The Ron Paul Liberty Report Greatest Hits - Week Ending 5-13-16
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For those of you who may have missed a broadcast of The Ron Paul Liberty Report, we've put together a short round-up of this week's greatest hits! If you haven't done so already, be sure to subscribe to the show. Let's keep the fire of Liberty burning!
And assimilation of different religions and different cultures has worked over the ages, even in the Middle East and in Europe, and certainly in this country to a large degree.
But the assimilation has to be based not on force and conditions that are artificially created by the government.
It can't be, you know, in a welfare state where we promise benefits for people to come.
We can't contribute to bad philosophies and bad conditions by interjecting ourselves into foreign lands in the Middle East, creating wars that create these immigrants and migrants to leave.
Think about someone like Kerry.
He married into the Heinz fortune.
He's an extraordinarily wealthy man.
He lives in a bubble.
His border is his limo in his guards and his gated community.
So it's, you know, it's sort of pushing it into the face of the rest of America that you all have to accept a world without borders, but I've got my own borders that my fortune provides for me.
All empires end for financial reasons.
And the most recent example was the downfall of the Soviet empire, and it came for financial reasons.
We didn't have to fight them.
I don't think we will ever be defeated by outsiders coming in.
We will be defeated internally here by stupid laws and stupid rules and stupid economic policies of endlessly being involved overseas and endorsing an economic policy of debts don't matter and printing money is good.
Once again, stirring up trouble in the South China Sea, unnecessary, needless, and dangerous and costly, has nothing to do with our national defense, and yet barely a word will be said.
We wish to believe that we are history's chosen instrument, that the United States has some special providential responsibility to remake the world in our image.
This is a deeply pernicious notion, in my view, but it's one that is constantly reiterated by politicians, by newspaper columnists, by talk radio hosts.
And the American people have been so propagandized by this notion for so long.
The ability and the desire for governments to just print money at will is not anything new.
The United States is not the first to do it.
And the failure rate is a pure 100%.
I'd like to put up a chart that demonstrates this to a bit.
On here, this shows how much federal outlays per capita in the last several decades back to 1945.
But take a look in the middle there on Reagan and also under George W. Bush.
That is where you see the most significant increase in the amount of spending per capita.
And Obama, it's actually done.
Who would have believed it?
Who would have believed it was flat under Clinton?
So it's just a myth, a total myth, that Republicans are conservatives and liberals are the big spenders.