Guess who won the straw poll for 2012 Presidential Election Candidate..

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Kantor said:

Kasz216 said:

SamuelRSmith said:
As a foreigner who expressed little interest in the Republican party's shenanigans during the last election, I am ignorant of Ron Paul's policies.

If it isn't too much trouble, I'm hoping (ney, I'm sure) someone will step in and quell me of my ignorance.

Greatly reduce the federal government and regulate stuff back to the state, no military involvement overseas, flat tax... http://www.ontheissues.org/Ron_Paul.htm can give you all the info you want.

On looking at that link...he actually wouldn't be that bad.

Other than the fact that he wants to abolish Social Security (seriously?) and teach "scientific evidence for creationism" in schools.

Eliminating Social Security would just be the recognition that it is a system that is bankrupt. While there was some forethought about the eventual cost of the system, and it was designed to run a surplus which was meant to be saved for future spending, it has steadily been robed by politicians to pay for their promises; and now it is going to run very large (and growing) deficits for the rest of its existence.

On the subject of creationism, I personally don’t have a problem with schools teaching about creationism as long as it is presented in a religious/cultural context and not in a scientific context. Basically, if in a History/Social-Studies course you want to have a unit on the creation myths of several cultures I am happy with it, but I think it would be moronic to present it as a viable alternative to evolution.