Ron Paul to Propose $1 Trillion in Spending Cuts
EmailRepublican Presidential Candidate Rep. Ron Paul is set to deliver a major announcement Monday in Las Vegas where he will unveil his economic plan.
Paul’s plan involves $1 trillion in spending cuts, the bulk of those cuts coming from the elimination of several cabinet level departments, including Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, and Education.
Paul will also wring out more savings through the elimination of all foreign aid and wars, and dial back spending to 2006 levels.
The plan also calls for a full audit of the Federal Reserve.
Paul also proposes taking a symbolic salary of $39,336 which the campaign says is about equal to the salary of the average American worker.
The proposals are nothing new for Paul, who has long advocated for a more limited government.
In the latest ABC News poll, only 8 percent of likely Republican voters mentioned Paul’s name as the one best to handle the economy — compared with Romney and Perry, who both topped the poll with 22 percent.
At a recent campaign stop in New Hampshire, ABC News asked Paul what he planned to do to change those numbers.
“I’m not changing a thing,” said Paul.
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Finally, someone is serious about cutting government.
Somehow this essence of this bold plan penetrated the concluding smug condescension of this article’s author.
Posted by: Jay | October 17, 2011, 6:10 am 6:10 am
I love how the media labels him as extreme when his ideas are the only ones that actually address the problems we have with real common sense solutions. It would seem to be more extreme to continue down the path of huge debts and neverending wars. He wants to give power back to the states where things like education can best be handled also. Another common sense move. Dr. Paul has the right medicine for this country.
Posted by: James | October 17, 2011, 6:46 am 6:46 am
Serious times require serious a approach to resolve the problems. Rampant spending, redundancy in the government, failed foreign policy, over-regulation, and a Central Bank gone wild are the root of the issue. All these combine to stifle our economy, inflate our currency, and result in jobs lost. Dr. Paul presents a bold plan to help avert the coming default of our country. Hopefully the main stream media will present this to the people and they will understand the dire straits our country is in. If not, I guess the majority can be more concerned about who wins “Dancing with the Stars” as our economy is destroyed. “Never let it be said that no one cared.”
Posted by: He_Scores | October 17, 2011, 6:46 am 6:46 am
What’s up with the media and the ossified Republicans? I will either vote for Ron Paul or no one. I am not a “kid” nor a “cultist”, but merely rational — a quality seeming not present in the anit-Paul sheep.
Posted by: Lstep | October 17, 2011, 7:30 am 7:30 am
Ron Paul is the only candidate on both sides of the aisle who is not bought and paid for. Romney is plastic, Perry is Bush, Cain is the FED.
Ron Paul in 2012
Anyone else gets you more of the same.
Posted by: Douglas MacIlroy | October 17, 2011, 7:41 am 7:41 am
I am so much for eliminating the department of education. I am glad Paul is proposing it.
Posted by: Tommy | October 17, 2011, 7:45 am 7:45 am
America doesn’t deserve to have Ron Paul in office, leading her back to her heritage of Peace, Prosperity and Freedom.
America has chased after one charismatic, con-man, cult figure after another, to the abandonment of her Constitution and Bill of Rights.
America hasn’t been robbed by corrupt politicians, she has given herself willingly to the rape and pillaging of everything that was good about America.
I predict that America will be crying out in despair by 2014 for a competent, wise and pure statesman, like Ron Paul.
I predict that America will cast Ron Paul aside in 2012 in favor of another fraudster who knows how to tickle her ears.
2012 is the point of no return for the next 25 years.
The economic statistics stacked against America and in fact the globe, are so extreme that the only way any nation on earth can avoid massive upheaval is to firmly adopt the principles Ron Paul has contended for over the last 30 years.
Thirty years of Ron Paul sleflessly sounding the alarm, and three attemps to serve Americans as their president is plenty of neglected opportunity in my opinion.
Let the chaos proceed.
Posted by: Angelo S. | October 17, 2011, 7:50 am 7:50 am
Ron Paul or none at all.
Posted by: Bill Moore | October 17, 2011, 8:15 am 8:15 am
Go ahead and cut, cut, cut. How is that going to create jobs? Again, all we hear is the “starve the beast” crap out of Republican’s mouths without any ideas of how to nudge the economy forward.
Posted by: Bob | October 17, 2011, 8:20 am 8:20 am
What a complete waste of time. Paul is never ever ever ever ever ever ever going to be selected by the Grand Old Party as their candidate. Ever. His ridiculous plan it moot. As is he…………
Posted by: Searambler | October 17, 2011, 8:25 am 8:25 am
He’s joking, right?
Posted by: Searambler | October 17, 2011, 8:27 am 8:27 am
Reminds me of the guy who walks into his doctors office wearing nothing but saran wrap underwear. The doctor takes one look at him and says, “Well. I can clearly see yer nuts…..”
Posted by: Searambler | October 17, 2011, 8:28 am 8:28 am
His son is Rand. That should be enough to eliminate any thought he’s worthy of the White House.
Posted by: secondlook | October 17, 2011, 8:47 am 8:47 am
Go RON PAUL 2012!
Posted by: Nancy | October 17, 2011, 9:05 am 9:05 am
Dear Fellow Ron Paul Supporters:
To win this we must get REGISTERED REPUBLICANS THAT VOTE IN PRIMARIES on our side. Request a list of voters in your neighborhood from the local board of elections. In my county it is free and they emailed a spread sheet to me. Go see the Registered Republican Voters in your neighborhood and talk “Paul-A-Ticks”. A very small number of people determine the outcome of primaries. If you can inform and win over just a small number of people, one neighborhood at a time…..WE WILL WIN.
Posted by: Richard Haydn | October 17, 2011, 9:17 am 9:17 am
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Posted by: Joe | October 17, 2011, 9:48 am 9:48 am
I am glad to see someone proposing these types of cuts. My mom worked for HUD for over ten years back in the 90s. Never have I seen a group play solitare and hearts so well. It is about time that agency gets the axe. Go Ron Paul…you have my support.
Posted by: Ben | October 17, 2011, 10:21 am 10:21 am
There is only one man who will not perpetuate the utterly corrupt system that we live under.There is only one vote…. and if that vote facilitates Obama,then it is no worse than any Republican.Which agent of the system do you prefer? Dr. Paul is our only chance to save our country.Any other vote is a wasted vote! If he cant win then neither can you. Support their control by voting for any other candidate.
Posted by: RR | October 17, 2011, 10:33 am 10:33 am
Last 5 lines are lie
Posted by: Hasib | October 17, 2011, 10:46 am 10:46 am
Will ABC News still try to censor Dr Ron?
Posted by: NadePaulKuciGravMcKi | October 17, 2011, 10:47 am 10:47 am
A $3 Trillion cut will get us back to 2008……
Posted by: newcountryman | October 17, 2011, 10:53 am 10:53 am
LOL at SEARAMBLER still trying to discredit Paul. Why do you come on EVERY Dr. Paul story? Why dont you tell us a vote from Dr. paul you dont like insteand of your mindless rhtorical rants you heard on TV. Didnt think so. You never do. Name the vote. Crickets.
Posted by: David | October 17, 2011, 10:55 am 10:55 am
Another article that tries to find the most obscure polling numbers that show Ron in single digits.
It’s a total LIE! Ron Paul’s support has been consistently 13% or more more MONTHS.
Anyone who thinks that TARP proponents like Romney and Perry would be “better for the economy” must have been Democrats, not “likely Republican primary voters”.
Nice try at a smear, though. I’m sure you’ll feel the backlash on this.
Posted by: Brad | October 17, 2011, 11:09 am 11:09 am
So what about the millions of people who work and contract for these agencies, or the 10′s of millions of people that these agencies help and protect. You know you GOPer’s are some kind of special. First off, you know Ron Paul will NEVER be elected president. Second of all this cut government approach you all have to everything wont work. How bout we stop subsidizing millionaires, or occupying foreign countries, or letting people write off “charitable donations”. Theres plenty of spending cuts you can make without targeting the poor. But then again your party in recent years has been bought and sold be neo-con corporations
Posted by: Javon | October 17, 2011, 11:25 am 11:25 am
“Go ahead and cut, cut, cut. How is that going to create jobs? Again, all we hear is the “starve the beast” crap out of Republican’s mouths without any ideas of how to nudge the economy forward.”
Hey, George Kaiser is happy.
Posted by: 535 | October 17, 2011, 11:42 am 11:42 am
The United States is 15 TRILLION dollars in debt and many of the posters on this site are calling Ron Paul crazy for wanting to cut 1 Trillion out of the bloated federal bureaucracy. Mitt Romney’s plan called for cutting 20 BILLION dollars, which is a joke considering the depth of our problems. Wake up people! If we don’t begin to cut government spending as a percentage of GDP we will go the way of Greece. The economies of the Western World are collapsing under the weight of the welfare states that they created. It’s time for major changes if we are to save the USA.
Ron Paul 2012!
Posted by: Centinel | October 17, 2011, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
LOL! …. Ron Paul will never be president. Why?
First of all, Ron Paul will NEVER be put forward as the Republican Party’s nominee for President. His position on withdrawing 80% of U.S. forces from bases around the world goes COMPLETELY against the Republican party’s agenda of maintaining a large defense in order to feed the military industrial complex, which is justified by having large troop numbers around the world. You close all those bases and move troops home…. there goes the justification for a large military.
Second, most people understand how the government plays a role in our economy know that a HUGE cut, such as what Paul proposes, will send an economic shock wave throughout the economy. Reducing the size of the federal government is like asking an obese, 400-pound, person to achieve weight loss to 180 pounds. Although the objective is good for the health of the individual, too rapid weight loss can kill the individual, while gradual weight loss is healthy. The same with our federal government… cuts in the federal government results in fewer government employees and fewer government contracts with the private sector. Achieving this too rapidly can kill the U.S. economy more than save it.
Posted by: Forrest Gump is DEFINITELY a Republican | October 17, 2011, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
The ABC poll numbers are bogus. It’s just Romney and Paul in New Hampshire, and I sense things are looking worse for Romney every time I plant a Ron Paul sign and hear honks and cheers.
Posted by: dan_webster | October 17, 2011, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm
What’s better? 9-9-9 or $1,000,000,000,000
Ron Paul 2012 – making history
Posted by: AmericanConcerns | October 17, 2011, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
“Achieving this too rapidly can kill the U.S. economy more than save it.”
I eagerly await Recovery Summer II.
Posted by: Timmy | October 17, 2011, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm
Comeon media bias – enough is a enough. Paul is the only GOP candidate who makes any sense. Restore America. Ron Paul for President.
Posted by: Shaunt Kojabashian | October 17, 2011, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm
If you havn’t read the comments yet, I will paraphrase them for all for you:
Paul supporters: Blah, blah, CONSTITION, blah, blah FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, blah blah, EMPIRICAL FOREIGN POLICY, blah blah,INTELLIGENT QUIP ABOUT THE STATUS-QUO PRESIDENTS AND HOW INSANE IT IS TO KEEP PICKING THE SAME PERSON AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS, blah blah, LOGIC AND FACTS TO BACK IT ALL UP, blah blah.
Anti-Paul sheep: He’s nuts! Hes a kook! His policies are crazy! He will never ever be elected!
Now you don’t have to waste your time reading, this is the cliff-notes to every comment in this thread so far, and every comment thread on every article by Ron Paul since the begining of time.
Posted by: William Delano Gaston | October 17, 2011, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm
A true statesman and patriot indeed.
Ron Paul 2012!
Posted by: Linda | October 17, 2011, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
“Remember, Remember the 6th of November. The bail out, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the bail out treason should ever be forgot!”
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Posted by: Dave Mowers | October 17, 2011, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm
Ron Paul has received just 18 minutes and 47 seconds of time, less than any other candidate, and less than half the time that Mitt Romney has been allowed.
Indeed, Romney has racked up a total of 41 minutes and 9 seconds of speaking time over the debates, close to seven minutes more than the next closest candidate, Rick Perry who has received 34 minutes, 12 seconds.
The Study notes that during Tuesday’s debate, Romney received a full quarter of the speaking time, meaning he had almost double the time of all the other candidates and approaching three times the amount Ron Paul was given.
Despite being placed third in a Harvard University Institute of Politics and New Hampshire Institute of Politics poll prior to the Washington Post/Bloomberg debate, Ron Paul received just 26 and 21 seconds more speaking time than Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum respectively.
Even when he is not speaking, it seems Romney is the focus of the attention, on Tuesday Romney was afforded:
· 194 percent more camera time than Rick Santorum
· 190 percent more than Jon Huntsman
· 171 percent more than Ron Paul
· 157 percent more than Newt Gingrich
· 103 percent more than Michele Bachmann
· 100 percent more than Herman Cain
· 77 percent more than Rick Perry
The gross inequality displayed here will only serve to confirm assertions that the mainstream media is engaged in a conspiracy to sideline, ignore and discredit Paul’s campaign.Even the authors of the study at the University of Minnesota question the amount of time Paul is getting. They note:
“The fact that Congressman Paul has received less than half the amount of speaking time as Romney (and less than any other candidate) is curious considering the libertarian firebrand has run third or fourth in most polls throughout the last several months.”
The establishment denigrates Paul’s campaign not because they think he can’t win, but because they’re scared he could win. That’s why they’ve made it their job to try and derail his momentum at every turn. It’s their job to manipulate the American public into thinking they’re wasting their vote if they support Paul because he has no chance of winning, when the opposite is true, he has every chance of winning, if only he was given an equal platform with the other candidates.
The Paul campaign today released another ad, this time titled simply “Life”. In a moving and personal account, Dr Paul Explains why he opposes abortion, and recounts an experience of watching an abortion firsthand.
The spot will air next week in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
Posted by: James F. Lister | October 17, 2011, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
The republicans have a choice. Nominate Ron Paul or lose the election. I speak can only speak for myself but I have a feeling that if Paul does not get this nomination then there are going to be a lot of angry Paul supporters. And believe me, there is enough of us to make the republicans wish they had picked the right person. Paul or Obama people. Your choice. Choose wisely.
Posted by: Versiano | October 17, 2011, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Ron Paul is in the wrong country. He needs to go somewhere where the citizens are smart enough to actually elect him.
Posted by: patriot | October 17, 2011, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
Ron Paul is demonstrating that he is head and shoulders above the rest of the field. When will more people realize this?
Americans might fall for Cain’s “simple,” yet phony solutions for a few months. But how long until they will realize that we are in quite the financial pickle? There’s no quick and simple “999″ solution. We have to take our medicine and that’s austerity. Cut spending, let the market clear of losses, live with less for a while, and then allow the market to rebound on it’s own. Too much government intervention just makes things worse.
Redistributing wealth doesn’t solve the problem of habitual overspending, it feeds it. Consider that the more you’ve allowed yourself to overspend, the more extreme it seems to actually balance your budget. It’s too bad that we only have 1 candidate who really wants to balance our national budget. I don’t believe Cain because he’s never done it as a government leader or representative in D.C. And I don’t believe Romney because he’s funded by Wall St. and still hasn’t proposed a legitimate budget.
It’s not Ron Paul’s who’s delusional about what changes need to happen.
It’s Americans who blindly believe, what some say we should do, (fight in unnecessary wars, print money to pay for debt, excessively expand the role of the federal gov’t,) who are delusional. Anyone with a brain, and a basic knowledge of history knows that this is the path to ruin. Fortunately, Ron Paul has not only the foresight, but the courage to try to steer our country away from catastrophe.
NO COUNTRY IS GOING TO INVADE OUR COUNTRY DURING THE 4 YEAR TERM OF RON PAUL’S PRESIDENCY. Our military is to powerful. But our enemies are smart enough to know that we can’t afford to perpetually maintain our military presence around the world. They are willing to wait it out. It would be clever of them to be ready to attack us after we fall under the weight of our excessive spending and burdening debt. That would be when we find out who’s really our friend and who’s not.
Please take this election seriously and take the time to hear the candidates outright. When you realize that Ron Paul’s got the brains, character, and the fortitude to help us avoid disaster, then please support his campaign! Donate $20 or better yet, buy one of his DVD’s and send it to someone.
Sincerely,
Your educated and very concerned fellow American citizen.
Posted by: gradstud | October 17, 2011, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
It’s interesting that every media report on this “reminds” readers at the end that Paul is polling at “only 8%” on the oh-so-reliable ABC News poll. The corrupt DC politicians are getting worried that Ron Paul will end their gravy train.
Posted by: Zork | October 17, 2011, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
I campaigned and voted for Obama. If Paul is the Republican nominee, he has my vote!
PS “James F. Lister | October 17, 2011, 1:36 pm.” I couldn’t agree more.
Posted by: JOHNINCALABASASCA | October 17, 2011, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
Ever have a closet stuffed to the brim with junk and thought to yourself: Home Depot, get a bunch of racks, shelves, and organizers?
Your best bet though is to just sort through all the accumulated junk first and toss out what you don’t have any real need to keep.
Afterwards you’d find out, hey, everything now fits, no big mess pile, and no need for racks, shelves, or organizers.
Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is the equivalent of running out and buying a bunch of racks, shelves, and organizers to supposedly tame the mess. Paul’s proposed 1T in cuts is the smart way to go – get rid of the junk first then take it from there.
Paul’s proposed 1T in cuts is also Alexander’s solution to the Gordian Knot. Alexander didn’t try to untie the Gordian Knot, he cut right through it with a sword. Try to untie the Gordian Knot and fail you will.
Paul’s foreign policy approach may bother some, scaling back the empire business. But the inescapable fact is that we can’t afford to keep at the global-policing and nation-building game anyways. Something has to change, and soon, and we all know that deep down.
So maybe don’t be the useful idiot/chump the following guy refers to if you are troubled by Paul’s proposal to scale back the perpetual-warfare/perpetual-debt empire:
“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Herman Goering.
Posted by: dom youngross | October 17, 2011, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
I like that the author removed his pictures from these articles, I hated seeing his face.
“Only 8% of republicans…”
“wring out…”
Followed by of course mentioning the OTHER CANDIDATES HAVE MORE APPROVAL. This of course is relevant to all articles on Ron Paul. “Ron Paul does X, but Y & Z still have more support.”
A few months back I thought I was paranoid but it seems that poor Mr. Volack really hates covering Paul, as he can’t seem to write a single truly objective article about him.
Posted by: Bobby | October 17, 2011, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
Ron Paul 2012
Posted by: Jo Smith | October 17, 2011, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
I would certainly vote for him if the GOP selected him as a candidate, however, they are in cahoots with the media and will force Romney on us.
Posted by: karek 40 | October 18, 2011, 7:35 am 7:35 am
Wow, these people who support Ron Paul will be sorely disappointed when this clown is defeated in GOP nomination. Then after he goes for the “hail mary” of third party run, he’ll end up helping President Barack Obama win.
These Republicans are by far the most divisive, ignorant, and totally out of touch candidates. Ron Paul leads the way with Gingrich coming in a strong second.
Posted by: RU PAUL 2012 | October 18, 2011, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm