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Ron Paul to Again Vote Against an Obama Debt-Ceiling Increase

Paul’s rivals have voted for debt-ceiling increases and/or created a climate that begets more borrowing from foreign sources and taxpayers

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul is in Washington today, taking a brief hiatus from campaigning in South Carolina, to vote for a House resolution to deny President Obama a $1.2 trillion debt-ceiling increase.

Despite the federal debt now being equal to America’s GDP, Obama wants to exercise his option to again raise the debt ceiling as stipulated in a 2011 budget agreement that creates the mechanism for near-automatic sustained debt pileup. Ron Paul is the nation’s number-one defender of the rights of taxpayers, who along with their children and grandchildren will trade their hard-earned wages for higher taxes and the coming inflation tax Paul warns about.

The notion that borrowing money from foreign investors and expanding government is necessary, in good times and bad, is a common theme among Paul’s rivals for the Republican nomination.

Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich while in the House voted to increase the debt ceiling in 1981 (H.R. 1553), 1983 (H.J. RES. 30, 1984 (H.R. 5953), 1985 (H.J. RES. 372), 1987 (H.J. RES. 324), twice in 1989 (H.R. 3024; H.J. RES 280), and twice in 1990 (H.R. 5350; H.J. RES. 681).

Gingrich also lobbied for Freddie Mac prior to the housing market collapse and lobbied for the individual mandate before the passage of Obamacare. The resulting costly housing bailouts for lenders and GSEs that the Congress, and Presidents Bush and Obama approved have made debt-ceiling increases even more likely.

Specifically, Gingrich’s lobbying for Freddie Mac stymied a quicker housing recovery by ensuring that a market-wide price correction never occurred. Rather, payments to his lobbying clients were his priority. With lenders buoyed by Gingrich practices that support mal-investment, homeowners facing foreclosure lost the opportunity to renegotiate directly with lenders because the terms were pre-set by agreements between politicians doling out tax dollars and lenders holding the foreclosed at bay. Unquestionably, the housing bailout for lenders – disguised as relief for homeowners – occurred because insider lobbying created it and borrowing was the funding mechanism.

Also regarding the former House Speaker, the growth in government Obamacare is causing thanks to Gingrich’s support for the individual mandate makes future debt increases certain as Americans discover that Washington traded the doctor-patient relationship for an unsustainable, entitlement program that will naturally require more borrowing to contain.
Lastly on Gingrich, he supported TARP – a transfer of overseas wealth to several large U.S. financial institutions. TARP is a key driver of borrowing and debt, necessitating increased limits on borrowing.

If Gingrich were to continue with his spendthrift habits as a lobbyist – or worse, as President – there would be sanctioned increases in the debt ceiling and a climate of borrowing, simply to grow government, will thrive.

Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum while in the Senate voted to increase the debt ceiling in 1997 (H.R. 2015), 2002 (S. 257, 2003 (H.J. Res. 51), 2004 (S. 2986), and 2006 (H.J. Res. 47). Despite his deflections on the matter, Santorum is in fact a debt-hiker.
What’s more, in 2004 Santorum worked hard getting 10,000 votes to help Arlen Specter defeat fiscal conservative Pat Toomey in a race for a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat. To be sure, Santorum has said in the past that he is “no longer a deficit hawk,” which bodes poorly for the American taxpayer left on the hook when Washington spends away the future.
In addition to voting in favor of increasing the debt ceiling, Santorum is antagonistic toward Right to Work protections that keep industry strong. If Santorum supports the interest of organized labor above those of employers and individual workers, industries with a high instance of union membership will remain weak and always be candidates for bailouts. More bailouts mean more borrowing, unless the U.S. Government has accumulated a sovereign wealth fund, linking Santorum’s hostility toward Right to Work laws with a culture of endless borrowing.

Santorum also supported TARP, contributing to his profile as someone willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed money when the opportunity arises.

Mitt Romney
As a left-moderate Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney was the architect of a costly health care program that Obama gleefully calls the basis for Obamacare. On a national scale, the President’s Romneycare inspired entitlement will require borrowing from foreign sources as the program becomes unglued from its presumed cost projections and spirals into insolvency.

As private employers continue to abandon their healthcare policies and direct workers toward single-payer exchanges, the federal government will institute a national healthcare system. The private sector economy will weaken and revenue to pay for health exchanges will decline. With the tax base further stressed, Washington will then shift to paying providers using borrowed money to meet annual requirements.

There is no logical reason to believe that Romney will succeed in repealing or defunding Obamacare if the program, in effect, is modeled on his own despite his declarations to do so. In fact, Romney will fail to win over Republicans, independents, and disaffected Democrats if he gains the nomination because Obama’s highest achievement, popular with progressives, is in effect Romneycare. Obama will be re-elected, he will levy threats about social security checks going un-mailed, and the borrowing culture will persist.

Lastly on Romney, he too supported TARP as a means of propping up the U.S. economy and preventing an economic calamity. Neither happened, yet hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on this venture with the blessing of ostensible private-sector cheerleader Romney.

Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Position
“Ron Paul is taking the lead among his competitors in fighting for the interests of present and future taxpayers. He’s going to Washington to reiterate his longstanding opposition to increasing Washington’s credit card limit merely to advance the status quo, to grow government, and to postpone the hard choices found in his ‘Plan to Restore America,’” said Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton.

“Voters want to know exactly where Ron Paul’s rivals stand on the issue not only of directly increasing the debt through voting. They want to know if their records illustrate longstanding contributions to an atmosphere that encourages borrowing in the first place. One need only look to the records of Dr. Paul’s competitors Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney for an answer to this question,” added Mr. Benton.

Ron Paul to Again Vote Against an Obama Debt-Ceiling Increase*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee

Ron Paul to Join South Carolina Prolife Forum via Satellite

Will vote against Obama’s debt ceiling increase in Washington yet honors his commitment to PersonhoodUSA cause and audience

COLUMBIA, SC – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will participate in PersonhoodUSA’s inaugural LIVE Presidential ProLife Forum taking place later today, as planned.

The 12-term Congressman from Texas will be in Washington for a House vote on a measure to voice their displeasure at and deny President Obama a $1.2 trillion increase in the federal debt limit. The presidential prolife forum takes place in Greenville, South Carolina. Consequently, Dr. Paul will participate in the presidential prolife forum via satellite.

“Dr. Paul feels he must make sure to once again vote against Obama’s debt limit increase, but this forum and the prolife cause are very dear to him. Therefore, he has made arrangements to participate via satellite feed,” said Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton.

“With years of experience as a physician Dr. Paul supports the sanctity of life as a basis for liberty and civility, and as the number-one proponent of constitutionally-limited government he supports curtailing federal spending. He can and will represent both interests, and he will do so well,” said Mr. Benton.

Ron Paul is by trade an OB/GYN who personally delivered more than 4,000 babies.

In late December, Dr. Paul signed the PersonhoodUSA Republican Presidential Candidate Pledge and anaddendum clarifying is prolife stance in the context of the Constitution. The Ron Paul campaign also released two path-breaking television ads on concerning the sanctity of life: ‘Life’ and ‘Staying on the Right Path.’

Details of the event are as follows. Time is Eastern.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
6:45 – 8:30 p.m.
PersonhoodUSA LIVE Presidential ProLife Forum
Hilton Hotel
45 West Orchard Park Drive
Greenville, SC 29615

Ron Paul to Join South Carolina Prolife Forum via Satellite*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee

Ron Paul Supports Celente’s Call for “Intellectual Revolution”

Gerald Celente
1-18-12

KINGSTON, NY, 18 January 2012 — Following his second-place finish in the New Hampshire GOP primary, when Ron Paul stood before the television cameras to address the crowd, he didn’t crow about his personal victory or denigrate his opponents. Instead, he told supporters that “we are dangerous to the status quo of the country,” and spoke about the power of ideas.

“I think the Intellectual Revolution that’s going on now to restore liberty in this country is well on its way, and there’s no way they’re going to stop the momentum that we have started,” Ron Paul said.

In fact, Gerald Celente has been championing the call for an “Intellectual Revolution” for years. In 2009 he secured the domain Forecasting, Tracking and Analyzing Global Trends | Trends Research Institute, and in an April 2009 Trend Alert he wrote:

“I am calling for an ‘Intellectual Revolution.’ This is a revolution about thinking – not manning the barricades. It’s about brain power – not brute force.

Nothing short of total repudiation of our entrenched systems can rescue America. We are under the control of a two-headed, one party political system. Wall Street controls our financial lives; the media manipulates our minds. These systems cannot be changed from within. There is no alternative. Without a revolution, these institutions will bankrupt the country, keep fighting failed wars, start new ones, and hold us in intellectual subjugation.”

In 2009, when Celente was broaching the concept of an Intellectual Revolution, it was those who felt “taxed to death, angry at government bailouts, outraged by Wall Street greed, and bitterly resentful of a system that rewards the undeserving rich,” who were ready to revolt.

Nearly three years later, in Ron Paul’s view, “it’s no longer that irate, tireless minority that is stirring up the troops. Now that irate minority… it’s growing by leaps and bounds. It’s going to continue to grow by leaps and bounds. And we will restore freedom to this country.”

“While I’m a political atheist, I still vote,” says Celente, who sees Campaign 2012 as little more than ‘The Presidential Reality Show.’ “While I don’t agree with Ron Paul on all the issues, we are in lockstep when it comes to the need for an Intellectual Revolution.

And, it’s not only the US that needs radically new thinking to power it forward. As evidenced by their policies and actions ... political leaders worldwide are afflicted by malignant forms of IDD, ‘Intelligence Deficit Disorder.’ "

As Gerald Celente wrote in the Winter 2012 Trends Journal, “The choices are stark: Follow the leaders or change the course … the future is in your hands: Renaissance or ruin.”

©MMXII The Trends Research Institute®

Ron Paul Supports Celente’s Call for “Intellectual Revolution”

False Flag Dirty Tricks Against Ron Paul Campaign Fully Exposed

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The Intel Hub
January 17, 2012

In the last few months we have seen countless attacks on Ron Paul and his 2012 presidential campaign.
Whether it be outright lies by the corporate controlled media or fake campaign videos made to look like Ron Paul is insane, the fact remains that there is an organized and concerted effort to disrupt and potentially destroy any chance Ron Paul has for a victory in 2012.

Recently The Intel Hub published an article, contributed by The End Run, that documented the latest planned attacks on the Ron Paul campaign which involved dressing up as KKK members and pretending to be Paul supporters.

Coming on the heels of last week’s dirty deception by the Huntsman campaign, several rabidly anti-Ron Paul political activists have been caught planning another vicious “false flag”-style dirty trick against the presidential candidate and his supporters, this time in South Carolina, where the next GOP primary will take place.
The plot, which was being hatched over Facebook, involved dressing up in hooded Ku Klux Klan (KKK) robes, posing as Ron Paul supporters (complete with Ron Paul signs), and “follow[ing] Paul around South Carolina”, making “sure to get photographed by the media.”
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The proposed plot against Ron Paul is similar to one that was carried out against his son Rand Paul during his Senate campaign, when a supporter of Democrat Jack Conway dressed up as a “Rand fan” to try to make Rand Paul supporters look crazy and racist in front of the media, but was later caught participating in a march for Conway. He was subsequently identified as Tyler Collins, a liberal activist who campaigned for Barack Obama.

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Over 1,000 Supporters Greet Ron Paul in South Carolina

Draws huge crowd of supporters during ‘The Bully Pulpit Series’ held at the College of Charleston

COLUMBIA, SC – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul attracted more than 1,000 supporters in Charleston today, demonstrating his strong support among younger voters and his overall popularity.

The crowd gathered expressly for the 12-term Congressman from Texas as he participated in “The Bully Pulpit Series” at 11:00 a.m. EST at the College of Charleston, located at 7 College Way, Charleston. The candidate had been in Washington the day prior for a key House vote against President Obama raising the debt ceiling, but upon his return there was apparently no loss of enthusiasm



Ron Paul surveys attendees of “The Bully Pulpit Series” held at the College of Charleston.

Over 1,000 Supporters Greet Ron Paul in South Carolina*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee

Ron Paul Doesn’t Want “Grandiose” Government Ideas
Sorry, Newt Gingrich. What makes America great is when individuals prosper and government gets out the way. In fact, the idea that government should be small, limited and is the problem–not the solution to our problems–is American conservatism defined.

We have a president right now with plenty of “grandiose” government ideas. We don’t need another one.

Ron Paul Doesn't Want "Grandiose" Government Ideas*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee

National Right-to-Work Comments on Rick Santorum’s Record

Says National Right-to-Work’s Patrick Semmens:

Rick Santorums’ position on Right to Work should be deeply troubling to the 80 percent of Americans who believe workers should not be forced to pay dues or fees to a union just to get or keep a job. Not only has he refused to answer the National Right to Work Committee’s Presidential Survey, but while in the Senate he joined with Democrats to filibuster the National Right to Work Act. Siding with Big Labor in favor of union boss forced dues powers should be particularly troubling to the people of South Carolina, who’ve spent the last year fighting off attacks by the Obama Labor Board on the state’s popular Right to Work law and the jobs it has helped create.

National Right-to-Work Comments on Rick Santorum's Record*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee