Thursday, November 22, 2007
A Trillion Dollars - for what?
According to the US Congress's Joint Economic Committee, it costs the United States:
One Point Six Trillion Dollars to
fight wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
A trillion dollars - that's $1,600,000,000 that the government will admit to, and we all know how reliable their figures are, right?
The US defense budget is now DOUBLE what it was at the end of the Cold War. Remember that time? Our enemy was the Soviet Empire which had over 40,000 nuclear bombs sitting on top of intercontinental ballistic missles aimed right at us, and yet we were able to face them down for less than half of what we are now spending to deal with a couple of third world countries that are not even officially at war with us.
Ron Paul says:
Eliminate the IRS.
Save the money the IRS would have collected by ending foreign occupation by American troops.
Makes sense to me.
Support Ron Paul
One Point Six Trillion Dollars to
fight wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
A trillion dollars - that's $1,600,000,000 that the government will admit to, and we all know how reliable their figures are, right?
The US defense budget is now DOUBLE what it was at the end of the Cold War. Remember that time? Our enemy was the Soviet Empire which had over 40,000 nuclear bombs sitting on top of intercontinental ballistic missles aimed right at us, and yet we were able to face them down for less than half of what we are now spending to deal with a couple of third world countries that are not even officially at war with us.
Ron Paul says:
Eliminate the IRS.
Save the money the IRS would have collected by ending foreign occupation by American troops.
Makes sense to me.
Support Ron Paul
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Not a Republican? Support Ron Paul!
This post is for those of you who do NOT identify yourselves as Republicans. (That would be people like me.)
If you do not identify yourself as a Republican, Ron Paul is the right candidate for you.
Here's why:
The Patriot Act
He voted AGAINST the ironically named "Patriot Act".
The War
He is the only candidate calling for an immediate withdrawal of the troops, not only from Iraq and Afghanistan, but from every foreign base we have established.
Civil Rights & Privacy
He wants to end the so-called "War on Drugs". He says the Federal Government has no business telling you what you can and can not put in your own body.
He says the Federal Government has no right to regulate abortion or marriage.
The Economy
He advocates "sound money". That just means it is time to take power to destroy our money out of the hands of the central bankers of the world. He is the only candidate who actually can speak intelligently about the damage done to our money by the Federal Reserve.
Taxation
If we will bring all the troops home and quit sending money to foreign governments, we can abolish the IRS and eliminate the income tax and STILL HAVE the same amount of money to spend on government that we had in the year 2000!
In other news...
Here's what one famous "Old Money" guy observed about the Ron Paul Campaign.
If you do not identify yourself as a Republican, Ron Paul is the right candidate for you.
Here's why:
The Patriot Act
He voted AGAINST the ironically named "Patriot Act".
The War
He is the only candidate calling for an immediate withdrawal of the troops, not only from Iraq and Afghanistan, but from every foreign base we have established.
Civil Rights & Privacy
He wants to end the so-called "War on Drugs". He says the Federal Government has no business telling you what you can and can not put in your own body.
He says the Federal Government has no right to regulate abortion or marriage.
The Economy
He advocates "sound money". That just means it is time to take power to destroy our money out of the hands of the central bankers of the world. He is the only candidate who actually can speak intelligently about the damage done to our money by the Federal Reserve.
Taxation
If we will bring all the troops home and quit sending money to foreign governments, we can abolish the IRS and eliminate the income tax and STILL HAVE the same amount of money to spend on government that we had in the year 2000!
In other news...
Here's what one famous "Old Money" guy observed about the Ron Paul Campaign.
Friday, November 16, 2007
The End of Empire
According to the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." In other words, Congress is allowed to exercise power only in those areas of government specifically stated in the Constitution. Everything else is outside their realm of authority.
This is why Ron Paul consistently votes against measures that would - in some way or another - "benefit" his constituents. If the Constitution says Congress is not allowed to do something, then Ron Paul votes according to the Constitution, regardless of how much pork it might send to his congressional district.
Would that we had 453 other such men and women in Congress, huh?
In related news, the United Kingdom is coming undone. According to The Telegraph, the MPs (members of Parliament) who represent constituents in England are fed up with members from Scotland and Wales being allowed to vote on laws that affect only English constituents. A move is afoot to prohibit Scottish and Welsh MPs from making laws that do not affect those in Scotland and Wales. What the English find particularly odious is that a great deal of English money gets sent to Scotland, with no appreciable benefit, and in fact a noticeable detriment to, the English themselves.
The United Kingdom is devolving. In other words, power is moving away from a centralized government and back toward more dispursed government. This is precisely the type of model mandated in the US Constitution. Go Ron Paul!
Finally, Fred Reed's column of November 16th reminds us that America used to be a place where it was okay to be better than average. America has largely been overrun by scoundrels and underachievers. This is really nothing new, since power tends to attract such riff-raff, and the bigger the government, the more riff-raff are attracted. However, the US Constitution was crafted to try to keep power minimized and dispursed, so that the scoundrels and underachievers were less able to parasitically suck the life out of those who wanted to simply live their own life their own way and be left alone. Ron Paul is the only voice in the presidential race today who supports the rights of the individual against the power of the scoundrels and the group-think underachievers.
Support Ron Paul for President 2008.
This is why Ron Paul consistently votes against measures that would - in some way or another - "benefit" his constituents. If the Constitution says Congress is not allowed to do something, then Ron Paul votes according to the Constitution, regardless of how much pork it might send to his congressional district.
Would that we had 453 other such men and women in Congress, huh?
In related news, the United Kingdom is coming undone. According to The Telegraph, the MPs (members of Parliament) who represent constituents in England are fed up with members from Scotland and Wales being allowed to vote on laws that affect only English constituents. A move is afoot to prohibit Scottish and Welsh MPs from making laws that do not affect those in Scotland and Wales. What the English find particularly odious is that a great deal of English money gets sent to Scotland, with no appreciable benefit, and in fact a noticeable detriment to, the English themselves.
The United Kingdom is devolving. In other words, power is moving away from a centralized government and back toward more dispursed government. This is precisely the type of model mandated in the US Constitution. Go Ron Paul!
Finally, Fred Reed's column of November 16th reminds us that America used to be a place where it was okay to be better than average. America has largely been overrun by scoundrels and underachievers. This is really nothing new, since power tends to attract such riff-raff, and the bigger the government, the more riff-raff are attracted. However, the US Constitution was crafted to try to keep power minimized and dispursed, so that the scoundrels and underachievers were less able to parasitically suck the life out of those who wanted to simply live their own life their own way and be left alone. Ron Paul is the only voice in the presidential race today who supports the rights of the individual against the power of the scoundrels and the group-think underachievers.
Support Ron Paul for President 2008.
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