President Trump wants to spend $1 Trillion on "infrastructure?" Where does a government that is $20 Trillion in debt get the audacity to spend another trillion that it doesn't have? Today on Myth-Busters!
By Liberty Report Staff Yesterday, the topic of The Ron Paul Liberty Report program was "Arming The Kurds - A Dangerous Idea". On the one hand, we have our NATO ally, Turkey, who we're supposed to come to the defense of (unconstitutionally, of course). And on the other hand, there's the Kurds, who have long been seeking autonomy from Turkey. President Trump has authorized the Pentagon to begin providing heavy weapons to the Kurds in Syria. But what if the Kurds turn those weapons on our ally Turkey? Unfortunately, this web of insanity is not new. The U.S. federal government has been arming and supporting both sides of conflicts for many decades. Here is Ron Paul on the House floor on Oct 14, 1981 addressing this very issue: “...I believe that it should be a consistent policy for the security of this country that we provide security for this country and not try to be the policeman of the world, providing weapons for everybody. As long as Americans remain indifferent to this, it will continue on. Those words by Dr. Paul were spoken 36 years ago.
"Hope & Change" didn't change a thing, and neither has "Make America Great Again." By Liberty Report Staff Here's Ron Paul on the FBI in 1988: By Tyler Durden
Having gone all-in on a Hillary Clinton victory ahead of the elections, Saudi Arabia has quickly pivoted in its "appreciation" of the Trump administration, and having realized that the fastest way to Trump's heart is through the US Treasury's bank account, it is preparing to invest an "unprecedented" amount of money in the US. According to Bloomberg, the Kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund will announce plans to "deploy as much as $40 billion into U.S. infrastructure." The investment will likely be unveiled as early as next week when Trump is scheduled to visit the kingdom. While it is clear why Saudi Arabia is eager to appease Trump - after all the all important Aramco IPO is coming up, and the Saudis will be eager to open the world's biggest public offering in history to as many US accounts as possible while doing everything in their power to stay on America's good side - Bloomberg's explanation that Riyadh felt "shunned by President Barack Obama, who crafted the 2015 nuclear deal with their Shiite rival Iran" leaves a bit to be desired: after all Saudi Arabia has consistently been the best customer of the US military-industrial complex for the past decade, and to claim that it had troubled relations with the previous administration is naive at best. What is certain, however, is that Saudi Arabia would have been delighted had Hillary Clinton become president, considering the millions in "donations" the Clinton Foundation received from Saudi Arabia and its peer Gulf states over the years. Meanwhile, the kingdom claimed a “historic turning point” in bilateral relations after President Trump met Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the White House earlier this year. On May 19, Trump will make his first foreign trip since taking office, visiting Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem before heading to Europe. Or perhaps it's not Trump, but rather his son-in-law, that Saudi Arabia is most delighted with. A White House official told Bloomberg that the plans were in the works and that Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, had played a critical role in the discussions. The Saudi funding may end up an anchor investment in Trump's massive $1 trillion infrastructure stimulus plan. Read the rest at Zero Hedge. By Liberty Report Staff The White House confirmed that former Congressman Mike Rogers from Michigan is being considered as James Comey's replacement at the FBI. The President has tweeted multiple times with the hashtag #DrainTheSwamp when referring to his firing of Comey. But when you look at some of the things that Mike Rogers has supported, it makes you wonder if the president is really serious. For example. In 2013, Rogers literally said with regards to NSA surveillance programs: "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated, right?" And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Kurt Nimmo did some digging: In 2006 as a congress critter, he voted to allow electronic surveillance without a warrant, a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. He voted to let the government gather intelligence without congressional oversight and also voted to extend the PATRIOT Act. Rogers was on Trump's presidential transition team, but was let go during the Chris Christie purge.
Would Trump throw his enemies a slab of red meat by replacing Comey with someone that was an actual part of his team? Who knows with Trump? But we do know, that when it comes to our liberties, Mike Rogers is no friend. Keep looking Mr. President. On Monday, President Trump authorized the Pentagon to provide whatever weapons necessary for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to defeat ISIS in Raqqa. This is not a new strategy, however. It is left-over from the Obama Administration. Will it work this time?
By Liberty Report Staff Judge Andrew Napolitano was recently on the Fox Business program Kennedy to explain how Trumpcare is essentially Obamacare under a different name. The Judge points out that there are 4 premises to Obamacare:
Watch the Judge below: (h/t Mises.org)
By Ron Paul It's always important from the standpoint of peace that America and Russia, two major nuclear powers, continue to practice diplomacy. The 20th century, with hundreds of millions dead as a result of government wars, provides us all with valuable lessons on the importance of diplomacy. Below, I discuss the recent meeting with Trump and Lavrov, the accusations of Russia interference with our election, the Comey firing, and the safe zones that that are being set up in Syria: Yesterday's sudden termination of FBI Director James Comey sent shockwaves worldwide. The wildest conspiracy theories were served up in the mainstream media. What no one discusses, however, is that the problem is with the system, not with who happens to run it. Do we really need a national police force?
By Ron Paul
We keep hearing about "revenue-neutral" tax reform. But that's just another way of saying that government spending should not be decreased. It's just a shuffling around of the deck chairs. I have a very good conversation about the GOP Tax Reform plan with Kennedy below: |
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