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Ron Paul Swings Deficit Cutting Ax; It's About Time Someone Does
By Dan McGinnis

COMMENTARY | Ron Paul wants to cut a trillion dollars from federal spending and pledges he'll do it in the first year of his presidency. That's what his latest campaign commercial is proclaiming to audiences in Iowa and New Hampshire. It's ambitious, for sure, and necessary.

The 30-second commercial targets wasteful federal spending and programs that Paul has sought to cut for a long time. The Ticket reports Paul pledges to abolish four federal Cabinet-level departments and other programs to slash $1 trillion in federal spending right from the get-go. Someone needs to take a paring knife to the budget and make substantial cuts because these minor adjustments don't change a thing. They'd be painful, but that's what it is going to take to get federal spending under control.

The real question is: Can Paul survive and win the Republican nomination? Without it, he is powerless to enact his policies.

It bothers me the news media have anointed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as the remaining hopes for the party nomination. There are still other candidates in this race and I wouldn't exactly count any of the candidates out just yet.

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf blogged that Romney and Gingrich will be the last two standing in a contest that has seen more than its fair shares of ups-and-downs for both men. The problem is, there are still other candidates out seeking that nomination and the first votes have not yet been counted anywhere.

Ron Paul always has been a fiscal watchdog in Congress and some of his ideas deserve serious consideration. The budget deficit must be brought under control, and these petty-ante cuts that Congress is willing to dole out just are never going to make any difference. We need a few radical changes in government -- mainly in the way we view how government interacts with our everyday life.

Paring Knife?
He needs a Cleaver to cut through that!

I was thinking broad axe, but a sharp cleaver will do!

That should really pizzz off the Libs.

How dare he!

Ron Paul is never going to even come close to the oval office.

And even if he did, the Pres can't just cut the budget at will.

He has congress to deal with.

But Congress has to deal with "we the sheeple"....and we're starting to awaken like a sleeping giant!

I'm glad you seem to be able to predict the future! Wow, we need to talk about the lottery! And just who do you suppose can get America out of this mess? Obama? He's had almost 4 years, yes we can is now no we can't.....Newt? He flip flops more than a fish outta water....Cain? He has no self control. Mitt? His campaign has imploded. Do I need to go on?

It's only MSM who predicts that RP can't win.

Even tho WITHOUT their coverage he polls in the top 3 in all states and leads in many, they preach he can't win....wait and see.

People perfer truth and hope over lies and tyranny dispite what the MSM preaches.

It seems the unknown boy from Chicago (or Kenya....whatever), with nothing to his credit, no experience, no money (then), pulled off a rather big upset 3 years ago for the nomination, and went on to win "with a message of change" that nobody got (well, not to their advantage anyway...).... the polls will surprise many I think.....

RP 2012. Been spreading the word here for the last few months.

I'll tell you what. If RP wins the nomination I'll send you ten bucks worth of lottery tickets.

If he don't you send me ten bucks worth.