Category: GOVERNMENT SPENDING
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All I Want for Christmas is a (Real) Government Shutdown
The political class breathed a sigh of relief Saturday when the US Senate averted a government shutdown by passing the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. This year’s omnibus resembles omnibuses of Christmas past in that it was drafted in secret, was full of special interest deals and disguised spending increases, and was voted on before…
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Ron Paul: Let’s Call This What It Is—An Internet Tax Mandate
Last week, during a series of Senate votes on the budget resolution, a majority of senators voted for an amendment endorsing the so-called “Marketplace Fairness Act.” The underlying Act has nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with enriching large companies and bloated state governments, while harming small businesses, taxpayers, and consumers. Ron…
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Ron Paul Farewell Speech
Ron Paul’s Farewell Speech to Congress: This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as they are today: promote peace and prosperity by a…
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Paul Ryan Is No Ron Paul
By Jane Aitken Founder, NH Tea Party Coalition Bedford Patch There is much abuzz over Mitt Romney’s announcement naming Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate. But many see it as unimpressive, and even premature and just another indication of a desperate move to distract from the idea that the “presumptive…
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Ron Paul to Congress: Freeze the Budget and Stop Plundering the American People!
One might think that the recent drama over the debt ceiling involved one side wanting to increase or maintain spending with the other side wanting to drastically cut spending, but that is far from the truth. In spite of the rhetoric being thrown around, the real debate is over how much government spending will increase.…
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No to War with Libya!
By David McKalip, M.D. These remarks were delivered to the Save America Foundation Convention in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, March 19, 2011. “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens,), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign…
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Lying is Not Patriotic
Congressman Dr. Ron Paul delivers another impassioned and intelligent speech on the House Floor on how the US Government and our puppet mainstream media is trying to get the American public to fear Wikileaks and Julian Assange, while trying to hide the covert doings of our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen — where…
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Ron Paul to Chair House Sub-Committee On Domestic Monetary Policy
Breaking News! Ron Paul announces last night (Dec. 8, 2010) on Freedom Watch that Cong. Spencer Bachus has promised him the Chair of the House Sub-Committee on Domestic Monetary Policy.
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Keep Your Head Above Dollar
There has been so much discussion recently about “QE 2” that you would think the entire financial sector were about to embark on a transatlantic cruise. Unfortunately, they, and we, are not so lucky. In the year 2010, “QE 2” doesn’t refer to a sumptuous ocean liner, but a second, more extravagant round of “quantitative…