True point, and I don’t think Paul is right about everything, but with the debt that we have, we can’t have a trillion dollar conflict over every threat.
Who said this? Oh that's right, it wasn't Ron Paul. It was Rokkitapps on this thread. As such I have every right to ask him to please show me where he has shown the same level of concern about the $5 trillion we have spent on welfare. Here's what I said in response.
I am so sick and tired of reading comments about $1 trillion being spent on our ten year war efforts, as if it was going to bankrupt us. During that same ten years, we spent $5 trillion on welfare. Please link me to one place on this forum where you have addressed that $5 trillion, have lamented it, and have stated it couldn’t go on or it would destroy our nation.
Then you come up with this brillance.
Wow, just wow. You want a link? How about this very article. Did Rokkitapps write this article? Did he choose to address welfare or our war effort? He chose to address our war effort, even though it was 20% of what our Welfare expenses were over the same period. Evidently you think I am unfair. Well, I stridently disagree. All Rokkitapps had to do, was link me to where he chose to spout off about Welfare spending instead of "war effort" spending. Seems an easy enough challenge to me.
Because Paul would NEVER have allowed that $5 trillion for welfare, and he would have gotten rid of the NEED for it, too. Did I single Ron Paul out? No, I didn't did I.
That's what Paul STANDS for! What has that to do with what Rokkitapps elected to focus on? What has it to do with just about every Ron Paul defender here? They spout off endlessly about our war effort costs, and hardly every mention Welfare here. If you can scour the forum and find one place where the ten year (approximately) $5 trillion in Welfare spending has been addressed (with the same attempt at precise numbers you folk spout off about war spending), I'll be shocked. And you get bonus points if you can tie them specifically to a charge that those welfare expense are going to bankrupt this nation, something always charged when we're talking about the war effort expenses.
Yet you try to use what he fights as some sort of denoucement of HIM? LOL! I did not address Ron Paul. I addressed Rokkitapps, and when I did I addressed his comments, not Ron Paul's or Ron Paul's beliefs.
Chutzpah - you've got it in spades, buddy. Well, my response is this. My level of chutzpah is probably reasonably matched by your level of comprehension skills on this matter.