FOX News Channel "Your World" - Transcript
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FOX News Channel "Your World" - Transcript
MR. CAVUTO: Congressman, what do you think about what they're talking about in there, which is to get this deal back on?
REP. PAUL: Neil, it's a matter of buying more votes. I know they are under the gun, and the people don't want it, so they're going to have a lot of expalining to do if they vote for this.
And you know, I've been listening to the news and watching the markets, and everybody's been optimistic that a deal will be struck. But I just came back from the floor, and my optimism or at least my sentiment that it was going to be passed has changed a bit. There's still a lot of people there. I say, how are you going to explain your vote back at home? And they say, we don't know how.
And there's politics involved. When you get, you know, 99 percent of the people in your district against it, it's pretty hard for a politician to against their district.
MR. CAVUTO: All right. But nevertheless, the feeling seems to be that they're going to go back to their respective districts and say, look what we got for you.
This was earlier today, Congressman, when Senator McCain arrived. WE're also going to show when Senator Obama arrived. This is Obama about 15 minutes or so ago.
And that they can tell the folks who voted for them that look, I put in provisions for you. Will that sell?
REP. PAUL: Oh, probably, to a degree. Of course, to me, that's exactly the wrong thing. That just means the bill is worse. My problem with this place is they're spending money they don't have, and they're trying to bail out a system where we've overspent and overinflated. Now, what do they do when they run into trouble? Well, we'll spend even more now, so they're buying votes by coming out and, you know, we have welfare for the rich, so they have to throw in some welfare for the poor and do some other things in there. Who knows what will come of this?
But rest assured, we won't have a whole lot of time to study it. It will probably pop up about an hour before the vote. But they're up to a lot of mischief. The American people and the taxpayer will not be protected by making the bill worse, by making a bigger appropriation.
MR. CAVUTO: All right. Talking to Congressman Ron Paul, the former presidential candidate.
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