Posts Tagged ‘votes’
Ron Paul Votes NO BAILOUT (Speech on the House Floor)
September 29, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives. Ron Paul [R-TX] votes NO on the bailout bill.
AYES 205
NOES 228
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml
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TRANSCRIPT:
Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this bill. This is only going to make the problem that much worse. The problem came about because we spent too much; we borrowed too much, and we printed too much money; we inflated too much, and we overregulated. This is all that this bill is about is more of the same.
So you can’t solve the problem. We are looking at a symptom. We are looking at the collapsing of a market that was unstable. It was unstable because of the way it came about. It came about because of a monopoly control of money and credit by the Federal Reserve System, and that is a natural consequence of what happens when a Federal Reserve System creates too much credit.
Now, there have been a fair number of free market economists around who have predicted this would happen. Yet do we look to them for advice? No. We totally exclude them. We don’t listen to them. We don’t look at them. We look to the people who created the problem, and then we perpetuate the problem.
The most serious mistake that could be made here today is to blame free market capitalism for this problem. This has nothing to do with free market capitalism. This has to do with a managed economy, with an inflationary system, with corporatism, and with a special interest system. It has nothing to do with the failure of free markets and capitalism. Yet we’re resorting now, once again, to promoting more and more government.
Long term, this is disastrous because of everything we’re doing here and because of everything we’ve done for 6 months. We’ve already pumped in $700 billion. Here is another $700 billion. This is going to destroy the dollar. That’s what you should be concerned about. Yes, Wall Street is in trouble. There are a lot of problems, and if we don’t vote for this, there are going to be problems. Believe me: If you destroy the dollar, you’re going to destroy a worldwide economy, and that’s what we’re
on the verge of doing, and it is inevitable, if we continue this, that that’s what’s going to happen. It’s going to be a lot more serious than what we’re dealing with today.
We need to get our house in order. We need more oversight–that is a certainty–but we need oversight of the Federal Reserve System, of the Exchange Stabilization Fund and of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Find out what they’re doing. How much have they been meddling in the market?
What we’re doing today is going to make things much worse.
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Guinea vote count begins
Vote counting in Guinea starts after polling ended with no major reports of trouble. Guinea held its first free election since independence more than half a century ago – a vote many hope will finally end decades of harsh military rule and launch a new democratic era.
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Romney supporter gets multiple voting cards in St. Pete, FL
A Mitt Romney supporter presents multiple straw poll tickets and receives multiple voting machine access cards at the St. Petersburg GOP straw poll on 28 November 2007.
Ron Paul supporters outnumbered supporters of all other candidates by a ratio of at least 10 to 1. Please see http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/29/Worldandnation/St_Petersburg_straw_p.shtml
Duration : 0:0:56
Oprah rigs votes against zach anner
P26 UK election poll, Long queues cause voting chaos
It has been estimated that hundreds of eligible voters across the UK have been denied the opportunity to cast their ballot in polling stations.
Long queues built up shortly before the polls closed forcing many to miss the deadline for the vote.
The electoral commission has promised an investigation into complaints about the voting irregularities.
Al Jazeera’s Richard Martin reports.
BBC Forecast: 308 – 260 – 53 – 29
Duration : 0:2:17
Raw Video: Obama Votes in Chicago
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama casts his ballot Tuesday morning in Chicago. He was accompanied by his wife and daughters. (Nov. 4)
Duration : 0:1:47
Rep. Steve King Votes Against Memorial For Slavery
Polls open in Sudan
http://www.ntv.co.ke
Polls have opened in Sudan where people are voting in the first multi-party elections in 24-years. Elections are being held as part of a peace deal which ended two decades of civil war between the north and south of Sudan. Here in Kenya, Sudanese nationals began casting their votes this morning.
Duration : 0:1:56
Voting Information : How to Register to Vote Democrat
Registering to vote Democrat can be done with the supervisor of elections or at the state department. Register to vote democrat with tips from an elections supervisor in this free video series on voting and politics.
Expert: Buddy Johnson
Contact: www.BuddyJohnson.com
Bio: Phillip E. “Buddy” Johnson was appointed the Supervisor of Elections for Hillsborough County in 2003.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:1:12
Soulja Boy votes!
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