All of Ron Paul's Comments to HFSC/Bernanke 2/25/2009

2/25/2009 All of Ron Paul's comments today at the House Financial Services Committee. In his opening remarks to Bernanke, Ron Paul defends capitalism and warns against international fiat monetary schemes, which will exacerbate our economic woes. Then he Schools Bernanke... Yet again!

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I wish this man were in charge!!

 

I will agree that the GOP did their best to outst him. That doesn't change the simple fact that he would have made a great president and would have helped us out of this mess we're in.

 

No, I disagree.. It's never too late to start doing the right thing. That is what Ron Paul stands for and his record speaks clearly.

I know people don't like him and his ideas because hey, we're human and we get used to things as they are and we don't ever want to look to clean house and start over, but sometimes it just needs to be done.

It is my firm opinion that Dr Paul could have done better than anyone we have out in office for the last 20 years.

 

Are we talking about the real Ron Paul or the Ron Paul that the GOP and media would like you to see?

Which is exactly what we need now. Someone that understands economic policy....

That might have been true, but I don't think the "Obama machine" did it to McCain. I think the GOP did it to themselves. They kept bringing up every petty thing about Obama and didn't focus on the issues that mattered. They lost many news cycles with the petty stuff.

Say thing is it will happen again if we don't stop with the petty such with Obama and nail him for the bigger issues.

Ron Paul is and was my man! I hope we can get him to run again.

 

More food for thought:

From wikipedia (take it for what it's worth since it's from wikipedia)

Pro-life legislation

Paul calls himself "strongly pro-life"[172] and "an unshakable foe of abortion."[173] He believes regulation of medical decisions about maternal or fetal health is "best handled at the state level."[174][175][176] He believes that, for the most part, states should retain jurisdiction, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.
Paul refers to his background as an obstetrician as being influential on his view, recalling inadvertently witnessing a late-term abortion performed by one of his instructors during his residency, “It was pretty dramatic for me to see a two-and-a-half-pound baby taken out crying and breathing and put in a bucket.”[177] During a May 15, 2007, appearance on the Fox News talk show Hannity and Colmes, Paul argued that his pro-life position was consistent with his libertarian values, asking, "If you can't protect life then how can you protect liberty?" Furthermore, Paul argued in this appearance that since he believes libertarians support non-aggression, libertarians should oppose abortion because abortion is "an act of aggression" against a fetus, which he believes to be alive, human, and possessing legal rights.[178]
Paul has said that the ninth and tenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution do not grant the federal government any authority to legalize or ban abortion, stating that "the federal government has no authority whatsoever to involve itself in the abortion issue."[179]
Paul introduced The Sanctity of Life Act of 2005, a bill that would have defined human life to begin at conception, and removed challenges to prohibitions on abortion from federal court jurisdiction.[180] In 2005, Paul introduced the We the People Act, which would have removed "any claim based upon the right of privacy, including any such claim related to any issue of ... reproduction" from the jurisdiction of federal courts. If made law, either of these acts would allow states to prohibit abortion.[129] In 2005, Paul voted against restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions.[181]
In order to "offset the effects of Roe v. Wade," Paul voted in favor of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. He has described partial birth abortion as a "barbaric procedure." He also introduced H.R. 4379 that would prohibit the Supreme Court from ruling on issues relating to abortion, birth control, the definition of marriage and homosexuality and would cause the court's precedents in these areas to no longer be binding.[182] He once said, “The best solution, of course, is not now available to us. That would be a Supreme Court that recognizes that for all criminal laws, the several states retain jurisdiction.”[183]




Also, from On The Issues:


Click here for 25 full quotes on Abortion OR background on Abortion.

• Abortion is murder. (Apr 2008)
• Roe v. Wade decision was harmful to the Constitution. (Apr 2008)
• Define life at conception in law, as scientific statement. (Feb 2008)
• Protecting the life of the unborn is protecting liberty. (Feb 2008)
• Get the federal government out of abortion decision. (Nov 2007)
• Delivered 4000 babies; & assuredly life begins at conception. (Sep 2007)
• Sanctity of Life Act: remove federal jurisdiction. (Sep 2007)
• Nominate only judges who refuse to legislate from the bench. (Sep 2007)
• Save "snowflake babies": no experiments on frozen embryos. (Sep 2007)
• No tax funding for organizations that promote abortion. (Sep 2007)
• Embryonic stem cell programs not constitionally authorized. (May 2007)
• Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
• Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
• Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
• Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
• Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
• Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
• Voted YES on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
• Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
• Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
• Voted NO on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
• No federal funding of abortion, and pro-life. (Dec 2000)
• Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
• Rated 56% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)

I think the reason a lot of people see Ron Paul as having a mixed record on abortion is because sometimes he has voted against a bill because of something else IN the bill. From what I read about him, he would rather vote against a bill if part of it isn't right.

It's an all or nothing type attitude with him and I like that about him. I would rather know the bill he is voting for is a good bill vs "the best we could do" bill...