Subject: Ron Paul: The Man, His record, His platform


Important overview of presidential candidate Ron Paul. Please read and pass on to those on your lists...


I have compiled three items here on Ron Paul -- three pieces of information that you can use to share with your 'friends' who prefer to keep this country under the bondage that the last many administrations have kept us under. If *FREEDOM* is what people really want then Ron Paul is the only candidate - with a proven track record to back it up - who will lead America to that place.

As long as people say he hasn't a chance and they vote for a candidate who will give them the same thing they have been complaining about, then they are right, Ron Paul hasn't got a chance. However, if they will step forward for what is RIGHT and vote for Ron Paul instead of that same old tired bunch of liars - then - THEN - Ron Paul not only has *a chance* but he can WIN big time.

We need to slow the naysayers who complain about being poisoned that it is time to stop drinking that Kool Aid they have been sipping on for so long. It is time to drink some clear, pure, water, - water that has no poisons or chemical additives to destroy them.

While I am at this this morning - I am going to have my web gal post a section for links to Ron Paul web pages on my http://www.grassrootsgranny.com <http://www.grassrootsgranny.com/> web page as a source for all to hook up with others. If you have or know of Ron Paul web pages, blogs, etc. please send them to me so I can get them to my web gal for posting to Granny's page. I know there are many out there but sometimes it is hard to find one you are looking for so I want to make this a central locations for all to link with. Sharing the information (for free) is what WGEN is about.

Jackie Juntti
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****Ron Paul ("Dr. Know") for President - 2008 !! ****
( http://www.RonPaul2008.com )



Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:

He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress.

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Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535” on Capitol Hill.

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have 17 grandchildren.

While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul’s limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. In 1976, he was one of only four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president.

During that time, Congressman Paul served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary measures. He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values. Dr. Paul consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending and regulation, and used his House seat to actively promote the return of government to its proper constitutional levels. In 1984, he voluntarily relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice.

Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th congressional district of Texas. He presently serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction in the size of the federal government and a return to constitutional principles.

Congressman Paul’s consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, “Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers’ ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.” Another colleague observed, “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”

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"Keep Your Eye on the Target"

by

Congressman Ron Paul

House of Representatives

203 Cannon H.O.B.



Washington, D.C. 20515




The other day, I made a huge "gaffe" on national TV:
I told the truth about the crimes of the U.S. government.

As you can imagine, the ceiling fell in, and a couple of walls
too. Congressman are supposed to support the government, I was
told. Oh, it's okay to criticize around the edges, but there are certain subjects a member of the House of Representatives is not supposed to bring up. But I touched the real "third-rail" of American politics, and the sparks sure flew.

I was interviewed on C-SPAN's morning "Washington Journal,"
and I used the opportunity, as I do all such media appearances,
to point out how many of our liberties have been stolen
by the federal government. We must take them back.

The Constitution, after all, has a very limited role for
Washington, D.C.

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have:

No federal meddling in our schools;
no Federal Reserve;
no U.S. membership in the UN;
no gun control;
and no foreign aid.

We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor";
no American troops in 100 foreign countries ;
no Nafta, Gatt, or "fast-track";
no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights;
no attacks on private property;
and no income tax.

We could get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of
the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

That system is called liberty. It's what the Founding Fathers gave us.
Under liberty, we built the greatest, freest, most prosperous, most decent country on earth.
It's no coincidence that the monstrous growth of the federal government has been
accompanied by a sickening decline in living standards and
moral standards. The feds want us to be hamsters on a
treadmill ‑‑ working hard, all day long, to pay high taxes, but
otherwise entirely docile and controlled. The huge, expensive,
and out‑of‑control leviathan that we call the federal government
wants to run every single aspect of our lives.


Well, I'm sorry, but that's not America. It's not what the
Founders gave us. It's not the country you believe in. It's not
the country I believe in. So, on that TV interview, I emphasized
not only the attacks on our property, but also the decline of
our civil liberties, at the hands of the federal police .
There are not supposed to be any federal police , according to the Constitution.


Then I really went over the line. I talked about the Waco
massacre. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno claim those 81 church
members, including 19 children, burned down their own church
and killed themselves, and good riddance. So they put few
survivors on trial, and threw them in prison for 40 years .


We're not supposed to remember that the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms ‑‑ talk about an unconstitutional
Agency ‑‑ rather than arrest David Koresh on his regular morning
jog, called in the TV stations for big publicity bonanza, and
sent a swat team in black masks and black uniforms to break down
his front door, guns blazing. They also sent in a helicopter
gunship, to shoot at the roof of a church full of innocents.


The Branch Davidians resisted, and after a heartless siege of
almost two months, and after cutting off food, water, and
electricity, and playing horrible rock and roll through huge
speakers 24 hours a day, the feds sent in the tanks to crush the
walls of the church, and inject poisonous CS gas.


Now, CS gas is banned under the Paris Convention on
Chemical Warfare. The U.S. could not use it in a war.

But it could and did use it against American civilians.

After the tanks did their work on the church, the place burst into flame,
and all 81 people -- men, women, children, and babies --
were incinerated in a screaming horror.


Did some feds set the fire?

Did the flammable CS gas ignite, since without electricity,
the parishioners were using lanterns? Did a tank knock over
a lantern, striking one of the bales of hay being used against the
thin walls as a "defense" against bullets? Or did the Davidians,
as Clinton and Reno claim, kill themselves?


A new documentary ‑‑ Waco: The Rules of Engagement ‑‑ may
show, through FLIR infrared photography, FBI snipers killing
the Davidians by shooting through the back of the church, where
no media cameras were allowed. This film won a prize at the
famed Sundance Film Festival.
It was made by people who took the government's side, until they investigated.


Whatever the truth, there's no question that an irresponsible
federal government has innocent blood on its hands, and not only from Waco.
And the refusal of corrupt and perverse liberals to admit it means nothing.


In my interview, in answer to a caller's question, I pointed
out that Waco, and the federal murders at Ruby Ridge ‑‑
especially the FBI sniper's shot that blasted apart the head
of a young mother holding her baby ‑‑ caused many Americans to
live in fear of federal power.


Then I uttered the sentiment that caused the media hysteria:
I said that a lot of Americans fear that they too might
be attacked by federal swat teams for exercising their
constitutional rights, or merely for wanting to be left alone.


Whoa! You've never seen anything like it.
For days, in an all‑out assault, I was attacked by Democrats, unions, big
business, establishment Republicans, and ‑‑ of course ‑‑
the media, in Washington and my home state of Texas.
Newspapers foamed at the mouth, calling me a "right-wing
extremist." (Say, isn't that what George III called
Thomas Jefferson?)

I was even blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing! And by the way,
I don't believe we've gotten the full truth on that either.

All my many opponents were outraged that a Congressman would
criticize big government. "If you don't like Washington,
resign!" said a typical big-city newspaper editorial.


But the media, as usual, were all wet. (Do they ever get
anything right?) The average Congressman may go to
Washington to wallow in power, and line his pockets with
a big lobbying job for a special interest
( so he can keep ripping‑off the taxpayers ).
But that's not why I'm in Congress. It's not why
I left my medical practice as a physician. It's not why I put up
with all the abuse. It's not why I refuse a plush Congressional pension.


I'm in this fight for a reason. I want to hand on to my
children and grandchildren, and to you and your family,
a great and free America, an America true to her Constitution,
an America worthy of her history.
I will not let the crooks and clowns and criminals have their way.
I'm in Congress to represent the ideas of liberty, the ideas that you
and I share, for the people of my district, for the people of Texas, for the
people of America. That's why I'm working to stop federal abuses,
and to cut the government: its taxes, its bureaucrats, its paramilitary police,
its spending, its meddling overseas,
and every single unconstitutional action it takes. And not with a pair of
nail scissors, but with a hammer and chisel.


Won't you help me do this work?

Not much of the federal leviathan would be left, if I had my
way. But you'd be able to keep the money you earn, your privacy
would be secure, your dollar would be sound, your local school
would be tops, and your kids wouldn't be sent off to some
useless or vicious foreign war to fight for the UN.

But Jefferson and the other Founders would recognize our
government, and our descendants would bless us.
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code.

I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them
with nothing.


Recently, I asked a famous Republican committee chairman ‑‑
who's always talking about getting rid of IRS- why he engineered
a secret $580 million raise for the tax collectors. "They need
it for their computers," this guy told me. So the IRS can't
extract enough from us as it is! The National Taxpayers Union
says I have the highest pro-taxpayer rating in Congressional history,
that I am the top "Taxpayer's Best Friend." You know I won't play the
Capitol Hill games with the Capitol Hill gang,
denouncing the IRS while giving the Gestapo more of your
money. Or figuring out some other federal tax for them to
squeeze out of you. I also want to abolish the Federal Reserve,
and send Alan Greenspan out to get a job.


The value of our dollar and the level of our interest rates are
not supposed to be manipulated by a few members of the power
elite meeting secretly in a marble palace. The Federal Reserve
is unconstitutional, pure and simple.
The only Constitutional money is gold and silver,
not notes redeemable in them. Not fed funny money.
Without the Federal Reserve, our money could not be inflated
at the behest of big government or big banks.
Your income and savings would not lose their value.
Just as important, we wouldn't have this endless string of
booms and busts, recessions and depressions, with each bust getting worse.


They aren't natural to the free market; they're caused by the
schemers at the Fed. President Andrew Jackson called the
19th century Fed "The Monster" because it was a vehicle for
inflation and all sorts of special‑interest corruption.

Let me tell you, things haven't changed a bit.

I also work to save our schools from D.C. interference.
Thanks to the feds, new curriculums not only smear the
Founders as "racist, slave-owning elitists," they seek to
dumb down our students so they will all be equal.


"Look-say" reading and the abolition of phonics has the same
purpose, and so does the new "fuzzy" math, in which there are
no right and no wrong answers. That must be what they use in
the U.S. Treasury! It's certainly what they use in the U.S .
Congress.


But ever since the beginning of federal aid to education and accelerating
with the establishment of the rotten Department of Education, SAT scores
have been dropping. Schools, with few exceptions, are getting worse every year.
To save our kids, we must get the sticky fingers of the feds off our local schools,
and let parents rule. That's what the Constitution says, and the Bible too.

And then there's my least favorite topic, the UN. World
government is obviously unconstitutional. It undermines our
country's sovereignty in the worst way possible. That's why I
want us out of the UN, and the UN itself taking a hike.


After all, the UN is socialist and corrupt (many votes can be
bought with a "blonde and a case of scotch," one UN ambassador
once said). It costs many billions, and it puts our soldiers in
UN uniforms under foreign commanders, and sends them off to
unconstitutional, undeclared wars.
When Michael New, one of the finest young men I've ever met,
objected to wearing UN blue, he was kicked out of the American Army.
What an outrage! Not one dime for the UN, and not one American soldier!
Not in Haiti, not in Bosnia, not in Somalia, not in Rwanda. I know it's radical,
but how about devoting American military efforts to
defending America, and only America?


Such ideas, said one newspaper reporter, make me a maverick who will never go far because he won't go along to get along.

Darn right! What does "go far" mean? Get a big government job?

To heck with that. And I won't sell my vote for pork either.
When I walked through the U.S. Capitol this morning, I got
angry. The building is filled with statues and painting of Jefferson,
Madison, and the other Founders.
Those great men sacrificed everything to give us a free country, and a
Constitution to keep it that way.


When I was first elected, I placed my hand on the Bible and
swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. That's exactly what
I'm fighting for. But such ideas drive the liberals crazy.

That's why I badly need your help. I've been targeted nationally
for defeat. The Democrats, the AFL-CIO, the teachers union,
big business PACs, the trial lawyers, the big bankers, the
foreign-aid lobbyists, the big media, and the establishment

Republicans want to dance on my political grave.
The Fed, the Education Department, and the UN are anxious to join in.

They can't stand even one person telling the truth.


And they're terrified when that truth gains the people's
support.

Right now, four well-funded Democrats are competing to try to
beat me, and a Republican is rumored to have been offered money
at a secret meeting in Mexico(!) if he would try to knock me off in a primary.
Won't you help me stay up here to fight?

Frankly, I am in trouble if you don't. My Texas district has
22,000 square miles (not a misprint). I've got to travel all over it,
set up small offices to be manned by volunteers,
advertise, pay phone bills, and distribute video and audio tapes
to the people to get around the big-media lies. As I know from
my last election, which I won by the skin of my teeth, the media
will carry any smear, repeat any libel, throw any piece of mud,
no matter how untrue. In fact, the less true, the more they like it.
They are determined to silence me.
But you can help me overcome all this.


Together, we can beat the bad guys arrayed against our country and our freedom.
We can support the Constitution. We can win.
Your generous contribution of $25 or $50 would be great .
$100, $250, or even $500 or $1,000 would be magnificent.

Of course, any amount would help, and in return, I will keep you
up‑to‑date on this fight as a member of my "kitchen cabinet."

What great men founded this country! What great people have
carried on their fight! That fight is not lost, not if you will join it.


Washington, D.C. is a loser, but among the people, our ideas are
gaining every single day.


Keep the tide turning in our direction. Please make your most
generous contribution. Join this fight for the Constitution, and
stop those who want to rip it up, and throw it in the Potomac.
Together, we can join the Founders' fight. Together, we can make history.


Sincerely,

Ron Paul U. S. Congressman

203 Cannon House Office Building

Washington D.C. 20515


Committee to Re-elect Ron Paul
837 W. Plantation

Clute, Texas 77531