Remember, remember... the 5th of november. (Ron Paul)

smschulz said:

I respect his opinion but not a Ron Paul fan. His anti-war stance rubs me the wrong way.

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He is not anti-war in principle. He simply believes that it should be up to the Congress (and thus the people) instead of one man (the President). The difference between the President going into war and Congress is that Congress has a responsibility to define what the war is about and what specific outcomes are expected. The President can send troops in without really any concrete goals - this is what we have today.

Ron Paul voted FOR going after Bin Laden and even wrote a bill to put a bounty on Bin Ladens head.

His stance boils down to:

Wars are to fight nations, not criminal groups. For criminal groups you need to send in our special forces and also put a bounty on the criminals. This technique has been used effectively for thousands of years.

Still, I believe that terrorism is a much less critical issue right now than our economy. The decline of the dollar is going to have a much larger impact on our day to day lives than any terrorist attack. We literally cannot afford this war so whether it is successful or not is irrelevant because in the end we're going to be broke.

The rate of fall is increasing every day. The dollar is falling at a higher rate than the rate of the average pay increase. So Americans are working harder to get a raise and yet these raises aren't even keeping up with the devaluation of the dollar!



Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate that has any clue about what is going on:

smschulz said:

With all due respect ~ all I hear is the same anti-war / anti-Bush retoric.

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The rhetoric may sound the same but the underlying reasoning is different. The only reason the left/Democrats are against the war is not because they have logically thought about it, no, they are against it because they had to find something to complain about so that they could promote their own party. The war was a convenient conversation piece.

I don't care about the Democrat vs Republican rivalry, I care about how policies affect the day to day life of Americans, including myself. If someone wants to bomb people somewhere far away I honestly couldn't care less but when I'm forced to pay for it and the economy on which I depend is forced to its knees as a result I will surely be against whatever is causing it. I don't care if it's a war on terrorism, a war on drugs, a war on education or a war on poverty. If any of those things pose a serious threat to our economy and currency I will be opposed to them, because as I said, when all is said and done, the economy and our currency will be the final determination in our way of life and standard of living. We could kill every terrorist in the world and eliminate hunger but we'll go broke doing it and being frightened of towel wearing folks on the other side of the world won't seem as bad as not being able to buy the things we want and need because our dollars will be worthless.

It's not a matter of being anti-Bush and anti-War but being pro-freedom and pro-free market. Right now we've been spending billions of dollars bombing countries and then spending more billions of dollars rebuilding the same bridges and infrastructure that we bombed, while we can't even afford to fix roads and bridges at home. This situation is completely absurd.

I wish people were more passionate about our economy and dollar than about our military power. We are living beyond our means and fighting wars we cannot afford. Sooner or later something has got to give.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Nobody could have predicted that the Roman Empire would one day fall apart from it's own carelessness. And yet here we are today, going down the same path. :duh:

Here is a thought: What if we had taken half of the money that we've spent on the war and put that up as the bounty on Osamas bin Laden. I am certain that some enterprising individual, if not a fellow towel wearer, would have done whatever is necessary to catch/betray Osama. Heck, 10 billion dollars would be more than enough incentive to track him down.

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