Candidate Ron Paul speaks in Washington

By David Hotle | Dec 22, 2011

When presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul spoke to a crowd of about 300 people at the Washington Public Library Wednesday afternoon, his speech included liberty, a balanced budget and sound economic policies.
Paul, a Republican, said that his concerns with the U.S. economy began in 1974 when he first decided to run for Congress. He said that he was concerned about the future because, he said, ?We as a country decided money could just be paper and if the government needed it, they could print it.? He said that it has since turned out to be a dangerous thing to do. He spoke of the Federal Reserve Bank that prints dollars and the need to audit it.
?In the last four years there seems to have been an explosion of interest,? he said. ?In the last campaign we did well, but something really significant happened in 2008.?
He said that after the recession of 2008, he found more people were willing to listen to his message.
Paul spoke of the war being fought in Afghanistan.
?It is an insult to us all when we have unnecessary wars,? he said. ?They are fought, undeclared and seem to go on forever.?
He said that with the country?s economic needs, such wars shouldn?t be fought. He also said that more diplomatic means should be used to solve problems with other countries. Paul also objected to having to get approval from the United Nations to go to war. He promised that if he were elected, he would only declare war under the proper authority and then they would be over quickly.
Paul said that he is concerned that the United States will help bail out Europe financially. He said the country should solve its own financial problems by cutting money from foreign aid spending.
He said that he has a plan to cut $1 trillion from the United States budget during the first year if he is elected president.
?There are a lot of programs we have had over the last 60 or 70 years, since the depression, that are broke,? he said. ?Even Social Security has no money in the bank, which is why we have to do something. If we continue to do what we do, we?ll continue running up the debt, keep borrowing money, keep taxing and keep printing money until the money loses all its value.?
Paul said that his foreign policy was based on the foreign policy of the founding fathers. He said that it is based on not getting involved in the affairs of foreign countries.
?We are supposed to have a strong national defense, but we aren?t supposed to tell other people how to live,? he said. ?At one time this was the Republican foreign policy.?
Paul spoke of time he served in the military in 1962. He talked about the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He said the way the crisis was averted was that President John F. Kennedy had diplomats from both countries talk to each other. They agreed to remove missiles.
?We need more of that than we need threats and intimidation,? Paul said. ?We have almost 12,000 diplomats in the state department. I think it?s time we started using them.?
He also spoke of trying to take over Afghanistan as ?the final nail in the coffin? of the Soviet Union?s economy. He said U.S. had won the Cold War because ?their system was more flawed than ours,? but that he sees the United States taking the same path. Paul said the economic crisis is a bigger threat to the U.S. than any foreign country attempting to invade.
He also talked about the need to protect individual freedoms in the United States. Paul said during the last week congress had approved the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 which allows the government to use U.S. troops against U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism and hold them indefinitely without trial.
?Maybe we can get them (the government) to pay attention to the Constitution again ? wouldn?t that be nice,? he said. ?We would look into that Federal Reserve, audit the Federal Reserve and maybe curtail the Federal Reserve.?
He said that he believes the United States would suffer the consequences of having liberties undermined. He said that the oath taken by legislators says they should ?defend against all enemies foreign and domestic.?
Paul summed up his message saying that the United States needs to cut spending overseas, obey the Constitution and understand what Liberty means.
?We need to have more confidence in freedom,? he said. ?Freedom really does work.?

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