Ron Paul @ Google - US foreign policy and trade - part 3

2008 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul in discussion with Google executive Elliot Schrage as part of the company's Candidates@Google series.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yCM_wQy4YVg

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IN THIS VIDEO:
Ron Paul explains his positions and views on trade as the means to good foreign relations. He believes the government should not interfere in any social contracts - it's responsibility instead is only to protect people and their contracts.

Part 3:
How should US foreign relationships be?
Ron Paul: We should permit trade - as fast as possible. If it's possible I want low tariffs. Tariffs are taxes and it doesn't tax the wealthy, it taxes the poor person who would like to buy cheap products.

Why were you opposed to NAFTA?
Ron Paul: Because it's government management of trade for special interests. It's not really free trade.

So a company like Google - it going to do business in China - you think it was a good thing for us to begin operations...
Ron Paul: That's right. That's your right given by the Constitution and your right in a free society. Your contract is your business [not the government's]. It's the government's responsibility to protect you if someone violates that contract.

So clearly then, your position on issues like gay marriage, you're supportive of that?
Ron Paul: I'm supportive of all voluntary associations and people can call it whatever they want.

Prostitution...?
I think that's been around a long time and I'm sure they haven't been able to stamp that out.

Again, consistent with the libertarian philosophy: what people do on their own time, so long as it doesn't hurt other people...
Ron Paul: That's the rule.

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The government today does not simply protect our contracts as it is supposed to - it regulates the contracts and breaks the rules of the free-trade market by not following the rules of contract.

The government should not be making legislation to contraol the ways of the free market. The economy will take care of itself. Groups (such as consumer reports) form themselves without the need of legislation. If we didn't depend on the government to take care of us, we would have better consumer protection.

NEXT - PART 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkyMiy3IWoU

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[thunt1294]

yeah tariffs punish the consumer, listen for truth.

tariffs protect inefficient business and workers. The reason that tariffs protect american jobs is because its more profitable for a country to do business somewhere else and we punish them for trying to be efficient

[jfielhauer]

Tariffs only shift the money around. We put a tariff on foreign steel to protect US steel workers and now our cars cost more and are less competitive. Now US auto workers are out of work. How do tariffs protect American jobs?

[CombustableHuxtable]

So basically Ron Paul is against backing all the dictatorships in the Middle East that brought on 9/11???? :-)

[ListenForTruth]

Tariffs protect Amercian Jobs without them all jobs will be gone