Ron Paul: The Solution is to Live Within Our Means
Congressman Paul appeared on Your World w/ Neil Cavuto with Freedomworks' Dick Armey on Thursday to discuss why the federal government cannot spend its way out of the economic crisis with President-elect Obama's new stimulus package.
It has been incredible to watch over the last year and a half as freedom-minded individuals made the huge sacrifice to run for public office. C4L Florida Interim State Coordinator (and Ron Paul 2008 Florida Coordinator) Mark Cross is running for Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. The election will be Saturday , January 10th, and Dr. Paul's endorsement letter appears below.
And what achievements we have had. This Revolution is permanent. It didn't end at the Republican convention. It didn't end on November 5. It will not end until we have won the great battle on which we have embarked. Not because of me, but because of you. Millions of Americans have dedicated themselves to the principles of liberty: Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity.
An important next step toward fighting for our ideas within the Republican Party is the establishment of principled party leadership. In Florida there will be an election for a new state chairman on January 10, 2009. Only the State Committee will vote and only members of the State Committee can run. The elected State Committeeman from Osceola County is Mark Cross.
Mark Cross served as my Florida Coordinator for the Presidential campaign and was at my side for every debate and event scheduled in the Sunshine State. Mark helped establish an informal network of support across the state and I know that he has the integrity, leadership, and resources that would ensure a successful term as Chairman.
If the Republican Party is going to once again flourish, it is imperative that we restore honesty, integrity, and commitment to Liberty in our party. We need principled leadership, and I believe Mark Cross is the candidate to provide that leadership.
That is why I am endorsing Mark Cross for Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. Please join with me in helping Mark become the next Florida Republican Party Chairman by giving a generous donation to his campaign. I have personally made a donation and urge you to do the same. We need principled party leadership in Florida and Mark will make that happen. Thank you.
Since we swapped out top box videos for Dr. Paul's latest interview, here again is the full video of his comments from Monday's Financial Services Committee meeting.
Posted by Bob Murphy on 01/07/09 Last updated 01/07/09
Pacific Research Institute has just released a new study, "The Sizzle of Economic Freedom." (Press release here, pdf version of paper here.) Lead author Lawrence McQuillan and I surveyed the peer-reviewed literature and highlighted studies that showed the tangible benefits of economic freedom. For example, regions that scored higher in freedom rankings tend to have faster economic growth, lower unemployment, higher literacy rates, and better treatment of women and minorities. Although I wasn't surprised by the results, I was surprised by how much work has been done in this area. It's simply not true that enthusiasm for liberty is "dogmatic"; you can use regressions!
As a congressman and now governor, South Carolina's Mark Sanford has had one primary guiding principle his entire political career — limited government. Not just limited government rhetoric, the sort of lip service paid by milquetoast Republicans to pacify their right-leaning base, but genuine, strict, fiscal conservatism. More importantly, Sanford has the guts to back it up.
If you ever need a good illustration of just how duplicitous the GOP can be, just take notice of how frequently S.C. Republicans get angry at Sanford for daring to actually represent the limited government principles they pretend to. It's as if they're saying, "C'mon Mark, you didn't really think we meant all that conservative stuff, did ya?" Luckily, Sanford does mean it, which to some makes him dangerous.
Gov. Sanford's recent refusal to request a federal loan to extend unemployment benefits made national headlines and received heavy criticism from the Employment Security Commission, many state politicians, and others.
Sanford had delayed his request for a federal loan until the ESC had agreed to a request by the governor — to allow a third-party audit be conducted in order to highlight waste and inefficiency and to reform the agency. When Sanford finally filed for the federal loan at the last minute, the ESC had still not agreed to an audit. In not submitting to the governor's wishes, was the ESC not showing "reckless disregard" for unemployed South Carolinians? What exactly are they trying to hide and was their refusal worth possibly hurting those out-of-work? And if the reforms Sanford would like to see were implemented, might not the ESC have more cash on hand for the unemployed rather than continuing to waste it on its own bureaucracy? Plenty of Republicans joined Democrats in calling Sanford's actions, or inactions, "reckless." The GOP used to call it "welfare reform."
In a general sense, the true "reckless disregard" being shown is not by men like Sanford, but politicians across the nation who refuse to even address, let alone fix, a broken system. Throwing wasted money on top of wasted money, whether at the national or state level, is just plain stupid. As of this writing, even the newspaper industry is asking for a federal bailout, and why not? Where are the leaders who might stand up, speak out, and prefer free-market solutions to a better socialism? How about just plain, old penny-pinching?
In a political environment where being a "responsible" politician now means you must waste as much money as the next, Sanford's fiscal conservatism is considered "reckless" precisely because he believes in responsible spending, budgeting, and accounting.
For much of the 2008 campaign, Texas lawmaker and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and his supporters served as a thorn in the side—or a punching bag—for the mainstream GOP establishment.
Yet today, the six men vying to run the Republican National Committee praised the grassroots enthusiasm Paul tapped into during his campaign—and discussed how they would like to capture that enthusiasm to expand the party’s appeal.
Ms. Davis then gives examples of how each candidate for RNC chairman was directly or indirectly cordial to Dr. Paul's ideas and "his foot soldiers."
She ends her post with this fair description and a solid quote from Congressman Paul:
As for Paul, he spent Monday doing what he does best—railing against federal intervention and regulation of the free market during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the alleged $50 billion Ponzi schemes of Bernard Madoff.
“It’s not the fault of the individuals at the [Securites and Exchange Commission]. They have an impossible job and they have to pretend they’re doing something to feel relevant, the same way we do here, in the Congress. We have to feel relevant in this,” Paul said, “Instead of saying what we need is the market to work, we need to get rid of the bad policies, the monetary system, and this mountains of debt. We say, well, we’re relevant because we’re going to hire more bureaucrats and we’re going to appropriate more money that we don’t have and we’re going to solve all our problems.”
Is Ms. Davis on to something? Are we seeing positive signs from the would-be heads of the RNC? What do you think the candidates for RNC chairman would say to the above quote from Dr. Paul?
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