Just to save everyone some time, here is the latest fight between the Paulistias and the anti-Paulistias on his earmark comments.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204751/posts
Read Ron Paul’s book “The Revolution”. While we hear the concept of “thousands of earmarks”, it is a small portion of the federal budget. The problem is that most of it is not earmarked, and goes into that big federal budget pot where it is spent on ??? He also says we should stop going after small frivolous things NEA. That’s a drop in the federal bucket.
He says in his book that the whole earmark debate is a distraction to keep us from focusing on the size of government. An earmark to build a road is taxpayer money spent on taxpayer use. A federal budget item to give billions to an unnecessary and unaccountable gov’t agency is what we should fight.
But who is fighting to close the Dept of Education, and countless other federal agencies with no reason to exist? Nobody-—we’re all arguing about a million dollar earmark in the face of multi-billions in gov’t growth.
Ron Paul is too smart to be president.
Paul is a hypocrite of the highest order.