RAND PAUL SPEECH IN IOWA - WHAT IS WRONG WITH WASHINGTON
RAND PAUL SPEECH IN IOWA -
WHAT IS WRONG WITH WASHINGTON
MILITARY: I WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, I WILL SPEND WHATEVER IT TAKES TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY.
WE DON'T PROJECT STRENGTH ACROSS THE BOARD IF WE DO IT FROM BANKRUPTCY COURT.
WE SPENT $15 MILLION ON FREE EDUCATION FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS.
WE SPENT $800,000 IN AFGHANISTAN FOR A TELEVISED CRICKET LEAGUE, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TELEVISIONS IN AFGHANISTAN.
- Rand Paul United States Senator for Kentucky
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anybody here happy with what's going on in washington any consolation I kept him
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up till three in the morning
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haranguing them and telling them you know why not for adding one penny more
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in debt
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here's what frustrates me we elected a Republican al's we elected a Republican
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said it and what we have to show for it
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the jet continues to rise to spending continues to rise in fact this deal was
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put together by the Republican establishment and President Obama what
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is the deal allows President Obama I'm limited ability to add depth and his
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last year anybody think that's a good idea
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the right and the left
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got together and this is important to understand because it also goes to the
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uniqueness of my candidacy the left once more welfare they want more domestic
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spending but some on the right day only gotta have more military spending so you
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know what they both get together and they raised both but as a consequence we
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go further and further into debt and some say well military's important short
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is it's the most important thing we do in washington is defend the country and
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I will do whatever it takes and spend whatever it takes to defend our country
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mean a blank check just as mean leaking like go further and further into debt
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that we're somehow going to say oh we're stronger and stronger because by adding
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more and more to the debt I don't think that we project power to the world I
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don't think we project strength of the world if we're doing it from bankruptcy
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court so you have to look at spending across the board and if you say to
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yourself that you're a fiscal conservative yet to be conservative with
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all money whether its military money or domestic welfare the compromise in
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washington's going in the wrong direction the compromise in Washington
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is to raise all spending what we really need is a compromise where we cut
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spending and hold the line all the way across the board all spending has to be
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conserved oh my goodness where it would be cut any spending where how can we cut
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any spending I'll give you a couple of examples we spend fifteen million
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dollars on free education for foreign students where the way the Constitution
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said that we need to be providing free education for foreign students that's
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crazy we spend $100,000 last year in Afghanistan developing a televised
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cricket so they can watch cricket on TV only problem is I don't have televisions
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in Afghanistan one in 10,000 people have a television in Afghanistan and why
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would we be borrowing money from China to send it to Afghanistan and its insane
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we spent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars last year bringing 24 kids from
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Pakistan
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an to send a new Space Camp in Alabama I know a lot of american kids who like to
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go to Space Camp can afford it whether we spending our money to Pakistan to
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bring their kids to his face cam we spent about $300,000 studying whether or
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not
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Japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine I think we could
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have just told the audience is this finding go on and on
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why do we keep spending money hand over fist is wasted
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well the reason we do is because people in washington lacked the courage to stop
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it
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we have the power to stop it
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automatically expires every year so when they tell you oh we don't have the votes
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to defund Planned Parenthood hogwash it's not true
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Planned Parenthood's funding expires at the end of the year I say let it expire
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the Liberals just started up again we have to make some decisions we send
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money
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virtually everywhere on the planet there was a map yesterday that was produced
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that shows where we send money there's almost no country on if it were not
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sending money to but I thought you know what maybe we shouldn't send any to our
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enemies do you think we could just start by not sending any money to our enemies
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touches Washington though if you ask people here in the crowd how many of you
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think we should spend money or send money to countries that persecute
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Christians 10 right to write met two people want to send money to persecute
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Christians almost nobody believes we should send money around the world to
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countries that persecute Christians so I put in a bill and in my bill I said
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nobody to any country that persecute Christians and how did I do find that I
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did find that by any country that puts Christians to death for criticizing the
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state religion
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what I introduced it into the foreign relations committee to you at the vote
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was 18 to do to continue sending your money to countries of persecution they
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just don't get it and that's why I'm a big proponent proponent of limiting all
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their terms they all the term limits the President and I say how long you have if
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you want to sum it all up it isn't just Obamacare it isn't just the banking
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regulations it's not just the new environmental regulations the real thing
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that the president has bequeathed us that is unfortunate is the collapse of
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the separation of powers we were supposed to have co-equal branches of
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government
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we're supposed to have government that would have checks and balances Madison
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put it this way Madison said that the ambition of Congress to gain power would
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be checked against the ambition of the president again power and there would be
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checks and balances we've had a total collapse of that the equilibrium that
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once existed is gone
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the president is writing all of the rules by executive order if I'm
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President on a one-out eliminate all of those in person some executive orders
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if we want to win again if Republicans want to win the president's team we need
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to not only figure out who are going to nominate within the primary we need to
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figure out who can best win in the fall issey Iowa isn't just about the
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Republican primary I always become a tough state to win we lost the last two
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times to President Obama year we lost in new hampshire the last two times we have
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to decide what does it take to win again they're eighteen states that we haven't
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won in 30 years how are we gonna win those states again now some of the
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monkey monks in the powers that be say we need to dilute our values we need to
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dilute what we stand for
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we need to be democrat light anybody think we need to be democrat like to win
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again I think we keep our values in fact I think we need to be more boldly for
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what we are for but we do have to figure out how to have a bigger party we have
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always been the hardy of limited government of less regulation of lower
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taxation but you know what happens in washington you can't get them to even
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vote for a tax cut in washington anymore I have a tax plan that would wipe out
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all 70,000 pages of the tax code and the IRS
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my tax plan would have your tax return on one simple postcard one single rate
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for business and one single rate for individuals but my tax plan does
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something that they're afraid of in washington both Republicans and
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Democrats in Washington they say well we were not going to cut taxes we're just
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gonna shift the burden happen you will get a tax cut and half of you will get a
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tax increase and we'll call it fair where you have to understand where jobs
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are created jobs are created by the private sector so we need is more money
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left in the private sector to me it's as simple as this I want to leave more
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money and Iowa and send less money to washington
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we need to broaden our horizons we need a new and bigger party so what I've been
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saying is I've traveled the country is that what we need to become as the party
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of the entire bill of rights we're doing great on the second amendment most of
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his years of support Second Amendment I support the second amendment fact if you
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don't believe me
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come to my house unannounced to support the bill of rights in its entirety if
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you want to support the second amendment you gotta support the fourth amendment
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which says that's the right to be left alone the right to not have the
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government coming your house without a warrant we need to defend the entire
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bill of rights what is the night the moment most people forget about the
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nineteen members the ninth amendment was one of the most important parts of the
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bill of rights in fact the bill of rights would have never passed without
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the Ninth Amendment because many of the critics said would you list certain
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rights the people think that's all of the rights and they'll think that that's
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a complete listing to the people who put the bill of rights on the Constitution
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said we need to make sure they know this is just the beginning it's an impartial
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or incomplete list of your bill right through the night to manage says those
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rights not listed or not to be disparaged disparage because your rights
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come from your Creator and they are unlimited
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says those powers not delegated specifically to congress are left to the
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states in people and the people respectively
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if we obeyed that you have a balanced budget every year because a half of what
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they do at least half of what they're doing in washington was never specified
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by the constitution if we want to broaden the appeal of our party if we
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want to be the party that becomes big enough to win Iowa again big enough to
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win illinois michigan pennsylvania all of these states that we haven't been
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winning we need to bring new people there and what I've been talking a lot
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about is the fifth and sixth amendment the Fifth Amendment says if the
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government doesn't have the right to take your property to government cannot
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take your property without due process and you would think well who could be
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against that
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well we've had this debate with with Mr Trump because mr. Trump that's part of
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his business model is to take property through eminent domain for his casinos I
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think it's wrong and if I'm President no private property will be taken by
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government and given to another private property owner the Sixth Amendment says
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that you have a right to a trial by jury and you think well gosh who can be
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against that I've been at the forefront of trying to defend your right to a
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trial by jury but I can tell you some of its slipping away in 2011 we had a bill
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that says an American citizen can be indefinitely detained and I fought it
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tooth and nail in fact I had a debate on the floor with another republican
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senator and I don't like to name names but it was from arizona and I said I
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said incredulously do you mean that an American citizen could be put in prison
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forever without a trial he said yes if they're dangerous I said sorta begs the
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question doesn't it
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who gets to decide who's dangerous and who's not the right to a trial by jury
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is something we fought long
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long and hard for I know a young man who lost both legs and an arm in the war
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when asked what he was fighting for his sister the bill of rights would it be
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sad if we gave up on that would be sad if he gave up so much and while I was
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gone we gave up on the bill of rights when I had that debate and McCain was
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saying we're just going to pluck people up with her dangerous I was thinking of
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the times we got it wrong I was thinking of the times when we incarcerated the
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japanese-americans during World War Two by the hundreds of thousands for no
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crime at all we got it wrong we tap the phones of civil rights leaders in the
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sixties and those who protested against the war I was thinking of the times when
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we've got it wrong
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richard was falsely accused of the Olympic Square bombing remember about 15
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20 years ago everybody city did it was all over television but he didn't do it
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fact that the networks had to pay millions of dollars and I was thinking
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to myself during this debate over the right to a trial by jury was thinking
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what if richard jewell had been a black man in the south in 1929 the rest of the
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day
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to the republican party has been the party of civil rights we have been the
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party of justice we have been the party of equal protection you know what we
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don't have to give up on any of our philosophy limited government it's part
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of our message we just need to recapture that message of justice and when we do
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when we become the party of the entire bill of rights when we become the party
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of justice again when we become the party that defends the right to a trial
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by jury with the same fervor and their same passion that we defend the second
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amendment we're gonna rock and roll to victory I want to be part of that party
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and I hope you do too thank you very much
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