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Curious......Whats so great bout ron paul???

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Primo:
BTW is anybody else real excited about the direction his campaign is going. I think people are waking up. I am really optimistic about this. People are so pessimistic about world views right now that when they see something that could incorporate positive change they are pessimistic about the outcome. He has raised almost 2 million dollars in a month ( when he started out with $650,000 and is gaining supporters every single day.

jeromechickenbone:
^^^^Thanks for posting that vid, hadn't seen it yet.  I think it's one of the most riveting speeches I've ever seen.  This is the first time in my life that I've actually been excited about a presidential candidate.

It's very strange about Paul - he has such a level of truth to what he says that ANYONE can relate to that and understand his cause.  I truly believe that if every person voting actually took about 30 minutes to understand Paul's ideology that they would be as passionate as I am about the guy.

I believe America can go in 2 directions at the election: 1) Ron Paul 2) Big business, Corruption, New World Order (read: Guiliani, McCain, Romney, Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Gore, - ALL OF WHICH ARE SYNONOMOUS WITH BUSH'S REGIME).

AndrE16686:

--- Quote from: Shallow on May 23, 2007, 05:15:01 AM ---
--- Quote from: The Overfiend on May 22, 2007, 08:26:55 PM ---Somebody has to keep order in the world, the idea of an unregulated free market is nuts. Slave trading, weapons trafficking, you name it, there are downsides to letting the free market run utterly free. If we are going to have a One World Market, we need a regulator of that market, an umpire at least with the ability to enforce the rules. The idea that the UN has too much power is a joke, it is impotent as to it's true cause and intention because it depends on the US. Therefore, it would probably be a good idea for the US to take a break from the security council, it's not like it adheres to International law anyway, a break from the security council only, not from the entire UN movement. But whether the president wants it or not, I doubt the US would give up it's veto power, even for an instant, Paul's changes are so radical it wouldnt surprise me if he ended up dead at the apex of some symbolic triangle, with the media blaming it on black religious radicals.

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No libertarian believes in a completely unregulated market. Obviously some things will be illegal (like selling human beings as slaves) and people breaking laws will be punished. Paul's objective is to take care of America before it goes into the shitter. He sees a downward turn on the horizon and he wants to prevent it.

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Ron Paul says he is against big government. But what does that mean? When you scale down government, all those responsibilities the government previously had end up falling to private contractors and big business, big business becomes symbiotic with the government. The US needs a high wall between state and business, in the same fashion as the wall between church and state. If Ron Paul is 'against big government', without recognising that, he is no different from Bush.

virtuoso:

He scales down government by presumably getting rid of Homeland Security, dismantling the CIA, and addressing the IRS. You are trying to present this as a recipe for disaster and that simply is not true, these are fundamental areas which will not suddenly end up in the hands of corporations because he is dismantling the very mechanisms that allow these to function. The corporations are the ones running America as it is and this is only going to get worse unlike areas like the Federal Reserve are addressed as well as the literal giving away of the high roads into toll roads. America is being blown out as we speak and certainly the other candidates seem quite happy to allow things to continue because they have already been bought and paid for. Of course, you don't have to agree with everything Ron Paul says and it would be naive to think that all of his supporters did so, but he is an angel compared to the rest of the candidates.

M Dogg™:
His a Libertarianism, so his a Republican who likes to get laid.

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