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-- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
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Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? - Galatians 4:16
Posted by Matt Hawes on 11/06/09 Last updated 11/06/09
As part of our Operation Health Freedom series, British MEP Daniel Hannan talks about the National Health Service (NHS), England's publicly-funded health care system, and looks at why it is so difficult to reform such a system once people get used to it.
Although I appreciate Glenn Beck having on the good Doctors. Let me remind you all that even though he is talking the talk now, Beck supports the wars and supported the banker bailouts and every other Unconstitutional thing that happened during the Bush Administration.
His agenda is clearly one of the ruling establishment. A voice of opposition to Obama while quietly claiming Republicans are no better. It is his objective to get the Republicans back in power and to keep all control centralized.
Do not rally behind this man. Just continue to watch and question all his actions. I personally don't consider him the enemy but that old saying comes to mind when I see people like him all of a sudden talking Constitution in every show when less then one year ago I don't think he knew that document even existed.
I read his Sept. 22, 2008 transcript, and yeah, you are right. He was for the bank bailout. But do you think there is a chance that in the mean time, hanging around the likes of Napolitano, Stossel, and Willard, he has seen the error of his ways? Granted, Glenn is still pro-war, and pro-interventionist, but isn't there some chance he is now more a libertarian, free market capitalist than during his CNN days? One can only hope...
Maybe we should just see Glenn Beck as a vessel to get Dr. Ron and Dr. Rand's messages out, and not focus so much on things he supports or doesn't support. At least he is giving them a chance to speak, so I'll send him a Thank You for that.
Does anyone else see stealthy propaganda? Take notice how the main concept that Fox News is trying to push is: 'Libertarian / Republican Separation.' Also notice that the only message that the Paul's are saying is constitutionally limited government and fiscal conservatism.
The powers that be will be trying everything they can to isolate the Paul's and downplay the common principles that Libertarians have with almost all Republicans. The establishment can't have an anti-war, limited government, fiscally responsible leadership wrest control of the party from it's current trajectory.
Posted by Matt Hawes on 11/05/09 Last updated 11/05/09
Tonight, Dr. Paul will be interviewed on Fox Business' America's Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman in the 7 pm eastern hour. He will be discussing the size and scope of government.
Update: Congressman Paul will also be interviewed by Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC at 10:00 am eastern tomorrow about Audit the Fed.
I can't help but get a little bit sentimental when I hear him talk. Not really in this clip but when I watch his answers during the '08 presidential debates. He is a good man and he has done a lot.
Government is so absurd. Ron Paul mentions the Blue Dog Democrats' objections to PelosiCare in this video. He says they complain because taxes will go up...Of course taxes will go up! How is the government going to get involved in health care without raising taxes? It's ludicrous to even bring it up. I don't see how Dr. Paul handles being in Congress. I think it would drive me crazy.
How about the option for the government to leave us alone? When will that be presented to the American people? I think that's something I could vote for.
Fox Business seems so much fairer towards Ron Paul than regular Fox News. Neil Cavuto and David Asman have really been respectful of Paul and not hesitant to agree with him.
In my opinion, the best Asman interview was when they went over the gold-standard last January. I think it woke up a lot of people.:
This was a great interview by Dr. Paul because.. well he speaks the truth. one thing I noticed though is how David Asman was directing the interview as how great it was some of the Democrats lost, and Ron would was basically saying it's the Republicans fault too for the past 8 years and Asman would not follow up on that... he just glossed it over really. Then he would bring up another leading question about how the dems loss was great. He definitely wasn't going to ask real questions about The Fed or anything that really matters.
I guess I wasn't expecting anything else from him though...interesting is all I have to say. They love Ron now because the neo-cons hate Obama... but I doubt anything will really change.
Also, the HR-1207 gutting still pisses me off ... how typical, they will water it down and pass some worthless bill and still take credit for how they were "tough" against The Fed...man 534 of the members need to GO.
God bless and keep Dr. Paul, the Champion of the Constitution!
H.Res. 272, sponsored by Doug Lamborn (R-CO 5), will require that any measure increasing the statutory public debt limit be a stand alone measure and, very importantly, be subject to a recorded vote. The bill seems short, succinct, and sorely needed.
The public debt ceiling is voted "up" frequently in Congress. I would like this to STOP. If it doesn't, I want to know who to blame for the increases. It is very difficult at this point to ferret out how a given member of Congress votes on these increases.
Recently I read (in the National Review) that the external debt of our country (what we owe to foreign interests publicly and privately), as a percent of GNP, exceeds that of ALL defaulting countries save Egypt and Jordan, including the average of all defaulting Latin American countries, since 1970. It makes me physically ill to know this.
H.Res. 272 has 21 co-sponsors, excluding at the moment Dr. Paul, and apparently has not seen action since being referred to the House Committee on Rules 3/19/09.
Great interview. I noticed Dr. Paul did address David Asmus by his first name. In most interviews, he doesn't say their name, so I think that's a good thing. Mr. Asmus allowed Dr. Paul without interrupting him. Loved the interview.
The power to regulate interstate commerce, which is specifically given to the Congress in the Constitution, is the power to keep commerce regular between the states; to make certain that the states don't impose tariffs, or absolute barriers to the entry of goods or services from other states. This is Congress' favorite power under the Constitution, and it has used it to justify the regulation of everything from the water we drink, to the air we breathe, to the strength of the flow of the water in your shower, to the size of your toilet bowl, to the number of legs that a desk chair needs to have in the work place.
But there is an area of interstate commerce where Congress has specifically said to the states, "We will not regulate, and you may erect barriers, and you may impose tariffs, and you may prevent out of state commerce from coming into your state," and that's in the case of health care. Each of the 50 states is authorized by an express act of the Congress, and by the Congress' implicit refusal to do anything else about this, to prevent out of state insurance carriers from selling health insurance in their states.
So if I live in New Jersey, which is where I live, I can only buy 1 insurance policy, which is the Rolls-Royce of insurance policies, that requires me to pay for health services that I biologically will never be able to use. I should be able, because I have the natural right to enter into a contract - a binding agreement with whomever I want as long as that agreement doesn't harm anybody else's rights - I should be able to buy a piece of a policy from Texas, and a piece of a policy from Idaho, and a piece of a policy from Montana, and put together the policy that works best for me.
Isn't it odd, that in an area where Congress has tried to regulate everything, claiming it's interstate commerce, it has refused to deregulate something as basic as health insurance. Try and buy health insurance from a carrier in a state where you do not live, and you'll run into this unnatural, unconstitutional impediment.
Posted by Matt Hawes on 11/04/09 Last updated 11/04/09
As part of our Operation Health Freedom series, Judge Andrew Napolitano looks at health care and a justified use of Congress' interstate commerce regulation power. Americans should be free to buy insurance across state lines.
Judge Napolitano is an absolute tonic for the patriots who have been sickened by a gavage (e.g. forced tube-feeding) of big government and its liberty-stifling activities.
Thank you, Judge Napolitano!
And God bless and keep Dr. Paul, the Champion of the Constitution!
groffcole... maybe missing the point ... given the option to regulate such that interstate commerce is fair in health care (say in the spirit of the first lines of Article I section 8) Congress chooses not to, thus creating the problem. It could simply permit routine free market commerce in health care across state lines.
And in one sense that is what regulate means... to make regular the rules of commerce for all products among the States. To regulate something amongst EQUAL parties such that it is handled differently than something else is logically inconsistent.
Brief blurb here from Thomas Woods (http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/15928.html) ... and you should grab that book... excellent. Trying to understand the meaning of the Constitution, taken out of context of the original intent based on the accepted meaning of words at the time, is how we have gotten into the mess we are in today.
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