“Republican Candidates Just Represent the Status Quo”
Opining on the Republican field, Ron Paul says they all “just represent the status quo.”
“Yeah, I think it’s because it’s more of the status quo. I think all the other Republican candidates just represent the status quo,” Paul told CNBC. “More of the same. No change in the foreign policy. No change in the federal reserve. No cut in spending. I’m the one that’s offering a trillion dollars in cuts because I believe the government is so big and so out of control that you have to have real cuts. But all this other talk about cuts, whether it’s Romney or anybody else, the cuts in proposed increases, that’s why the American people don’t believe that they have a solution.”
“We just keep doing exactly what we’ve been doing for the 40 years. Spending excessively, running up debt, printing up money, and manipulating interest rates. And we’re up against the wall now, it doesn’t work anymore. Lowering interest rates is essentially impossible. That’s what they’re desperately trying to do today. But, you know, when our interest rates to the banks are down to zero, What are they going to do? Used to be that Congress would just spend more money and that would help. How can they spend more money when there’s no more money in the Treasury. So, no, Romney and the rest aren’t offering anything new,” he said.
Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee