Are you in favor of abolishing the Fed? Are you in favor of a non interventionist foreign policy? Are you in favor of an honest monetary system? Are you in favor of spending less than we produce? Are you in favor of minimum government involvement in your daily life? Are you in favor of maximum personal freedom? Are you in favor of abolishing the sixteenth amendment and the income tax? Are you in favor of the US leaving the UN and acting like an independent and sovereign nation again?
Then Ron Paul is your man.
I don’t quite understand the attacks on Ron Paul. His views are extreme Constitutionality. It is the polar opposite of Socialist/Marxist Obama-Pelosi-Reid, who are taking us off a cliff. I would rather have Ron Paul then RINO Mit Romney! Maybe a candidate who is more palatable to mainstream America, like Jim DeMint.
Let’s try this point by point:
>Are you in favor of abolishing the Fed?
Maybe is the most I could say on that. I’m not sure our system can really do without it. It just needs to be better run. In any case, there is no way the Fed is likely to be going anywhere and it isn’t a decision by the president anyway, so even vaguely claiming it as a possibility is bunk.
>Are you in favor of a non interventionist foreign policy?
That’s not even close to what Paul proposes. He favors a isolationist fantasy foreign policy where the whole world will love us if we just stay home. That’s utter nonsense.
>Are you in favor of an honest monetary system?
Considering the monetary system is an issue of the Fed and you already went there, this is redundant. It’s not within the powers of the office in question anyway so moot.
>Are you in favor of spending less than we produce?
Yes, but I don’t need an isolationist (America blaming at that) loon to get there.
>Are you in favor of minimum government involvement in your >daily life?
Again, I don’t need him for that, and without a complete overhaul of congress this is again a pie in the sky, not something he can actually do.
>Are you in favor of maximum personal freedom?
Yes, and I’m also in favor of cookies and puppies, but what does that actually have to do with a choice of presidents? If this is what passes for an argument with you, then give up.
>Are you in favor of abolishing the sixteenth amendment and >the income tax?
Again, nonsensical overreach of the office. We’re electing a president not a dictator. You want to change the Constitution then you have to change both congress and the state legislatures. The President has nothing to do with it. Learn some civics for a change.
>Are you in favor of the US leaving the UN and acting like >an independent and sovereign nation again?
Are you actually claiming the U.S. is not sovereign? We ignore the UN when it suits us and use it for political cover when it suits us as well. We’re still sovereign.
Imagine living in a house where when you want to turn on a light switch, you have to call the electric company to send enough power to your house to do so.
That is what Ron Paul wants to do to the U.S. Right now, we have strategic forces stationed around the world at the agreement of our allies. We can react to a sudden military situation with a moments notice.
If Ron Paul has his way, all U.S. forces would be based in the U.S., which means if there was a need to react militarily to any situation in another part of the world we would need to get not only our forces, but command and control operations, logistical lines, and communications set up before we could react.
Sorry, that is unrealistic and exceptionally dangerous.