Ron Paul
Appearances
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
What you're talking about is so little. This is a big problem and you think you're going to change things?
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
I think what Musk is doing is great, but I see it as an educational thing because, quite frankly,
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
uh i am not expecting that budget uh deficit to shrink this year nor the next year because there's too many people who have become dependent on it they they want they want it and there'll be some pain and suffering and that's the where the real problem is so you think it's going to take a couple years nothing 2025 and nothing 2026 no budget cuts
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
There'll be budget cuts, but I don't think you'll see the deficit go down. No, I don't think one or two years is going to solve the problem. But if people have all of a sudden changed things, people's attitudes have to change. One best recent example, I think this point about attitudes have to change as more education and morality was what happened under COVID.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
I mean, from my viewpoint as a physician and a libertarian, I thought that was so atrocious in what was done just because the government bureaucrats was going to deny a lot of people medications that the people decided they wanted to take. And we'll put them in nursing homes and take care of them. And then, oh, finally, oh, 82% of them died. You know, this sort of thing. So I think that we...
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
We have to move in that direction. During COVID, the people woke up. The parents went to a PTA meeting. To me, it was the most ridiculous thing to live through for two or three years. We're still suffering the consequences. How much money did Trump spend? The deficits were horrible under those conditions. Oh, but this is an emergency. So there'll be an emergency this year, believe me.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
There will be an emergency, and there'll be somebody that's ready to invade Florida. So we'll have to mobilize, and there'll be another epidemic and that kind of stuff. You don't sound optimistic.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
No, I'm the most optimistic person in the world because I think where we've made our progress is in this idea of understanding what is going on. Austrian economics just came alive since World War II. Progressivism and socialism, the 19th century, that's been around a long time.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
But I think the Mises Institute and the various institutions, and that's why I spent a lot of time in education, to try to explain this. Because when the people became aware of what was happening, it finally happened to change. Okay, what about war? The people woke up. And people finally figured it out that Vietnam War was insane. 78,000 or 68,000 Americans killed for no reason at all.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
And we're still participating in wars all over the world. And we say, well, yeah, but no Americans died. But our bombs are killing people, whether it's in Ukraine or the Middle East or Yemen. It's all our bombs. And that's a moral issue because the people sit by and say, I don't even know where Yemen is. I don't care. and I want to know whether my Social Security check is coming.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
So that's going to exist, and that's not going to go away. But I think the philosophy of a lot of people outside our university system, whether it's the Mises Institute or the other various groups, because there's a lot of good groups, I think that... I think there's a big positive thing.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
When I went to, even in the last two or three decades, when I went to Congress in 1976, I mean, they looked at me and they never, what are you doing? You're... two of you up there voting. You're voting with a radical left-wing person.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
But they didn't understand the philosophy of liberty and why, if you're going to have liberty, you can't have it in one area, social-sexualism, but not in economic things. And I think that philosophy is alive and well. And when I go to college campuses, and the ones I went to campaign, I was excited about what is there and is still there.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
And I think you even mentioned a positive thing when we started. There's a lot of people, and I don't hardly understand it, because there's a lot of people still talking about some of those issues I talked about 10 years ago. So I'm very optimistic about that, but realistic about about was this an easy battle? No, it is not.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Thank you very much, Patrick. Good to be with you again.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Because that'll keep coming and that'll keep being our problem. And I don't think non-interventionism is far enough along to stop all that because we're too slow. We finally stopped wars like Vietnam. We finally stopped COVID. But we need to stop that before they start. The founders understood it.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Well, I think probably read the education of our founding fathers. It's unbelievable. And there were no universities to brainwash them, basically. And they also took—they didn't have the system. They didn't go to government schools. But, boy, I'll tell you what, I am impressed with the education they achieved. And historically, they do something about it.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Greek history and Roman history, the whole works. And liberty just hasn't been recently invented, but it's evolved over these years. And I think we've made tremendous progress in the last three or four decades. But it's a long way to go. I realize this because I understand human nature pretty well, because there's this overrunning overriding issue that people do want a free lunch.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
And if they have the free lunch, they certainly don't want it taken away. And that's what we're witnessing now. There's a lot of resistance out there, and the universities are still filled plug with the people teaching the philosophy they gave it. Oh, yeah, boys can go... What is it? Boys can become girls and set Olympic records.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Well, for me, as a physician and a libertarian, that's sort of nutty.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
I am not expecting the budget deficit to shrink this year nor the next year because there's too many people who have become dependent on it. So there'll be an emergency this year, believe me.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Oh, boy. You know, the individual issues that you mentioned are secondary for me to the philosophy that motivates people to do things. So if somebody is a socialist or somebody is a libertarian, who motivated them? What have they read? Who has influenced your ideas? So I think right now what we're facing basically is the late recognition of how much trouble we're in.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Yeah, it's not going to be two years or 12 years. I would ask you, how long did it take to undermine the basic thrust of the revolution, the Constitution, and how it was written, and what the Ninth and Tenth Amendments mean? That was an erosion that took a long, long time. The erosion came from the universities, and they're still there, and they preach this stuff. So I think...
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
The reason why I'm not worried about it not being done in six months or two years or three years is the damage has already been done. There has been damage done by bad philosophy, but it created a monetary system and a financial An empire, we have an empire. They don't just, but they do disappear. And I think that's what's big about what's happening today.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
But in economics, if you spend too much money and you have a lot of debt, and then you have a lot of malinvestment because if you disrupt the interest rate, people do dumb things because they think there's a lot of money being saved and there isn't. So you end up with bubbles. And the bubbles have to burst. There's a liquidation period. So the sooner people realize that liquidation is good.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
In 1921, there was this crisis that came up. But in 1921, they weren't Keynesian. You had to just print a lot of money. And a year and a half, the GDP went down sharply, like 15%. It was horrible. But they didn't have any bailouts. And everything was recovered.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
See, what I'm convinced of, Patrick, is that if I got my freedom, and if you had your freedom, and everybody had their freedom, and you couldn't do any violence, that if they took all our wealth, everything in the bank is wiped out, I think that a year or two, things would just be so booming, just so people could be rewarded for their effort. And it would never get that bad.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
There wouldn't be anything there. But if people didn't have an income tax and didn't have to deal with all this nonsense and all this regulation, that's what they're trying to do right now. That's what Musk is trying to do. But it is. It's overwhelming of what it is. I don't think it'll happen until people understand the philosophy of what's going on on economics.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Because if you run up a $36 trillion debt, you say, what does liquidation mean? We have to declare bankruptcy if you or I had $10 million debt and we had to quit, we'd have to get another job or declare bankruptcy or something so we could start over. We're not ready to start over yet.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
We're ready for the liquidation and that's where the real test will be because the cultural Marxists and Marxists said, we want chaos in the streets and they're getting it and it's going to get worse and the chaos in the street because they want to replace it with true Marxism. I want to replace it with true liberty.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
OK, I think you're looking for a gradualist approach. And that should always be, you know, when they came up with a vote over the years when I was there, they put it on, attach it to a bill. Let's get rid of waste, fraud and abuse. So I was cynical. I said, you're not going to do it. And they did. But I voted for it. So there is it.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
And, of course, they're once again saying, well, yeah, there's too much cover. We have to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. Well, I've heard those terms all the time over the years. Nothing really happened. But I think this time it's different because it's bigger. There's sort of a conclusive end coming because of the bankruptcy.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
But on me setting the stage and helping the Marxists by pointing out this thing's going to get worse, well, you don't have a choice. If I were there and posed all these beliefs on shrinking the devil overnight, you know, or no, just say gradualism, that's what we're working on right now. Just think of the reaction they're getting. You know, Trump and... and the whole group to try to come back.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
They're getting a lot of groove. But you don't have a choice. The damage has already been done. The money has been spent. The abuse of the currency has been done. You have the foreign policy. What did Trump say today? Well, what we need to do is take over all the... all the electronic plants, all the power plants in Ukraine. Oh, they have oil. We'll take over that.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
How do we go into the Middle East, which I strongly oppose? They said, no, sweat it. Once we take over that oil, that'll pay for all this warmongering. So they always have that. The downside, the disappearance of the debt and the malinvestment. People don't talk about malinvestment. That's all the mistakes. That's when they have 2,000 houses, and the market says there was only room for 1,000.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
There has to be a bubble there, and you have to have these corrections. But if you have the correction that's going to occur, people should understand 1921 versus what they did in the Depression. The Depression was horrible. They introduced so many programs, and it never worked until, oh, the war will save us. Yeah, it will kill millions of people and distract them from the stupid politics.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
economic policies that we have, then we keep doing the same thing over and over again, and it goes back to the money issue. You could do any of this thing if you didn't permit fraud by a secret group of people to print money to take care of the special interest. The poor people have to eat, don't they?
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
The poor people in the pharmaceutical industry, the military, industrial complex, none of that would exist if you couldn't print money and maintain an empire that has demanding control of the reserve currency of the world. That will die. They die over the centuries. This one is in the death throes pretty soon. It will.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
But it won't be because we're taking around and cutting a couple dollars here and there.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
And I used to talk about, well, there's a moral bankruptcy and a financial bankruptcy. And I would talk mostly financial because I was more interested in the monetary system and the debt.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
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PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
But lately, I think I have been moved, not that I think there's a big difference between it because you can't separate the two, but I think the moral bankruptcy is what exists and has existed throughout all of history, good versus evil and the whole thing about natural law versus government law and all these things. These are the big pictures And where do people fit in on this?
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
I try to simplify and say, well, are you an interventionist or not? And I can talk to you about where you want to intervene. Oh, yeah, I want to intervene and do this and that. Well, my view is that we as individuals, and especially if you're in government, you should be a non-interventionist other than to deal with people who are aggressive and causing trouble.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Thank you. Thank you. It's not a big deal for me. I mean, if you just have the ideas out there, because the people go along, most people go along, you know, to get along because, you know, do you think the American people right now are worrying about Greenland? They either say, well, that's a joke, or somebody says, well, that's a good idea, and why would anybody say such a thing?
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
for telling people how to live, what to do, how to spend their money, how to draft kids and send them around and start wars and without declaration, all this stuff. There's a lot of interventionists. And guess who I think it is? I think there's just only two parties you ought to worry about, Republicans and Democrats, because they accept these principles.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
But that doesn't mean I can't see the difference. And in some places, you know, there definitely is a better movement. They all talk about now, oh, you've got to cut the spending, cut the spending. But I think it's coming to a climactic end. I think $36 trillion or something. And then I hear schemes like, oh, all we have to do is buy a couple of crypto, and they're going to go up in value.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
So I think there's a lot of positive things, and all I know is, in spite of the fact that there's a systemic attack right now by most politicians in Washington. One way or another, they attack freedom of expression. That's dangerous. When I left Congress, I gave a little speech, and I said that's our biggest threat.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
If we mess up on the First Amendment where we can't express ourselves, and believe me, both sides are doing that, and that is going to be rough. But like I also believe, If you're working with an idea whose time has come, you cannot stop it.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Yeah, in my case, it's liberty. And understanding the difference between liberty and Chamber of Commerce, free enterprise. You know, who... I had to talk to them and all they wanted was to come up and lobby for money, not lobby for liberty. But there's more of that now.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
But I found that my encouragement came from people that actually I was shocked because people that were still in grade school understood this stuff as far as I was concerned, and they were excited about it and they're still communicating with me. When they were in grade school and high school, And they're out there, and I don't know who they are. And we never know.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
We never know who the remnant is made up of. And they're the people who keep things good and keep the ideas alive. The ideas are only that count, but the ideas of using government to use force. Now, I don't think that what's going on now to cut spending, some people will say, well, that's using force or cutting off my check. But no, there's a lot of serious people.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
I give as much positive messages about what the commission is doing, trying to cut spending as I can, because I know that For the most part, their heart is in the right place, but I'm just trying to be a realist and say, well, you better be prepared for a lot of anger out there and people are going to be upset because they think they have a right to these things.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
You have a right to life and liberty, but you don't have a right to somebody else's stuff. Right now, there's too many people who still believe that they have a right to somebody else's stuff. But when the stuff runs out, we better be prepared to patch up the holes with something more positive.
PBD Podcast
“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
I wrote it into my little pamphlet on there not too long ago. Yeah, I was drafted in October of 62. I was in my residency. So they took me out of my residency at Henry Ford Hospital and I was inducted into the military. And that was over the Cuban crisis. But I was inducted by January of 63. And Kennedy was and I was a flight surgeon. I was a head flight surgeon at that particular time.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
day when Kennedy landed at Kelly Air Force Base the day before he was assassinated. And I had a theoretical responsibility, which was just theoretical. It was, believe me, nothing special other than the fact that he was there and they told me about it. I was put to be aware of it if anything went wrong. I watched the plane take off. I remember that vividly.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
And then that plane, I think, stopped in Houston. And then the next day it stopped in Dallas. And that was it. So I knew exactly where I was the day before and the day of the assassination. And my little booklet I've written recently, I talk a lot more about that because my personal experience was the fact that I was close to it the day before he was assassinated.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
We're going to pay off the national debt. Well, that's just grabbing at straws on solving the problem, because the problem is a moral approach to committing oneself to non-aggression. I'm not going to use force. But everything government does is the use of force, and that has to be designed. There will be some force. We have a national defense and things like this.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Well, I didn't read those 80,000, but I think today they said, well, we were going to redact it all, but we are not going to do that. No, but my pamphlet, my little story about it is, I think, as a matter of fact, I date the 1960s as the decade and the assassination as the installation or the recognition of a coup, because that's when the FBI, the CIA, and others, just think.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Jack Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy assassinated, Martin Luther King assassinated, other civil rights leaders were killed. Yes, I've read every book I could read, and I firmly convinced that it was not a lone killer. 80% of the American people say they don't believe the government now. That's really healthy. That's wonderful, because Oswald, nobody believes it anymore.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Too many people, that was one thing they always had jokes about, of Oswald. In the Soviet Union, they always made jokes about the government because everybody knew what the truth was, but everybody knew they had to lie in the field. But I do. I saw I date the 60s as as a conversion into what the CIA has done.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
And it's a lot of you can you there's a lot a lot of people who are very well versed in this. And there's a lot of books on this. And I happen to believe a lot of that stuff to be true.
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I believe that. I've seen some people that might not be, just disagree and say, oh, no, there were other things. No, I'd listen to that. But no, I think it was the monetary issue. that Kennedy wanted to stop the war, but he increased the war in Vietnam. But later on, there's a story about his friend that he was living with at the time converted him to a peacemaker, and he was.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
He had announced, it will be different after the election.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Oh, be tolerant. Be involuntary. Agree on what you're going to do. I think sometimes it's just being courteous to people. I don't know. I don't have one magic thing to do, but mostly it's just basic decency. Sometimes the decency is not revealed very often. But no special things.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Thank you very much for having me, Patrick.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
Individuals, our problem, I think, stems from the fact that most people steal in spite of all the violence in the street. Most Americans would say, no, you shouldn't lie, cheat, steal, and kill people. That's aggression. But what do we do when governments do it? We totally ignore it and participate in it and send them money. without even paying any attention to the restraints in the Constitution.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
The people that run our universities are not on our side. The education of our founding fathers is unbelievable. And there were no universities to brainwash them.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
I'm thinking, you know, like declaration of war. Look at all the war and the killing that's gone on and all the money spent, which is all unconstitutional and it's violent. The monetary system is just an act of violence that is so corrupt that that's fraud and abuse. And yet that isn't even being discussed today, how terrible that is. But you or I, Patrick, if we did it, we'd go to jail for that.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
And they still know that if we steal and hurt people, that's bad. But if you look at it, stupidity and ill-advised people and people who just want more power and money in government, they cause a lot of harm. And if I compare that to what people think, oh, all we have to do is get rid of USAID and things will be okay. I'm for getting rid of that, believe me. But there's a lot more to it.
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“They Want CHAOS In The Streets"– Ron Paul On Empire Collapse, Censorship & The WAR On Liberty | PBD Podcast | Ep . 565
I want to see and discuss the philosophic principles that allow people to justify their involvement in participating in this violence.
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I would still want to attack it in a philosophic way. If you have a bad program, and right now we're starting to see that they'll have to retain some of USAID. It's the principle that if you permit something, just 10% of what you think is it, that's the seed. It'll grow. Congress has an argument. Should this budget be $100 billion or $90 billion? And they said for 95, that's not progress.
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That's endorsing 100% of the principle that they should be involved in either some type of social program that's helping the very wealthy, the pharmaceuticals or the military-industrial complex. So once you commit to that principle, then we're in trouble. But if you're looking for one item,
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I mean, I go back to the item that motivated me to get involved in the details of it, and I would think that if you didn't have this privilege of the very few people who are involved to be able to create the worldwide reserve currency, the dollar, and that would be our Federal Reserve, I mean, that's how everything is paid for. And that is the most immoral thing in the world because it's a debt.
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I mean, it's a tax. It's a tax. It's a wicked tack on the middle class and the poor because they print the money, devalue the currency, and that is a tax, a tax on the people. And they try to balance this. And we just had a meeting this week with the Fed, and they're talking about technicality. oh, this and that and that. And none of that is possible. You can't know those things in economics.
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The damage has already been done. Bubbles have to burst. You better be prepared because that would probably cause a civil war.
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And so I just get a biggest charge or disgust, too, with all the talk about, what should interest rates be? Ron, what would you do? What would you do with interest rates? Well, I wouldn't try to, you know, decide, because the interest rate is so important. It tells you the price of money and whether the activities that the people are participating in are wise decisions or not.
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So I think it's that big picture that I want to see, and I would still go if you had the one thing. Some people ask me this, and I'll say, well, this has changed. One law, the Federal Reserve cannot buy government debt. And because they buy the debt, there's a guarantee, and we're wealthy and all that.
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Why don't we just open up the Constitution and read it?
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I also recognize that if I was there and I did that and no more government purchase of debt, you better be prepared because that would probably cause a civil war.
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Yeah, I use the word, but there are ways to qualify. Even within the Libertarian Party, there are libertarian-leaning type or conservative-leaning. Yes, but I still call it libertarians is the best term that I use, although because some people think that's a negative term. I frequently will use freedom and liberty, but libertarian, as soon as they put the IAN on there,
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No, I'm the most optimistic person in the world.
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People are saying, oh, you're just a libertarian. So I use it. But I know if you said, do I call myself a libertarian? I do.
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The reason you give for not doing it and it wouldn't work is the reason why I want it. Because it is too big. You can't manage this government. See, for me, all activities, social, religious, sexual, international, Every activity should be voluntary. Both sides have to have a voluntary agreement to what they're doing.
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That's what happens in the marketplace, and there's a lot of that left, but there's a lot of corruption in it, too, because there's so much regulation. So this stuff about how do you do it with this mess we have, well, yeah, I think we have to get rid of it. And the founders knew exactly what they were doing by trying to prevent it.
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But how many people and how many times do you hear them talking about Article 1, Section 8, and Amendment Number 10? They mention it, but it's not very sincere. I remember one time after a debate for the presidential thing, a student came up to me and he was very pleased. He said, boy, I understand what you mean and all this stuff. And I said, well, he was praising me.
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And I said, well, you know, and I was curious. because somebody at that particular night after me, he spouted off how dedicated he was to the Constitution. When I look at what they do, 98% or 80% of all that happens in Washington is technically immoral and illegal under the Constitution. I said, well, why don't you go talk to him? He says, well, I didn't believe him.
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So he was spouting the delight of the Constitution. But to hear this college kid, I thought it was astounding that all of a sudden he I said something, he said something. That's what I got impressed with young people. I think young people have a room in their brain to still accept some of the newer ideas and understanding or renewal of an idea of liberty.
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I think it's wonderful that young people will look at it that way, but it's terrible. I still think it can be boiled down to what was readily apparent through all of history of natural law and government law. Even before we had civilization, there were a lot of rules. The main rules of natural law, you can't lie, cheat, steal, or kill. That's been known from way back.
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That was even before they had printing presses. They knew those were the laws. They were done perfectly. But as a natural law, people know that, and they know it now, but they overcome it by justification. Oh, but we need it. Somebody is going to be poor, and they won't have any food. Yeah, I am convinced that
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If you want to have the maximum amount of peace and prosperity, you want to have the most minimum amount of government, because there's this tendency that people who accept the idea that you can use force and not be something that's immoral, they would go ahead and do it. So that's why governments grow, and you can't shrink them. They will end themselves, just like the war is ending.
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I think what they're doing philosophically and calling all this to our attention is the most important because it's already, look at the resistance they're getting. And so, yes, you could have something here and there. But the approach right now, I said, well, maybe it'll work with the Department of Education. It isn't to just shrink it. It's that
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get it out of the federal government, at least that would be moving in one direction, and put it all on the states and say, oh, wouldn't there be terrible education and all this? And I just don't buy into that. I think the bigger it is, the more centralized it is. And if you can't do it at the city level, you go to the state level. They think that doesn't work because there's too much corruption.
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So they go to the federal government. Oh, then they go to the UN and NATO and say, well, the world is too complex. You can't let people make those kind of decisions. We have to have smart people go to these international organizations and sort things out. All it does is lead to the bad guys taking over.