In this episode of #AskRonPaul, we dive deep into the hot-button issue of border security and its ties to the military-industrial complex. Are we really protecting our borders, or is it just another excuse for more government spending? Join us as we uncover the truth behind the skyrocketing costs and the political motives driving these decisions. Donβt miss this critical analysis!
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Big Questions About War And Liberty
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| Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report. | |
| Today, we have a special program because I am going to be asked some questions, and that will be related to me from Sir Con Ash, our studio producer. | |
| So, Sir Con, what do you have for me? | |
| Hey, Dr. Paul, we're putting you in the hot seat today with another segment of Ask Ron Paul, where we take your Twitter questions. | |
| And without further ado, I'll go ahead and get started on the first question, which comes from Jacob Berg. | |
| He asks, Dr. Paul, why do you believe our government is focusing more on illegal immigrants than their own citizens? | |
| Has our government been infiltrated by foreign actors, or is it a deep state agenda to repeat the Bronze Age? | |
| What do you think, Dr. Paul? | |
| Well, I can't read into all the motivations of the people involved. | |
| I can guess at them. | |
| But to say whether they're foreign agents or not, anybody that is against liberty, you know, is a foreign agent to any government that's trying and struggling to bring about peace into the world. | |
| So at times, certainly a lot of our citizens and our people that are involved in this immigration problem is going to be, their loyalties probably will be questioned. | |
| But anyway, the immigration issue is the big issue. | |
| And I see the big problem as being that there's a climactic ending coming to this problem with do illegals have rights? | |
| Are they not even citizens? | |
| And do they have authority? | |
| They're not rights. | |
| Do they have the authority to push people out? | |
| And every day you read about how American citizens and people like in the military or school bus people and schools and hospitals are being invaded. | |
| So are they that stupid? | |
| It's hard to believe. | |
| There are a lot of stupid people out there, but I still think what they do, they play on this issue of humanitarianism. | |
| If you oppose them, you're a bad person and you can't do that. | |
| And only the people who argue the case that a libertarian has to accept that they're not concerned about the same things we're concerned about. | |
| So I think that the immigration problem is going to be with us for a while. | |
| But I think it's a challenge between the so-called rights or demands of illegals versus the rights of the American people. | |
| You have some, if one individual out of 100 happens to demand a special treatment because we need diversity and they give that individual that right and privilege, you know, you're taking away the liberty of the 99. | |
| So it's all foolish. | |
| It's part of this DEI stuff that is involved and it flows over into the immigration problem. | |
| It is also an extension of this desire for chaos in our cities and streets. | |
| Economic policies make no sense whatsoever. | |
| And just think of what's happened the last couple of years with the riots in the street and the breaking of doors down and stealing from the stores and the police folding their arms and watching. | |
| And those individuals, they don't have more rights. | |
| They just have more clout. | |
| And they're told that nobody can resist them because they're a special type of people. | |
| It's really nonsense. | |
| And it's a challenge to citizenship. | |
| I think they want the challenge to citizenship because that's part of the plan of cultural Marxists. | |
| So that's why we shouldn't be surprised that we're going to have a lot of trouble with our election. | |
| Nobody believes that the elections have been fair and will continue to be, but it's worth thinking about because we've had much better times in the past and we should strive to have our improvements back again. | |
| Very good, Dr. Paul. | |
| Well said. | |
| I'll go ahead and lead you on to the next question, which comes from Brian Peake. | |
| And it says, Are they pushing for World War III so hard in relation to our massive debt? | |
| It's always seemed that war is a big eraser for solving the self-imposed central banking economic woes. | |
| Well, you know, if the debt is involved, and that is a big problem, probably leading to the mess that we have. | |
| But the whole thing is, there's a lot of people who have been taught and they believe that war is a way you get out of depressions and downturns and is an economic plus, which makes no sense whatsoever. | |
| And it adds to the debt, it adds to the destruction of liberty. | |
| People have to go off. | |
| World War II was a total disaster for the people. | |
| And yet, there were a lot of people who still argued: okay, well, the Depression never ended until we had World War II. | |
| Well, that is nonsense. | |
| It was a war on the American people. | |
| It was shifted to a war on the American people. | |
| So I think that this whole thing that the massive debt is a big deal. | |
| And how they liquidate it and all, there's always going to be people who suffer. | |
| Now they're looking around for the victims. | |
| And once again, the victims are going to be the people who have the weakest lobbying. | |
| But the people who are the victims now are deceived into thinking, well, all they need is more money from the government. | |
| But what they need is more liberty and protection from the government, taking away their liberties and giving them a sound currency. | |
| They don't want to hear that argument because that would solve some of the problems. | |
| And then the people who are working hard to have cultural Marxism create the chaos so the whole society breaks down so that they can replace it with a Marxist system. | |
| So that is what I think the large majority of Americans are not for. | |
| I think the large number of American people can see through this, and yet that the media and a lot of the internet supports that idea that war is a good economic good. | |
| Well said, Dr. Paul. | |
| They keep waging on those wars. | |
| And we'll go ahead and finish it off with our last one. | |
| And it comes from Logic Warrior. | |
| And he asked, Dr. Paul, if you had one piece of advice for Donald Trump in regards to his economic policies, what would that advice be? | |
| Well, I would think immediately because he's come out with criticism of the Federal Reserve. | |
| And that does not make me complacent that, boy, good, he's speaking on nobody in the major party has ever done this before, but more so than it was 20, 30 years ago when I first started in politics. | |
| There are more people now, even in government, willing to look to the fault of the Federal Reserve. | |
| But that doesn't mean that we can sit back and relax and say, oh, Trump will take care of our problem. | |
| I think that it is a thing. | |
| My advice to him, because I want him to think more about monetary power, I'd advise him to read more of Murray Rothbard to understand what sound money is all about. | |
| So I think that's important. | |
| But if you had one thing, if you try to nail it down to one economic issue, that you can't have a society like this and you can't have a monetary system that finances anything and everything who the loudest special interest, that you have to have a unit of account. | |
| In morality, you have to have people telling the truth. | |
| And there was a time when there was a lot more respect for the truth, but the government now, most Americans now don't believe what the government tells, even if it's just economic statistics. | |
| They don't believe it, nor do they believe all the reasons these wars have to accept. | |
| But in money, very precisely, you know, there was a day in my life that I remember very clearly when the last vestige of the unit of account for our gold standard was eliminated. | |
| And that was on August 15th, 1971. | |
| So there's no unit account. | |
| So in that moment that Nixon did that, I said, this is big. | |
| This is a big deal. | |
| And it's going to bring about havoc. | |
| And it has. | |
| And look at a $35 trillion debt. | |
| Nobody knows what to do with it. | |
| And it will be liquidated. | |
| And unfortunately, the payment for this debt will be liquidated by pouring the debts responsibility on the poor. | |
| The poor and the middle class will have the consequence on them because the sentiment now is print money and pay it off. | |
| People don't have enough money to live. | |
| So people are arguing, you know, and the reason we have this, oh, they're gouging us. | |
| So it's back to those arguments again. | |
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Economy's Moral Crisis
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| But the people who should know, and a lot of them do know better, but what can they do about it? | |
| But, you know, building the debt, the very wealthy were they were able to benefit from it and all the spending. | |
| And now the repayment of the debt, they're not doing badly. | |
| You know, they're still printing money like crazy. | |
| But my point is, it ain't going to get paid off because when it does, it means the debt is eliminated. | |
| The dollar becomes worthless. | |
| And we better sit down and start talking about how sound economy and sound money and the whole works depends on having a sound moral understanding of what peace and prosperity is all about. | |
| And I want to thank everybody today, all the viewers that have turned in to the Liberty Report. | |