Is That Ron Paul? You Won‘t Believe the Rousing Speech Harry Reid Gave in ’95 About Auditing the Fed
- Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:26am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Yesterday, the House voted 327-8 to pass Ron Paul’s “Audit the Fed” bill. But the legislation is dead on arrival in the Senate, thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who has vowed not to allow the Senate to vote on it. But it wasn’t always this way with Reid.
What do I mean? Well, video has surfaced showing Harry Reid ardently defending the idea of auditing the Fed back in the 90s. In fact, he believed in it so much he even championed the legislation, according to watchdog govtrack.us.
In the video of the 1995 speech, Business Insider writes, Reid sounds a lot like Paul:
“I have sponsored legislation every year that would call for an audit of the Federal Reserve system. I offer that amendment every year, every year it gets nowhere,” Reid says. “I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve — it‘s taxpayer’s money that’s being used there. But we don’t do that.”
“People just don’t care about the Federal Reserve. Maybe it‘s because it’s a subject that’s not very interesting — it’s not pornography, it’s not murder, it’s not an issue that deals with the Wild West.”
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Comments (73)
Tom70
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:14pmWhat could be a more perfect example? “When a politicians lips are moving he is lying.” this goes for both sides. I have no faith in any politician’s other than the tea party candidates that are newly elected…. the problem is after one term they may even be tainted by the goodies and freebies.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 1:20pmI’m stunned… I’m… Wow, just wow.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:22pmThe Jewish federal reserve must be protected at all costs right? Isn’t Reid married to one of the fortunate chosen ones?
Just one more example of the Jewish Apartheid reigning in America.
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:37pmHis wife used to be Jewish. I believe she converted to the LDS faith at the same time Reid did while they were in college. This is amazing to me. What happened to all this common sense of his?
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:31pmLetUsReason: What’s amazing to me is how few people understand that being a Jew is an ethnicity and that some of them a great minority actually practice religion and even a smaller minority of that minority actually practice OT Torah or true Judaism.
I probably didn‘t understand it either myself until I begin studying the subject but it’s a collossal oversight especially in JudeaChristian American circles today.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:13pmAnd why did he do that kiddies? Both chambers had Republican majorities for the first time since the 1950s. The shoe was on the other foot at the time…
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:15pmThe shoe flips and flops…
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:56amYep, and Barry said running up the debt was unpatriotic. They both have ‘evolved’. Or should I say devolved?
Report Post »ComradeAdam
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:15pmI’m wondering what changes these people so much. They seem to really believe what they say before and after time in Washington. I see the 180 degree change but I don’t see the turning point.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:46pmThere is no known vaccine for Dumb A$$, Hypocrite, and stupidity that seems to run rampant on the hill.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:20pm@Gonzo
Report Post »You got that right. Same for republicans in the 90′s but when they got power – they said the debt doesnt matter. Then the republicans got out of power in 2008 and started screaming about the debt again. What do you think is gonna happen when the republicans get in power in 2013?
therealconservative
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:29pm@soy
Image Ron Paul and Dingy Harry think alike. Maybe that’s why WE THE PEOPLE have rejected RP, TWICE.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:07pm@thereal
Report Post »I am well aware of what the american public has voted for…. $16 trillion
scrapadapolis
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:43amHarry should be careful,Anyone who defys and or tries to make the FED accountable winds up dead.
Report Post »clemV
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:30amNice article to try and diminish what RP has accomplished. Typical MSM neo-con website.
BTW, what’s the deal with all the POP-UP ads here now?
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:42amReid cannot handle the truth after lying so long after kissing the back side of the liar in chief Obama. Nice try Ron on getting the votes , but with Obama in office they will block all attempt that will make the feds accountable . If Romney is the lesser of 2 evils then I will vote for Romney, we must stop Obama from getting another 4 years, what will our country look like then? Like Baja California maybe, with over 20 trillion in debt, no available health care due to lack of qualified Doctors and rising taxes so you take home less. Romney was not my first choice but he is the only choice
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:11pm@CLEMV
Actually, we have been seeing lots of pro-Ron Paul articles now that he is effectively out of the republican primary. The same thing happened in 2008 when Glenn Beck longed for Ron Paul after we were stuck with McCain v Obama.
This article should be proof to everyone that constitutional ideas and pro-freedom messages are the ULTIMATE TRUMP against socialism. The left cannot beat it when it is properly communicated. Sending Romney out to appeal to the moderates and independents with boring messages about how bad Obama is and how Romney’s magic touch will solve all the problems is the WRONG WAY.
If they want to disarm the ideas and fallacies of socialism – spread the liberty message
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:16pmGet firefox dood.
Report Post »myptofvu
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:25amYAY the Blaze finally posted a Tip I sent in but missed the point in connecting that Reid has vowed to kill the current bill in the Senate the video was to show his hypocrisy. In fairness to the Blaze all I sent them was a link to the vid I did not mention his plans to sabotage the Bill.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 1:56pmIt says exactly that right in the first paragraph. :)
Report Post »RobbieTLHughie
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:10amI’m confused, what part of this said Harry Reid didn’t feel this way? Ron Paul had a bill passed to audit the fed with none other than notoriously Liberal congressman Alan Grayson from Florida.
You people need to wipe the partisanship of your politi-glasses.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 1:23pmHarry says he will not bring it to the floor for a vote. Rand Paul has authored identical legislation, but Reid is blocking that, too. Rand is attempting to force a vote on addendum to attach this to another bill…
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:03amHe probably misspoke or/and took out of content.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:58amReid is bought and paid for. Expect nothing from this shill.
Silversmith
Report Post »Independent4ever
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:55amNotice how conservative talk radio would not give one shout out to Ron Paul on this issue. As a matter of fact, they never discuss the Fed. Maybe they don’t want a Fed audit.
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:28amThe GOP doesn’t even want to acknowledge this………
Cry about the taxes and money going the way they are going and don’t want to look at the root of the economic problem.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:31amNeither of the big-government parties wants to cut up the credit card that the Federal Reserve provides…
Both parties have proven that they like to “spend, spend, spend” the public’s money in order to pay off special interests who have funded their campaigns, so this would be like attempting to ask a heroin addict to give up the source of funding for their habit.
Report Post »OldGringo
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:53am2 term limit on all government — No Lifetime Politicians — No Lifetime Benefits
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:00am100% right, bunch of parasites.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:33amIs there any doubt that Andrew Jackson was talking about Harry Reid?:
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“but if your currency continues as exclusively paper as it now is, it will foster this eager desire to amass wealth without labor; it will multiply the number of dependents on bank accommodations and bank favors; the temptation to obtain money at any sacrifice will become stronger and stronger, and inevitably lead to corruption, which will find its way into your public councils and destroy at no distant day the purity of your Government.”
I‘d have to say that Harry Reid has become ’bank-owned’ property since the day he gave that speech…
Report Post »clemV
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:34amBlacks were property then too…
We can also thank Andrew Jackson for the ‘trail of tears’. Do your homework instead of spouting rhetoric from the neo-con right.
You may also be interested in George Washington’s stance on foreign relations. Good luck overcoming the MSM tide of BS.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:30pmclemV
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:34am
Blacks were property then too…
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Strangely enough, that’s exactly what Abraham Lincoln said in August of 1863:
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Report Post »“You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional–I think differently. I think the constitution invests its Commander-in-chief, with the law of war, in time of war. The most that can be said, if so much, is, that slaves are property. Is there–has there ever been–any question that by the law of war, property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed? And is it not needed whenever taking it, helps us, or hurts the enemy? Armies, the world over, destroy enemie’s property when they can not use it; and even destroy their own to keep it from the enemy. ”
Abraham Lincoln, Letter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
MODEL82A1
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:28amIt’s official (at least in ‘95 it was): Ron Paul had EXACTLY, 100% the same policy position. For example, audit the Fed, gut the US Military, gut US Intelligence Agencies, pro gay marriage, pro abortion, pro open borders, supports Irans “right” to have nukes, shall I go on, Paul Bots?
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:40amCorrection, Harry Reid is actually Pro-Life, breaking with Ron Paul on this one issue. Lol!
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:04am@Model82A1
audit the Fed – Yep, Aren’t we supposed to know where are tax dollars go?
gut the US Military – Not gutting but putting the military back where it needs to be. In defense of our nation and not nation building in the ME or elsewhere. How do we afford the nation building/foreign aid much longer?
gut US Intelligence Agencies – Yep, How much more do we need? How many more rights do we give up to the likes of the NSA? They are using their powers to spy on us and keep track of our doings. Constitutional?
pro gay marriage – wrong, Pro marriage with no government involved. Why is the government even involved in marriage? Can you point to the part in the Constitution that states the government is over marriage? I‘m not married and don’t plan to be. Why don’t I get any benefit for being single?
pro abortion – wrong again. The man is a doctor and Christian. Definitely not pro abortion. He does believe that is a state right to decide. The Constitution did not give that to the federal government.
pro open borders – Really? He thinks we need to have real reform without fences. Fences are not only used to keep people out.
supports Irans “right” to have nukes – He doesn’t want anybody to have nukes but he realizes that Iran is a soveriegn nation that does need to defend itself. The same as Israel defending itself.
If we had a foreign nation (hostile) on our borders; wouldn’t you want a detterent?
shall I go on – please don’t until you read the C
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:10amMight want to read the Communist Manifesto or Plato’s Republic as well. Show you how bad the “state” can be.
Look up John Locke comrade.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:38amRemember that THIS is who you are voting for:
Romney on Abortion – 1994: “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country….”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:26pmKid, I like it when a man changes from a bad position, to a good position. Harry and Barry are going the other direction. So, I see a difference, can’t you?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:27pmI will remember that ROMNEY, like many other people I KNOW, have “evolved” on the right to life issue. Good for him for facing the TRUTH about killing babies. Just being LEGAL, does not make it right. REMEMBER who IS and ALWAYS was for ANY ABORTION, even late term and gender selective and that is OBAMA – EVEN if the baby survives…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbNGp_blaPg
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:29pmnothing wrong with that, it doesn’t bother or effect you in anyway.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:24pm@Model
Report Post »You are telling us that Ron Paul believes in the same things today as he did in 1995……And that is supposed to be a knock on him? Man you are so partisan you forgot consistency is a good trait. Just because Romney is a flip flopper does not mean it is desireable
Apple Bite
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:24amHello, Nevada. It’s Rhetoric speaking. I have this inspiring guy here, name, Harry Reid….
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:21amReid is a most dishonest individual.
Report Post »ds7
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:17amat one point in his life, harry reid was a fairly decent american…now, he’s a big part of the problem and enabler of anti-americans like barry and the rest of the liberals/communists/socialists/progressives.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:27amTerm limits would go a long way toward preventing things like that.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:15amWe essentially have a one party system and it’s the big government party,trillions in debt from the R‘s and the D’s,really no difference between the two.When the R’s have control of government the debt rises,when the D’s have control the debt rises,same ole same ole.
Report Post »darkknight91
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:09amSeems to me whatever party is out of power they pull stunts like this. Republicans had YEARS to audit the Fed and did nothing. Suddenly it’s an issue now. Both parties are phonies.
Report Post »ONLY4UANDME
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:39amNo, The Republicans can see the Americans are coming after them.
Report Post »Depressed_American
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:03amIt’s an election year. Harry Reid can‘t afford for the American Public to know how much the Fed has done under Obama’s direction.
Report Post »Depressed_American
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:08amEven though they are supposed to be an independent agency……..
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:58amNo it’s not Ron Paul. No, Ron Paul is the guy who’s Presidential campaign is being blacked-out by the leftist Establishment GOP. He‘s the one who’s been cheated in about a dozen States by the leftist Establishment GOP, IN THE MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY. He‘s the one who’s SUPPORTERS have been smeared, lied about, rumor-mongered, fear-mongered, marginalized, laughed at and ridiculed by the leftist Establishment GOP.
And Reid is the guy who is legislatively IDENTICAL to Obamney and Rombama.
Report Post »Independent4ever
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:54amYou are correct.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:51amI think Harry Reid could bring it up for a vote than, there is a huge libertarian base in Nevada plus others there who are in favor who could spam him until he does puts it up for a vote but right now it only has like 20-25 cosponsors so more work needs to be done to insure passage, keep spamming the senators to get them to support and cosponsor this. Reid barely made it through an election against a terrible opponent and if this comes up next election it could spells his end. How can Democrats use class warfare and not want to audit the fed aka lifeblood of the 1 percent.
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:44amHe is, what the democrats call, evolving…
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:55amHe is doing what Romney does……. flip-flopping…….er….. ok evolving……
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:32amWhereas Ron Paul remains steadfastly crazy. In the face of all logic, reason. Common Sense and Constitutional Scholarship.
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:47am@MODEL82A1
Following the Constitutional is crazy?……. really?
I’m guessing you are a cop or something. You don’t like the idea of having government in check….
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:27amAll progressives think RP is crazy. Times have changed since they wrote the Constitution, you know?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:29pmThis is ONE issue where most agree Ron Paul is NOT crazy. He has always wanted this and with good reason,.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:27pmModel you are a flaming progressive. read the constitution and then tell me where the feds get the authority to do anything and everything
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:37amIts amazing how most of the Democrats/Progressives have been swayed into the new Socialist agenda and are stridently pushes it now. Really sad for them and our country. Traitors!
Report Post »BDan6248
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:36amHe just wants the keys to “daddy’s Corvette” if you will…
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:35amTalk about a flip flop,this makes John ‘Frankenstein’ Kerry look good,and that’s quite a task. We can thank the union thugs and their illegal activity for inflicting the mealy mouthed Reid on us for another six years.The good news is Harry will lose his position when the republicans take the senate.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:49amI hope the voters will put him into retirement as well; this November we need to take back the entire Congress and the White House, or the nation is finished once and for all. Harry Reid, as with Pelosi, Obama, and so many other progressives on both sides shows what is intimately wrong with the DC old guard – they have become career politicians, an electic, psychopathic, narcissistic class of leaders who demand the nation pay hommage to their insanity.
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