All right ladies and gentlemen I would like to introduce our next speaker your

someone I think most of you are familiar with already Daniel McAdams of

course heads up the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity he worked for

Dr. Paul in the foreign policy arena for several years on Capitol Hill Dr.

Paul is in the International Relations Committee which was Daniel's

purview but the interesting thing about the Ron Paul Institute and the effort

that Ron and Daniel and Chris Rossini and Adam Dick have made since Ron

retire from Congress is that it's actually it's a lot easier to raise money for

politics you know political campaign or even for economics at the meetings

to people understand those issues and they feel like they have a self-interested

in perhaps advancing the cause of markets and of course it's very easy to

raise money for war there's a whole industry in the Northern Virginia

suburbs but which is devoted to that it's a very cause and they manage to be

very well-funded when it comes to their lobbying efforts so they're at

Bruce Chris today up in DC having lunch while we're having this much more

important meeting but Daniel and Ron have nonetheless managed to raise money

and they have created what I consider the most hardcore pro-peace

organization in the country so please a round of applause for Daniel McAdams

hello everyone it's great to see you here in Lake Jackson Dr. Paul in my hometown

now so I want to start by saying Scott it's got touched on it but today is an

important day today is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

really one of the fundamental points in our history certainly the fundamental

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