Ron Paul on the House floor 3/10/09: "We Need More Earmarks!"

does such a great job explaining wish the other elected officials would listen.

about a week ago HR 1207 had 11 co-sponsors. A few days ago that jumped to 21. I just checked and it is now up to....TWENTY-EIGHT co-sponsors!!!

See the list here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR01207:@@@P

I was blind to the truth as most Americans still are until I found Ron Paul. I have no doubt in my mind that Ron Paul will go down in history as the "Great Teacher and Great Mentor for Freedom"

how our home State Reps vote on it. At least our good Dr. Paul introduces legislation that would help "identify" where money goes. That's a good first step in identifying problem areas. As long as these clowns in office wear their rose colored glasses and claim ignorance about spending bills, there is no hope. There will be no accountability, ever. Let's follow H.R. 1207 and see where it ends up. Maybe some lawmakers will wake up and listen to Ron Paul. (but I doubt it)

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I appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee and told the 3 Congressmen there that "policy must be separated from revenue raising" in the tax code. The answer from a Congressman: "That will never happen." Well, this is the same thing. Laws should never be packages. All votes should be on one law at a time.

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While so many others would keep the people dumbed down and unaware this man takes the time to educate and enlighten.

"Men are ruled, at this minute, by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern."

-G.K. Chesterton

The Cavuto interview was great. Cavuto looked like a deer looking into headlights. He is simply has no comprehension of what is being discussed. RP has to bring the intellectual argument so low with these talking heads, that it must be so frustrating for him. I am sure many of us would of lost it long before, while speaking with such poor souls.
Simply, Cavuto is incompetent in these matters and should be transferred to entertainment news or something along those lines.
I do not know what the misunderstanding is all about. I am baffled along with RP. :)
As RP says," just open the Constitution and read it."

God help us.

"earmarks" and bringing it into correct perspective. Once again the good doctor cuts through all the b.s. so we can see what's really going on, and what we should be concentrating on - HR 1207! - invaluable!!

I think what the critics are saying is that IF you put in earmarks and know the bill will pass, you are essentially voting FOR the bill, whatever it is.

In this case, it's the BIGGEST banking bailout heist of the century.

You make a logical point that IF the budget or A bill is a good one, then, it would be the responsibility for the representatives to put in their respective earmarks, but I THOUGHT that was reserved for individual bills, you know?

I think that's what ALL Americans are actually shocked by. They had NO IDEA that Congressmen were adding so much crap to each and every bill....until the Banking Bailout Bill came to the forefront of the Media. We've had no idea what these clowns were doing till now.

As taxpayers, we want these bills to be TO THE POINT, no deals, no behind the backroom deals, no added crap.....ever!

Am I right??

In the Russert interview, he said & I quote, "I've never voted for an earmark in my life!"

Today, he says we need to earmark, so isn't he being contradictory??

Maybe, he meant that he never voted for a spending bill in his life?? I don't think Dr. Paul was clear enough on this, because even I'm a little confused.

Also, the problem with the pork is that it INFLATED THE BANKING BAILOUT BILL by billions of dollars, that is, Tarp 1 & Tarp 2.

He hit this one out of the park.

I'll bet the FED is writhing in it's slime when it hears this.

AND OH HOW A VAMPIRE HATES A MIRROR!

RP just makes too much sense for these numbscull to comprehend.

Ethics = Visibility + Expectations Delivery

Why am I not surprised that the crafty powers that be have been working so hard with the propaganda machine to make the american people hate earmarks? Thanks Dr. Paul. I understand now. Earmarks are my friend!

Things are only impossible until they are not.
-- Jean Luc Picard

Thank you Dr. Paul for explaining Earmarks. It makes complete sense to me now. It is the level of spending that needs to be addressed. It sounds like a pot of money is appropriated and if it is not earmarked, then it goes to the Administration to be spent at will. The example you gave was an excellent one. If we had earmarked the money in the TARP, then it would have had to have gone to exactly where it was earmarked to go. This same thing happened in our local government budget. A pot of money was set aside as unallocated. These funds were used as the local government wished (ie by-passed budget earmarking).

Just jotted off an email to my congressidiot to support this bill. Please do the same.

We allowed the demonization of earmarks to happen without even challenging it. Gotta stay alert.

"It's just one big club... and WE ain't in it!"

Excellent! Just what we needed!

Ron Paul's Convention Speech

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“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement” - Thomas Jefferson

Does it really make sense for congressmen to earmark things like:

Wooden bow and arrows
A study to determine how to prevent pig feces from stinking
Money to study copulation of cats
Cash for high speed rail to and from nowhere?

What checks and balances are in place for that crap! IT PISSES ME OFF!!!

For Freedom!

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"(Better) to be confused in the search for truth than fully confident and sound asleep in a dream of lies." ~ Michael Nystrom
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but the thing is Ron did not do well on Cavuto he was not prepared...

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"(Better) to be confused in the search for truth than fully confident and sound asleep in a dream of lies." ~ Michael Nystrom
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Can we replace the Niel Cavuto vid with this one? Please, pretty please?
Everyone wants to better understand this issue, nice not to have to endure the disrespect shown to Ron in the other vid.
Thank you.

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if you build it he will come..........Ron Paul 2012.

Leave it up to the good Dr. to explain to the little kids in congress what their responsibilities are.

I thought. People have a right to know what the money is being spent on.