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Subscribe to RSSLAS VEGAS, NV –- Yesterday afternoon at the Venetian Hotel, presidential hopeful Ron Paul unveiled his 11-page “Restore America” economic plan in front of a crowd of enthusiastic supporters.
“I am here today to release a plan I have for balancing the budget and cutting in the first year, $1 trillion,” Paul said. “A lot of people will say, 'Well cutting $1 trillion in one year, that sounds radical.' But you know, I operate on the assumption that the radicals have been in charge way too long.”
The “Restore America” economic plan claims to balance the budget in three years, eliminate all foreign aid and dismantle at least five federal departments -- the Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, and Interior departments. "That’s a start,” Paul said with a laugh.
“Many of those important parts of each of those departments will be held in another department ... so nobody gets laid off immediately, they get laid off through attrition, because we’re going to learn to live with a lot less government and we don’t need to keep hiring more and more people to replace those who should be retiring.”
Earlier Tuesday afternoon, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh seemed to endorse Paul’s economic plan and the elimination of federal departments, telling a caller who asked about the deficit, “You’re not going to believe my answer. Ron Paul has a good idea.”
“Fooling around the margins in all this spending isn’t going to get it done... Genuine big spending cuts are the only thing that is going to bring us back into some semblance,” Limbaugh said. “Nobody on our side’s ever really proposed it, and Ron Paul is going to. Everything Paul is suggesting ... he will be the first candidate to actually do so. It’ll be interesting to see how they react to this.”
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We cannot just pull our heads in like a large tortoise and pretend the rest of the world and its problems do not exist. This is not the era when it tooks weeks and months of travel to cross the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. People in the "Far East" can literally reach out and touch us in an instant. And there are people like the Khadafi's of this world, the Castro's.....meglomaniacs (and there always will be) To just ignore them and let them do as they wish means that eventually, they will put their hands into our country, attack our cities, injure and kill our citizens. They used to talk about the Monroe Doctrine which meant that we had to be responsible for what went on in the Western Hemisphere and leave the rest alone....with jet planes, satellites, missiles......we simply do not have that luxury any longer. Unstable governments in any corner of the globe are a concern as you have no way to predict where and when they might lash out and on which nation.
Our foreign meddling has created most of the megalomaniacs out there. Everyone from the Shah in Iran in the 1950's to Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Our millitary intervention and foreign aide is where these monsters come from. In the absence of external support all dictators eventually fall. For reference, see Mubarak in Egypt, a regime propped up by the US for decades.
I feel sorry for you. You are a victim of decades of fear mongering. We don't need to be afraid of the rest of the world. Bring our troops home and reunite those young men and women with their families. Ron Paul's biggest contributor are the members of the Armed Forces. He gets more money from them than Obama and more the entire GOP field combined. Those kids want to come home!!
Ron Paul Will never become president. Why? He tells the truth in the hope the people understand. Most people don't have the education in this countries constitution or even comprehend the role the Federal government is supposed to play. The federal governments role is very small.
The democracy will cease to exist when you
take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-Thomas Jefferson
Most bad government has grown out of too much
government.-Thomas Jefferson
Government big enough to supply everything
you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history
shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Because of his honesty and integrity, Paul's proposal deserves a look-see. But, let's face it, this country would have never become the global power and influence it has been and largely still is today with a weak federal government.
And, the trend in the size of the fedweral government in relationship to the population has been downward over the last generation, from something like 14 federal employees to each 1,000 of the population down to around 8 or 9 per 1,000. Most of the growth og government has been at the state and local levels.
If you look at history our country were loved and admired Globally when we had smaller constitutional government. our empire building days are over its time to get back to what we are supposed to be...A constitutional republic.
Plus I didn't sign up to be part of the world dominating super power. I like life, liberty and property (pursuit of happiness). World domination is not my thing. I'm mostly not into taxing the popluation to death to pay for the killing of all those "lesser humans" out there. Plus then there's all that fiat paper inflation since there isn't enough tax to pay for all those Hellfire missles and predator drones. Yeah, I'm not into hellfire missle inflation, either. Call me crazy, but I'm good with us not being the most influential nation in the world and global power and stuff.
Sorry...don't know what you mean by being "loved and admired" when we were smaller...and anyhow that isn't exactly the end goal...although it certainly doesn't hurt.
I don't think the U.S. ever had much of a desire to be colonial power...with the exception of a brief period at the turn of the 19th and 20th century...Spanish Amerian War, Hawaii, etc. Foreign policy has to a large extent been driven by missionaries and Yankee traders. Don't really care how people "govern" themselves, as long as we can have their souls and money.
The dramatic expansion of the federal government came largely as a result of our growth and new technology that made national networks more efficient (and more profitable) than state or regional organization. Federal employment (aside from the military uniformed members) peaked under Nixon and is now at a post WW II demobilization low.
Joe - whatever...you get one vote and all the influence you can muster. The wealthy have had more influence than most since the beginning. The expansion of markets overseas makes them more wealthy and they tell government to be sure and "protect their interests."
I am not taking "sides." Just remember a lot of wealth and power rests on a strong centralized government.
"Just remember a lot of wealth and power rests on a strong centralized government."
Now you are on to something. There are two related thoughts that follow that statement. 1) the powerful and elite will never actually let us reverse course, 2) perhaps we have crossed the point of no return.
I may have only one vote, that's Plan A. But I have a basement full of canned goods as Plan B in case Plan A fails. I hope for all of our sakes that a leader emerges who can right this ship, even if its Obama. I can tell you this much though, adding $2 trillion to the deficit every year, fighting wars all over the globe and endless money printing to make all of that happen will ultimately lead to one outcome.
We had a balanced budget up until W. started doling out tax cuts to the rich. In fact, we had a record surplus. What federal jobs have the Republicans cut in the last fifteen years? What actual jobs is anybody in the Republican Congress willing to cut? Lots of blather about getting rid of departments and reorganizing. Al Gore cut more federal jobs in one efficiency study in the late 90's than any Republican has ever cut. You remember Al, the one who won the popular vote for President by 540,000 votes. Republicans just can't do math. (And they hate evolution.)
Ron Paul will be our next president of the USA. It is time to get real and forget about free rides. We will not be socialist or communist so you guys can forget about that. Liberals need to understand Americans will have Ron Paul as our next president.
JOBS.
Bringing home the 600,000 overseas troops & equipment. They will be buying & spending HERE. that is jobs. All the hundreds of billions we spend overseas creating & maintaining the support infrastructure for the military will come here as well.
Right there, this will more than offset the 10% attrition in DC
Ron Paul had been warning for the cause of this very economic collapse for years. Some of the big shots that watched it come while saying everything is alright are in our current administration.
How can all you front page posting, die-hard Obama lovers take yourselves seriously knowing that there have basically been no effort to prevent those obviously devastating acts of fraud from happening again? I know everyone wants a government job but good lord!
Ron Paul is the man for the job. He's honest and consistent. Imagine that from a politician!
Wil someone please remove this stupid UnitedheathCare ad from this page, its is annoying in the extreme. Besides that they may be the enemy, we don't know yet.
Joe-4090570
Interesting observation!!!