I often hear people say, "I'd vote for Ron Paul if it weren't for his lack of national defense and foreign policy." I realize that people who make this statement have fallen prey to the clever and effective political spin that twists a candidate's message inside out. The truth is that Rep. Ron Paul has the most moral, rational, and constitutional approach to protecting the U.S. and interacting with the world. Consider this from his website: "In Congress, Ron Paul voted to authorize military force to hunt down Osama bin Laden and authored legislation to specifically target terrorist leaders and bring them to justice." Dr. Paul wants to "[m]ake securing our borders the top national security priority" and "[a]void long and expensive land wars that bankrupt our country by using constitutional means to capture or kill terrorist leaders who helped attack the U.S. and continue to plot further attacks." Does that sound like someone who doesn't care about national defense?
The U.S. needs to stop giving money we do not have to other countries, and we need to stop sending our citizens (fathers, sons, brothers, husbands, wives, daughters, and mothers) to be slaughtered or injured unnecessarily. The U.S. debt is currently at $15.6 trillion, or over $50,000 per person.
The last time the U.S. formally declared war was for World War II in 1941. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya were not formally declared. But look at this chart to see the numbers of deaths and wounded soldiers over the history of the United States. There are often four to 10 times as many soldiers injured as are killed. If we are going to deprive parents of their children, children of their parents, husbands of their wives, wives of their husbands, etc., don't we owe it to the families who will suffer that loss to only send their sons and daughters, mothers and fathers into a real, legitimate war? Dr. Paul is the only president who will honor this serious and sacred responsibility.
The wounds that soldiers return with, from physical limitations to psychological trauma, can last a lifetime, just like the loss of a grown child or parent in combat. Veterans have a much higher rate of suicide. They suffer brain injuries, blindness, and traumatic amputations, and their families suffer. We owe it to the people who chose to defend our country to only risk their lives in the actual defense of the United States.
Dr. Ron Paul is the only candidate, Democrat or Republican, who is a veteran. Dr. Paul saw the horror of war and would only risk American lives overseas if war were formally declared. To whose campaign is 87 percent of the active military contributing? Ron Paul.
That is reason enough to vote for Ron Paul over all others. The U.S. must stop electing politicians who so carelessly devastate American families.
"I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."
--Abraham Flexner
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The Big 2 parties are done...
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/04/10-reasons-not-to-vote-for-paul/
Agency's which are administered and dictated by hand-picked activists who push destructive agendas and seek to further enslave the American citizen by acting as the agents of those wanting to remove capitalism, and aiding in the destruction of founding principles of this nation?
You might want to remember that the "return on investment" you are referring to came about as a result of the sweat of American workers, as well as the extortion of funds from America's businesses by these unelected, unrecallable, dictators sitting in the directors chair of the innumerous federal agencies.
Your arguments against Ron Paul are old news.. they are repeated constantly as a mantra by those who would remain under the status quo of Statist rule. Those who are intent on expanding the government power at the expense of the middle class American. -
Take from the folks who are making it barely, and give it to those who wait with their hands out. "Gimme More..."
America is just about third rate now
Here's some data:
The unaltered or crude cancer death rate per 100,000 US population for the year 1970 is 162.8; in 2009, 178.7 per 100,000 men and women per year. This is an increase despite research and technology advancements.
http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html
Common Substances Allowed in Water: arsenic (10 ppb), Cryptosporidium (parasite), chlorine and its by-products, flouride (up to 4mg/L), lead and copper (15 ppb), pharmaceutical substances (no major studies done).
You really want to examine the effects of an agency with a monopoly on environmental protection?
I find it really dismaying that fans of Ron Paul can't talk about him without insulting everyone who isn't a fan of him. It is perfectly reasonable for someone to apply critical thinking and come to the conclusion that Ron Paul would be a detrimental president. Smug divisiveness is not an attitude that will put this country back on the right path.
Well stated!
Let me spell out the problem:
C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N.....Rampant in BOTH PARTIES.....One term in Congress; and it is CADILLAC Health Care coverage for LIFE...Even if later found guilty of a crime.
Having Faith in the Federal Government to be the sole means to right wrongs is a foolish and naive. We don't even INVESTIGATE never mind prosecute the Accounting Fraud criminals that brought the WORLD to its financial knees. Instead we jail and torture the likes of Bradley Manning for TELLING THE TRUTH!!!
Watch this short clip and tell me you have faith in the Federal Government to protect the interests of the common man without failure!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld5tERIBvsg
May I suggest a book?
http://www.amazon.com/Money-Power-Goldman-Sachs-World/dp/038552384X
They owned Clinton (Rubin-Summers-Geithner). They owned Shrub (Hank Paulson). Now they own Obama (Summers-Geithner)
See some REAL Democrats weed out the truth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOZTXqtph3E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNXaeSu4lwo
Where is Obama and Holder on these issues? Like Shrub or Romney; they do NOTHING!!!!
I realize that people who make this statement have fallen prey to the not-so-clever and ineffective political spin of the Paul Cult.
Active-military men and women support Dr. Paul about three times more than Obama, and six times more than combined Republican opponents.
Paul raised $150,000 in the fourth quarter alone from active-duty military.
Paul received 87 percent of the active duty military donations given while Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich each received just a fraction, $10,000 each.
A large gathering of hundreds of troops, active and retired, and a crowd supporting them numbering about 2000 marched on the White House on President's Day, in support of Ron Paul. As they marched on the White House, they chanted President Paul, President Paul, President Paul. When they reached the White House fence, they did an about face and saluted - the ultimate insult by the military to Obama.
The media ignored it, even as they pushed for another illegal corporate war with another country that has not attacked us.
No spin needed. The truth doesn't require it. That's a big difference between Ron Paul and the other military industrial complex corporate media candidates. Ron Paul tells us the truth.
I think the real reason the so called "powers that be" don't want to "bring all the troops home" from around the world is that the troops have sworn an oath to protect the Constitution and if they came home they may do Just That! They would have to take out the Domestic Enemies who have taken over the White House and usurped the reigns of power.
Down with the FED, Down with the Military Industrial Complex, Down with the Mega Corporations and Big Pharma!
Power to the People!!!