Ron Paul Honored as "Taxpayers' Friend" for Tenth Consecutive Year

US House of Representatives -- Texas 14th District ^ | February 21, 2002 | US House Press Releases

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Paul Honored as "Taxpayers' Friend" for Tenth Consecutive Year

www.house.gov/paul/
February 21, 2007

Washington, DC: Congressman Ron Paul has been recognized as a top advocate for taxpayers in the U.S. Congress for the tenth year in a row, earning the nonpartisan National Taxpayers Union’s annual award as a "Taxpayers’ Friend" for 2005. Only 30 of 435 members in the U.S. House of Representatives earned similar honors last year.

The annual NTU rating is based on critical congressional votes relating to federal tax, spending, and regulatory issues. Paul consistently ranks at or near the top of NTU’s scorecard in terms of his pro-taxpayer votes.

Overall, however, Congress is slipping when it comes to serving the least-represented special interest of all—American taxpayers.

"If every member of Congress voted like Representative Paul, Americans could enjoy much lower taxes and less waste in government," stated NTU President John Berthoud. "Overburdened taxpayers in Texas and across the nation owe Mr. Paul a debt of gratitude for his hard work on their behalf."

"While many Members of Congress talk about reducing the size of government, Representative Paul backed up those words with votes. This award proves that he is a consistent and effective ally in our battle to restore fiscal responsibility to Washington."

[Rodney King]

good post.

[Rodney King]

If Ronny the coward

Let me just try to get your line of thinking down: Anyone who doesn't think that US should run around being the worlds policeman is a coward? Does that mean we are coward if after Iraq we don't attack North Korea, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Syria?

[jrooney]

Is this the same Ron Paul that voted with the traitorous donks, the party of jackasses, against the surge that is working? Yes it is! He is No Ronald Reagan! He is not worthy to shine the boots of our troops.

[Wormwood]

If Ron Paul voted *against* the use of force resolution, then how can he be a "cut and run coward"?

Paul's position was that we not invade in the first place.

[jrooney]

He was a coward then and wants to cut and run now. Does that not make him a cut and run coward? Yes it does. 1 plus 1 = 2 for the simple minded.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Ron Paul called for a Constitutional Congressional Declaration of War before sending Troops into Iraq.

Paul Calls for Congressional Declaration of War with Iraq

That was the Constitutional way to do it.

As a result of Congress' abdication of its responsibility to Constitutionally Declare War in Iraq, our Troops who are kidnapped by the Enemy there are denied "Prisoner of War" status.

Sadly, another member of the American Military is now ambiguously classified as "Missing-Captured" when his true status is Prisoner of War. Why is the United States Government so unwilling to refer to these servicemen as Prisoner of War? From our observation, the answer is simple. The ambiguous designation "Missing-Captured" allows a public with a notoriously short attention span to forget that these men were taken alive and held by the enemy. The "Missing-Captured" designation is a question mark in the minds of a generally unaware public. There is no question mark attached to the designation Prisoner of War. It is a clear description of status.... Unfortunately, the United States Government has never had any difficulty leaving any man behind. The elimination of the POW designation makes it that much easier. The perception foisted on an unsuspecting public that there are no POWs in Iraq is simply wrong. -- POW/MIA InterNetwork, January 27, 2007 (http://www.aiipowmia.com/inter27/in270107bitsnaf.html)

Ron Paul is the ONLY Republican Candidate standing up for our missing Prisoners of War! "Ron Paul is one of only two co-sponsors of H. Res. 123, for the establishment of a Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to 'conduct a full investigation of all unresolved matters relating to any United States personnel unaccounted for from the Vietnam era, the Korean conflict, World War II, Cold War Missions, or Gulf War, including MIA's and POW's.' (POW-MIA InterNetwork)"

Bring 'em home alive, Ron! POW*MIA -- You Are Not Forgotten

[Irontank]

If Ronny the coward had his way, Saddam would still be in power today to murder and rape the innocent

But Ron Paul's been consistent on Iraq...he voted against the initial authorization, condemned his fellow Conressmen for refusing to take a stand on declaring war as it is required to do under the Constitution

Two weeks ago, during a hearing in the House International Relations committee, I attempted to force the committee to follow the Constitution and vote to declare war with Iraq. The language of Article I, section 8, is quite clear: only Congress has the authority to declare war. Yet Congress in general, and the committee in particular, have done everything possible to avoid making such a declaration. Why? Because members lack the political courage to call an invasion of Iraq what it really is- a war- and vote yes or no on the wisdom of such a war. Congress would rather give up its most important authorized power to the President and the UN than risk losing an election later if the war goes badly. There is always congressional "support" for a popular war, but the politicians want room to maneuver if the public later changes its mind. So members take half steps, supporting confusingly worded "authorizations" that they can back away from easily if necessary.

When Congress issued clear declarations of war against Japan and Germany during World War II, the nation was committed and victory was achieved. When Congress shirks its duty and avoids declaring war, as with Korea, and Vietnam, the nation is less committed and victory is elusive. No lives should be lost in Iraq unless Congress expresses the clear will of the American people and votes yes or no on a declaration of war.
--Ron Paul, October 14, 2002

As far as rescuing Iraqis who were murdered by Saddam...I frankly care more about the thousands of young Americans who've been wounded or killed while standing in the middle of the barbarian battles between Shiites and Sunnis...and, in the end, we got rid of Saddam, who was a mortal enemy of Iran and now have a pro-Iranian government in Iraq...we've spent so much to accomplish so little...as government always seems to do

We Americans must avoid fantastic schemes to rescue those for whom we bear no responsibility, and we must resist imagining a moral splendor for murderers who better understand media manipulation than the murderers with whom they are in conflict. We must learn not to trust our eyes and ears--and, especially, their electronic extensions: the media, forever focusing on the crisis of the moment, almost never understand what they witness. In dealing with nationalism and fundamentalism, we must be willing to let the flames burn themselves out whenever we are not in danger of catching fire ourselves. If we want to avoid needless, thankless deaths among our own countrymen, we must try to learn to watch others die with equanimity.
--Col. Ralph Peters

[Wormwood]

I see. Conservative ideological consistency is only laudable if it does not interfere with Bush foreign policy.

Thanks for the clarification.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Ron Paul did not "turn his back on the troops". He was consistantly against the war.

Ron is too isolationist to be President, but it is false to accuse him of turning his back on our troops.

[jrooney]

Like I said the other day when you were cheerleading for Ron Paul, it does not matter what you say but how you vote! Talk is cheap, action is what matters. What good is it if we have 435 people in the house that just talk? It matters how they vote!

[Calpernia]

Is this:

>>>The ruling government of Iraq is dominated by the psychopathic gang of murderers known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Islamic Al Dawa Party, who are the very same Islamic Terrorist Parties which bombed the US & French Embassies in Kuwait and murdered 241 United States Marines in Beirut in 1983. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, of the Al Dawa Party, was the Al Dawa bureau chief in Damascus in the 1980s and was thus heavily responsible for Al Dawa operations in Beirut, while parliament member Jamal Jafaar Mohammed of his ruling coalition is one of the "Kuwait 17", still under a Kuwaiti death sentence (in absentia) for his direct involvement in the vicious attack on the US Embassy in Kuwait! Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate calling for an immediate END to all Military and Financial support for the criminal Islamic Terrorist thug-regime of Iraq.<<<<<

Sourced by you or Ron Paul?

[jrooney]

Voting against the surge to send reinforcements to help our soldiers sure as hell was not assisting them. Therefore, if he did not assist, he turned his back on them.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I sourced all the links. I am not on Ron Paul's staff.

[Irontank]

Calpernia

That is all true...Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, who today sits in the Iraqi Parliament, was sentenced to death in Kuwait for the bombing of the US Embassy there...now, being a member of the new Iraqi government, he has immunity

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Like I said the other day when you were cheerleading for Ron Paul, it does not matter what you say but how you vote! Talk is cheap, action is what matters. What good is it if we have 435 people in the house that just talk? It matters how they vote!

...And by failing to Vote on a Constitutional Declaration of War, (as Ron Paul demanded before any Troops be committed to Iraq) Congress has left our kidnapped Troops in Iraq without the protection of Prisoner of War status.

Ron Paul is the ONLY Republican Candidate standing up for our missing Prisoners of War!
"Ron Paul is one of only two co-sponsors of H. Res. 123, for the establishment of a Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to 'conduct a full investigation of all unresolved matters relating to any United States personnel unaccounted for from the Vietnam era, the Korean conflict, World War II, Cold War Missions, or Gulf War, including MIA's and POW's.'" (POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Bring 'em home alive, Ron! POW*MIA -- You Are Not Forgotten

[Re-electNobody]

Ron Paul is a giant among pygmies in D.C.

[Calpernia]

Are you aware the source you linked, Global Americana Institute, receives funds from a MoveOn.org entity, PAX AMERICANA?

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

now, being a member of the new Iraqi government, he has immunity

Not true. He could be removed by a majority "No Confidence" vote according to the Iraqi Constitution.

His "immunity" amounts to the fact that the Iraqi Government hasn't voted to remove and extradite this Convicted International Terrorist.

[Irontank]

Voting against the surge to send reinforcements to help our soldiers sure as hell was not assisting them

The surge isn't going to help either...the Administration should have no credibility left on the issue of Iraq...every prediction they've made has proven terribly wrong. The only thing that would assist our troops now is to get them out of that hellhole. Saudi Arabia is threatening to go into Iraq to protect the Sunnis from Iranian-backed Shiite death squads? Good...let them. Let all of the middle eastern barbarians kill each other. Let's just make sure none of our fellow Americans are in the middle of it

[steve-b]

Shall I add you gentlemen to the Ron Paul supporter ping list?

OK.