***How is opposition to FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS not an opposition to free trade?***
Does opposition to the PATRIOT Act necessarily make one unpatriotic? Does opposition to the Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 make one against economic stabilization?
Free trade agreements don’t necessarily constitute free trade. All you need for free trade is to lower tariffs and lift any embargoes. Free trade isn’t a policy; it’s a lack of a policy.
***His association with racists has been well documented by LGF. Ron Paul refused to return their money or to denounce them.***
Even if he is a stone cold racist, what policies exactly is he thinking of enacting that harms minorities? Last time I checked he wanted government to do very little.
***Ron Paul wants to return to the gold standard (and, on an especially bizarre day, abandon paper currency). The damage this would do the economy is hard to even estimate.***
Giving the government a monopoly on the creation of money and credit and its price through setting or manipulating the interest rate (the price of money) is better? Last time I checked, government monopolies are bad for the economy and price controls distort economic calculation and decision.
***Which allies would Ron Paul be willing to support?***
I don’t agree with him on everything, but I certainly don’t think we ought to be favoring sides as heavily as we do know. We give out too much aid to both sides and we constantly fight yesterday’s friend. I’d like to see a middle ground.
> Free trade agreements don’t necessarily constitute free trade. All you need for free trade is to lower tariffs and lift any embargoes.
This is what these agreements seek to achieve.
> Free trade isn’t a policy; it’s a lack of a policy.
Huh?
Since you basically agreed with my other points, I will not restate them here. My intention is not to pass judgment on Ron Paul’s ideas, I merely point out that there is not much difference between his positions and those of Barak Obama.
I am starting to come around to Ron Paul’s nonentanglement foreign policy. Reason is the world has been ungrateful of American sacrifice in blood and treasure to keep it free from brutal dictatorships. Just look at the ingrates in Europe. Poll after poll many think the US is the problem in world. Fine I say send our troops home. Finally Isreal is suppose to be the sanctuary for Jews from oppression. Well if the American Jews keep supporting Dems who support Hamas, and vilify conservatives. Why should the conservatives support Israel if the Jews in America does not???