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| Ron Paul Votes NO BAILOUT (Speech on the House Floor) |
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September 29, 2008, U.S. House of
Representatives. Ron Paul [R-TX] votes NO on
the bailout bill.
AYES 205
NOES 228
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Here's a link to the original C-SPAN clip
with much better quality (first Rangel then
Ron Paul):
http://rapidshare.com/files/149772775/C-SPAN_
House_Floor_09-29-08_C._Rangel_-_Ron_Paul.wmv
.html
(If you don't have a rapidshare account just
wait 1 minute for a free slot)
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TRANSCRIPT:
Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to
this bill. This is only going to make the
problem that much worse. The problem came
about because we spent too much; we borrowed
too much, and we printed too much money; we
inflated too much, and we overregulated. This
is all that this bill is about is more of the
same.
So you can't solve the problem. We are
looking at a symptom. We are looking at the
collapsing of a market that was unstable. It
was unstable because of the way it came
about. It came about because of a monopoly
control of money and credit by the Federal
Reserve System, and that is a natural
consequence of what happens when a Federal
Reserve System creates too much credit.
Now, there have been a fair number of free
market economists around who have predicted
this would happen. Yet do we look to them for
advice? No. We totally exclude them. We don't
listen to them. We don't look at them. We
look to the people who created the problem,
and then we perpetuate the problem.
The most serious mistake that could be made
here today is to blame free market capitalism
for this problem. This has nothing to do with
free market capitalism. This has to do with a
managed economy, with an inflationary system,
with corporatism, and with a special interest
system. It has nothing to do with the failure
of free markets and capitalism. Yet we're
resorting now, once again, to promoting more
and more government.
Long term, this is disastrous because of
everything we're doing here and because of
everything we've done for 6 months. We've
already pumped in $700 billion. Here is
another $700 billion. This is going to
destroy the dollar. That's what you should be
concerned about. Yes, Wall Street is in
trouble. There are a lot of problems, and if
we don't vote for this, there are going to be
problems. Believe me: If you destroy the
dollar, you're going to destroy a worldwide
economy, and that's what we're
on the verge of doing, and it is inevitable,
if we continue this, that that's what's going
to happen. It's going to be a lot more
serious than what we're dealing with today.
We need to get our house in order. We need
more oversight--that is a certainty--but we
need oversight of the Federal Reserve System,
of the Exchange Stabilization Fund and of the
President's Working Group on Financial
Markets. Find out what they're doing. How
much have they been meddling in the market?
What we're doing today is going to make
things much worse.
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Durée : 150 s |
| Mapping the Votes with Michael Geary |
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Michael Geary, the external developer
responsible for
building the Google election maps, discussed
the following:
* Using the same code for a mapplet, a
Google Gadget, and a Maps API map
* Turning shapefiles into map tiles,
polygons, and markers
* Collecting voting results into JSON
objects
* Making markers load faster
* Hosting on Google Code and Amazon S3
* Creating a custom Twitter map using
Jabber to track keywords
Read his round-up blog post here:
http://mg.to/2008/04/04/mapping-votes-resourc
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Tags : michael geary google maps api votes tech talk |
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Durée : 3873 s |
| Obama Votes Against Born Alive Babies. Jill Stanek Tells All. |
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Apparently Barack Obama is not very concerned
about human life, unless it directly affects
his own success. I'll bet you that any day
now he'll find it politically expedient to
help his poor half brother over in Africa
that is living on less than one dollar a
month, but that's just the kind of guy that
he is.
Now back to letting babies that are born
alive, just die. Well, I think Jill Stanek
expaines it just fine on the video.
Obama's 2003 Vote On "Born Alive" Abortion
Bill Under Fire
August 20, 2008 11:10 a.m. EST
Kris Alingod - AHN News Writer
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Sen. Barack Obama's
(D-IL) opposition to an Illinois state law
protecting infants born alive after abortion
procedures is coming back to haunt him.
Pro-life advocates brought up the issue over
the weekend as the presumptive Democratic
nominee began to court evangelical voters.
Obama voted against a state version of the
federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act,
which was signed into law in 2002 amid broad
bipartisan support. He told CBN on Saturday
that he opposed the measure because it
undermined Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court
ruling legalizing abortion, and that pro-life
advocates were "lying" about his record as a
state legislator.
"I would have been completely in, fully in
support of the federal bill that everybody
supported - which was to say -- that you
should provide assistance to any infant that
was born - even if it was as a consequence of
an induced abortion. That was not the bill
that was presented at the state level," he
said.
The CBN interview was held immediately after
Obama attended a faith forum organized by
megachurch pastor Rick Warren.
But the National Right to Life Committee
(NLRC) had released documents a week earlier
saying a 2003 version of "born alive" bill in
the Illinois Senate had the same language on
Roe v. Wade as the federal bill. Obama was
chairman of the Health and Human Services
Committee in the state legislature at the
time.
The group demanded an apology from Obama for
calling anti-abortion advocates "liars" and
challenged the Democratic lawmaker to declare
their document a forgery.
"Senator Barack Obama's four-year effort to
cover up his full role in killing legislation
to protect born-alive survivors of abortions
continues to unravel," NRLC Legislative
Director Douglas Johnson said in a statement
on Monday.
The Obama campaign has dismissed the charges
as "outrageous lies."
"The suggestion that Obama - the proud father
of two little girls - and others who opposed
these bills supported infanticide is deeply
offensive and insulting. There is no room for
these kinds of distortions and lies in this
campaign," Obama spokesman Justin DeJong is
quoted by Chicago Tribune as saying.
Obama's abortion stance came under fire last
month after he told Relevant Magazine that a
mother's "mental distress" is not enough
reason for late-term abortions. The Christian
Defense Coalition launched a campaign at the
time labeling the freshman senator "the
Abortion President."
Tags : abortion obama born alive babies lying pay grade pro choice life infants roe wade induced liars |
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