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Topic started on 12-6-2008 @ 04:33 PM by Becker44

Ron Paul Calls it Quits


politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
Texas Rep. Ron Paul announced Thursday he is suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination to focus his time on building an organization to help recruit and elect “limited government Republicans
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reply posted on 12-6-2008 @ 05:42 PM by The Nighthawk
As far as I'm concerned he's as dangerous as McCain or Bush. Good riddance.

If you want to go ahead and write-in votes for him please, feel free to do so! If he ever gets elected we'll see how much you love him when your kids are flippin' DEAD because he dismantled all the govnerment regulatory agencies charged with ensuring the safety of our food, medicine, etc.

AND we'll see how well "small government" works when everything from police to roads are privatized--Sure, you're paying less in federal taxes! Too bad you have to blow your whole paycheck on tolls and paying out-of-pocket for all the services government currently provides, assuming you have much left after your state and local governments raise your taxes exponentially to pay for the things they no longer get federal funding for. I hope you homeowners don't mind paying 3-5 times what you pay now in property taxes just so your city can keep the schools open.

Face it, people, because it's a damn FACT. Small government of the kind proposed by the Libertarians and the conservative wing of the GOP leads directly to poverty, economic slavery and social chaos. This is the 21st Century, not the 18th, and government is big BY NECESSITY.

Modern Society=Big Government.

No if's, and's or but's.

The only difference is who that government serves, whether it be the Corporate Elite or The People.

Better to accept its existence and find ways to make it work for the right people than waste your precious time on this rock b!tching about things that WILL NEVER CHANGE and fantasizing about revolutions that ain't gonna happen.


We now return you to your regularly scheduled pro-Paul love fest.



reply posted on 12-6-2008 @ 06:55 PM by TheRepublic
reply to post by The Nighthawk



yeah those regulatory agencies are doing a great job for all the tax money they steal from me these days. why dont you go eat some more tomatoes.

what a load.


reply posted on 12-6-2008 @ 07:03 PM by whitl103
Originally posted by The Nighthawk

If he ever gets elected we'll see how much you love him when your kids are flippin' DEAD because he dismantled all the govnerment regulatory agencies charged with ensuring the safety of our food, medicine, etc.

AND we'll see how well "small government" works when everything from police to roads are privatized--Sure, you're paying less in federal taxes! Too bad you have to blow your whole paycheck on tolls and paying out-of-pocket for all the services government currently provides, assuming you have much left after your state and local governments raise your taxes exponentially to pay for the things they no longer get federal funding for. I hope you homeowners don't mind paying 3-5 times what you pay now in property taxes just so your city can keep the schools open.

Small government of the kind proposed by the Libertarians and the conservative wing of the GOP leads directly to poverty, economic slavery and social chaos. This is the 21st Century, not the 18th, and government is big BY NECESSITY.

Modern Society=Big Government.


Big government is "necessary" for a society that was built BY and FOR big government. The nation is a deck of cards built upon the sand, and it keeps requiring more and more aspects of the government to prop it up.

Your tales of death and destruction in this post come across as a product of the fearmongering big government you are so humbly tethered to. Research other Ron Paul posts even on this site alone and you'll see how his methods and ideas continuously confound big government's spokespersons, simply because they have no plan or even a clue of how to solve the problems Ron Paul is drawing attention to.

Big government is 100% necessary to run a system of shaky, wealth and power driven policies set up by the wealthy and powerful. So in that regard, I completely agree with you.


reply posted on 12-6-2008 @ 07:16 PM by TheRepublic
reply to post by RRconservative



yeah all real conservatives should be cheering! wooooo mccain!
more buget deficit!
more illegal aliens!
more open borders!
more jobs sent overseas!
more wars!

yaaaaaaaay!


reply posted on 13-6-2008 @ 02:49 AM by MidnightDStroyer
Originally posted by FlyersFan
If I can do the write in thing for him, I will.
Otherwise ... I'll most likely not cast a POTUS vote.

I intend to also...And keep up with his continuing fight for the Peoples' Constitutional Government. I think I should also point out that Ron Paul does have some connections
here.

BTW, if you're not certain whether or not you'll be allowed a write-in vote, or even concerned with the "electronic boondaggle" machines, you can request an Absentee Ballot ahead of time. At least this way, you're vote is going to be recorded on paper instead of lost to the electronic ether. Failing either, I'd personally vote "No Confidence."

reply to post by The Nighthawk


You think so, huh? How about some real info to back up your statements? Small government (if it's tightly controlled by Real Laws instead of corporate interests) will win out over a big corporate government any day...My real info is backed up with documented history, so what are your sources?

Sure, roads & such are what the government are authorized to build & maintain...But as of this point, it's corporate contractors doing it all now! Instead of hiring such contractors, the government should make an official agency to handle those jobs. But the current main problem with big government is that they spend way too much money on tasks that they are not Constitutionally authorized to handle. In short, they've already got their fingers into too many pies that they were never meant to touch...Take those pies out of their reach & it won't cost nearly as much to maintain the government or the services that they're supposed to handle.
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