GETTING TO KNOW RAND PAUL - ABORTION - GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY FLAT TAX

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when they're sorta two reasons for minimal government once a Liberty

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argument

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that the more you give up love your wealth in your earnings the less Liberty

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you have fancy wanna minimized government size

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we also on want to minimize government size because efficiency

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as Friedman said nobody spend someone else's money

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as wisely as they spend their own

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you the third above five children rhyme

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love congressman and missus Ron Paul how did you come to your political

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philosophy was disc

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dinner table conversation the whole household when you were a kid

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but my cases by the argument of nature versus nurture

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and I may have had both and a I think we're all born with an instinct

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you know to a individualism in 02

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we grow up in a family and even at my family as a teenager I want it I can

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remember calculating how old I would be in the year two thousand how to be

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completely independent how to make your own decisions

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stay up as late as I want to eat what I want go or I want earn my own money

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I think we all have a little bit of that inside of us maybe some to one degree or

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more arm

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but then there's also the nurture argument in the sense that you know I've

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read most the free-market economists I am A

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you know a student of history and

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what I see is that to I really like to see a government it truly is limited

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you know and and know that our freedom is much more expansive

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okay so let's spend a moment considering what's gone wrong William vocally wrote

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a book

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never enough on the expansion of the welfare state

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and he made his very striking point

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that from 1942 2007

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welfare spending grew at an average annual rate of just over four percent

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this as well incomes growing about 2.4 percent

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the point is that for almost seven decades

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year in and year out under presidents of both parties under congress' a both

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parties

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the federal welfare leviathan has continued to grow and grow and grow

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ronald reagan held back the growth in spending but even he wasn't able to

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cud why what's the political dynamic even welfare reform affected maybe four

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programs at a

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7 near eighty program so was incomplete enough I put it more personal terms and

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I think this is something that can appeal to people across both %uh parties

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and independents as well as that

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if you look like me and you hop out of your truck we ought to be working

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and I think most people believe that we're now registering though more people

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as disabled then we are employing people

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and that's a real problems it's a gradual problem Republicans and

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Democrats have been complicit in this

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but it's growing growing growing in people worried that

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such a great deal dependency you or ultimately drag us down as a country

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and that's where the burden of debt comes and I think there really is a

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burden

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but our message is a more difficult one we need to explain to those who are

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working class in trying to get ahead

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that is burden a big government at all this stuff the government's offering you

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really has unintended consequences are dragging the economy down

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dragging job creation down alright in March you introduced a budget

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that would have eliminated the federal deficit in five years

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you voted against the budget the house and over

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the Paul Ryan put together because although even as you were voting against

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Paul Ryan's

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budget the press was attacking it as to to dramatic shoes were gonna mazing yeah

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right ever that would've reduce the federal deficit over 10 years and Rand

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Paul said not fast enough

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I think we're dragging a lot of the party in the right direction

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ryan's first budget was gonna bounce in 28 years nice come up to 10 years

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you know they're a little bit unrealistic things are going to get rid

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of Obamacare spending but he left in the Obamacare taxes

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so we really think that we need to change in time for a much more dramatic

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change than some other gradual is in our party

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I think we are just have a flat income tax seventeen percent person all 17

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percent corporate

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very few deductions you have a lot less revenue

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this would not be revenue-neutral but I think you'd see an explosion in the

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economy as you left

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all that money into the economy you center here's the first instance if a

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question that comes up

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again and again and again listening to you reading your speeches

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what makes him think he's different and here's the version it

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is the instance right now republicans have been pushing for a flat tax

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since at least 1996 when steve forbes ran for president he didn't win

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if you the one we well and I now so we need to win so that's the point what

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makes you think you're different what makes

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do you see it I'll put it crudely because this is a question that's in the

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air about you is Rand Paul just trying to make a point

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and so so be it let me make a point there's nothing wrong with it it's a

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valid point

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or does he see a political opportunity can he actually get things done

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but see I don't think anybody can sit here and say well I'm different I'm

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gonna be the one on the one st

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that's a little bit presumptuous however I would say that there is a route to

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victory for Republicans nationally

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without diluting our message being for something passionately

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but I think it takes a twist this slightly different you're from out in

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california

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California we say bluish it's a blue sky your

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to bring it back red you have to attract people different than the standard

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cookie-cutter republicans been

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so I am offering some things different in the libertarian twister that

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I think has appealed to both ethnic minorities as well as the youth

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as well as independents it's really a message the gets beyond are just are

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hard-core

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republican was not an aesthetical 21 hardcore republican stand for

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but it is enough for the two est that I think it has a chance to resonate in

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areas where we have not done very well

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alright getting to know Rand Paul I'm just

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briefly go through a few other issues that people get a chance to know where

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you stand Obamacare

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this fall against I

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k done without I but where does it stand this fall

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this thing gets rolled out in a way that finally effects provisions here and

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there have been taking effect this fall

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it'll affect the way millions of americans purchase their health

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insurance Park room in the new york times as the big surprise will be how

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well it works

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know how badly how well this will not be the first time I've disagreed with all

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I what I would say is we fought many different times

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but I'm not giving up the fight we fought and lost original in congress we

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fought again in the presidential Ken

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campaign loss we fought Supreme Court lost narrowly

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and I think was still wrongly decided but

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it we're gonna have one more fight when the bills come due

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initially the federal government's gonna pay for it because that's free

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we know we've heard we have a printing press appears that really doesn't cost

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anything

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but then ultimately the bills are gonna be directed back to state government

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and what they'll find is is it when you offer people a free credit card

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to go get health care that they love it and to use it all the time

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but then it costs so much there's not enough money so the net come back and

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they have to tell you oh no you can't go unless you get

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someone's got to screen you they're going to ration how often you go to the

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doctor

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and then they'll come to the position and say while we were paying you twenty

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dollars a visit

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but there's too many people coming to see you so we have to pay you ten

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dollars a visit

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so they will have to reduce the expenditures what they pay hospitals

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what they pay doctors

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and they were all set to limit access which is another word is rationing

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and the state governments despite all of this will still face bankruptcy

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not just the states like your state like california illinois they're in trouble

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states that are relatively sound are going to face problems with medicaid is

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already a driving force

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towards insolvency the state levels I think this will be one more big fight on

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Obamacare

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misguided state legislative level and when

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this year as the girls I as a bills come due in there I think the state

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the switching over to the state is 2014 but so that maybe 2014 2015

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by for sure but in time for the presidential too I think so I think

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it'll still be a hot topic in 2016

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drugs the economist magazine senator paul has called for the scrapping have

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mandatory minimum sentences

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for nonviolent drug offenders but would not legalize drugs

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I'm what what i think is is that if your kid

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or arm you know one of his friends goes out and gets caught with marijuana

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sticking them in prisons are big mistake so I don't really believe in prayer

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prison sentences for these minor nonviolent drug offenses

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but I'm not willing to go all the way to saying it's a good idea either I think

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people use marijuana all the time lose IQ points I think they lose their drive

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to show up for work

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%uh States gonna make the decision I think ultimately to legalize of

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I am I am for letting states make that decision but I'm not in favor out

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and I want to make sure people know that I'm not encouraging young kids to do

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this

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by also don't wanna see young kids to make mistakes be put in prison with hard

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prisoners and I think

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I think he when you talk to evangelical Christians and conserve social

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conservatives

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you ask them that question would you rather see your your teenager in your

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church get counseling

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or incarceration almost there but I'll answer counseling but when California

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loosens as laws

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and comes into conflict with federal laws you side with California not the

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fed's

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yes alright social issues were sent around Paul court I am 100 percent

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pro-life I believe abortion is taking the life

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have an innocent human being close call senator where I come from out Northern

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California when somebody says he's a libertarian

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ninety-eight percent of the time he saying is a libertarian about that

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my pro-choice keep the government out of the bedroom right

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and so this is an unusual position in my experience for libertarian to take how

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do you square that one up

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what I would say is that there is a primary in fundamental role for

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government

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and the primary fundamental role for government is to stop aggression on one

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individual against another individual

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so the question comes down to when do you think someone's an individual

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when do you think life begins and then I think you get more to the heart of the

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matter is

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the real debate is when does life begin and i think is you have that discussion

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it becomes

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I difficult I think to be flippant about it for example

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you know I'm an ophthalmologist but I examine babies in the neonatal nursery

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that can fit in the palm of my hand one-pound babies that are alive

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I look in their eyes to check against a disease that can cause blindness that

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can be treated now

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but lets a week before they were you know ins inside the mother but

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but they just didn't they don't exist they're not a life at that point

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and so increasingly later on in just a shame people are somewhat horrified I

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mean people for abide by this doctor Gosnell that was snapping the spinal

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cords %uh them

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they're horrified by people you know crushing this goal to get the baby out

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you know alive baby injecting things into in the Killam

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so I think many people towards the end like oh gosh yes not that much different

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than the nursery how can I be that this is

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just a woman's body in it that there isn't another individual there

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but it's a tough debate and I think the republican party when I say

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um that I wanna be a libertarian Republican it is also that will have

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disagreements like this within the party in there will be people

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if we leave the decisions more local to their jurisdiction I think we can have a

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moreover diversity of opinion within the party within the country overturn roe

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versus wade and send it back to the states

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yeah I think no states would be a better better after this gay marriage Senator

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Rand Paul

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what I believe in the historical definition of marriage that being said

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I'm not for limiting contracts between adults close quote

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that sounds like me that's it's you I there's a reason sounds like yeah

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and I think that that's the same issue you know and I think some people get

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confused I stand with the founding fathers on this

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%um Jefferson Franklin nobody ever talked about them in marriage

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marriage was always a state issue in their day and that's the way it was

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written within right a lot of things like that into the Federal Constitution

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in fact not only issues like that we don't really involve crime issues have

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crime were all state issues they they didn't I conceive other about four

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different things that were federal crime under the Constitution

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and nobody really conceived have all these things now anything anytime

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there's

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a terrible tragedy it's gonna be a federal law instead havel

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want to go to state legislature cuz thats may be more appropriately where

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this should be handled

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