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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 02/09/10 Last updated 02/09/10
Dr. Paul will be interviewed on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight around 9:23 pm eastern.
Update: The interview has been canceled for this evening. Stay tuned for any news on rescheduling.
Update 2: I have just received word that Dr. Paul will be on tonight's (Tuesday's) show. We're not sure on hit time yet, but the program begins at 9 pm eastern.
Oh great, she's a hit below the belt interviewer that generally doesn't allow for discussion against her point of view. Stay strong Dr. Paul, and make your points!
Actually, Maddow normally has fantastic interviews with Ron Paul.. She has been quoted saying she greatly admires him. Check out his past clips from her show, they are all great interviews. Rand Paul also announced his senate run on Maddow's show. I think this is going to be a great interview in response to her story on the tea party movement and sarah palin yesterday.
Why is Ron Paul going on her show? All she does is slander the Tea Party. We would be best to not give her any attention and let her show get canceled.
Her show last night talking about how the tea party turned on Ron Paul, well I have been talking to people that are in the tea party and they love Ron Paul.
They are trying to divide us, since they couldn't make Palin irrelevant they are now trying to make us do it. Don't let this state run propaganda machine called MSNBC trick us into attacking someone that could be very helpful to our cause.
If we want to have any chance of changing anything we must find some common ground among the tea party and unite. This will not become full fledged libertarian, but instead of fighting against them if we work together we can get something that is as far to the right as possible.
Lets not shoot ourselves in the foot and let politics go back to the same as usual.
A similar 74 percent of insiders believe Congress will not pass legislation requiring an audit of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy. The Fed has come under heavy criticism this year for its role in propping up the economy and carrying out bailouts of major financial institutions. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the fewest votes in favor of his confirmation of any Fed chairman....
The FD survey included 300 insiders working in lobbying, government, media, nonprofits and think tanks, among other associations. The poll was conducted between Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 with an error margin of 5.7 percent....
I can almost guarantee that a similar poll before the Audit the Fed effort ever started would have found that Washington "insiders" believed it would never get over 50 cosponsors in the House, never get any support in the Senate, and would stall out in committee.
We've proven all the insiders wrong so far (and taken the fight right to the top of the Fed during Bernanke's confirmation hearings). Keep contacting Congress. Let's prove the insiders wrong yet again.
Reason TV takes a look at how prices have come down over time and quality has improved in the Lasik eye surgery market due to less government interference.
Not that I disagree with the premise, but I very recently had laser eye surgery (less than a month ago) and while I got top-quality care, and perhaps because of it, I paid roughly the same my mother did when she had the operation ten years ago.
Still, it was a price I was willing to pay, and I certainly got my money's worth.
It is probably not so cut and dry as to the prices falling, as there are other factors than those of a simple free market. For instance, one might switch from Wal-Mart to Shoprite more easily than they would switch doctors, for a number of reasons. My point is that the prices could differ among doctors, and therefore you may both be right. Regardless, I have heard that the price of Lasek HAS come down. Aside from the fact that prices will rise if someone else is paying, there is also the medicare blank check for medical innovation. Whatever new trinket (whether good or bad, not judging that) is invented, medicare will DEFINATELY cover. Furthermore, our unfunded liabilities due to medicare are in the tens of trillions. That is the equivalent of about 50% government healthcare. Now, despite the three things I just mentioned that are spiraling healthcare costs out of control, they want to increase it to 100% government healthcare, thus doubling all of our problems. The net result will be one more unbreakable lobby, as the politicians will control all cash flows to the pharma and insurance companies. Given human nature, I do not see how there will not be even more corrupt links between politicians and the healthcare industry.
How much would inflation have to do with it, now? In the long run, it was, probably, cheaper, because your dollar was not worth as much! Just wondering? Plastic surgery prices are also stable, as far as I know!
What would everybody think about giving tax credits for "free" care given by physicians? I know I never appreciated not getting paid for my office visits. And, it happened way too much!
We need someone like Ron Paul(and other doctors in Congress) in charge! Don't we think doctors would be better at fixing this? I think they would be a little better than the government Problem is, the politics of organized medicine may be no better!
As a physician, I was not allowed to charge poor people less, unless I was working in the government clinic, ten miles from my office! It was illegal! Government control, again!!? The say, "they want to save money?" It won't happen with the government in control! GUARANTEED!
I dont completely agree with the statement about health insurance provided by your employer and then leaving to start your own photography business and being penalized for having to purchase your own health insurance. I used to do tax preparation and if you are self-employed, you get a tax break right off the top for health insurance and also as a deduction at the end of the year at tax time or at least that's the way it was a long time ago. I dont' work in that business anymore so it could be anything now. Bottom line, you get your tax break at the end of the year instead of the tax savings throughout the year.. so it kind of works out.
Barack Obama will make a fresh push this month to get his troubled health reform package through Congress by holding a meeting with both Democrats and Republicans aimed at finding common ground.
The half-day of discussion, to be held at Blair House opposite the White House, is to be carried live on television to counter public criticism that too many deals in Washington are made behind closed doors....
The discussion should be interesting to watch, if nothing else but for the ways both Obama and congressional leaders try to get around saying what they actually think while on camera.
Posted by Matt Hawes on 02/08/10 Last updated 02/06/10
Tonight, Dr. Paul will appear on Fox Business' America's Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman (always a good interview). The show begins at 7 pm eastern.
Damn, not another money pit. There sure are a lot of them.
Ron Paul you are right on, thank you.
Department of Homeland is another piece of the Global Power model. How to suck the life out working people even though it cannot sustain itself as shown.
I think we need to go take all of expensive Calculators away from this idiots, they don’t work, LOL. O wait operator error.
It's official. I was skeptical of it at first but, now I know for sure. Fox News is officially kissing Dr. Paul's rear. I guess they have to put someone on their show that has some real hard core facts and advice. This is hopefully helping to steer some of the neo-cons in the right direction.
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