Libertarians for Ron Paul » 2007 » August
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Ron Paul’s answers excerpted from the Iowa Debate, August 5, 2007
“These last few weeks the House has been in a rush to pass spending bills before August recess. In fact, visitors walking the hallways of Congress become immediately struck by the apparent spending battle between the “conservative Democrats” of the so-called “Blue Dog Coalition,” and the Republican Study Committee, or RSC, generally representing the more conservative bloc of Republican House members. Members of each of these groups place large posters on easels outside their offices. The purpose behind this seems clear, to point the finger at the opposite party for the current budget mess that continues to threaten America’s future.
When Republicans had control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress, very little was done to stem the tide of federal spending. In fact, spending increased every year over the past decade. New programs such as “No Child Left Behind,” and entitlements like the Prescription Drug Benefit, were added at great cost to federal taxpayers.
During this period, the Blue Dogs continued to make the rhetorical point of government financial misdeeds. Now that Democrats control the House, the RSC is highlighting the increases in spending and debt that will occur based on bills passed this year by the new majority.
While both sides continue attempting to score political points, the country goes further and further into debt, because neither side is really willing to make the tough decisions necessary to halt the run away train of federal spending.
Ron Paul’s Straight Talk continues @ http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst080607.htm
“Following this weekend’s Republican debate in Iowa and some extensive mainstream coverage and sound bytes., 2008 US Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s odds to become the next Commander-in-Chief have been slashed further from 15 to 1 to 8 to 1.”
“2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul sat down with Gambling911.com’s Kira Wissman for a few moments Friday night following his speech at a rally in Mars, Pennsylvania, just outside Pittsburgh. The time spent was brief since Paul had to rush out on his way to Iowa the next morning.Paul was very adamant regarding Internet gambling prohibition and Internet prohibition across the board.
“I believe strongly that the internet should not be regulated by the federal government and believes even more strongly that people should be free to engage in the activities they wish, as long as they are willing to take responsibility for their actions.”
“So much for that little theory that Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s consist of just two people and a bunch of Internet bots. Quite the contrary. Gambling911.com’s Kira Wissman was expecting a room with maybe 100 people at a Mars, Pennsylvania rally for Dr. Paul. She ended up fighting her way through some 2000 plus people. That number, Wissman admits, may have been a conservative figure.”
“Likewise, all the local Pittsburgh area media were in town to cover the big rally.”
Gambling911.com reports on the Pennsylvania Rally for Ron Paul http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-080407.html
“FreedomWorks officially closed its Republican Presidential Straw Poll early this morning after 16,371 limited government conservatives cast their votes over 3 days of polling. Texas Representative Ron Paul won by a wide margin with 56 percent of the vote. Senator Fred Thompson snatched the second place position, with Duncan Hunter taking third. The FreedomWorks Straw Poll provides the most complete view of the limited government movement heading into the Iowa Straw Poll on August 11th. For complete results, visit http://www.freedomworks.org/strawpoll”
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented:
“FreedomWorks would like to thank all 16,371 Straw Poll participants for taking the time to vote for their candidate. We congratulate Ron Paul on his victory, and hope the Straw Poll raises awareness of limited government issues in the ’08 race. One of the more interesting untold stories of the current primary is how well organized and enthusiastic Ron Paul and Fred Thompson supporters are online.”
Full Story http://tinyurl.com/ys3l4d
“In politics, ideas frequently spread like viruses. Even if their host succumbs, the ideas that animated them can survive to infect the body politic. Such was the certainly case with Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. In the era of the Great Society, his limited government views were resoundingly rejected by the electorate in his 1964 presidential bid. Yet those same ideas eventually culminated in a very contagious outbreak - the Reagan revolution -16 years later.”
“Will there be a similar legacy for Texas congressman Ron Paul? Yes, Paul’s platform differs greatly from Goldwater’s and Paul is even more of a long shot than was Goldwater in winning the nomination, which was half of Goldwater’s great achievement, but we know one element of the comparison is already apt: Paul will not be President of the United States. But just as Goldwater’s limited government creed found a receptive public years later, one theme of Paul’s campaign will, with time, also carry the day: his embrace of non-interventionism.” More @ http://tinyurl.com/2ql9gs
“In a report to US lawmakers this week, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office found that the war in Iraq could cost US taxpayers more than a trillion dollars when the long-term costs of caring for soldiers wounded in action, military and economic aid for the Iraqi government, and ongoing costs associated with the 190,000 troops stationed in Iraq are totaled up. ”
“White House Office of Management and Budget director Mitch Daniels’ 2003 estimate that the war in Iraq could cost US$50 billion to $60 billion stands in stark contrast to the $500 billion already allocated to the conflict in Iraq and reconstruction projects.”
“We are now spending on these activities more than 10% of all the government’s annually appropriated funds,” said Robert A Sunshine, the assistant director for budget analysis”
More dreary reading @ http://www.antiwar.com/ips/clifton.php?articleid=11393
“IRS employees ignored security rules and turned over sensitive computer information to a caller posing as a technical support person, according to a government study.”
“Sixty-one of the 102 people who got the test calls, including managers and a contractor, complied with a request that the employee provide his or her user name and temporarily change his or her password to one the caller suggested, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, an office that does oversight of Internal Revenue Service.”
“The caller asked for assistance to correct a computer problem.”
“The report said that by failing to question the identity of the caller the employees were putting the IRS at risk of providing unauthorized people access to taxpayer data that could be used for identity theft and other fraudulent schemes.”
Complete story http://tinyurl.com/343cd3
Ron Paul has introduced The Liberty Amendment to end the income tax and abolish the IRS. http://www.libertyamendment.org/