Salon Attack on Ron Paul Refuted

Bestselling author Tom Woods responds to Salon attack on Ron Paul ("Ron Paul's Phony Populism"). http://www.tomwoods.com http://www.facebook.com/ThomasEWoods

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[matti1003]

Dear Dr. Woods,

I am a great admirer of your work and a big fan! I am very confused, however, as to the point of videos like this one. Talking to progressives about anything or trying to persuade them to support Ron Paul is simply silly. You talk about data in your video (data proving that more government is bad and less government is good). Well I think as a good empiricist you should look at the data of what percentage of progresseives are persuaded by argument like that. I would guess 0.0%.

[TomWoodsTV]

@matti1003 The point of the video is not to win over progressives, though such a thing does happen once in a while. (Normally not from just one video.) It's to help Ron Paul supporters answer these standard arguments, and reassure them that Dr. Paul's positions are perfectly defensible. It also shows people on the fence that the Weiss side of things is not the whole story.

[Lacocacolaman]

Where can I find sources to up to 70% of welfare money gets eaten by bureaucracy. Also that statement it cost 5 dollars to get 1 dollar to the poor.

[TomWoodsTV]

@Lacocacolaman The 70% figure comes from New York's welfare system but is probably not far removed from any government system. On the second statement, I discuss this in Rollback, my book from earlier this year.

[einlea67]

I love Tom Woods... he is a real american hero... Wote Ron Paul... Love from Norway

[ElizaGilkysonFan]

@matti1003 I have actually been able to persuade 2 card-carrying progressives. The logic presented by scholars such as Tom Woods, to which I subscribe, is irrefutable. Don't give up. This is going to be a long fight. We have to win converts. What other strategy is there?

[nikeheadd06]

I am never going on Yahoo.com again, left wing media that ignores Ron Paul.

Ron Paul 2012

[tabletalk33]

A very fine treatment, Tom. Thank you for posting this. The more I listen to Ron Paul, the more I am convinced that he is the man of the hour. The slimy lies being thrown at him are shocking, but I will not be deterred. I am voting for Ron Paul! I encourage others to do the same.

[KingDingaLing090]

@CBeeman1988 Nobody ever said Iraq was responsible for 9/11, get your lies straight. We invaded Iraq because of flawed CIA intelligence and Saddam funding terrorists.

Iran is responsible for 9/11 since the decision of a federal judge whom sat on a several year hearing for 'the families of the victims of 9/11 vs. Al Qaeda, Hizbolla and Iran.'

I suggest you take a good look in the mirror you ignorant fuck. You are a backstabbing terrorist sympathizer. Go read the case nimrod.

[CBeeman1988]

@KingDingaLing090

Since when is Iran responsible for 9/11? We were told it was Bin Ladin in Afganistan.. then Iraq... now you're suggesting that it is Iran's fault?

In the name of your excessive finger pointing.. I'm going to respectfully suggest that 9/11 was Russia's fault... no, no... it was Canada's fault... no wait.. it was your fault, Mr. DingaLing

[KneelingAtlas]

Mr. Woods,

I can admire you resolute determination to make one last push for the Ron Paul presidency in 2012, but when will enough be enough? On inauguration night, will you be able to relax, replace your stress with calm and actually pity those citizens with such deep scars from their childhood that they cannot help building their own cages? Until a generation is raised without aggression and arbitrary authority, we will never be free. My favorite video: McCuistion with you and Doug Casey.

[KingDingaLing090]

@jaabreu04 Just leave 20 comments in a row fuck it. I will read them (not).

You are telling Ron Paul lies. The IAEA report said they are working towards a nuke and they have a missle delivery system. They openly say they are making one. Liar, liar, backstabbing pussy. You lie. There were no lies about Iraq, there was flaw in the intelligence. Liar.

[jaabreu04]

@jaabreu04 let me know

[jaabreu04]

@KingDingaLing090 towards a civil war. After all the lies about Iraq, what makes you think our government has any credibility left when it comes to justifications to attack another country. I could keep going but me let know how you justify killing more people and sending more soldiers to die based on a threat that evidence shows doesn't exist.

[jaabreu04]

@KingDingaLing090 no nuclear weapons program and no long range military capability to attack the US directly. You want to condemn the people Iran to suffer and die in war because you don't like their leadership based on nonexistent threats. Did you approve of what happened in Iraq. We overthrew a former ally, Saddam, killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's, destroyed their countries infrastructure via bombing campaigns, and found no WMD's. Now we left Iraq divided and heading