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Ron Paul #39;s Farewell Speech To Congress
Ron Paul Departs With #39;Our Constitution Has Failed #39; Rep. Ron Paul, the iconic libertarian congressman from Texas, has delivered what will most likely be his final address to Congress. In a sprawling, 52-minute speech to the House chamber, Paul lambasted US government, politicians and special interests, declaring that the US people must return to virtue before the government allows them to be free, and that the Constitution has failed to limit the scope of an authoritarian bureaucracy. "Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed," Paul said. "The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified." For the retiring Republican, 77, the "current crisis" isn #39;t quite what it is for other members of Congress, who routinely use that word to describe the economic recession that followed the 2008 financial crash. To the Texas Republican, that #39;s part of it, but the causes are deeper, and it #39;s also a crisis of governmental authoritarianism and the vanishing of personal liberty. "If it #39;s not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties," said Paul, an obstetrician-gynecologist by training. The problem isn #39;t just government #39;s size, but its use of force ...From:above scienceViews:39 4ratingsTime:48:47More inPeople Blogs

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