Aug

25

Ron Paul - Aging Infrastructure

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column

August 27, 2007

The recent and tragic bridge collapse in Minnesota raises many questions in Americans’ minds about our aging infrastructure, and what is being done to maintain it. Questions such as: “Was I-35 an isolated accident or are we approaching days when crumbling bridges and bursting pipes will be regular features on the evening news?”

The poor ratings on the inspection report of that bridge, and similar deficiency findings on as many as 25% of our bridges suggests the latter. Estimates on what it will cost to bring deficiencies in our infrastructure back up to par range from massive to astronomical.

Billions of tax dollars at all levels of government are devoted to infrastructure, but one problem is that politicians love to cut ribbons. Political capital is gained not from maintaining or repairing our systems, but from building new bridges, new stadiums, and new roads, often of questionable real utility. Seldom is there a ceremony or photo opportunity for repairing or maintaining something already in place.
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Aug

25

Ron Paul on Morning Joe - 8/22/07

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“Let me tell you Ron, there are a lot of people out there in the Republican primaries, trying to seize the mantle of Ronald Reagan…but when it comes to economic issues, you are the only guy out there that really is delivering the same message that Ronald Reagan delivered for 30 years” - Joe Scarborough

Aug

25

Aaron Russo R.I.P.

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He passed away today, August 24th, 2007. The freedom movement has lost a great fighter.

Steve Gordon writes about the passing of his friend here.

Aug

20

Ron Paul - High Risk Credit

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column

August 20, 2007

As markets went on a rollercoaster ride last week, our economy is coming close to a day of reckoning for loose credit policies being followed by the Federal Reserve Bank. Simply, foreign banks we have been relying on to buy our debt are waking up to the reality of much higher default rates than predicted, and many mortgage backed securities have been reduced to “junk” ratings. Wall Street fears the possibility of tightening credit and the tightening of America’s belts. Why, they say, “if Americans spend only what they can afford, think of the ripple effects throughout the economy!” This is the cry, as the call comes for the fed to cut rates and bail out companies in trouble.

More inflation is, however, never the answer to inflation.
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Aug

19

Ron Paul on Free Talk Live

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Free Talk Live had Ron Paul on as a guest on August 18th.

Archive of interview here.

Aug

19

Ron Paul - Straw Poll Landslide in Alabama

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Alabama GOP Straw Poll Results

Ron Paul 216
Mitt Romney 14
Duncan Hunter 10
Fred Thompson 9
Rudy Giuliani 7
Mike Huckabee 6
Sam Brownback 2
John McCain 2
Tom Tancredo 0

Aug

13

Ron Paul - High Risk Spending

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column

August 13, 2007

Last week this column addressed the train wreck that federal spending has become. To score political points politicians will make loud noise about fairly small matters such as earmarks, even while refusing to address the real problem. Namely, that our federal government is too big and does too much. Politicians prefer to pass a bill or create a program every time somebody points to a new social problem, this way they can tell their constituents how much they are doing to help. Instead of rationally explaining the proper role of government, politicians have attempted to play the role of friend, preacher, parent, social worker, etcetera– in essence, whatever any organized special interest can demand.

Waste, fraud and abuse are often easy targets. Everybody knows a story of the government doing something absolutely ridiculous and wasteful. Plus, recent headlines have been packed with stories of corruption in Washington.

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Aug

12

Ron Paul - #5 is Victory in Iowa

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Ron Paul made a very respectable showing at the Iowa Republican Straw Poll, in 5th place with 1305 votes. Considering he spent far less money and time in Iowa than the top four vote getters in one of the biggest welfare dependent states of the greater welfare-state called the USA, that’s a big victory. Iowa gets more federal money funneled into it than what the federal government sucks out of it each year. Being a largely agricultural state, it receives much largess in the form of farm subsidies. So much for the American farmer being the symbol of American rugged individualism. Sam Brownback, who ended up in 3rd place in the poll, made a point in his speech to pander to Iowa corn farmers, that he was all for the ethanol scam that enriches big corn farmers and makes the rest of us the victims of theft and thus poorer. Brownback, who wears his religion on his sleeve, must have a different understanding of the 10 Commandments, especially the one that says “Thou Shall Not Steal”. I was brought up a Christian and I don’t remember a disclaimer in that commandment that says “except when allowed with the blessings of government”.
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Aug

11

Ron Paul Speech - Iowa Republican Straw Poll

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Speaking the unspeakable truth.

Part 1

Part 2

Aug

11

Ron Paul - Shock and Awe in Iowa

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The Ron Paul troops were numerous and loud.

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