Video (8min 46sec) about the interesting message of Conservative Republican Representative Ron Paul of Texas. 'To me the radical idea is over-spending, over-borrowing and the resorting to printing money when you run out of it. And then you wonder why we're having financial problems or borrowing it from the Chinese to finance or military operations. Most Americans are waking up to this...' 'You know I won't play the Capitol Hill games with the Capitol Hill gang, denouncing the IRS while giving the Gestapo more money. Or figuring out some other Federal tax for them to squeeze out of you.
'I rise to urge the Congress to think twice before thrusting this nation into a war without merit - one fraught with the danger of escalating into something no American will be pleased with.' - Congressman Ron Paul, September 4th, 2002.
'We don't need any more money to bring the troops home. I mean we already have six or seven hundred billion dollars in the pipeline. So there's more than enough adequate funds to take care of the troops and make sure they're out of harm's way and bring them home. So, we don't need that funding. What we need is more funding for our veterans... Why do we have troops in Korea after 50 years? And why do we occupy Europe? We're going broke. And we don't need this. We need this money to be spent at home. We need to worry about our borders here at home, not worry about the borders around the world...'
Congressman Paul's consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, "Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers' ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are." Another colleague observed, "There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few."
