I thank God for Ron Paul. I do not know whether he would be a good President. Man, he is terribly bright. And he really, really cares about individual liberty. Did I mention, he is about fifty times smarter and more constitutionally aware than – well, you know...
As a physician, Paul routinely lowered fees or worked for free and refused to accept Medicaid or Medicare payments. As a member of Congress, he continues to refuse to sign up for the government pension that he would be entitled to in order to avoid receiving government money, saying it would be “hypocritical and immoral.”
His district lies between Houston and Rockport Texas – right on the Gulf of Mexico. About 22 counties.
Most doctors are busybodies, know it alls. This one – Ron Paul – wants to protect YOUR freedoms.
There’s another thing I like. In the days of fighting sail, a Letter of Marque and Reprisal was a government license authorizing a person (known as a privateer) to attack and capture enemy vessels, and bring them before admiralty courts for condemnation and sale. Calling the September 11, 2001, attacks an act of “air piracy”, Paul introduced the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001.
Letters of marque and reprisal would have targeted specific terrorist suspects instead of invoking war against a foreign state. Paul reintroduced this legislation as the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007. He voted with the majority for the original Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists in Afghanistan. In April 2009, following the Maersk Alabama hijacking, he proposed issuing letters of marque to combat the problem of piracy in Somalia.
So he’s a privateer.
Dr. Paul may or or not be smart.
#1. He has brought a lot of “pork” to his district.
#2. He is a Libertarian running on on the Republican ticket.
#3. If he refused Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements...he hurt lots of people. I can’t believe that he discounted or freebied many patients. I’ll have to look, but how long has it been since he was a doctor...and not a politician?
I would like a source that says he has refused a government pension.
And with that noxious generality, you threw away your credibility.
Most doctors I know, don't fit this mold. Most doctors I've been to want to protect my freedoms while while swearing the Hippocratic Oath to protect and save my life and the lives of all their patients. In the age of frivolous lawsuits, the last thing they want to be is "busybody know-it-alls".
Letters of marque and reprisal would have targeted specific terrorist suspects instead of invoking war against a foreign state. Paul reintroduced this legislation as the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007. He voted with the majority for the original Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists in Afghanistan. In April 2009, following the Maersk Alabama hijacking, he proposed issuing letters of marque to combat the problem of piracy in Somalia.
There would be not profit in having a Letter of Marque unless you could commit acts of piracy (A/K/A as stealing other people's stuff) so the idea that they would actually solve anything off the coast of Somalia is laughable, as is the idea they would solve anything anywhere else.