Saturday, February 18, 2012
politics Ron Paul in Boise: Slams Federal Reserve and Dept. of Education, Promotes 'Golden Rule' as Foreign Policy
Posted by Andrew Crisp, Josh Gross and George Prentice on Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:15 PM
- George Prentice
- Ron Paul addressed 2,300 at Boise's CenturyLink Arena Feb. 18
In front of an estimated midday crowd of 2,300, Texas Congressman Ron Paul brought his presidential campaign to Boise's CenturyLink Arena Saturday.
In an address that ran nearly an hour, Paul's rhetoric was a combination of what was wrong with America (the Federal Reserve, the Department of Education and most recent military engagements) and what he would do to "restore liberty" (reintroduction of the gold standard, cutting the federal budget by a $1 trillion, and a foreign policy based on the golden rule).
"Can you imagine a world where we wouldn't do to another country what we wouldn't want to be done to us?" asked Paul. "If so, maybe 8,500 Americans would still be alive today."
But the centerpiece of Paul's speech was the U.S. Constitution.
"We have changed our government to an institution not compatible to the Constitution," said Paul. "The role of our government is to defend liberty, not to run the economy and certainly not to police the world."
During a post-speech press availability, BW's Josh Gross pressed Paul about the congressman's plan to gut the Department of Education. Watch the interview below.
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The Dept of Education was created in the late 1970s. We had public education before that. The states only get 10% of their funding from the federal government and a lot of that is spent complying with federal mandates.
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"BW Gets Schooled By Ron Paul" is how this should read! Not only Dumb Government, but Dangerous to also!
"What if you have dumb government?"
Then you end up with an education system that makes Josh Gross think he's much smarter than he really is.
My state had some of the best schools in the nation when I started in 1975. The DOE has ruined them.
Kurt Evans
Mitchell, South Dakota
What a numb-nuts interviewer-- he posed the question as if to imply that schools would simply CEASE TO EXIST, were it not for the 33 year old DOE.
Paul made perfect sense there. The way Mr. Gross phrased the question indicating that public education would not exist without the DoE just made him look like an idiot.
Paul homeschooled this interviewer like it was chocolate in the summer. Ron Paul 2012
Ron Paul can be pretty goofy, especially regarding foreign policy. But, it is a no brainer to shut down the department of education. It is a parasitic liability that on net, does more harm than good at ~$70B / yr.
Age of Idiocy.
Josh Grossman: What would things be like, if the federal government didn't regulate education?
Ron Paul: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED the federal government to think for you. You're free to decide for yourselves! You're ALL individuals!
Josh Grossman: Yes! We're all individuals!
Ron Paul: You're all different!
Josh Grossman: Yes, we're all different!
Ron Paul: The president is NOT the messiah!
Josh Grossman: The president not the messiah!
Josh Grossman: Er, but seriously: what WOULD things be like, if the federal government didn't regulate education?
What is so goofy about minding our own business? What is so goofy about not being the policemen of the world? That sounds like sanity to me, not psychopath lies like the current idiot in office. Hope/Change my ass...
Education in our rural areas of California are hindered by the Federal requirements, instead of the teachers, parents and children deciding what they NEED. Many children are now home-schooled or a combination internet/home-schooled in our area. The global information propaganda that is being required to be taught to our children is not based on facts or giving our children the ability to compete in the colleges against the elites offspring. Have you heard of dumming down our youth? They do not teach national patriotism in our schools anymore, we do not even teach right from wrong to most because of our obsession with reality shows that encourage lying, cheating, killing, corporate greed is all considered normal entertainment because we show the success stories like MITT or NEWT as goal to aspire to. WTF Many children would receive better educations through local decisions on the needs of the citizens and their children. Our education system used to be the best in the world now since the DOE stepped in to run the show it has gone down hill FAST! Vote Ron Paul 2012!
Still relevant to this day, and a MUST READ, by a person who worked for the DOE under Reagan:
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf
I was there and had to hold back from punching Josh Grossman in the mouth. What a tool. Hey Josh... want to be a real journalist like the rest of us? Then a. STOP using an iphone to shoot your interviews. You look like a idiot. And b. Don't try to corner the person you are interviewing with back twisted answers. You end up looking like a dumbass.
YOU ARE NOT A JOURNALIST SIR.
Kudos fpr Ron Paul's comment about applying "The Golden Rule" to U.S. foreign policy, rather than what we've all been told the lie that giving billions to other countries and sacrificing thousands of America's best in the military, is to "promote America's interests", which I would argue has been to prop up despotic puppet dictators as long as they play ball with what Dwight Eisenhower named 50 years ago as the "military/industrial establishment". However, contrary to what at least 2 commenters said above about the elimination of the Department of Education, Dr. Paul said explicitly that he would do just that, and he would turn the most important function of a democratic society over to "family, community, churches, and local government." There's not a single democratic nation who's ever tried to do that, and polls show that the vast majority of Americans would recognize that is surely not a workable solution to our problems.
Why are we worried about the border between Pakistain and Afghanistan when our own borders are open? Bring the troops home and use the American troops to
Defend America. Makes perfect sense to me.
I think Paul brings up a great point about the DOE. Is it necessary? I think I'd want to ask a few teachers rather than politicians, though. Why do politicians make more decisions about education than teachers?
However, while his gold standard and Federal Reserve rhetoric probably play well with many of his followers, it really skips over most of history and a great deal of common sense. Does he really want to go back to bank runs and bank failures? Who would loan the minimum deposit amounts to a bank if we abolish the Federal Reserve? Do you really think that even if you walked in with a big bag of gold that the bank would simply shove it in the vault and hold it? And not loan it out--the whole amount would be there when you came back the next day? And what if more they didn't have enough gold to give you yours back? Currently, the Federal Reserve provides overnight loans to banks at the Fed Funds Rate so they are always prepared for withdrawals. What is Ron Paul's solution if he trashes that system? Do his followers even know how money worked before the Federal Reserve? When you deposited your gold in a bank, they gave you a bank note that you could use to spend. If your bank went under, know what those bank notes were worth? Nothing--you could wallpaper with them perhaps, but you lost everything.
How about getting checks cleared at banks other than your own? You can forget about that. Inflation would still exist but there would be no way to check it--which Republicans really skewered Jimmy Carter for in the 1970s. If inflation doesn't have any checks, you can probably kiss fixed-rate mortgages good-bye as well. No bank will loan you money at a fixed rate if they have to worry about rampant inflation.
Ron Paul has great rhetoric, but the devil is in the details......................
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