Ron Paul - Wait, what?

[Jumpin]

HappySqurriel said:

Jumpin said:

Vertigo-X said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n5I0E75G8-g

 

What the... I'm actually LIKING this guy?! O_O

The fact that he spent his career within the insane asylum called "The Republican Party", the most ridiculed political party of our time, is evidence enough that he is not a very intelligent political leader. Other hints:

1. He's a Libertarian.

2. Wants to cut all funding to environmental projects.

3. Wants to cut funding to healthcare.

 

In fact, the only good things he stands for, Obama already mostly took care of last year; most importantly, ending the war in Iraq and greatly securing Afghan society. You can almost guarantee that Obama has a much better, and more sober plan for the future that won't f*** up the rest of the world. Ronulans! Put down the Kool-ade and come home from Jonestown.

1) What's wrong with being a libertarian?

2) Please define "environmental project" and provide a list of successful, cost effective, government run projects which would be cut

3) Being that the United States spends (roughly) as much on healthcare per capita as Canada does while providing benefits to a fraction of the people, please provide evicence that government funding of healthcare in the United States is cost effective and should be protected from budgetary cuts.

 

Beyond that, the end of the war in Iraq was Barack Obama following the exit plan of George W. Bush. Isn't it amazing that the same timeline everyone was so critical of Bush for these same people praise Obama for?

1.  What's wrong with being a libertarian? It excludes the well being of the larger portion of society in order to benefit the people who have the greatest investments (those who run the corporations and who can afford to buy up everything) and not the people who actually work. It ignores environmental issues, and issues of healthcare, and instead turns both into a business - which ignores everything that does not lead to a profit. It's essentially an evil ideology, and we know from history that Laissez Faire economics always fail.

2. He wants to remove restrictions on oil drilling, repeal federal tax on gasoline, lift restrictions on the use of coal and nuclear power, and eliminate the Environmental Protection Act.

3. I don't know about Canada, but public Health Care works everywhere else in the world. If you expect it to be absolutely perfect in the US after 1 year of implementation your deluded. If you think there is anything particular about American society where it doesn't work in the US, yet somehow works fantastically everywhere else, you're deluded. Being against public healthcare is essentially evil, and leaves hospitals and the medical profession in corporate hands - when this is something that should be eliminated throughout the entire world for the betterment of the world.

George Bush Jr's plan was to be out of Iraq in 6 weeks - and Iraq should have never been invaded in the first place - it was the leading cause to rising military expenses in the US that led to major colapses in the western economy. Obama's was the plan that worked, not Bush's. Bush failed.

 

Ron Paul has his heart in the right place, but he has to change his economic views to reflect that - not keep supporting econmomic policies that will widen the gap between rich and poor.