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Stop Runaway Federal Spending!

- Ron Paul -

I spend a lot of time trying to expose the flakes and kooks on the left, the politicians and their supporters (Gore and Kunstler) but have to admit some of them are on the right -- like Ron Paul.

His above article sounds reasonable enough to conservatives but his other vocalized positions put him in the kook category as well. Here are just a few examples:

1) He would not have gone into Pakistan to kill Bin Laden. One does not play by the rules when going after a murderer -- and one who is plotting more murders. Paul said he would have consulted and worked with Pakistan on the matter. Really?

2) In the debate he said he respected State's rights and would not interfer if States coerced it's citizens into buying health care -- a la Obamacare. Paul believes that State rights trump individual rights. That's a socialist a position. So, in principle, he would not have interfered with a free State in the Civil War returning a fugitive slave to a slave State re Supreme Court Dred Scott decision. Same principle.

3) Also in the recent debate he said he would not stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons even though they have vowed to annilate Israel. He added that Iran was no threat to the U.S. ignoring their recent long range missile developments. And if the U.S. has been behind the virus attacks at the Iranian nuclear plants, Paul would not have approved had he been Prez.

Let not his 'correct' positions on economics blind us to his enormous irrationalities.

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Beginning of the headline : Politicians did not get much time to pat themselves on the back for supposedly rescuing the economy with the debt limit deal last week.The ink was barely dry when Standard & Poor’s downgraded the US debt ratings anyway, roiling world financial markets.Anyone who has taken an honest look at the government’s fiscal situation, taken into account how Washington works and the direction it is going would have a very difficult time arguing with S&P’s decision, although a strong case can be made that this was too incremental a downgrade and that it took far too long for S&P to admit the obvious... Read More

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