What the hell is Ron Paul talking about? [View all]

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In the last 10 years, the wars that have gone on have added $4 trillion of debt. And I don’t think we have been one bit safer for it. I think we have been less safe because of all the money that we have spent overseas. So this is the issue now. It is -- it is an issue that I think is crucial. Jim mentioned in the introduction that, you know, so often they say that if we tell people that we think we should spend less in the military, they say, “Oh, that means you want to cut defense.” No, if you cut the military industrial complex, you cut war profiteering, but you don’t take one penny out of national defense.

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And besides -- besides, we’re flat-out broke. Fortunately, we did not have to fight the Soviets. The Soviets brought themselves down for economic reasons. Do you know that they were so foolish and thought themselves so bold that they could pursue their world empire that they invaded Afghanistan?

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But we will come home, but if we do it now, calmly and deliberately, we can save our economy here at home, because there are a lot of people who are suffering here at home.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/ron-paul-new-hampshire-primary-night-speech-text/2012/01/10/gIQACW2WpP_blog.html

There is that backtracking on defense cuts and leaving Afghanistan. Also, did he forget that he voted for the Afghanistan war, which wasn't an invasion?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/100277632


Ron Paul will balance the budget "without cutting from...national defense"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002138632