Sounds like a plan!

This is possibly the most persuasive argument in Ron Paul’s favor.

Barry should make Ron his Sec Def.  They’d make a great team!

Well, see ya later!

“See this room? Like, two-thirds of us laid off if Ron Paul is president.”

He says that like it would be a bad thing.

You mean real actual cuts to government spending?  A REAL conservative?  Awesome!

Probably a CNN reporter.

Now if we could apply that same 2/3 to the rest of Obama’s Democratic-Advocacy Media, we’d be talking!

And how many will be laid off if Obama wins another term?

Here’s where i would say ” but there’s no Liberal media” . Thing is, Ron Paul, like most Liberals, would destroy our military.

Breaking now on Cavuto!

Rep. Bill Johnson raised the IMPEACHMENT possibility over the Junta Leader’s recess transgressions. Johnson is consulting with a legal team tomorrow.

Take him in with the cameras rolling and the raincoat & cuffs – Hope & Change Baby!!

The Obama perp walk photo!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1lGFYYNkw_o/TCGMeV0oZfI/AAAAAAAABTM/HtU64eXitAs/s1600/!!ObamaArrested.jpg

I don’t understand the comment.  Can somebody explain it for me?

At least Ron Paul served this country in our military, unlike the rest of the Gingrich – Romney –  Cheney – Limbaugh cowardly shit-their-pants ChickenHawk crowd!

Establishment Republicans running for president want to increase the headcount at the Pentagon, not to mention at pseudo private companies that build weapons and provide catering services for our troops. It is part of their “Jobs for America” program.

P.S.
That is why they are liars when they call themselves small government conservatives.

Amen, dude.

I hate it when Republicans (even though I am one) start barking orders at everyone else despite never lifting a finger to fight for their country.

If Cheney, Romney, Limbaugh or any other chicken-hawk fought in a war, they’d all be staunch anti-war activists because of it.

I’ll assume you’re being serious.

The idiot reporter heard on the tape thinks that a President Paul would take their precious media jobs away, because he plans on cutting a huge portion of the Pentagon budget if elected.

Everyone knows those in media always find a job somewhere else, because of the revolving door practice…!

I think that would be a great thing to do …I just moved my vote to Ron Paul! …The reporters now are just Obama’s cheering squad and wasting space .. most reporters ask Obama about his favorite NBA pick… We need ones that actually “Question authority”!

Getting the anti-Paul GOP members out of Congress would be a good idea, they don’t care about conservative values, they’re frauds.

Ron Paul has the highest military support of any candidate.

Bush made recess appointments, what’s your point?

Any Republican candidate. . .

I’m not wishing for anyone to get laid off.

Very funny, Charles.

There is no Liberal media.  Pres. Obama is often called a Liberal and he is not destroying the military.

Never when the Senate was in pro-forma session, except Bolton, during two conflicts and on national security grounds; all other appointments were when the Senate was recessed.

Ron Paul is making the Republican establishment sweat because the GOP electorate is disgusted with the rest of their 2012 field and they understand that Paul is really the only conservative in the bunch. Romney and Gingrich and Santorum are conservatives in name only, waving their Tea Party banners while pushing for a big government GOP agenda on social issues and corporate welfare. I would not be shocked if Ron Paul were to get the nomination. http://www.sunstateactivist.org

So he never did it except for when he did it.

I still don’t get it.  Are you saying that the Pentagon is paying the media?

I would never vote for Ron Paul with the exception of this being true he would be a shoe in for president.

Just like Obama is not a chicken hawk as he volunteered and served 4 tours.  When he said to send 150,000 kids to Afghanistan no one would blink an eye because of his service.  The reason why Chuck voted for Obama over chicken-hawk McCain is because McCain fled to Canada rather than fight.

Duh! That’s the point.

a war was breaking out, asshat

Hate to say it, but, 2/3′s of those people probably don’t do jack shit!

Millions of private sector workers.

you’re not fooling anyone

No problemo, Obama attended to that matter today. 

Can you imagine telephone operators looking at the new computer and saying, “If this thing goes to market, 98% of us will be unneeded”? Combating such arbitrary machinations of entrenched interests, unions and corporations and the wealthy, etc., is one of the goals of a progressive administration.

In such cases, granting more liberty to current powers would result in less liberty for all Americans. And Ron Paul would once again feel not responsible. He is frigidly isolated from real world authority and responsibility.

Libertarianism is a hypothesis. Is has not been tested. I know, you consider early America as a test. However, it had slaves to victimize and a continent to steal. We can’t repeat that scenario.

So, if libertarianism really has something to offer, why aren’t you supporters doing something practical — like setting up a place to try a libertarian experiment? It would take national laws and exemptions, but you could at least do a partial test in two or three sections of some states: idaho, New Hampshire, and Missouri, the “show-me” state. I know such a test would be hard to set up. You’d have to limit corporate management inflow and worker-residency outflow to mimic real-world limitations (everyone can’t move out at a national level), but surely trying some small tests would be wiser, and much easier, than doing the first experiment on America at-large. What if your hypothesis fails? America would be SOL.

Smaller military and fewer wars = less to report on and fewer reporters. Trickle down.

We aren’t at war right now, sweetie?

Montana gets around Federal laws by an honor system of not exporting weapons outside the State border.  It is close to secession movements or actions.  The Free State Project is another example.  They need a certain amount of people to sign up though, I think.

The actual libertarian secession movements are in Brazil and are currently being worked in as law.  We’ll see in a few years how they develop.

Laying off Federal worker s is exactly what we want to do.  Let that money be invested in private production markets.  It is not difficult.

If by destroy you mean change them back to constitutional design then yes. Where is it written that we are to be the world peace keepers and send our young men and women to die for purposes other than the defense of this great country. Now the liberals intent is to destroy our military so that we cannot defend ourselves. Slight difference there.

Oh, I see.  Thanks.  But I can’t reconcile that with the quote.

Really Paul is no different than any other politician. When I say no different I don’t mean his ideas aren’t different, they are. But to implement ideas and plans as president is not easy and is not his decision alone. He wouldn’t be able to make all of these massive cuts and get rid of departments like he says. He would not be a dictator and would be unable to get the things done that he says he wants to do. He knows that. Every president left and right come in with big ideas, but soon find out that governing is a different story.

You don’t know what Pentagon reporters cover, do you? LOL

Hilarious to see all the right wingers in here commenting that it’s a good idea for people to lose jobs.

HILARIOUS AND PATHETIC

That comment is a classic example of how these guys think they know more than they do.  Here is a crowded room of people being paid to report what Obama reads off a teleprompter.  Everyone knows he can read and we don’t believe a word of it.. so there is little interest in seeing it.

Now move forward to a Paul presidency.  He tells the truth and he speaks off the cuff with no teleprompters and you can believe what he says.   The news outlets will have to hire at least 1/3 more people to cover the attention he’ll generate.

Stop fighting it it’s obvious to everyone he’s the guy that can beat Obama now.

Rational argument from facts, Snowspot ?? Amazing.  Aren’t you in the wrong place here in this blog among the delusional far-right loonies?  

Civility, reason  – what a wonderful debate; restores your faith in democracy.

I think you meant “shoo-in”, mr. clever.  Learn to write before you call yourself “clever”. 

Actually, no, Paul beats Obama as well in military donations.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/01/military-donors-still-prefer-paul.html

Obama shouldn’t lose heart, though. He crushes Paul when it comes to donations he’s received from corporations (including Comcast and Time Warner…don’t they have a lot to do with the media…?) and banks.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638

Ron Paul gets about 1/10th of the support from Big Business that Obama does. Make of that what you will. What I make of it is that one of them has been bought by the corporations, and his initials are not “RP.”

I am at a loss as to how mediate missed this story. To concentrate on a reporter comment is not professional journalism. As you did not get the news, I will post it for you. 

Judge Malihi Denied Obama’s Motion to Dismiss in Georgia Ballot Access Challenge:

Granted Powell’s and Swensson’s Motion for Separate HearingsFarrar-Welden-Swensson-Powell v Obama, 

Motion to Dismiss by Obama is Denied, Georgia Ballot Access ChallengeExcerpts from Judge Michael Malihi in the Order for Obama’s Motion to Dismiss:”Statutory provisions must be read as they are written, and this Court finds that the cases cited by Defendant are not controlling.”"Code Section 21-2-5(a) states that “every candidate for federal and state office” must meet the qualifications for holding that particular office, and this

Court has seen no case law limiting this provision, nor found any language that contains an exception for the office of president or stating that the provision does not apply to the presidential preference primary.”"Accordingly, this Court finds that Defendant is a candidate for federal office who has been certified by the state executive committee of a political party, and therefore must, under Code Section 21-2-5, meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the office being sought.”Other Orders from Judge Michael Malihi are as follows

;Farrar-Welden-Swensson-Powell v Obama, Motion to Take Depositions Denied,

Georgia Ballot Access ChallengeFarrar-Welden-Swensson-Powell v Obama, Motion to Sever Granted, Georgia Ballot Access Challenge 

Put up are shut up Pres. We tried of the constant hum of this story.

Mediate as you are my favorite web site and the one most likely to be on the wrong side of a story please try to clean up your act and report news that matters. Thanks a loyal fan. 

haha! He did not say IF Paul is president. He said WHEN Paul is president.

Two-thirds of Pentagon reporters laid off?

I don’t see that as a problem….

If you understood what he meant, what’s the big deal?

When the jobs are parasitical, like reporters that exist only to cover war (or government employees), then yes I am in full support of their loss.

Besides I’m sure they can find gainful employment elsewhere.  Maybe chasing princesses…

This actually makes me want to vote for Paul.

Ron Paul has more Military donation support than all other candidates from both parties – COMBINED!!!!

Barry would NEVER do that because he’s a shill for the war profiteers. 

Just like how Willy, George and Dick were shills for the war industry.

Just like how Willard, Newt and Rick promise to be in the tank for the war machine.

me too exactly

3 thirds would be a good start & we can all tune in to BBC and Al Jazeera and join the rest of the informed learned knowledgeable  world

Getting two-thirds of the people out of the Pentegon would be a good thing. Except for the soldiers who are actually out in the field all the bureoucrats are useless in all the services. I served in Nam and served a total of 4 years. Most of the office jocks don’t have much to do and just wait around for the day to end. In this case I think Obama is doing the right thing by trimming the defense budget. It’s too freakin inefficient and bloated just like the rest of the agencies.

The media are doing a great job getting me to vote for Dr Ron Paul. I can’t believe how effective the media are at rallying people behind him with the unfair and even insane behaviour of the corporate media

What the HECK are you talking about??  Who is talking about Libertarianism… What does this have to do with the comment you’re replying to?!

Sounds pretty darn good to me!

Oh, I’m sorry. I thought Ron Paul was an advocate of libertarianism and that the Pentagon Press room would be 2/3 empty because of libertarian policies.

Please explain to me my mistake in these assumptions, ebm120 ;-)

Yeah just go to any company and see the amount of employees they had in 2007. Than check to see what they have today.

Ron Paul is right about the FEDS. They print money, they currulate it through the banks first, and then they charge us interest on unearned wealth as if it was wealth! Which contributes on the fact that most Americans have to work like a dog just to pay bills because the prices for stuff keeps going up. Ron Paul wants to end the Federal Reserve and allow the United States gov to print the money with no charge on interest. Also to set us up on a market value gold standard so that are money will be with something again. The media calls that plan INSANE!!!!!

oh please,… being against Ron Paul’s lunatic isolationist Lindburgh style hide under the bed and the world will be nicer to us is the sane conservative view..

Paul can’t get above a minority of even conservative voters, yet he’s the “real” conservative?

Been one myself since 72,… don’t need some fringe libertarian (not conservative) to explain it to us. He can run as the Donald Duck candidate, but he is no more a conservative, than Obama is a JFK democrat.. that’s the vanity of liberatarians, trying to put a veneer of respectability on what is patently unrespectable.

Nobody today thinks Lindburgh’s America First group was right, Paul is no different. Just as devastatingly ignorant, wrong, and vindictively nasty as Lindburgh’s (the nazi’s are are friends) group of fools.

You can make an argument on the economy, but he’s insane on everything else.

This is really funny…didn’t Obama just propose that very thing in his Pentagon speech yesterday…

Wow, what a misquote, “two thirds of us laid off WHEN Ron Paul is President” is the actual quote

Yes, but he’s a flip flopper.

Socialism has never worked and is responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths. Socialism is collapsing in Europe and the blue states where it is tried.

Yet the Democrat Party is still taking us there full speed. Insane.

Yeah, look at Germany’s economy and try to say that again. And Obama is not a “socialist”; he is just more liberal than Republicans. Ron Paul (and Gary Johnson, etc.) is about the only one who could claim that he is not a socialist.

The last 20 plus years have been showing ever more clearly that more tax cuts for the rich do not trickle down and do not stimulate the economy. It is as if you Republicans say the way to get out of a hole is to dig more. When the hole collapses on you again for the umpteenth time, you just shout, “We have to dig more!”

You have no credibility — period.

So after a few years when we see how those experiments develop, you might have a case that the US would benefit from donning libertarianism. But why try the medicine before it has been tested? If libertarianism could work, jumping the whole country over to an incomplete vision of a libertarian society might crash and result in a jaded electorate vowing to never again listen to what would be cast as snake oil salesmen.

Germany is one of a number of socialist European countries. It happens to be doing better than other collapsing socialist countries, but it won’t last.

Obama is a socialist. That you pretend otherwise is a sign of mental illness.

Look, Democrats can’t pass a budget. Our government has made promises hundreds of trillions of dollars over what they can keep. When Democrats are out of power they obstruct any chance we have to get out of the mess they started with FDR and LBJ. Democrats are evil. Their schemes bring misery and yet they keep calling for more.

Don’t bring up details such as unsustainablity with a Democrat. Numbers confuse them.

You only have to see Obama’s last budget get voted down 97-0 to see how terrible he is.

Democrats don’t want to pass a budget because they don’t want America to see what their plans are.

Democrats have no plan other than hate and the race card. That is it. That is Democrat’s version of America. Hate.

The country is not going to be some libertarian society if Paul wins, not even close. He basically wants to bring the troops home and shrink down the size of the federal government.

Apparently, this guy believes in G.W’s conservatism, if you can call it that. Under both republicans and democrats the size of government never fails to grow. The size of the debt never fails to grow. Don’t change anything though! Its working just fine, right?