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When CPAC ended, there was no doubt that our movement, our enthusiasm for the principles of liberty and our dedication to reclaiming our country are stronger than ever. While Congressman Ron Paul was a huge success at CPAC, he has also been invited to speak at the SRLC to promote liberty and defend the Constitution. We are proud to report that he has accepted the speaking invitation!
Thanks to the support of a generous C4L donor, Campaign for Liberty is also proud to announce a massively discounted rate on SRLC tickets for our supporters at $30 a ticket.
Please come out and join other liberty supporters and show that we are a force to be reckoned with and a strong presence at SRLC. Not only will you have the opportunity to see Congressman Paul speak in person on Saturday (April 10), but the conference shares the weekend with the French Quarter Festival where you can enjoy over 150 musical performances, cuisine and culture of the Big Easy.
Make a weekend of it. Come out with other friends of liberty and support Ron Paul.
Ron Paul questioned Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner today on the Federal Reserve’s price fixing activities and the moral hazard generated by a “lender of last resort” that, in cooperation with the government, picks up the pieces and bails out insolvent banks and companies.
Geithner agreed that we need to deal with the problem of moral hazard, which is caused by private shareholders being able to count on government subsidies and taxpayer bailouts. But being a former NY Fed President (2003-2008), he stopped short of acknowledging the Federal Reserve’s causative role in the economic crisis.
Location: House Financial Services Committee Date: 03/23/2010
Ron Paul’s son Rand Paul is running for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky. His supporters organized a one-day mass donation event (money bomb) for March 23. Thousands of online participants went to Rand’s site at RandPaul2010.com and contributed more than $260,000 in 24 hours!
A few days earlier, Ron Paul had sent out the following letter in support of Rand’s money bomb:
Dear Friend,
My son Rand is running a great campaign in Kentucky. Through hard work and your support, he is winning! We have a real chance to send the most principled, limited government leader to the United States Senate in a generation.
But now, he needs you more than ever.
The big government establishment has turned on their fundraising machine to try and defeat Rand. According to media reports, Rand’s challenger has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past several weeks. The sources? Disgusting! PAC’s, special interests and the banking industry – all of whom are opening up their wallets for Rand’s opponent.
Remember when AIG took billions of taxpayer bailout dollars not once, but twice? Well, I have it on good information that AIG’s chief lobbyist just held a high dollar, big money fundraiser for Rand’s rival. I am sure you can figure out why. Continue reading “Rand Paul’s “Give Me Liberty!” Money Bomb”
Following months of heated public debate and aggressive closed-door negotiations, Congress finally cast a historic vote on healthcare late Sunday evening. It was truly a sad weekend on the House floor as we witnessed further dismantling of the Constitution, disregard of the will of the people, explosive expansion of the reach of government, unprecedented corporate favoritism, and the impending end of quality healthcare as we know it.
Those in favor of this bill touted their good intentions of ensuring quality healthcare for all Americans, as if those of us against the bill are against good medical care. They cite fanciful statistics of deficit reduction, while simultaneously planning to expand the already struggling medical welfare programs we currently have. They somehow think that healthcare in this country will be improved by swelling our welfare rolls and cutting reimbursement payments to doctors who are already losing money. It is estimated that thousands of doctors will be economically forced out of the profession should this government fuzzy math actually try to become healthcare reality. No one has thought to ask what good mandatory health insurance will be if people can’t find a doctor.
Legislative hopes and dreams don’t always stand up well against economic realities.
Frustratingly, this legislation does not deal at all with the real reasons access to healthcare is a struggle for so many – the astronomical costs. If tort reform was seriously discussed, if the massive regulatory burden on healthcare was reduced and reformed, if the free market was allowed to function and apply downward pressure on healthcare costs as it does with everything else, perhaps people wouldn’t be so beholden to insurance companies in the first place. If costs were lowered, more people could simply pay for what they need out of pocket, as they were able to do before government got so involved. Instead, in the name of going after greedy insurance companies, the federal government is going to make people even more beholden to them by mandating that everyone buy their product! Hefty fines are due from anyone found to have committed the heinous crime of not being a customer of a health insurance company. We will need to hire some 16,500 new IRS agents to police compliance with all these new mandates and administer various fines. So in government terms, this is also a jobs bill. Never mind that this program is also likely to cost the private sector some 5 million jobs.
Of course, the most troubling aspect of this bill is that it is so blatantly unconstitutional and contrary to the ideals of liberty. Nowhere in the constitution is there anything approaching authority for the Federal government to do any of this. The founders would have been horrified at the idea of government forcing citizens to become consumers of a particular product from certain government approved companies. 38 states are said to already be preparing legal and constitutional challenges to this legislation, and if the courts stand by their oaths, they will win. Protecting the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, should be the court’s responsibility. Citizens have a responsibility over their own life, but they also have the liberty to choose how they will live and protect their lives. Healthcare choices are a part of liberty, another part that is being stripped away. Government interference in healthcare has already infringed on choices available to people, but rather than getting out of the way, it is entrenching itself, and its corporatist cronies, even more deeply.
Ron Paul tells it like it is: There is no “right” to healthcare. Obamacare will be repealed by a national bankruptcy. The IRS is hiring new agents to steal more money. Central economic planning has failed. A much bigger economic crisis is coming. And, every country in the world is technically bankrupt.
You have a right to your life, your liberty, working hard and keeping what you earn. People who believe they also have a “right” to a job, healthcare, welfare, etc. tend to overlook that in order to deliver such services, the government has to violate someone else’s rights.
Ron Paul teaches Ben Bernanke a lesson on Austrian free-market economics, but the Chairman is not listening. Instead, he tries to defend his actions by asserting that “central banking is an art” that requires guesswork.
Location: House Financial Service Committee Date: 03/17/2010
Ron Paul attacks the Federal Reserve’s price fixing activities in his opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee hearing on bank supervision and monetary policy.
Location: House Financial Service Committee Date: 03/17/2010
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Ron Paul at CPAC 2010
Stop preventive and undeclared wars, return to sound monetary policies, and promote freedom in all areas of your life, was the message of Ron Paul's speech at CPAC 2010. (Transcript)
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