[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

There is nothing big government about a family taking care of its own. It is when families don’t take care of their own that big government steps in. I went to another country where a skin and bones child ran up to me and wrapped herself around my leg as I was walking. She held her hand up begging for money. Is that your idea of freedom, starving children begging in the streets?

[wideawake]

In Ron Paul’s view, feeding that child would conflict with a much more pressing financial need: funding an inquiry into whether or not 9/11 was an “inside job.”

[George W. Bush]

I went to another country where a skin and bones child ran up to me and wrapped herself around my leg as I was walking. She held her hand up begging for money. Is that your idea of freedom, starving children begging in the streets?

And voting for Ron Paul will, what, cause children to starve because we're not handing out enough big-government goodies? Should we then be enslaved to a liberal redistributionist government because you saw a thin child begging in some Third World country?

What country was it anyway? Mexico? Some other hellhole?

[elkfersupper]

There is nothing big government about a family taking care of its own. It is when families don’t take care of their own that big government steps in. I went to another country where a skin and bones child ran up to me and wrapped herself around my leg as I was walking. She held her hand up begging for money. Is that your idea of freedom, starving children begging in the streets?

In this country, private citizens, churches and civic organizations would take care of that.

You invite the federal government in, it's like killing gnats with a tank.