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Ron Paul at LPAC 2013
Dr. Ron Paul spoke on Friday, September 20, at the 2013 Liberty Political Action Conference on his ongoing campaign for liberty.

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Washington, DC, Wall Street, and central bankers around the world rejoiced this week as Congress came to an agreement to end the government shutdown and lift the debt ceiling. The latest spending-and-debt deal was negotiated by Congressional leaders behind closed doors, and was rushed through Congress before most members had time to read it. Now that the bill is passed, we can see that it is a victory for the political class and special interests, but a defeat for the American people.

The debt ceiling deal increases spending above the levels set by the sequester. The sequester cuts were minuscule, and in many cases used the old DC trick of calling reductions in planned spending increases a cut. But even minuscule and phony cuts are unacceptable to the bipartisan welfare-warfare spending collation. The bill also does nothing to protect the American people from the Obamacare disaster.

As is common in bills drafted in secret and rushed into law, this bill contains special deals for certain powerful politicians. The bill even has a provision authorizing continued military aid to opponents of the Ugandan Lords Resistance Army, which was the subject of the widely-viewed Kony 2012 YouTube videos. Most of these unrelated provisions did not come to public attention until after the bill was passed and signed into law.

Members of Congress and the public were told the debt ceiling increase was necessary to prevent a government default and an economic crisis. This manufactured fear supposedly justified voting on legislation without allowing members time to even read it, much less to remove the special deals or even debate the wisdom of intervening in overseas military conflicts because of a YouTube video.

Congress should have ignored the hysterics. A failure to increase governments borrowing authority would not lead to a default any more that an individual's failure to get a credit card limit increase in would mean they would have to declare bankruptcy. Instead, the failure of either an individual or a government to obtain new borrowing authority would force the individual or the government to live within their means, and may even force them to finally reduce their spending. Most people would say it is irresponsible to give a spendthrift, debit-ridden individual a credit increase. Why then is it responsible to give an irresponsible spendthrift government an increase in borrowing authority?

Congress surrendered more power to the president in this bill. Instead of setting a new debt ceiling, it simply suspended the debt ceiling until February. This gives the administration a blank check to run up as much debt as it pleases from now until February 7th. Congress can disapprove the debt ceiling suspension, but only if it passes a resolution of disapproval by a two-thirds majority. How long before Congress totally abdicates its constitutional authority over spending by allowing the Treasury permanent and unlimited authority to borrow money without seeking Congressional approval?

Instead of seriously addressing the spending crisis, most in Congress would rather engage in last-minute brinksmanship and backroom deals instead of taking the necessary action to reign in spending. Congress will only take serious steps to reduce spending when either a critical mass of Americans pressures it to cut spending, or when investors and foreign countries stop buying US government debt. Hopefully, those of us who understand sound economics can convince enough of our fellow citizens to pressure Congress to make serious spending cuts before Congresss reckless actions cause a total economic collapse.

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Ron Paul Rages On the Debt Ceiling Deal: DC Wins, America Loses

The Ron Paul Channel is using the Julian Assange biopic "The Fifth Estate" as an opportunity to advertise the interview by the former Texas congressman, above, with the WikiLeaks founder.

The folks over at the Ron Paul Channel are using the Wikileaks movie, "The Fifth Estate," to their advantage, telling fans of the former Texas lawmaker and 2012 GOP presidential candidate to tune into his interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, instead of taking in those "wikilies" spouted by actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

"Instead of spending your hard-earned $20 to watch a pack of lies in a crowded movie theater, hear the truth directly from Julian in our exclusive three-part interview on the Ron Paul Channel," said an email sent out to supporters Tuesday morning.

[READ: Watch: Ron Paul, Julian Assange Talk Syria]

Paul launched his channel back in August andinterviewed Assangethe same month, but users must pay $9.95 a month for full access.

As for the movie, Assange has been vocal about his portrayal in Hollywood, even going as far aswriting to Cumberbatchand suggesting that the British actor ditch the role. "I believe that you should reconsider your involvement in this enterprise," Assange wrote in a letter posted to Wikileaks.

Cumberbatch, in return, said that his "Cumberbitches" would come out and support him in this endeavor. However, "The Fifth Estate," which came out last weekend, had the worst box office debut of the year for a film that opened in at least 1,500 theaters,according to Entertainment Weekly.

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2012 RON PAUL vs BEN BERNANKE 3 B

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Ron Paul #39;s Texas Straight Talk 10/14/13: New Fed Boss Same as the Old Boss
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U S economic crisis New Fed Boss, Same as the Old Boss Ron Paul
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U S economic crisis New Fed Boss, Same as the Old Boss Ron Paul - Video

In this exclusive interview with Birch Gold Group, former Congressman Ron Paul shares his opinions on a number of topics, including investing in physical gold and silver, the future of the U.S. dollar and the role of the Federal Reserve.

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Rachel Mills for Birch Gold Group (BGG): This is Rachel Mills for Birch Gold Group. I am speaking with Ron Paul today. How are you, Ron Paul?

Ron Paul (RP): I am doing very well. Nice to talk to you Rachel.

BGG: Its good to talk to you again, and by the way of information for Birchs audience, I was your last press secretary on Capitol Hill in Congress and I worked for you for the 5 years. So I may be cheating a little bit because a lot of your answers to my questions I maybe have a pretty good guess at what you might say.

RP: Okay!

BGG: But, just really quick today with you Id like to go over several things. But Id like to ask your opinion on things like Janet Yellen as the next Fed Chair, about debt ceiling and shutdown issues. I want to get into, briefly, if you are still a buyer of gold even though it is so expensive. But first I wanted to introduce Birch Golds listeners to your background a little bit because I think its fascinating. In 1971, Nixon closed the gold window which led to the end of the Bretton Woods agreement. That was very important event for you, I know for sure, because you knew at the time that it would eventually destroy the currency, which we are still experiencing. And you said that that was what got you into politics to begin with. Had you been reading Austrian economists before that?

RP: Yes, for a good while. As a matter of fact, it was 1971, there was confirmation of the Austrian economic writers who had been predicting that would happen as early as Henry Hazlitt said when the IMF was set up in 1945. He said it wouldnt work and Bretton Woods would break down. And by the 50s and the 60s people were rejecting it and it was so artificial and it was fragile. So people did know that it was coming, and mainly it was coming because the governments pretended that the dollar would be as good as gold at $35 an ounce forever, yet they kept printing dollars and it was pretty simple logic to figure out therell be a limit. The governments worked real hard to convince the people that there was no problem, that the dollar would always be valued at $35 an ounce.

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Ron Paul on Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Ron Paul Answers Questions on Audit the Fed and More

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