Ron Paul. Is he the right choice?

Question

Out of curiousity. I'm wondering where you stand on the issues as a person and not a party.

Say yes or no if you agree or disagree

Get rid of income taxes

Legalize marijuana

Pull out of Iraq

The constitution should be followed, not dismantled

We must stop special interests from violating property rights and literally driving families from their homes

The war in Iraq was sold to us with false information

The biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data regarding citizens’ personal matters.

The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked.




If you really want to see more go here. He addresses the patriot act, healthcare, the war etc..

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues

Is Ron Paul the president we need?

Anyone who thinks Ron Paul is a looney. He stands for freedom, something that was a crazy american concept once apon a time.

Think Richly-

The funny thing is, when people give up their liberties for security what do they get in return?

Does anyone really feel more secure? Having to provide 3 forms of identitification for a drivers license, banks require you provide your SSN and other forms of ID but only if you are a citizen. how is that protecting our country?

Our levees are bad, our borders are bad and we are supposed to feel more secure?

Answer 1

This Platform Elects The Next President RON PAUL
http://www.rense.com/general76/plat.htm

The 2008 candidate for U.S. President who advocates these simple steps will be elected-guaranteed.

U.S. citizens hunger for a competent, decent, honest, and trustworthy president. They want a president who represents America-not corporations, not war, not globalism, not the North American Union, not Mexico and not lawlessness. Of all candidates from liberal to conservative to libertarian-if one of them stands on these campaign promises-he or she will become the next president of the United States.

Preamble: "If our president stuck to the Constitution as written, we would now enjoy:

A. Balanced and reasonable enforcement of each and every law on the books
B. Strong emphasis upon "states' rights," all states working elbow-to-elbow with federal enforcement and justice officers to enforce all laws equally
C. No federal meddling in our schools
D. No Federal Reserve
E. No U.S. membership in the UN
F. No citizenship for children of illegal aliens
G. No 'free' education and no 'free' medical- and social-services for illegal aliens
H. No gun control
I. No foreign aid
J. No welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"
K. No American troops "permanently" in 100 foreign countries
L. No NAFTA, GATT, or "fast-track"
M. No arrogant federal judges usurping states rights and/or writing laws
N. No attacks on private property rights
O. No income tax. Instead, a consumption tax

We can and must get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would then again be small, frugal, and limited."
-- Congressman Ron Paul (1998)

Any candidate for President of the U.S. who promises these benefits will win the election and move into the White House:

1. Stop all imperialism by the U.S. This includes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. Rebuild the U.S. military to a force-level of two million first-class troops, to defend our beloved nation lands, when needed.

On occasion, when necessary, use "joint-quick-strike" teams on 7-day forays to restore balance when a dictator goes astray.

2. Read and heed the recent South Carolina University study, where more than 4,000 illegal aliens were carefully polled; 62 percent of these people made it very clear that they do NOT desire or intend to become citizens of the U.S.

3. Investigate and prosecute all employer criminals who break laws to employ illegal aliens, and watch as their peers "get legal" in short order. As the jobs are restored to U.S. citizen voters, the ethical illegal aliens will voluntarily repatriate.
4. Stop unfair, discriminatory practice of providing substantial and costly assistance to 20-30 million, while refusing the render the same medical and social care to U.S. citizens. Eliminate mandatory "free" education and "free" emergency medical care for illegal aliens. Invoice nations for all short-term services provided to their nationals, with costs deducted from their current "foreign aid," dollar-for-dollar.

Prosecute bureaucrats (including those in NFP-NGO 501.c.3 groups) who misuse U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund optional services to illegal aliens.

5. Form mutual-aid pacts with the thousands of NFP-NGO 501.c.3 and church agencies to increase our self-sustaining "foreign-aid" to the underprivileged by 400 percent - whereby your government tax dollars provides less than 25 percent of the budget - rendering that physical assistance only in their sovereign nations, and not sovereign U.S. soil.

6. Issue an Executive Order to properly interpret the 14th Amendment, U.S. Constitution-ending the unsound practice of giving U.S. citizenship to children of illegal aliens who are born on U.S. soil.

7. Direct a 10-year moratorium on all immigration. The United States cannot tolerate nor does it want an added 100 million people by 2040. The USA is already stretched to the limits of resources, environment and infrastructure. It's time to take a collective breath. After the moratorium, a maximum of 100,000 immigrants only if they maintain a stable population. If not, the moratorium may be extended.

8. Temporarily assign the U.S. Marines to enforce our southern border, alone.

Only the military can deal with the heavily-armed drug-merchants and other rebels now operating on our border-sneaking in under cover of the hordes of illegal aliens.

9. Immediately assign the experienced and savvy U.S. Navy SeaBees to quickly (24 months) build a first-class, attractive, cost-effective physical southern border security-fence .

Equipped with a suitable set of parallel physical security-fences, with a paved roadway between for use by "rapid-deployment forces," the U.S. can patrol the border effectively with 75 percent fewer guards.

DHS is a mess. Put an accomplished, decorated, recently retired, "can-do" CIA or FBI manager in charge of CONUS and border security. Stand down the DHS; replace it with the new Department of Border and Interior 50-State Security (DBIS). The USCIS, FEMA, and Border Patrol are a travesty.

10. Appoint a strong, retired U.S. Marine Corps General officer to be our first-ever "Immigration Czar," a cabinet-level position.

Tell that person to author our first ever "Immigration Strategic Plan" within nine months.

We must "grow our own" workers, and incentivize mechanization. This is not business as usual.

We must immediately quadruple the throughput rate at our colleges, universities and technical schools. No more free-rides for foreign students. As part of this strategic effort, we must also incentivize our young adults to join the U.S. military, to learn.

11. Importing Chinese engineers & nurses and Spanish-speaking slave laborers at the last minute is outrageous- reflecting poorly upon our terrible strategic planning. We decimate our lower- middle-class and many other labor groups. No more.

12. Fingerprint (or iris-scan) every person who repatriates and/or is involved with the ICE or Immigration Court in any way.

For those 10 percent of the aliens who are seasoned criminals (according to the DOJ-FBI), prosecute and punish -- to the fullest extent of the existing laws. At the same time, the practice of granting bail-bond and plea-bargains to foreign-nationals who are here lacking legal presence is malfeasance, and must be strictly forbidden. These folks are obvious 'flight-risks.' Deportation is not punishment.

Punish first, then deport; felony-deportation, with prejudice .

Hundreds of rapidly deployed "temporary" tent-city prisons, located very near our southern border, are appropriate and necessary.

Relocate all illegal aliens from local-city, county, state, and federal prisons to the expanded temporary tent-city border incarceration facilities- to make room in local jails-prisons for the hundreds of thousands of scofflaws; employers and absconders.
13. The majority of the ethical, high-integrity illegal aliens will voluntarily repatriate and take their nest egg back to their "home-nation."

14. Stop bleeding jobs out of the USA through insourcing, outsourcing and offshoring which creates a $700 billion trade deficit annually while it destroys the middle class.
15. Make English our national language in order for all citizens to communicate, resolve and come to solutions for our national good. Rescind E.O. 13166 that forces us to be subservient to foreign languages at our cost and against our English language.
16. Endeavor to pour all research into finding an alternative energy source to oil. It's time to run cars, boats and planes on photo-voltaic transfer to electricity. Or, invent anything that stops polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
17. Work toward a balanced budget!

"2007 Comprehensive Reform" is a Trojan-horse, orchestrated by Teddy Kennedy, the same guy who orchestrated the 1986 IRCA legislation, Simpson-Mazzoli-Reagan, which gave us three times more amnesty-recipient illegal aliens than promised- with help from his 'friends,' and authored AGAIN in 2007 by immigration attorneys and members of La Raza- while keeping groups such as the American Legion out of the author's room.

The United States must take care of its own people, its own air, water and land. It must move toward a sustainable society.

Answer 2

Get rid of income taxes. No, just make them more fair.

Legalize marijuana. No, marijuana kills people.

Pull out of Iraq. No, we are fighting Al Qaeda there.

The constitution should be followed, not dismantled. Vague...abstain from answer.

We must stop special interests from violating property rights and literally driving families from their homes. Yes, but *all* interests are special interests, so the question is divisive rather than constructive.

The war in Iraq was sold to us with false information. No, everyone said that all that information was correct...everyone...and most of it was...some in larger degree than others.

The biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data regarding citizens’ personal matters. No. Not limit, but better define and enforce.

The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked. Yes. But with that, we should make it much easier for people to come here and work, or become citizens.

Is Ron Paul the president we need? No...because we should not pick a president based on activist agendas, but on their ability to run the executive branch.

Answer 3

Ron Paul is a great choice. He doesn't trust the Federal Government to do what they claim they will. He has some excellent speeches and articles where he explains his principles. Check him out.

Answer 4

A lot of people are getting turned off by all the morons Spamming Ron Paul's name and URL all over the place.

You THINK you're "Getting the word out" but all you're really doing is making Ron Paul look like a moron who needs brain dead Spammers to prop up his popularity.

The endless Ron Paul Spam means the masses will take him LESS seriously, as subconsciously people are categorizing him along with Viagra ads and Nigerians who need to move $5 Million to the US.

I personally think he's the best candidate the Republicans have offered, but despite this, I've come to cringe every time I see his name online. It's the same reason I can never take any Hoodia product seriously, I've seen far too much Spam about it to think of it as more than a joke.

Answer 5

Ron Paul is the right choice.

He is the ONLY one speaking out against the North American Union.. (you know.. the little thing bush signed in 05, unifying canada, mexico and us into one governing body & one monitary system.. basically ending america as we know it.)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965

He is the only one standing up for our constitutional rights, such as ending the warrentless searches/wire tappings, abiltiy to detain without charges, and other basic constitutional rights we have lost in recent years.

Now, on the elimination of the Income Tax. It is a two part deal. It is a well proven fact that the Federal Reserve Bank is unconstitutional, as our founding fathers were against a central banking system. The income tax, was created for the us to be able to repay that debt created by the federal reserve. The income tax itself is also unconsitituional.

Watch part 3 of http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ for a better understanding of how the federal reserve & income tax works.



Me, I want my children to grow up free. They should not fear their government. They should not fear to speak their mind. They should have a chance to live with peace and prosperity.

Ron Paul, is the only one standing up to the corrupt system to ensure our children might have a chance at that kind of future.

Answer 6

Yes to every question. Ron Paul would be by far the best President American has had in over 100 years.

Sadly, as seen by the answers to this thread many and perhaps most Americans will believe only what they see on TV. Therefore, they take their orders from the powerful elite that own main stream media.

Answer 7

I say yes to all five positions and so does Dr. Ron Paul. That is partly why I am supporting him to become our next President. Join the Ron Paul Revolution or die!

Answer 8

Ron Paul represents a great improvement over most of the other presidential candidates in almost every area. He does, however, have some major problems: unlibertarian positions on abortion and immigration, and the silly gold standard. Nonetheless, he would represent such a great improvement that I will still support him. (I also voted for him when he ran for President as a Libertarian.)

News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
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Answer 9

Yes to all of the above. Then again, I am a hard-core Ron Paul fan, and a libertarian.

When you really understand what personal liberty really means, and you are responsible for your own liberty, you will begin to see that Ron Paul is the only candidate who will uphold and protect your personal liberties.

Unfortunately, most people want the government to protect them, so they give up their personal liberties for a little bit of security.

"Those who sacrifice a little bit of liberty for temporary security usually gets neither liberty nor security" - Benjamin Franklin

Answer 10

yes, he would be an excellent choice, but would he be able to gather enough votes from the other two parties.
i would bet that the Dem's and re pubs would not go out of their way to help a guy from a third party pass any kind of meaningful legislation.

Answer 11

He certainly looks interesting, and most of his appeal is the other candidates of both parties look so bad. I have never known a time when major political figures are so out of touch with what the American people need and want.