Posted on 04/30/2007 9:14:44 AM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
We published an analysis on “Dollar Myths” in which we criticized spending habits in Washington:
"Interestingly, nobody seemed to focus on the fact that there is an unconventional solution to foreigners holding too much of our debt: live within your means and do not issue debt. Such an old fashioned concept would indeed strengthen the dollar. Unfortunately, none of the presidential candidates at either side of the aisle seem to have heard of this notion."
We missed that there is indeed a presidential candidate who believes in the old fashioned view to “live within your means.” Our apologies go to Congressman Ron Paul, who threw his hat in the ring on March 12, 2007, announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. Ron Paul is the one member of Congress who is a true fiscal conservative. As a member of the House Committee of Financial Services, he does not hesitate to speak out against inflationary policies. On his campaign website, Ron Paul 2008, he writes:
“Real conservatives have always supported low taxes and low spending.
But today, too many politicians and lobbyists are spending America into ruin. We are nine trillion dollars in debt as a nation… If we don’t cut spending now, higher taxes and economic disaster will be in their future – and yours.
(Excerpt) Read more at fxstreet.com ...
Just check any of the threads pertaining to the “Iraq Surrender Bill”...I believe you will see his name prominently displayed.
Since the implosion of George Allen last summer and fall, I'm undecided. I'm leaning toward Fred Thompson but probably because of the Allen debacle, I'm leery that Thompson isn't ready for prime time.
I'm probably being too harsh here but if Fred Thompson wasn't an actor, I doubt his record as a Senator would have gotten anyone too excited about a possible presidential run. Images of Ronald Reagan are dancing in everyone's head but I'm not sure that Thompson is the one to carry Reagan's mantle.
That's a good summary.
The Constitution works just fine but only when our leaders are made to abide within it's words and uphold it. That is not being done by neither DEM nor most GOP. Ron Paul is one of the few who reminds the GOP it is off course.
Case in point. Now IF the House and Senate were in fact operating within the Constitution then people wouldn't be running around like chickens with their head cut off worrying about Hillary Clinton being POTUS as she would not be a threat the GOP has let her become by the ongoing expansion of Executive Branch Powers that Republicans cheered on for Bush. Of course it was all for da W.O.T. dontcha know wink wink.
Chickens coming home to roost BUMP! The power of majority went straight to the repubs fat heads for 6 years. They were warned time and time again, that this day loomed. Sit down and STFU was their mantra. tsk tsk. Blackbird.
You search for it. I didn't make the claim. Thanks for playing. Blackbird.
The Liberals took over the party about a year after the 1995 takeover. They gained control of the RNC which also meant holding the purse strings as well. By August 1996 it was obvious to anyone who was paying attention the GOP as it was elected in 1994 had been hi-jacked by modern day Rockefeller Republicans.
Refusing to spend borrowed money is not stabbing the troops in the back. Leaving the troops in a belligerent operation when the funds are stopped would be stabbing the troops in the back, and that is not a decision Paul could make one way or the other as Congressman.
Hillary and other socialists would be impeached already.
That is an important distinction.
In other words, you are arguing that there would be no reason to be concerned about a second Clinton presidency if she didn't have access to these mythical new powers of the Executive you claim Bush has obtained.
(1) Hillary Clinton would make a horrible president in any context.
(2) The Executive has no more power now than it did prior to the 2000 election.
The fact that you parrot Democrat rhetoric about the powers of the Bush administration and that you apparently have no issue with a Hillary Clinton presidency per se informs me that you are not a serious interlocutor.
If you decide to think beyond Nancy Pelosi's talking points, your posts will become far more interesting than they are now.
It isn't borrowed money. Defense spending is a small percentage of tax receipts. We do not borrow money to cover our defense budget. And even if we did spend borrowings, it would be one of the few Constitutionally mandated expenditures - mandated by a Constitution that contemplates and approves of public debt.
Leaving the troops in a belligerent operation when the funds are stopped would be stabbing the troops in the back
This is precisely the dishonest, mealymouthed, cowardly, yellowbellied, gutless play on words that the Left is championing.
Telling our soldiers in the field that their work is not worth sustaining and we're not paying for it is backstabbing.
Pure and simple.
This is an unconstitutional attempt by Ron Paul and his treasonous accomplices to steal the warfighting power from the Executive.
It is beneath contempt.
That rhetoric is hardly limited to Democrats.
About half of that is the SS Trust Fund.
Pure and simple.
This is an unconstitutional attempt by Ron Paul and his treasonous accomplices to steal the warfighting power from the Executive.
You distortions are quite impure and simply wrong. Paul did not say that the troops' work is not worth sustaining.
You are attempting to attribute something to Paul that he never said.
Yes.
It is also the rhetoric of:
(1) The Socialists
(2) The Workers World Party
(3) The Greens
(4) The Black Bloc anarchists
(5) The French
(6) The Russians
(7) The Venezuelan regime
(8) The Iranian regime
(9) The EU
(10) The UN
(11) Paul Craig Roberts
(12) David Duke
(13) Noam Chomsky
Your point?
When he says he doesn't want to pay for that work, what is he saying, exactly?
Your semantic squirming is laughable.
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