Ron Paul espouses wary view of big government (Brown)

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This guy thinks he was pandering to the audience. Sheesh.

Ron Paul skirted around potentially controversial issues and was met with respectful enthusiasm at a lecture Tuesday night in Salomon 101. Sharing his views on a plethora of political issues, Paul punctuated his lecture by voicing his distrust of politicians and government, at one point saying he wanted to “neuter” lobbyists.

“The bigger the government, the bigger the lies, the less liberty we have,” the former congressman told a packed house.

Paul highlighted what he described as the plights of big government in policy areas ranging from the economy to international relations, calling big government the root of the nation’s problems.

Once the only OB/GYN in his town, Paul said he was not interested in becoming a politician until then-President Nixon “ominously” took the United States off of the “pseudo-Bretton Woods gold standard” in 1971.

Since then, the government has continued to grow, the economy has become overregulated and the United States has ceased to produce tangible goods, Paul added.

Paul cited the end of the gold standard and the increasing power of Federal Reserve monetary policy as the causes of the recent economic crisis.

“In the ’50s and the ’60s when we were graduating from college and medical school, there was never a question about jobs,” Paul said, but now even graduates with advanced degrees face serious challenges finding work.

Paul condemned the Fed’s response to the recent recession as an example of what he called the corruption of big government.

“The Fed came in — in secret — to the tune of trillions and trillions of dollars to bail out all the banks and all the major corporations,” he said. “What happened to the people who were supposed to be helped?”

Large banks and corporations also profit from government welfare programs, Paul said, arguing that the programs do not actually benefit the poor.

But Paul said he would not immediately recommend cutting welfare.

“My suggestion wouldn’t be to cut food stamps for the poor or medical stamps for the children,” Paul said. The government should “stop all the wars and bring the troops home … before we do anything else.”

more: http://www.browndailyherald.com/2013/04/17/ron-paul-espouses-wary-view-of-big-government/

 

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[eleganz]

Salomon 101 max capacity = 594.

The article says it was a packed house.

 

[sailingaway]

Salomon 101 max capacity = 594.

The article says it was a packed house.

He had 3000 at UF, so I guess the desire for more one on one discussion was why they restricted it to Brown students only. Too bad the last question was the newsletters Ron figures he talked about in 1996 and has no interest in talking about any more. They are complete BS as applied to him. The only real legitimacy is to the 'letting people run your name without management' sort of analysis. but smears don't require substance, unfortunately.