In this video of a speech by Ron Paul before Congress, Ron Paul explains why we need more earmarks, not less.
Ron Paul also explains a new bill, HR 1207, he is trying to get passed that removes the restriction that does not allow Congress to know what the Federal Reserve is doing. Right now the Federal Reserve is a secret bank that is not required to answer to anyone. HR 1207 would require transparency with what the Federal Reserve is doing and open the operation up to the Freedom of Information Act.
Usually difficult to disagree with Dr. Paul, but not this time.
While in principle he is correct, in practice he is not. The issue with earmarks is that they almost always 1) have nothing to do with the substance of the bill 2) are usually wasteful or vainglorious, and thus 3) have little to no chance of passing on their own.
To get earmarks the way they are described in this speech, we must go to a zero base budget, and clearly enumerate as many projects as possible.
Until the size of the federal government shrinks dramatically this is not feasible.
Are pundits like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich helping move the country in the right direction?
In Defense Of Capitalism
From Ayn Rand: "No man has the right to seek values from others by means of physical force--i.e., no man or group has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others. Men have the right to use force only in self-defense and only against those who initiate its use. Men must deal with one another as traders, giving value for value, by free, mutual consent to mutual benefit. The only social system that bars physical force from human relationships is laissez-faire capitalism.
Capitalism is a system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property right, in which the only function of the government is to protect individual rights, i.e., to protect men from those who initiate the use of physical force. I reject any form of fascism or socialism. I also reject any form of a mixed economy that regulates and redistributes wealth."
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This was in a 1944 speech to party loyalists, six-time Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, Norman Thomas, made this comment: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened." He then made a very profound statement when he said" "I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform."
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Usually difficult to disagree with Dr. Paul, but not this time.
While in principle he is correct, in practice he is not. The issue with earmarks is that they almost always 1) have nothing to do with the substance of the bill 2) are usually wasteful or vainglorious, and thus 3) have little to no chance of passing on their own.
To get earmarks the way they are described in this speech, we must go to a zero base budget, and clearly enumerate as many projects as possible.
Until the size of the federal government shrinks dramatically this is not feasible.
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