Ron Paul has been calling for the abolishment of these programs and agencies for three decades now, but Rush feels the need to take credit for those right ideas..going so far as accusing Paul of stealing them from him! Ron Paul on Lower spending and smaller government: Paul believes the size of federal government must be decreased substantially. In order to restrict the federal government to what he believes are its Constitutionally authorized functions, Paul regularly votes against almost all proposals for new government spending, initiatives, or taxes,[80] often opposed by a heavy majority of his colleagues. For example, on January 22, 2007, Paul was the lone member out of 415[81] voting to oppose a House measure to create a National Archives exhibit on slavery and Reconstruction, seeing this as an unauthorized use of taxpayer money. Paul would substantially reduce the government’s role in individual lives and in the functions of foreign and domestic states; he says Republicans have lost their commitment to limited government and have become the party of big government.[82] He would eliminate many federal government agencies, such as the US Department of Education,[83] the US Department of Energy, the US Department of Commerce,[84] the US Department of Health and Human Services,[84] the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Interstate Commerce <b>…</b>