Ron Paul $1 Trillion Cut Plan Targets Five Cabinet Departments

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"Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!"

Jasper Vendor of TX 10:49AM February 16, 2012

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy

matt stein of ID 1:15PM February 14, 2012

Actually he wants to cut from overseas military spending in the first year, these we would slowly work our selves off of because we are such a dependent nation.

Ava Flamish of FL 9:37PM January 18, 2012

What appears to be missing in this article is that half of the trillion dollars savings would come from bringing all American troops stationed overseas back to the United States to "defend" our country. This would result in closing 900+ military bases around the world overseas. I don't believe he is weak on defense. His main point of contention is that he believes that the Senate should official declare war before a president sends troops to fight the war. The president is not our king, remember....
Ron Paul is waging an uphill battle against the big industrial military complex which funds both parties to continue status quo foreign policy and undeclared wars. It is big money.
Also remember he is not firing the 10% of federal employees. He will achieve these cuts through attrition. A majority of the federal employees are baby boomers and are close to retirement.

Clyde J M of CA 5:32PM January 04, 2012

I think Ron Paul is definitely on the right track.He makes a lot of sense. He is a very smart man,and his ideas could get this country back where it should be.Our government has gotten too big for it's britches,and needs to be taken down a peg or two.The American people are sick and tired of being dictated to,tired of being taxed to death,tired of having to settle for things that are made in other countries and not finding anything with the label"made in America".We need to bring back our manufacturing plants to American soil and put our own people back to work.Ron Paul will work to do what we want,not what this oversized government is sticking us with,against our wishes.

Shirley of NC 9:36PM December 01, 2011

Dr. Paul is right on target. He has the best plan for the country, but the special interest groups feeding at the federal trough are afraid of him and are opposed to him. They Should be afraid. He is not on the dole. He is honest, smart, and right. He ought to completely revise the FDA and USDA as well, if not completely eliminate them. There won't be any high-paid czars, either, I'll bet. The old way will be just that...the old way. I am Praying that he wins.

Peggi of GA 11:03AM November 30, 2011

@polymath As it stand right now, the plan of selling those parks is ALREADY under way. I don't what neo-fascist group you lick the boots of, but it seems to me like you would post anything to make a patriot look like a terrorist.

Someone that knows the REAL truth of KY 10:09AM November 18, 2011

Eliminate the Interior Dept.-that's code for selling the national parks to billionaires. Yellowstone and Yosemite become private hunting reserves. Yellowstone is also drilled for oil and geothermal energy development. The Grand Canyon is dammed up to create a reservoir which makes Three Gorges look like a mud puddle.

Polymath of CA 6:23PM November 16, 2011

RON PAUL WILL BE PRESIDENT!!! DEAL WITH IT!!!

Richard Padilla of FL 11:45PM October 31, 2011

Ron Paul’s Pro-Life, Anti-Big Government Medical Practice
NPR has in interesting profile piece today on how Ron Paul’s political views were reflected in his medical practice:
“He really did deliver 4,000 babies,” says Donna Paul, who worked as Ron Paul’s scrub nurse for 14 years in Lake Jackson, Texas, before marrying one of the doctor’s brothers and becoming his sister-in-law.
Indeed, says Donna Paul, when Ron Paul first set up shop in 1968, he was the only obstetrician in town… Eventually Paul got so busy he took on a partner. Jack Pruett, who was then fresh out of his obstetrics/gynecology residency, says when he first sat down in Paul’s office, he was told there were two stipulations he would have to agree to before joining the practice.
“He said, ‘No. 1 is we will not perform any abortions.’ And I said, ‘That’s fine; I can live with that. What’s No. 2?’” he remembers.
No. 2, says Pruett, was that the practice would not participate in any federal health programs, which meant, as Paul described it, “that we will see all Medicare and Medicaid patients free of charge, and they will be treated just like all of our other patients, but we’re not going to charge them and accept federal funds.”
Still in debt from his medical training, Pruett said that was a little harder for him to swallow. “But I liked Ron, so I decided I would agree to that, too. And in all those 20 years, we never accepted one penny of federal money. We saw all those patients for free, delivered their babies for free, did their surgeries free; whatever they needed we did, and we didn’t charge them.”
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141653000/before-he-delivered-for-voters-paul-delivered-babies

Earle Belle of CA 10:57PM October 26, 2011