Ron Paul is like the smart kid in the class the teacher no longer likes to call upon to give answers because he’s right most of the time. In the case of solving the Social Security problem Ron Paul has a solution that both Democrats and Republicans could love. If only they’d pay attention to the man.
Yesterday, the trustees for Social Security and Medicare released a report saying that both will be completely depleted by 2041 and 2019 respectively. The “oxy-moronic” thing about this is that these programs are deemed “trust funds” in the first place. There’s certainly no trust in a fund that is slated to eventually be wiped out.
Throughout his campaign Ron Paul has repeatedly outlined a solution to the problem that gives both the Democrats and Republicans reason to smile. Paul proposes to utilize some of the massive amounts of money saved by switching to a non-intervention foreign policy to help those people currently dependent until the programs can be phased out over a long period of time. He would let the younger people immediately opt out of the program. The approach is a sensible and gradual approach.
American voters will have a choice between the lesser of two evils yet again in the Presidential election of 2008.
It is the equivalent of choosing mint chocolate chip over strawberry ice cream. Sure they taste different, but the end result is the same. You will still get fat. Or in the case of the election you will still get evil. Like ice cream, evil comes in many flavors. This year your featured flavors are fascism and socialism.
On the Democratic side you have the choice of two flavors: light vanilla socialism or french vanilla socialism. On the Republican side your only choice is a single scoop of soft serve fascism. Unfortunately, the political reality is that an independent or third party flavor will likely melt away into non-relevance unless enough of us truly want change.
In this interview Judge Napolitano (always a favorite of mine) promotes his book “A Nation Of Sheep” and in the end endorses Ron Paul without actually saying he endorses Ron Paul. It is a great interview and worth your time. It is in 3 parts.
This was a very good 25 minute speech at CPAC today. I only wish the media covered it more widely. He went in to his normal monetary policy stuff, but had some choice words about McCain as well. The portion about a strong national defense was also very good. Especially when he talked about Osama Bin Laden’s plan to financially bankrupt the United States. Well… listen to it yourself. Right now I have the audio. I’m guessing someone will have the video up as well at some point.
This will take more effort to watch than your average mindless youtube video. I highly recommend you watch all the parts though. Truly great stuff.
STOPandLook productions brings you an animated series exploring the substance behind the political terminology used in contemporary debates. There are 6 parts to this series (including the introduction).
Glenn Beck mentions Ron Paul as the only candidate who is speaking out about the economic calamity occurring in America today. I was pretty surprised with the mention. I listen to Beck often and I hear him talk on this topic at length, but have never heard him mention Ron Paul. This time he does. Good.
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