[wideawake]

While it is ironic that Ron Paul presents himself as a second-to-none fiscal conservative even as his own statements betray how unfamiliar he is with how the actual numbers work - there's another interesting aspect to him.

He is not an accountant by training and work experience, but a medical doctor.

He is 100% gung-ho for cutting spending by defunding our fighting forces.

Yet, his website does not even mention Medicare or Medicaid - programs that helped pay his bills, programs with which he is intimately familiar on a professional basis, programs which vacuum up tons of taxpayers money, programs which are sources of almost-unbelievable waste and corruption.

These two government programs do not even exist if we rely on his website as a resource documenting government spending.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Yet, his website does not even mention Medicare or Medicaid - programs that helped pay his bills, programs with which he is intimately familiar on a professional basis, programs which vacuum up tons of taxpayers money, programs which are sources of almost-unbelievable waste and corruption.

Military (defense isn't the right term) spending has increased as the above graph shows.

Also, since you are "intimately familiar" with Medicare/Medicaid why don't you (the expert that you are) mention that Ron Paul is the only candidate in the race who actually voted against Bush's massive increase of these programs via the prescription drugs boondogle? As someone who is "intimately familiar" with these programs, of course, you know that it was the greatest expansion of the welfare state (in terms of "numbers" since LBJ.

Talk is cheap but Ron Paul, unlike the other candidates, actually takes action with regard to actually cutting Medicaid/Medicare.