House Proceeding 05-14-09 on May 14th, 2009 :: 0:37:10 to 0:43:00
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Ron Paul: poe. for what purpose does the gentleman from ms. herseth sandlin: madam speaker, ask unanimous consent to speak out of order, address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: we will first go to the gentleman from texas and then come back to the gentlewoman from north dakota. >> madam speaker, i ask for my

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Speech By: Ron Paul

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Ron Paul: five minutes at this time and claim the gentleman's time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is granted five minutes. >> i thank you, madam speaker. today we passed the supplemental bill and i'm deeply disappointed about that. i wasdy appointed al wasn't able to get any time to enter into the debate because

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Ron Paul: the me was rather limited and it was a closed rule. but i did want to make a couple of comments in the concerns that i've had about this supplemental. you know, when the president sent the supplemental over, it

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Ron Paul: was $84.9 billion. an there were some of us that were hoping that we wouldn't be funding the war through supplementals but it looks like that hasn't changed, that process would continue, even though there were some that believed there would be a change in the way with we funded these wars. but when that bill came to the house, there was a lot of expression about concern about spending too much money, but by the time it got to the floor it was $96.7 billion and things

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Ron Paul: were added, for instance, $2 billion for the flu epidemic that didn't occur but still we're going to spend $2 billion trying to figure out whether or not we're going to have an but it was very disappointing that even though it was a closed rule the minority had one chance to do something about it and maybe reduce some of the spending.

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Ron Paul: but lo and behold, when that amendment was offered, it was offered to increase the sp but there was a lot of expression of the outcry about this spending and the deficits we have. and the deficits are exploding and the social security, medicare, medicaid,

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Ron Paul: underfunded, and we're in the midst of a cris but it doesn't seem to bother anybody about spending but the truth is, the treasury's bare. the treasury's empty and yet we continue to spend all this money. so where do they going to get this money? well, we can't tax the people anymore. the people are broke.

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Ron Paul: and yet there's still -- we resort to more borrowing and more printing of money. which will not last forever. it will eventually come to an end and i think that is what we're witnessing. but this process bothers me a whole lot, that we come to the floor with the supplementals, we rush them through, we talk about this excessive spending

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Ron Paul: and lo and behold, when we finally vote we get a total of 60 people who would say, you know, enoughs enough. and besides, what are we doing? where are we spending this money? i thought we were supposed to, with this change in administration, that we would be fighting less wars. but, no, the war in iraq continues. we expand the war on

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Ron Paul: afghanistan. we spread the war into pakistan. and we always have on the table pot tension danger of iran -- potential danger of iran. so when will it ever end? we can't even define the enemy who is the enemy over there? is ithe i'd al qaeda, the taliban, is it the government of pakistan?

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Ron Paul: if you can't define your enemy, how do you know when the war's over? if we're in war, which we are, how can this be anything other than war? when was this war declared? oh, well we got this authority five or 10 years ago, who knows when. perpetual war, this is what we're involved in. perpetual spending and then we

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Ron Paul: say, well, we have to do that to be safe. that is what is preposterous. it's the very policy that makes us unsafe. we pursue this policy and the more we do, the less safe we are. there's a big argument now about whether we're safer now with the new administration or is it making us less safe? the truth is, the policies of

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Ron Paul: the last 10, 15, 20 years has been -- has made us less safe. and as long as we occupy countries, as long as we kill other people and civilians are being killed, we are going to build enemies and as long as we're known throughout e war -- world that we torture people, we will insight people to hate us and come and want to

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Ron Paul: come here to kill us. so we aren't more safe. we're less safe by this foreign policy. and someday we have to wise up, change our ways and not be the policemen of the world, not to pretend that we can be the nation builders of the world, swear off and make sure we don't torture, because you don't get worthwhile

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Ron Paul: information from torture. all it does is insight people against us and the occupations can never be of any benefit to us. but what about the financial calamity that's coming? i'm afraid this is the way this will end. through another financial crisis much bigger than the one we currently have. because you can't create $2 trillion of new money every

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Ron Paul: year and expect this system to continue. the soviet system collapsed because they couldn't afford it. their economic system was a total failure. we did not have to fight the soveyets. even though they were a nuclear power, they clamsed and disintegrated and that is what we have to be concerned about. because we cannot continue to finance this system and pursue

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Ron Paul: a policy which endangers us. so if we care about the american people and care about our liberties and care about our constitution we ought to look seriously at our foreign policy and not continue to pursue these supplemental