Politics

Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

This week, Congress passed a budget calling for increasing federal spending and adding $1.7 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years. Most so-called “fiscal conservatives" voted for this big-spending budget because it allows Congress to repeal some parts of Obamacare via “reconciliation." As important as it is to repeal Obamacare, it does not justify increasing spending and debt.

It has not taken much in the past to get the crazy out of Democrat Maxine Waters, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews was the perfect catalyst for the Californian congresswoman to explain why Trump's presidency is "not legitimate," and why he should be impeached...

We strongly suggest you put down any sharp objects, and ask the children to leave the room, before watching the following debacle...

http://player.theplatform.com/p/7wvmTC/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite

Some key excerpts...

Following urges by Edward Snowden and Julian Assange (who offered his own extradition), President Obama has largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration, and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous.

Pope Francis met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday for the opening of a Palestinian embassy in Vatican City. The inauguration of the embassy came just one day before representatives from 70 countries gathered in the French capital for an Israeli-Palestinian peace conference and amid threats by President-elect Donald Trump to illegally move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Paris talks began just weeks after a historic U.N.

Just weeks after it was revealed that the Pentagon attempted to bury a study, that it itself had actually commissioned, which revealed staggering financial waste on Department of Defense programs, John McCain has proposed a new military budget that would exceed Obama's proposed spending by $430 billion over 5 years and total over $5 trillion, in aggregate.  In a 33-page white paper called "Restoring American Power", McCain described his proposals as just a start toward repairing the "damage that has been done to our military over the past eight years" under the Obam