Waking Jonah

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 9 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul at South Carolina Primary Concession Speech (1/21/2012)
Date: 1/21/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: How do we get away with paying for these bills, and endless spending occurs and government keeps growing?… it cannot occur if you have a sound monetary system; That is why I have emphasized the importance of having a sound dollar and why we need to reign in the Federal Reserve system; If we obeyed the law, we would have sound money… the Constitution still says that only gold and silver should be legal tender; You can understand why government grows… because politicians don’t have to be responsible; That’s why they invented in 1913 this financial system based on fiat money and printing money, because you can delay the pain and penalty; I used to say so often over the years that, “you know, we run up these debts… and we pass them on to the next generation… we shouldn’t do it…”, but you know what’s different today… we are the next generation and we’re suffering the consequences; If you just print money, the value of the money goes down, and the people’s standards go down; Already the people on fixed incomes… their standard of living is going down; The middle class is shrinking; Unemployment, if you look at those honestly, is closer to 20%, and the people are very, very concerned about this; The answers come with a very uncomplicated solution… we got into this mess by too many people in Washington either didn’t care or didn’t understand the Constitution… we need to restore the Constitution and we must restore liberty

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 7 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Speaks to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (1/20/2012)
Date: 1/20/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: Generally speaking my views are different in reality than the other candidates… although the rhetoric might not be extremely different, in reality it is different… because so often we have candidates that will talk about some changes but basically still support the status quo; The status quo today is too much ignoring the Constitution; We’ve gotten into this trouble because we’ve avoided following the Constitution… it shouldn’t be difficult to get out of trouble by just having only people in Washington who obey the Constitution–that’s what I think we oughta do; It also reflects an educational system that over many many decades have taught generations of Americans that the Constitution is not to be a rigid document; Since we got careless with this, the document doesn’t mean a whole lot; The Founders of this country… put it in there that only gold and silver could be legal tender, you couldn’t have a central bank, and you couldn’t print money… but look at where we are… and we didn’t change the Constitution; There is no authority for the federal government to be running education… therefore we don’t need the Department of Education; When you [the executive branch] write a regulation, you’re writing a law… and that’s the executive branch doing what only the legislative branch is supposed to be doing… we need to challenge this someday

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 5 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Speaks to Students at the College of Charleston (1/19/2012)
Date: 1/19/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: Yesterday that vote on raising the national debt limit by 1.2 was a real farce in many ways, because the debt is going to be increased; The debt is automatically going up $1.2 trillion… nobody seems to care… if they did, they would take my advice and cut the budget by $1 trillion dollars in one year… is what we need; The wealth in this country is basically debt… we’re running the world on debt; The dollar will be rejected, and it has been rejected in many ways already; I got involved in politics in 1971 when the last link to gold was undermined and removed… believing then that would mean the politicians could spend money endlessly and have no responsibility… and that’s exactly what has happened; If you take a look at the value of your dollar since 1971, it went down 85%; If someone put their money away 40 years ago and now they’re going to retire… the money they put away has been gradually eroded… the dollars they put away in 1971 would be worth 15 cents; This is criminal… this is immoral… it’s bad economics; This is why we have to look to the Constitution, realizing the Constitution still says only gold and silver can be used as legal tender; There’s no authority in the Constitution to print money, and there’s no authority for the Federal Reserve system at all

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 3 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Myrtle Beach GOP Debate Highlights (1/16/2012)
Date: 1/16/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: I want to cut money–overseas money–that’s what I want to do; I want to cut military money, I don’t want to cut defense money; I want to bring the troops home… I’d probably have more bases here at home; We were closing them down in the 1990′s and building them overseas–that’s how we got into trouble; We would save a lot more money and have a stronger national defense, and that’s what we should do; But to say that we would be weaker is absolutely wrong; The military is behind me more than the others–I get twice as much money from the active military duties than all the other candidates put together… so they’re saying that I’m on the right track–they’re sick and tired of those wars… they’re sick and tired of the nation building and the policing activity; There’s a difference between military spending and defense spending; Just cause you spend a billion dollars on an embassy in Baghdad bigger than the Vatican–you consider that defense spending… I consider that waste; I’d cut some of this military spending… like Eisenhower advised us… “watch out for the military industrial complex”; Defend this country–we have to have a strong national defense, but we don’t get strength by diluting ourselves in 900 bases–130 countries–that is where the problem is; There is a difference between just military spending and defense spending; We’re supposed to be conservatives–spend less money

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 2 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Receives Key Endorsement, Speaks to Supporters in Myrtle Beach, SC (1/15/2012)
Date: 1/15/12

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Partial transcript: The attack on personal liberties has continued; First, after 9/11 it was the Patriot Act; The Patriot Act was not invented because of 9/11… it had been invented several years before; An opportunity arises for those who like to put those kind of laws on us… saw that as an opportunity… so within a week or two, the Patriot Act was passed; If we could have renamed it, it wouldn’t have passed; If they had called that the “Repeal of the 4th Amendment Act”, maybe nobody would have voted for it then… because that’s essentially what it did; We have lost our privacy–they can invade our homes without legitimate search warrants; The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)–a very, very bad piece of legislation; The provisions in there essentially have repealed Posse Comitatus; The president now is allowed to use the military to arrest any American citizen as a probably cause; Not only can you be arrested by the military–that’s only half of it–you can be kept in secret confinement indefinitely and denied an attorney… and that is not part of what America should be; If we’re to restore the republic, we would be repealing the Patriot Act as well as this authority to arrest American citizens by the U.S. Army–that should not be permissible; There’s something much bigger than me going on in this country… it’s been going on for 4, 5, 6 years, and it’s growing by leaps and bounds… and that is the freedom movement–people really are understanding what’s going on; If we do nothing, though, the status quo will drive us down… the bankruptcy of the country will lead to chaos; We can’t continue this wild spending overseas and the wild entitlement spending here–it won’t work… the endpoint will be a monetary financial event

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 1 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Receives Key Endorsement, Speaks to Supporters in Myrtle Beach, SC (1/15/2012)
Date: 1/15/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: The easiest place to cut–for all Americans–should be this wild, runaway spending overseas–that’s where we need to cut; If you do that, and change the military budget, you don’t give up one penny of national defense, because you can have more defense with less money if we quit this nation building and the policemen of the world–we don’t need to be doing that; That means we’d be bringing a lot of troops back home; The military gives me the most amount of money… twice as much as all the other candidates; Maybe they’re tired of those wars as well; We’re supposedly over there to defend our Constitution… but how do you go to war that’s not declared under the rules of the Constitution? How can these be constitutional wars?; Just think how simple this problem could be solved… don’t go to war unless the Congress declares it

Jay Leno interviews Dr. Ron Paul…

[Part 4 of a 4-part series]

Show: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Podcast: Ron Paul on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (12/16/2011)
Date: 12/16/11
Host: Jay Leno
Guest: Ron Paul
Notes: Foreign policy; We went to war too easily with Iraq; The wars have been a disaster; The founders had given us a way to prevent these kind of wars–they said you’re not supposed to go to war unless you declare the war by the Congress, which is endorsed by the people–that would have prevented it; Iran is allowed to develop nuclear power and they have no evidence that they’ve ever enriched and transferred it to weaponry, so there’s a lot of propaganda going on… it’s very similar to the propaganda that led up to Iraq, and we should be very very cautious; Cutting all foreign aid–there’s no proper authority… for the most part, foreign aid takes money from the poor people of this country and gives it to rich people in the poor countries, because it becomes a political tool; Policy on Israel; Egypt and Mubarak; Great empires end through economic reasons–they go bankrupt; When Israel was started they had two principles: independence and self-reliance; Even Netanyahu said on the House floor just a few months ago that “we don’t need American troops to defend ourselves… we can take care of ourselves”; Arab Spring is not a healthy endorsement of our foreign policy because part of this is rebelling against dictators that we have propped up; We’ve been interfering in Iran since 1953–these things tend to backfire on the long run, there’s too many unintended consequences

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Jay Leno interviews Dr. Ron Paul…

[Part 3 of a 4-part series]

Show: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Podcast: Ron Paul on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (12/16/2011)
Date: 12/16/11
Host: Jay Leno
Guest: Ron Paul
Notes: Social issues; Gay marriage; Dr. Paul’s position on marriage is that the government ought to just stay out of it totally and completely and quit arguing about it; Dr. Paul does very well with social conservatives because he recognizes the principle of life and liberty; Probably the most important social/family issue today is the economy–the family is threatened by this bad economy; Taxes; The tax collection is a symptom of an appetite for big government, so the people have to change their mind… if the people want us to be the policemen of the world and have welfare from cradle to grave, then you can’t get rid of taxation and we’ll continue on until we’re totally bankrupt and our currency fails; But if you want a constitutional government–limited government–you really don’t have to have an income tax, but the people have to make up their mind; You have to get the economy growing again, and that means you have to cut spending… that’s why Dr. Paul has proposed cutting spending the first year by $1 trillion

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Jay Leno interviews Dr. Ron Paul…

[Part 1 of a 4-part series]

Show: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Podcast: Ron Paul on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (12/16/2011)
Date: 12/16/11
Host: Jay Leno
Guest: Ron Paul
Notes: Dr. Paul’s message has been the same, but the country is changing; He tried to prevent some wars from starting… now the American people are tired of the wars; He’s talked a lot about economics… that’s what really got him motivated to run for office; There was a lot of handwriting on the wall about financial bubbles and housing bubbles… now that they have come about, the credibility has built and the people are very worried about the economy, and that’s something Dr. Paul has talked about for a long, long time; Dr. Paul is doing the strongest among young people; Freedom is very appealing–it’s based on principle; Younger people tend to be more principled… later on we’re taught to blend in and mesh in and go along with the crowd; The role that the federal government should play in people’s lives is very minimal… we have a document that tells us exactly what it should be, and that’s the Constitution; Article 1, Section 8; The purpose of the federal government is to preserve liberty, to allow people to run their own lives, to spend their own money…

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Lew Rockwell is interviewed by Jan Mickelson on Newsradio 1040 WHO in Des Moines, IA…

[Part 3 of a 4-Part series]

Show: The Lew Rockwell Show
Full Podcast: 225. Saving the Country by Changing Minds
Date: 9/27/11
Host: Lew Rockwell
Notes: Bailouts of the banks… both in Europe and in this country we have vast economic trouble because we live in sort of a “bankocracy”; When they’re ready to go bankrupt… they should be left to go bankrupt; Ron Paul’s book “End the Fed“; Ron Paul has actually communicated to regular Americans not only that the Federal Reserve is a bad institution, and that it represents the big banks, but it’s also ripping us off; Our country can be saved–we don’t have to decline into more poverty and authoritarianism, but it requires people learning and changing; Taxes is shorthand for wealth destruction; The way they will raise taxes is not going to affect the super rich… what it’s designed to do is to crush young entrepreneurs and up-and-coming businesses; If there’s anything that the establishment hates, it’s competition from young up-and-coming people

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Lew Rockwell is interviewed by Jan Mickelson on Newsradio 1040 WHO in Des Moines, IA…

[Part 1 of a 4-Part series]

Show: The Lew Rockwell Show
Full Podcast: 225. Saving the Country by Changing Minds
Date: 9/27/11
Host: Lew Rockwell
Notes: Lew Rockwell’s vision is freedom; We don’t need overlords running our lives; The myth of politics; Typically in elections we’re faced with Establishment Candidate A and Establishment Candidate B; Both McCain and Obama’s big contributors were on Wall Street–Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citibank–go right down the list; Both of them were the candidates of a certain class of big business; We didn’t really have a choice; They both represented the military industrial complex, big pharma, etc.

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Andrew Napolitano interviews Ron Paul about active duty and retired military support for his campaign, and just how high the cost of war really is…

Show: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Podcast: Congressman Ron Paul on Fox Business’ Freedom Watch (9/26/2011)
Date: 9/26/11
Host: Andrew Napolitano
Guest: Ron Paul
Notes: There’s another group of young people who support Ron Paul overwhelmingly… members of the United States Military; Recent editorial called “You Want Him” in a military newspaper; Editorial reflected that Dr. Paul gets a larger percentage of political contributions from active duty and retired military than the other Republican candidates combined; Are they telling us something?; Their lives are on the line… they’ve been ripped off, they’ve been sent over there…; The services are so worn down… nobody talks about the cost in human life–8,000 Americans have died in these wars that are illegal–not declared; 40,000 severe injuries; The military like the idea of somebody being cautious; Dr. Paul was looking for somebody cautious in 1965 when LBJ escalated the Vietnam War… he can identify with why active military people are sympathetic to what he’s saying; As wrong as it was for George W. Bush to have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, that evil was compounded by paying for it on the credit card; Even after we’re gone, we’ll still owe 2 trillion dollars for a war that will have been history and will not have made us any freer, or any safer; They went into war the wrong way–the war wasn’t necessary for our national security; Most wars are paid for through debasement of the currency (inflating the currency); You should be absolutely cautious about going to war because that has economic consequences

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Taking a break from the current series to post some intriguing comments made by Andrew Napolitano last week on the Alex Jones Show…

Show: The Alex Jones Show
Full Podcast: The Alex Jones Show – Tuesday 11-23-10
Date: 11/23/10
Host: Alex Jones
Guest: Andrew Napolitano
Topics: All presidents love war–except if Ron Paul became president–because they know that war is the health of the state; The people will pay more taxes, give up their liberty, and unite behind the soldiers no matter what the outcome; They falsely believe that war will help the economy… it’s a myth that has been perpetrated since Woodrow Wilson, reinforced by FDR, used by George W. Bush, and we’re about to see if Barack Obama can use it; Glenn Beck–”another Oklahoma City attack to be blamed on the liberty movement”; False-flag terror; This government would welcome the type of conflagration that we have seen in the past if it would help it become more authoritarian; The president is going to have to rule by decree, and the easiest way for him to rule by decree is to accompany his decree with fear… the easiest way to get that fear is to look the other way if somebody assaults us; Building 7; Geraldo Rivera; Hard to believe it came down by itself; Gratified to see Geraldo Rivera investigating it, gratified to see that people across the board are interested; Twenty years from now people will look at 9/11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today–it couldn’t possibly have been done the way the government told us

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Dr. Future & Tom Bionic interview Dale Robertson, founder of the original Tea Party Movement…

[Part 1 of a 2-Part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: Understanding the Goals, Motives and Plans of The Tea Party Movement
Date: 2/15/10
Hosts: Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Dale Robertson
Topics: Bailouts, Accountability, Trust, Transparency, Chris Dodd, Countrywide, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Grassroots movement, Champion of a cause

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