Completely agree with you on the size and corruption with regards to the federal government. One of the aspects I find most corrupt since WWII is the corrosion of the process our Founding Fathers put in place for making war. I think many of our foreign policy issues would not be issues today if we had stuck with the Declaration of War process.
I’m not saying there is not some naivety to Paul’s foreign policy prescriptions. Far from it. I am saying, however, that it has been far more naive to trade away our individual rights as we have as a nation over the last several administrations. I am no longer willing to use the foreign policy / terrorism threat reason as an excuse to not make our individual liberties and freedoms at home the number one priority of this election. What good is fighting to defend freedom in foreign lands if we are just going to give it all away right here at home?
Oh, and WELCOME to freerepublic.