Having read "End the Fed" I suspect his plan is to bore the Federal Reserve to death. You would think a book about ending the fed would actually have some details about how to go about getting it done. Granted I managed to read only 3/4s of the book so maybe the plan comes out at the end but I doubt it.
And the only reason the Paul's are Republicans is that the standards for intellectual honesty are a lot lower, so it was an easier party to try and coopt. That and their hatred of minorities, gays, and women, which makes no sense if you take Libertarian philosphy seriously at face value. If the liberal base was mostly as moronic as the GOP base (think all hipster douche OWS people), they could have easily been Dems this entire time.
None. I can't believe, it absolutely blows my mind that I have to keep repeating this, as there are only so many combinations of words that can be used to get the same idea across: The only guarantee, the ONLY one, is thatthe current system fucking sucks and is getting worse by the day. That's a fucking given, and that's the one pointeverybody seems to be able to agree on. You agree too, for fuck's sake, but it doesn't matter to you because you feel secure that your lifestyle in not in immediate danger, and that's fine! More power to you, bro. As for me, I see no alternative but to take action because I CAN NOT accept the way things are now. I will not play games with the lives of myself and my brothers in the human race by sticking with a system that's already actively and intentionally fucking us over. Ron Paul's solution was the most feasible way that I've seen to disassemble the status quo from the inside out by actually following rules that exist within the system. Isn't that why we have democracy? So we don't have to get stuck with broken systems? So we can change things when they get out of hand? Again,AGAIN: Show me an alternative and Ron Paul can suck my dick.
I agree that change is not necessarily an improvement, but from my point of view CHANGE IS THE ONLY FUCKING CHANCE WE HAVE. And I'm actually pretty fucking proud of my sinking ship analogy. I think it deserves a fucking gold medal in the Analogylympics, thank you very much. You tell me how that analogy is anything less than completely apt. Apt I tell you!APT!
I would like to vote for Dog the President because he is different and that will fix everything. I prefer a smaller breed like a daschund so the shits are smaller and easier to clean up. CHANGE!!111
The main reason the health care system works like this right now is after seeing what happened to the credit card companies when they lifted the state by state rulings everybody is afraid of the massive race to the bottom that would happen if they were not limited by the state lines.
You keep repeating stuff like "show me an alternative" when there IS an alternative in place, right now. You are making the implication that Ron Paul would be better than the current power, whether you mean to or not.
Nope, you stick with your system, however terrible and guaranteed to get worse it is (sinking ship, anyone?), because you still have your XBox.
Maybe I missed something... what's the alternative?
Do you know why the first several lifeboats on the Titanic were sent out less than half full? It wasn't because people weren't being allowed on, it's because people refused to believe there was any danger. They were standing on a huge, secure, luxurious ship they had been promised was "unsinkable". Even after the ship started to slant a few degrees, why would they get into tiny little boats and drift across frigid waters when they were on a huge ship built with redundant safety features, whose lights were still operating, while musicians were playing jaunty tunes and boys were playing soccer with chunks of ice? Any of this sound familiar?
And I believe that you are tragically wrong. You're so proud of your analogy, but the truth is we aren't sinking. Things just aren't ideal. In some cases so far from it that even using that terminology seems retarded. But still, here we are. It is a hard thing to ask others to take risks for your beliefs. The older I get, the more risk-averse I become. The status quo leads me to a comfortable retirement and my kids to college and potential success, which is more than anyone in my family had before this generation. Nothing I have heard from Ron Paul or any libertarian has reassured me about a possible future under their leadership.
What people don't get when they look at our monetary system is that money doesn't get dispersed "like magic". There is a lot of work that goes into creating money and making sure it goes to people who will it to actual make things (When things work well, this is what should happen). You can't simply say "the the fed is superfluous GARBABABLE!!!!" like most people do...The reality is, in a proper reserve system, the Fed's function as an actuarial and distribution body is absolutely needed (Again, it's a lot of work...However, right now, the problem is the people with access to the Fed, the big 5 or 6 commercials in the U.S., are way too concentrated. Combine this way them being able to use typical commercial powers (access to assets, reserve, leveraging), and you have a set of entities which can compromise a market, in a very small, incestuous little circle that leads to corruption and allows for control over what should be a "public good".
Sure. He is honest about his hate for minorities and stands behind principles that can't feasibly work.
Michigan's Emergency Management law is a fucking embarrassment to the constitution. They're going to put that next to Korematsu, Plessy, Bush v. Gore, Citizens United, the Connecticut ED case whose name I cant remember and the McCarthy freedom of speech cases in the section of con law text books which has the worst decisions (Supreme or not) of all fucking time.
Actually, I'm a PS3 guy myself. I just figured the XBox is more emblematic of Americosity in general.
I believe I've addressed this several times already, but here we go again: The many, many families who have been pushed below the poverty line would likely wholeheartedly agree with my analogy, as their third class cabins are rapidly flooding with water. You still only see a slant of a couple of degrees and you haven't been affected yet and may not be for a while, so from your point of view everything's fine and you should "stay the course". I'm not asking you to take risks, you'realreadytaking risks. You just don't realize it because the consequences are being felt by people you don't give a shit about. For now, at least.
Things are fucked but ron paul is not a solution. In fact his ideas would make things a lot worse than anything that obama or rmney proposed.
