Does Congress Even Exist Anymore Who's Fault Is This
Dr. Paul and Chris Rossini expose how Congress, once tied to public interests, now serves billionaires and corporations, ignoring crises like $40T debt or undeclared wars while enabling unchecked presidential power—culminating in 1971’s dollar-gold severance, which they call a moral bankruptcy. They trace systemic decline to the abandonment of natural law, from ancient Sumerian codes to modern inflation, warning that majority rule oppresses minorities and the military-industrial complex thrives on deception. Trump’s campaign, they argue, masks empire-saving over liberty restoration, as even his policies fail to reverse the collapse of ethical governance. [Automatically generated summary]
Hello, everybody, and thanks for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Chris Rossini, our co-host.
Chris, welcome to the program.
Great to be with you, Dr. Paul.
Very good.
Well, you know, we were looking at the news today, and we will be talking about it.
And nothing brand new, except for the fact that the extremities and extreme that the markets have gotten to, you know, this morning, one report I saw was silver hit $100.
You know, and I can remember the day, and that's not too long ago, that I first got really interested in silver.
It was $1.29.
I'm sort of glad I was reading Austrian economics back then because $1.29, quite a bit of difference to think that a silver is $100.
And who knows what tomorrow will bring and maybe $200 or maybe $50.
That's the real challenge when you're dealing with a Mickey Mouse type of monetary system.
So, and then even gold is approaching $5,000.
You know, even though I, yeah, it could happen.
It's going to happen.
You better be prepared.
What happens?
I still, it still shocks me.
It's just amazing.
And the other thought, Chris, that came to my mind today, thinking about all this mess we have is how much wealth had to be consumed that we had stored up because we were a wealthy country and our credit was good.
So after 71, where I think the declaration of bankruptcy occurred, it lasted a long time.
But I think the signs are here that it's coming to an end.
And I often am fascinated with thinking about the crackout boom.
And I don't think we're there, but it could.
And that, of course, is when everybody wants to get out of anything that looks monetary, but we're not quite there yet.
The special interests are still, you know, they are picking up the pieces.
So this is interesting times, but very, very dangerous because there are political ramifications.
And we want to talk today, Chris, about this whole problems.
And I want you to say hello to our audience and we're ready to go.
That's right, Dr. Paul.
Yes.
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Now, today's topic, Dr. Paul, is this unchecked power that President Trump apparently wields.
And we're wondering, where is Congress?
You know, we grew up learning, oh, our government is so unique, all these checks and balances, how a bill becomes a law.
We all remember that.
And the reality is, and you know, maybe our country did adhere to these things before, and it did, for the most part, in our early history.
But today, boy, these checks and balances are almost non-existent.
How a bill becomes a law.
Congress doesn't even read the bills that they vote on.
They're so big that they can't even read them.
That's how bad it is.
Congress is supposed to be the closest to the people.
They're representing us.
They represent billionaires and crony corporations.
The only time they care about us is election time.
You see them for a few weeks.
They bombard us with their goofy ads and then they're gone for years.
And that's it.
They could care less about us otherwise.
But the topic for today is they're not a check on President Trump at all.
He's doing things that are just insane repeatedly.
You know, one thing here and there.
Nobody's perfect.
Everybody has their impulses for power, but this is getting way out of hand.
And we're wondering, where is Congress, Dr. Paul?
Where are the checks?
There's no checks.
There's no balances.
So that's our topic for today, Dr. Paul.
Well, you know, it is hard to pinpoint it and say one thing or one person.
But if I needed to try to narrow it down, I would say that we have lived with a political system that has dropped the principle, even thought of a moral principle.
And the founders endorsed a moral principle and that of natural law.
And they did not want the law itself to dictate to the people how to make them moral.
And they advise us that the people aren't moral.
It's not going to work.
And I think that's what has happened.
And it's a lot more difficult and confusing to work with the morality of individuals because they're always willing to bend the rules.
But what motivates them?
How many different groups are there?
I just wonder how that so many people can get involved, but they do.
And this causes this incessant need to lobby Congress for more money.
And the people are not morally restrained from it.
So what do you do?
You have to have a mortgage.
You have to have somebody to lobby for you.
You have to be a lobbyist.
And that is a big problem.
But basically, if you had to find one economic factor that has allowed this to happen, and I think the significant well-known and understood issue when this really started, this mess we're in, was August 15th, 1971, because it was a form of declaration.
We told the people we will take care of the world currency and we will protect everybody and all these things.
So they did that and it worked.
It still, in a way, is still working, but it's weakening.
And that's what people are recognizing because we have consumed so much wealth.
So I think it was the fact that we had a bankruptcy.
It was declared.
Many people, especially from the Austrian economic field, understood exactly what was wrong.
And yet we continued the power then built on the special interests.
The special interests could be those who were promoting social welfarism or military welfarism and people who just seek power for the sake of power.
And it just goes on and on.
And that, I think, would not have happened if it's hard to legislate morality, which it is, and especially the accumulation of the immorality gives us what we have.
But if we had one item that if we could have convinced the people, do not bend the rules, I'd put it on the monetary issue.
I put it on the Federal Reserve because we had wealth and we had good credit.
We still have credit, but that's what's being challenged right now and the value of the dollar.
So we did that and we did that for a while, but it's changing now.
And these are why we get these astounding statistics of people are resorting to something about this fear because like Chris has produced, he said, why doesn't the Congress do anything?
What happened to Congress?
And I think it's a system because is it the Congress?
Yes, it's the Congress.
Is it the people?
Yes, they elect the Congress.
Is there the people involved in special interests?
Yes, they are.
Then there's the corruption.
Now, a lot of people, if you bring the subject up, they say, yeah, just look at the corruption in Minneapolis.
But this is, I argue this and people will think I'm belittling it, but that's a petty crime.
That's a petty crime compared to what's really happening because the real crime is close to now $40 trillion debt and moving quickly, taking away of our liberties, being involved in so many wars that aren't being declared.
So it's an immoral climate, but I think it really, it was, that gun went off in 1971.
That was an indication that we were never going to get enough people in Washington to follow the principles of the Constitution.
And of course, we should still work at it.
And it has to happen if we want to keep our freedom.
But right now, it's up for grabs.
That's right, Dr. Paul.
And unfortunately, while Congress sits on their hands and just watches, you know, what's the president want to do today?
I guess we'll find out on Truth Social.
And then he'll go, you know, try to do it.
We're told, the people are told we live in a bubble.
It's, you know, I love my country.
That's why we complain about this because we don't like what our country is doing.
But we live in a bubble.
You know, we're told that we live in the free world and everything out there is all a bunch of scary authoritarian totalitarians, you know, and the media drives this constantly, you know, to everyone.
So we live in a bubble.
And, you know, today, in our day and age with social media, you can see other nations on Instagram, on, you know, TikTok.
You know, it's the whole world is not a trash can.
We live in this paradise here.
It's just not true.
You know, but they use that to propel their invasion of the world.
I mean, look, today we're seeing their moving ships to attack Iran.
I mean, again, and where's Congress?
Congress doesn't declare war.
Don't even bother.
So it just all happens, whatever the president and whoever's above the president.
Let's not say that this is him because we can see that there are people above him.
So whatever they say, the public and the Congress and the Supreme Court and everybody else just sits and watch and sees what happens.
And this is taking us to a very bad place.
And, you know, it could take us to World War III.
You know, that's very easily can happen.
And that would be terrible.
That would be the rest of our lives would be ruined for not speaking up and not being an American.
Unfortunately, I think you're getting very close to the truth.
A good reason why Americans should wake up.
But what's happening in Minneapolis is very serious.
It wakes up people and knows how corrupt government is.
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But in a way, it's a distraction because, like I said in my opening talk, it's like a petty crime.
It's bad and unusual, and it stirs up political animosities and blame game going on.
But really, it is so little compared to the big picture.
And that's sometimes I think some of these things happen as on purpose, as a distraction, to leave this and pay attention to Minneapolis when they should be like our opening statement.
We should be paying attention to Congress.
Not only do people recognize what we're saying is true, but the thing that I would like to touch on and get people interested in is why, why?
Who are these?
Why did this system do this?
And to me, it's back to human character.
It's back to a moral system that has been around for a long time.
I think it's the rejection of natural law.
Even before they had written law 3,000 years ago in Sumeria, they talked about things like this.
There was an introduction to moral law, which has infiltrated all systems that pretended to talk in this line of thinking.
So that's a long time ago, 3,000 years ago.
And that is a system that we have to look at and be careful about because what they were writing about before they put it into Hammurabi's first written code was you weren't supposed to tell lies.
You weren't supposed to cheat.
You weren't allowed to steal and you weren't allowed to kill.
And of course, most people say, well, I agree with that.
But do they?
What happens if government wants to do it?
Chris, you already mentioned some of these illegal wars that are going on and how we spend so much money in a military industrial complex is very much in charge.
So it is something there's a lot of immorality there.
But people say, well, yeah, you're right.
You're right about that.
But we have to follow something so we follow the law.
And what they follow, when they follow the law, and when they take their oath of office, their law is only the law, what they call the written law, the government law.
They make that sacred as long as you're obeying it.
How about an executive order?
That's the law.
What about court orders?
And all of a sudden, you have all these things.
And that is why from the very beginning, and even now, there's a lot more interest growing.
And, you know, the natural desire for people to live under a natural law, which shows that it is a moral standard, that people know about it.
We're not going to get rid of it.
It's going to be abused forever.
But understanding it may be the only way over history that it's been able to restrain a big government and authoritarian government.
Fantastic, Dr. Paul.
Excuse me.
I will finish up with my final thoughts.
Yeah, I believe America, myself included, were fooled by President Trump's campaign.
He had a lot of all-stars out there, made it really seem like we were going to save America, but it was a ruse because what is actually happening is trying to save the bankrupt empire, which is not America.
That is not you.
It is not me.
The empire is separate.
It rules over us.
And he's trying, like Mikhail Gorbachev, who tried to save the Soviet Union when its time was up.
President Trump is trying to save the empire.
And there will be people say, oh, no, multipolar.
Look, he's coming back to our hemisphere.
I don't believe that for one second.
When you have an ideology that believes that you're superior and that you are meant to rule the world, they may retract a little bit, but they'll go again, kind of like with Iran.
Oh, everything's destroyed.
I destroyed everything like nothing has ever been destroyed before in the history of mankind.
And look, now we're going back to attack Iran again.
So they don't pull back because their ideology won't let them pull back.
to multipolar.
They don't believe that other nations should be their own nations with their own traditions and languages and cultures.
They're not woke over there.
Well, they're inferior people.
We must conquer them at some point.
So this ideology is what drives our nation.
It's the polar opposite of what our nation was founded to be.
We're supposed to mind our own business, set an example for the world, not conquer it.
So I don't believe the multipolar stuff, even though that's what's being sold.
So he's trying to save what has destroyed us.
The empire is what destroyed us.
You know, what he should have done is get the government off our backs so that we can serve our communities, make money, have a decent standard of living, worship God, do all that stuff.
All that was just tossed out in order to conquer the world.
That's why we're heading in the wrong direction.
And our shows are going to continue to sound like this until we change course.
You know, another point I would like to make as we close is that a lot of people have accepted, and it's easy to understand why they said that, well, you have to have a vote.
You have to have democracy and make up the decisions.
But there's also the danger that there's a warning.
It's been out for a long time that the majority, the dictatorship of the majority can be evil.
The founders did not like a pure democracy where it was just putting people together and take a vote and 51% could take away everything from the 49.
Just look at our tax system and the inflationary system.
It's the middle class and the poor that has to pay the inflation tax.
Oh, but they don't have to pay income tax.
Yeah, but everything they buy, they're penalized much greater than the wealthy people who buy cars.
I understand you can buy a car for more than $50,000.
And then people just slip.
Yeah, a lot more than that.
But the poor people can't do that.
And so the problem is that people then are motivated to get in a gang.
I call them a gang, but they're lobbyists.
And it's motivated by greed because that's where the money is.
And that's where they go.
And also economic ignorance.
That's a big, big issue for me because I think it was learning a little thing about economic freedom and the Austrian School of Economics.
I think that made a big difference in what I have done throughout my life because it makes a big difference.
So where do our people get most people I've met in Congress and in government, all these people that are doing these things, it doesn't seem to bother them.
They don't walk around with a little guilt about it.
They talk about it.
Then they go and do their other things.
But they are ignorant of a sound economic policy based on a moral principle and back again to it.
And it's the moral principle of natural law.
You can't lie, cheat, steal, and kill.
And yet we allow our government to do that and just play, oh, yeah, but they're following the law.
We had this executive order 22 years ago and it said that we can do that.
We went to the Korea War.
We didn't call it a war.
We called it a police action.
On and on, they lied to us.
And the people suck this stuff up and believe it.
And So it's a lot of people to be blamed, but it's a whole system.
And I think it boils down to people understanding what a moral principle is when it's applied to the government.
Our founders understood it.
They worried about it.
They warned us about it.
And their warnings have not been heeded.
I hope we can contribute to the waking up.
It is necessary for us to provide a system of government that will compensate for all the damage that has been done because the system we have now cannot prevail.
It will go one way or the other.
We're either going to help improve it and take it back to natural law, or we're going to go in the other direction.
And already we talk about, well, how did a socialist type communist win the mayorship of the biggest city in the country?
I mean, it's unbelievable.
It's a tremendous job, but it's still doable because we still have some freedoms left.
We're still able to get a message out.
And it's always been difficult.
And I've always argued, watch out, because truth becomes treasonous when the empire, when you live with an empire of laws.
So lying is good because that maintains the empire.
And so the real challenge there, but we still have the operation, even if it's down to one-on-one and visiting with six people.
It's something you have to understand the issue and the principles of morality.
And if you want the greatest system to provide peace and the maximum of people, peace and prosperity, it has to be through the principles of liberty.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.