Of course, based on his latest move, it looks like he would replace it with Ramadan.
Posted on 10/20/2007 1:49:17 PM PDT by no nau
True to his word, Ron Paul abolishes the IRS, the CIA, the border patrol, and calls all military personnel stateside to serve as border guards.
Problems immediately start to arise. The income tax code is still law, but with no enforcement agency, people soon just stop paying taxes. Congress tries to implement supplementary measures, but ultimately enforcement is the duty of the Executive and the Paul Administration has announced they will pursue no enforcement of income or payroll tax collection.
The US government goes bankrupt in the first year of the Paul Presidency. Social Security and Medicare benefits cease to be provided. Many of the old and disabled are forced to steal to survive. However, with the Paul Presidency endorsing the right of property owners to kill on sight such plunderers, hundreds of such people are killed each day.
Meanwhile, the military cannot be funded. There is no money for logistics -- much less for member benefits. The Congress is forced to enact conscripted service legislation which Ron Paul signs (perhaps he realizes a veto will be overridden anyway). However, these conscripted members are given almost no pay or benefits and are working as virtual slaves. Military moral is at a horrific low, of course, and corruption, chaos, and desertion being the rule in the military. There is no ability of the military to accomplish its only duty under a Paul Presidency -- serve as border guards.
Meanwhile, Islamic militantism is emboldened. They step up attacks around the world. In the second year of the Paul Presidency, they sneak suitcase nukes into New York and Washington DC and detonate them. Hundreds of thousands of lives are lost with untold others critically injured. The hospitals have already been overrun with the Paul Presidency destitute seeking benefits, and have no way to deal with the injured. An already severely crippled country descends into complete chaos. A Ron Paul goal has been accomplished. There is effectively no federal government.
The Nation fractures into local ad hoc governments and is overrun with foreign squatters. Many areas of the former US have been claimed by militant Islamics who institute Sharia law. The federal government has no power and is merely a figurehead institute. Ron Paul proclaims that this what the founding fathers envisioned and his job is done.
Yet he wins straw polls on a regular basis. Something odd is going on here, like the MSM claiming Bush wouldn’t win the reelection in 2004, or claiming that Gore had won in 2000.
The Constitution doesn’t talk about Christmas, either.
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Of course, based on his latest move, it looks like he would replace it with Ramadan.
I give you an A for effort.
The people are really tired of the status quo. All Ron Paul needs to do is help them realize that he’s the small government answer to that problem. It can and may well work. We have a chance to save the Republic from the globalists. There may not be that many more chances before the nation is something totally different from what our parents handed to us.
says you..
Well, since in this scenario, RP magically won the nomination and the election, and is able to put every idea he’s suggested into immediate, full practice, why not also let him wave a magic wand and make them all work perfectly? Since the author apprently lives in NeverNeverland, we may as well take full advantage of it.
This is such an insult to the Americn people, who took care of the old and infirm without any government prodding or help for nearly two hundred years. People, through churches and other organizations pitched in to do what needed to be done then, and they would again.
One of the very worst aspects for the social welfare state is that it has left us unable to even imagne that we, the people, could and once did, solve all our social problems without the government.
ANother very dmaging aspect to helping through the government is that the helped and the helpers are removed from each other. The humanity of each is lost to the other, because of the impersonal, and heavy handed way the government arranges the help.
This aspect of cahrity is the most important part of it, and to be helped without it, or to be forced to help, causes the spiritual good of charity to be lost.
He was merely doing his job as a Congressman. Actually it's a good thing that he earmarked the money for studies, so the public can be more aware of the plan itself. Paul still opposes it and has denounced it publicly.
Not for a 'general highway fund'
Yes it was, as most of the funds would have upgraded existing Texas corridors unrelated to the TTC.
No, I couldn’t. You don’t get to pick and choose which laws to enforce without consequences. It hasn’t worked out too well on our borders has it? Paul isn’t God or anything close to it. He thinks he’s the next Jefferson or Adams and he couldn’t hold their jocks even today with them long buried.
A Ron Paul presidency would be held in check by congress; outlandish ideas would not become law.
He could be a conservative ally on conservative issues advanced by the congress unlike big spender Bush.
The neat thing about Ron Paul is if he was President any bill passed in Congress that had anything in it that wasn’t Constitutional he would veto, and then the passage would fall back on Congress’s head to override his veto, thus allowing all the State voters to see who actually supports anti-Constitutional legislation.
It’s a New York thing, dontcha know. Seany Wahnee is big on New York loyalism.
Uh, the loony 11 % Congress we have now has to be held in check by the President's vetos (now that he's finally found his stones). Putting one's hopes in Congress to keep President Ron Paul in check does not exactly inspire confidence.
LOL! I think a Paul presidency would be the opposite of what you describe in every way possible. It would be an economic boom unlike any in the history of this country.
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