Ron Paul Liberty Defined Mississippi State University 2011

Young Americans for Liberty at Mississippi State University announced that Dr. Ron Paul would be speaking on April 20, 2011.

Sponsored by the university chapter of YAL, the program featured Paul speaking at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium. A brief question-and-answer session with audience members followed his presentation.

“Liberty Defined” was the the topic of his remarks.

According to the American Journal of Political Science, Paul has the most conservative voting record of any member of Congress since 1937. In standing by his principles, he has tended to aggravate members of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

A national organization with college and high school chapters in each state, Young Americans for Liberty began as Students for Ron Paul, which promoted him as a presidential candidate in 2008.

Deepanshu Chhabra, a YAL chapter member and an organizer of the event, said the organization sponsored a two-month-long petition drive to request that Paul visit campus. Following YAL’s guide to hosting Ron Paul, MSU YAL members collected more than 2,200 signatures over the course of three months of petitioning.

Chapter President Ben Weinberg had this to say: “Eight months ago this seemed like a pipe dream, but petitioning for Ron Paul to speak on campus was a great recruitment tool and now that he is actually coming to speak, I want as many people to join the organization as possible.”

Congressman Ron Paul of Texas enjoys a national reputation as the premier advocate for liberty in politics today. Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He is known among both his colleagues in Congress and his constituents for his consistent voting record in the House of Representatives: Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535″ on Capitol Hill.

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies! He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have eighteen grandchildren.

While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul’s limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. He served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary measures. He also was a key member of the Gold Commission, advocating a return to a gold standard for our currency. He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values. Dr. Paul consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending, and regulation, and used his House seat to actively promote the return of government to its proper constitutional levels. In 1984, he voluntarily relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice.

Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th Congressional district of Texas. He serves on the House Financial Services Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. On the Financial Services Committee, Rep. Paul serves as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology. He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction in the size of the federal government and a return to constitutional principles.

Dr. Paul is the author of several books, including The Revolution: A Manifesto, End the Fed, Liberty Defined, Challenge to Liberty; The Case for Gold; and A Republic, If You Can Keep It. He has been a distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and is widely quoted by scholars and writers in the fields of monetary policy, banking, and political economy. He has received many awards and honors during his career in Congress, from organizations such as the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Council for a Competitive Economy, and countless others.

Dr. Paul’s consistent voting record prompted one Congressman to comment that “Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers’ ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.” Another Congresswoman added that “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”