Ron Paul: Black Congress Members Want All War Money for 'Food Stamps'

Three-time Presidential candidate Ron Paul told libertarian pundit Lew Rockwell that the Congressional Black Caucus does not support war “because they want all of that money to go to food stamps for people here.”


Paul, the father of possible 2016 Presidential candidate Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), was interviewed on Rockwell’s podcast. In a discussion on the use of sanctions rather than military action, Paul said, “I was always annoyed with it in Congress because we had an anti-war unofficial group, a few libertarian Republicans and generally the Black Caucus and others did notthey are really against war because they want all of that money to go to food stamps for people here.”

Listen to his comments below, starting at about the 1:38 mark:

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