Just think, no unworkable Star Wars missle defense system, on which they’ve wasted several hundred billion dollars so far of our money, and there would be plenty of money to help kids go to college.

It’s not having a government that’s the problem, FA, it’s who’s running it. Republicans historically have run it for the elite, and still do.

http://www.politicsinminnesota.com/2007/dec/14/pim-exclusive-superrondo-ii-new-nasco-nafta-superhighway-docs-released-mndot

haters

Yo Ron Paul, there is NO such thing as a free lunch!

The US congress serves as the “state” government for the district of Columbia. The congressmen from all over the country get to decide their local matters.

So yes a nut job from Texas decides whether the people in DC get to allow civil rights for gays.

Taxes are the fuel for the government. If you have no taxes you have no government. Sound good? Try Somalia, that should be right up the alley for government haters. The governments job is to protect people from their enemies. The people of the US have no enemy worse than unbridled corporate power. Don’t believe that? THen how is China exporting poisoned products into the US at the behest of those corporations?

Why should you help the under-privileged go to college? Well if you don’t then what we get is more dynastic families like the Bushes running the country into future. If you really can not afford to put your own children through college then you should be able to get those same grants. Those like Ron Paul have been working to kill the government support for the poor to go to college. I had a couple years of help from Uncle Sam and that debt has been paid back in thousands of percent by the taxes paid be my having a better job due to a college education. Anti-tax folks against support for government susidies for blacks and latinoes are either ignorant of how it really works or bigotted about non whites getting help. I do not believe any other argument from them.

Uh, how is it that he is able to vote in DC, he lives in Texas. This one sounds made up to me.

You do understand that DC does not have home rule and every major decision must be okayed by Congress?

“>Repeal the gas tax.

Taxes just allow corrupt government to remain corrupt.”

You are aware, I hope, that the money taken in through the gas tax is used to pay for the roads you drive on. The same roads your food is delivered on. The same roads the ambulance you’ll require one day comes on.

“I could go on, please just google some of his articles on the internet.”

I have, especially when I need a good laugh. Ron Paul is the latest attempt to pass Libertarian off as mainstream. As a Democrat I would love to have him carry the GOP banner. We’d carry all 50 states.

The District of Columbia, not having statehood, is run by Congress.

You also wrote: “Because he thinks government should stay out of private business affairs.”

But then who protects the stockholders and makes sure they are properly reimbursed for their investments or, for that matter, who enforces the terms of contracts and properrty rights? No government involvement means no judges, no warrants, no subpoenas, no cops, no nothing. Do you really want to make the country into Dodge City before the marshal came and cleaned it up?

Ron Paul’s stand on most things is consistent with who he says he is: a libertarian Republican, except the abortion issue, gays in the military, and a Constitutional amendment sanctioning school prayer. As a matter of fact, I believe I heard him on C-Span saying he didn’t want ANY laws regarding religion enforced by the federal government, but he might have changed his position. (He is, after all, a politician.)

Paul sounds sane because he’s running against a bunch of religious fruitloops and flip-floppers. I appreciate many of his ‘get-the-government-off-our-back’ positions, and who doesn’t want lower taxes, but I don’t think I could vote for him — there’s such a thing as too little government, as the flooded folks in New Orleans found out in 2005. I wonder how President Paul would have responded to that crisis?

>Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC.

Uh, how is it that he is able to vote in DC, he lives in Texas. This one sounds made up to me.

>Voted YES on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions.

This one sounds like he wants to end discrimination. Sounds good to me.

>Rated 67% by the ACLU, indicating a mixed civil rights voting record.

I don’t care what the ACLU thinks, why should I?

>Don’t ask, don’t tell is a decent policy for gays in army.

It’s also a good policy for straights, bisexuals and nonsexuals. Maybe we should all stop blabbing about out sexual preferences.

>Anti corporate power? Nope

You haven’t said enough here to have refuted.

>Voted NO on allowing stockholder voting on executive compensation.

Because he thinks government should stay out of private business affairs.

>Voted NO on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges

Why should I be taxed for the success of Black and Hispanic colleges, when I can’t afford my own daughters tuition. Again, government should keep their hands off my hard earned money.

>Voted YES on Bankruptcy Overhaul requiring partial debt repayment.

Personal responsibility is good.

>Repeal the gas tax.

Taxes just allow corrupt government to remain corrupt.

I could go on, please just google some of his articles on the internet.

Glen Beck has a man crush on him

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/20/glenn-becks-big-love-for-ron-paul/#comments