Rand Paul Wants To Cut $500 Billion In Federal Spending In JUST One Year - ABC Subway Interview
Video - Rand Paul on debt and deficits - ABC Subway Series
Outstanding discussion. Jonathan Karl talks to Rand Paul about how he plans to cut spending by $500B and fundamentally change the way Washington works. Foreign aid is the first thing to go, thankfully, and defense is next on the list. How can we afford to send hundreds of billion overseas each year that we don't have. The current run-rate of borrowing 43 cents of every federal dollar isn't sustainable.
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Ron Paul - One Chance 2012
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Ron Paul: Classified Cable Proves US Ok’d Saddam’s Kuwait Invasion
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/31/cong-ron-paul-classified-cable-proves-us-okd-saddams-kuwait-invasion/
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Pentagon Reports Billions of Dollars in Contractor Fraud
The Pentagon paid hundreds of billions of dollars to defense contractors engaged in criminal or civil fraud -- in some cases paying the companies after they were convicted, according to a new Defense Department report.
At least 91 contractors holding contracts worth $270 billion were the subjects of civil fraud judgments -- and in some cases criminal fraud convictions as well, many of which resulted in fines, suspensions or debarments. Even so, Defense Department contracting officers still assigned $4.9 billion worth of work with these companies after the fraud was uncovered, the report said.
The contractors identified in the report include such blue-chip entities as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Pratt & Whitney, IBM and even the Yale medical school.
Under the pressure of two hot wars and a defense budget that has mushroomed to its current $700 billion size, the Pentagon has set up a Procurement Fraud Working Group. But in the six years the task force has been at work, fraud seems to have expanded even as the Pentagon's ability to detect it has increased.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/03/pentagon-admits-to-billions-of-dollars-in-contractor-fraud/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl3|sec1_lnk3|199051
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Jul 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM
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true story...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that "dangerous" imbalances have emerged that threaten to derail global recovery and stoke tensions that may ultimately set off civil wars in deeply unequal countries.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/8296987/IMF-raises-spectre-of-civil-wars-as-global-inequalities-worsen.html
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/02/us-lawmakers-clash-on-patriot-act.html
The Pentagon paid hundreds of billions of dollars to defense contractors engaged in criminal or civil fraud -- in some cases paying the companies after they were convicted, according to a new Defense Department report.
At least 91 contractors holding contracts worth $270 billion were the subjects of civil fraud judgments -- and in some cases criminal fraud convictions as well, many of which resulted in fines, suspensions or debarments. Even so, Defense Department contracting officers still assigned $4.9 billion worth of work with these companies after the fraud was uncovered, the report said.
The contractors identified in the report include such blue-chip entities as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Pratt & Whitney, IBM and even the Yale medical school.
Under the pressure of two hot wars and a defense budget that has mushroomed to its current $700 billion size, the Pentagon has set up a Procurement Fraud Working Group. But in the six years the task force has been at work, fraud seems to have expanded even as the Pentagon's ability to detect it has increased.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/03/pentagon-admits-to-billions-of-dollars-in-contractor-fraud/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl3|sec1_lnk3|199051
more on the patriot act...
Ask yourself one simple question; if government spending were cut in half tomorrow, would anything really have to change? Or would people figure it out just like they do in private enterprise every 8-10 years in the business cycle?
It is not a conspiracy;
http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/ManitobaSpeech.html#Title
Vincente Fox, ex President of Mexico;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVe_sZkvRY8
Americans first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC7cnm8-Zek&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-ZSL8lGgQ&feature=related
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Depends what was cut...as long as its defense, foreign aid and corporate welfare, very few would notice...but what about cutting the Federal Education dep't...it's useless...does nothing and yet has more than 40,000 employees...education is run by the states...we don't need a federal agency elevated to cabinet status...
i don't think the GOP has the balls to cut spending...you heard it in this clip...mr. deficit paul ryan has $58 billion in cuts while Rand Paul has $500 billion...rand paul will be ignored...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/31/cong-ron-paul-classified-cable-proves-us-okd-saddams-kuwait-invasion/
“If President Reagan were alive today” the hills in California “would echo with his outrage” over the enactment of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, she said last night at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California.
Independent Palin 2012 Website Closing & Endorses Ron Paul
See press release announcement linked at http://www.palin4pres2012.com/
Or read the complete release directly online at http://ron-holland.blogspot.com/
i'm going to say it again..almost everyone else who once supported sarah has now changed their minds...yet you remain highly challenged on the issue...
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In this 2009 article I wrote, “Palin would do well to study with Ron Paul. The country not only needs to have less government, lower taxes, fewer regulations, and to achieve energy independence, but it also needs to dismantle its empire (which is being run on borrowed money) and bring the troops home. Her support for the ruinous U.S. military interventions abroad reveals a lack of understanding on how harmful trying to maintain an empire is to America. She is a quick study, and she would benefit by having Dr. Paul tutor her on economics and politics.”
Unfortunately, instead of turning to Ron Paul, Sarah Palin has come under the spell of the neoconservative Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and "the punditocracy’s best-known neocon." And to make matters worse she now is attacking WikiLeaks and its director Julian Assange, who she says should be hunted down like a terrorist. She writes, “Why was he [Assange] not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?”
Despite her creditable views on energy policy and health care, Sarah Palin’s support of the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan and for maintaining an American Empire with its troops stationed around the world, along with her attacking whistleblowers that expose government malfeasance, disqualifies her for leading the country out of its current dilemma. I was wrong. Sarah Palin should not be at the switch. At this point, Ron Paul is the only one who can switch America’s train, which is heading towards a destroyed bridge over the canyon of totalitarianism, in the right direction."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller30.html
by Murray N. Rothbard
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard60.html
And we would still be supporting/ propping up Bin Laden, Noriega, Marcos, Mubarak, even one's guilty of genocide, i.e. Efrain Rios Montt of Guatemala, and more. This is nothing new. I clearly remember the Reagan era. The Reagan administration supported all sorts of dictators. Under Reagan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, differentiated between pro-Western "authoritarian" regimes and Communist dictatorships. To be sure, many of the "authoritarian"were even more dictatorial than some Communist countries, but that didn't matter as long as the "authoritarian" regime was anti-Communist.
But our love for dictators even precedes Reagan. Even before Reagan, our government supported the dictators in Portugal,Spain, Africa, and Latin America. We supported the military junta in Greece, as well.
And today while our leaders speak proudly of liberty, just-us, and the "American" way of life, We still support dictators around the globe. Some things never change...
King Abdullah, the Obama administration announced last November it is seeking a massive $60 billion, 20-year weapons sale to the Saudis, which would reportedly include 84 F-15 fighter aircraft and almost 200 helicopters, as well as trainers, simulators, generators, spare and repair parts, and other related elements of program support. Meanwhile, the Saudi government has maintained an abysmal human rights record. Human Rights Watch summarized the situation in its annual report: "Authorities continue to systematically suppress or fail to protect the rights of nine million Saudi women and girls, eight million foreign workers, and some two million Shia citizens. Each year thousands of people receive unfair trials or are subject to arbitrary detention. Curbs on freedom of association, expression, and movement, as well as a pervasive lack of official accountability.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, the United States gave Jordan, another Middle Eastern monarchy, $300 million in military aid in 2010. According to Human Rights Watch, violations of basic freedoms are not uncommon in Jordan. The group said in its annual report: "Torture, routine and widespread in recent years, continues, in particular at police stations, where complaints about ill-treatment increased in 2009 and again in 2010." There is also no freedom of speech in Jordan, with steep penalties for criticizing the king or the government.
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, The Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, has been pursuing closer ties with Turkmenistan, which both borders Afghanistan and has some of the largest proven gas reserves in the world. Turkmenistan received $2 million in military aid in 2010, up from just $150,000 in 2009. Because of its strategic importance in Central Asia, the country has been graced by visits from top U.S. officials, including Gen. David Petraeus. according to a 2009 State Department report:
" citizens' inability to change their government; reports of torture and mistreatment of detainees; incommunicado and prolonged detention; arbitrary arrest and detention; denial of due process and fair trial; arbitrary interference with privacy, home, and correspondence; restrictions on freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association; restrictions on religious freedom, including continued harassment of religious minority group members; restrictions on freedom of movement for some citizens, including increased restrictions on those intending to study abroad; violence against women; and restrictions on free association of workers."
The issue of human rights, however, did not figure prominently when Hillary Clinton met with Berdymukhamedov in 2009.
Islam Karimov, the Bush administration began to woo Karimov as an ally after Sept. 11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, including with aid to the police and intelligence service. The U.S. imposed sanctions after a 2005 massacre of protesters by Karimov, but they were lifted a few years later, and the Obama administration has sought to repair the relationship. The country is currently a key supply route to Afghanistan from the north. Here's what Human Rights Watch says about Uzbekistan's human rights record: "Authorities continue to crackdown on civil society activists, opposition members, and independent journalists, and to persecute religious believers who worship outside strict state controls. Freedom of expression remains severely limited. Government-initiated forced child labor during the cotton harvest continues."
Political opposition has been repressed. Torture is common, and the Guardian reported in 2003 that two prisoners were even boiled to death.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the Bush administration presided over a concerted effort to improve relations with Equatorial Guinea, including high-level meetings between Obiang and Bush and the reopening of the American embassy in the capital city of Malabo. Obiang won praise from Condoleezza Rice in 2006 as a "good friend" of the United States. While Equatorial Guinea does not receive direct military aid, it has taken part in the American International Military Education and Training program. Human Rights Watch reports that Guinea is "mired in corruption, poverty, and repression under the leadership of" Obiang and that "the government regularly engages in torture and arbitrary detention." Oil revenues are distributed to the president's family and allies, with his son reportedly spending more on luxury goods between 2004 and 2007 than the country's annual education budget.
In the 1990's, American companies discovered large oil reserves in waters belonging to this West African nation.
Good to see you broke out the big girl panties finally Sarah/ Gobie, Did Rudy and you pick them out together?
Reagan and his bud Mubarak;
http://whitenoiseinsanity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ronaldreaganhosnimubarakcorbisimages.jpg
Reagan and his buds the Taliban;
http://whatwouldjackdo.net/reagan_taliban.jpg
I hope you guys don’t believe the latest nonsense, O’Reilly and Obama go toe-to-toe. Do you think that the Leprechaun will ask the Kenyan about the Hawaii controversy? Do you think that the Leprechaun will ask the Kenyan what he was doing in Pakistan when U.S. citizens were not allowed into Pakistan? They have Harvard in common. Do you think that the Leprechaun will ask the Community Agitator who got him into Harvard, who paid for it, and why we don’t get to see what he did while he was supposedly there? Dontcha just love the hypocrisy? I hopey changey that Sarah stays in the hunt so that someone with some balls asks some tough questions.
Both sides have openly used Saul's book Rules for Radicals openly for many years, the "other" Sarah (who is a man) has proudly professed it to be the "Bible" of the Republican party. There is nothing extraordinary about the book, and it is very dated (1971). Sarah/ Gobias Bluth has been very public and is quoted as saying "I am just another student of Saul Alinsky (you say emotional bs, I say rules for radicals or the new rules for republicans) -- you should take a look at the rules."
Gobias Bluth
The game has advanced a lot since 1971, though those rules do still work for the feeble minded and uneducated. It is "unfortunate", but McCain/ Palin were beat with their own parties self admitted exalted weapon of mass disinformation.
I say both sides should quit playing with a 40 year old book written by a has been, and put down their tarot cards and weegie boards and start doing something real. But most of us know that will never happen.
"Others" should stop using many names to appear to be a grand army of false "Conservative" men in drag worshipers dabbling with liberal tokens and charms.
We could do a shit load with that much money, Ha ?