure

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Infrastructure, in a capitalist model, is an asset worthy of maintaining to ensure continuity of revenue. In a government controlled model infrastructure is nothing but a cumbersome liability. This should be taken into consideration when developing plans to keep our current infrastructure safe. Privatization should be used to encourage maintenance and safety, and where private companies truly invest and bear the upfront costs in return for ability to collect tolls or usage fees in some form. But public/private partnerships that look more like corporate welfare must be avoided.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst082707.htm

Ron Paul - High Risk Credit

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:00:00 -0600

The temptation to print and spend money with impunity, like the temptation to max out lines of credit, is too strong to for government to resist. While Nixon brokered exclusivity deals with OPEC to prop up demand for the tidal wave of green pieces of paper the Fed pumped into the markets, the world is tiring of marching to the beat of our drum in order to secure their energy needs. The house of cards Nixon built is now on the verge of collapsing on our heads, and on our children's heads.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst082007.htm

Ron Paul - High Risk Spending

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:00:00 -0600

One thing that has not drawn enough attention is the link between the size of government and the mismanagement that leads to wasted money. If the government were restrained within its proper constitutional functions, it would be far better managed and much more readily would proper oversight occur.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst081307.htm

Ron Paul - The Fear Factor

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Thus, fear is a threat to rational liberty. The psychology of fear is an essential component of those who would have us believe we must increasingly rely on the elite who manage the apparatus of the central government.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst073007.htm

Ron Paul - Exposing the True Isolationists

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Yet globalism has a consequence that is, if we are to believe the rhetoric of its greatest proponents, entirely unintended. Globalists often label those of us who resist their schemes as "isolationist." Yet it is, somewhat remarkably, the globalists themselves who promote policies that isolate our nation from the rest of the world.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst072307.htm

Ron Paul - Globalism

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Because some people who vocally oppose amnesty are supportive of the war, the ideological connection between support of the war and amnesty is often masked. If there is a single word explaining the reasons why we continue to fight unpopular wars and see legislation like the amnesty bill nearly become law, that word is "globalism."

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst071607.htm

Ron Paul - Recapturing the Spirit of Independence

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:00:00 -0600

On the anniversary of our declaring our own independence from the British, it is certainly appropriate that we reflect on the nature and spirit of independent nationhood. While our founding fathers were individual men in a historically unique situation, they posited that the principles upon which they rested our national independence were timeless.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst070207.htm

Ron Paul - Rights of Taxpayers is Missing Element in Stem Cell Debate

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:00:00 -0600

The debate in Washington has again turned to federal funding of stem cell research, with President Bush moving to veto legislation passed recently by Congress. Those engaged in this debate tend to split into warring camps claiming exclusive moral authority to decide the issue once and for all.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst062507.htm

Ron Paul - Ron Paul in Kansas City

ron_paul_posts — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:29:47 -0600

June 22, 2007

Kansas City enthusiastically welcomed Congressman Ron Paul last Friday, June 15th. [VK Notice]

Dr. Paul started the day with an interview by the editorial board of the Kansas City Star. Afterwards, he spoke to the National Right to Life Convention where he received a standing ovation. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times then interviewed Dr. Paul for over an hour for a major article to be published in a few weeks. After the interview, Missouri State Representative Jim Guest hosted a luncheon for Dr. Paul. They were joined by Missouri State Representative Brian Yates.

Throughout the day, a two-man camera crew from the New York Times photographed Dr. Paul for an upcoming article in the New York Times Sunday magazine. The crew traveled with Dr. Paul to Phoenix the next day.

Photographs of the Kansas City event are posted at http://flickr.com/photos/92572752@N00/sets/ 72157600421461719

Thank you Kansas City!

Kent Snyder, Chairman
Ron Paul 2008

Ron Paul - Earmark Victory May Be A Hollow One

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Without taking a serious look at the actual total spending in these appropriations bills, we will miss the real threat to our economic security. Failed government agencies like FEMA will still get tens of billions of dollars to mismanage when the next disaster strikes. Corrupt foreign governments will still be lavishly funded with dollars taken from working Americans to prop up their regimes. The United Nations will still receive its generous annual tribute taken from the American taxpayer. Americans will still be forced to pay for elaborate military bases to protect borders overseas while our own borders remain porous and unguarded. These are the real issues we must address when we look at reforming our yearly spending extravaganza called the appropriations season.

Full article here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst061807.htm

Ron Paul - Amnesty Opponents Are Not Un-American

ron_paul_posts — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:52:35 -0600

Although the "reform" of immigration in the amnesty bill is enough to cause alarm, other highly troubling provisions are tucked away that will serve to undermine our sovereignty and weaken our civil liberties. According to the most recent version of the Senate bill, the misnamed Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America is to be "accelerated." It seems ironic that a project aiming to actually weaken US borders with Mexico and Canada would be added into a bill that purports to toughen border controls.

Full article here:
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst061107.htm

CNN Poll - Who Won GOP Presidential Debate?

ron_paul_posts — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:23:20 -0600

The GOP presidential debate just ended — who shined and who faltered? Add a comment to weigh in.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/06/05/who-won/