Here is a better way to counter Ron Paul than what is currently being done by BOTH Dems and Repubs
Look at his proposed budget cuts ($1 trillion in first year):
http://c3244172.r72.cf0.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/RestoreAmericaPlan.pdf
Paul's bigest issue is being anti-war, anti-empire (an admirable thing). BUT, he only proposes to cut 15% from the baseline Department of Defense budget.
At the same time look at his huge cuts in programmes that are some of the few last lines between the US and an utter collapse and violent civil unrest on a grand scale. (go to the bottum of page 6 on the link above).
Medicaid 47% cut
SCHIP (Low Income Children Health Insurance) 47% cut
Food Stamps (almost 50 million US citizens) 60% cut
WIC 36% cut
Just these 4 programme cuts would be disastrous and amount to the deaths of millions of US citizens in the near and midterm future. Perhaps the goals of paring down government is admirable in certain areas, but you cannot turn around the Titanic in a swimming pool. This is what the immediate imposition of right-wing libertarian scrapping of government in the blink of an eye would be. It would take a decade or much longer of reform to change the entire infrastructure and mindset of the US. It will never happen under the current system, and Paul's proposals are borderline insane in their rush to kill off aid whilst not having anything to replace it.
The true shame is that an anti-war, anti-empire agenda is being solely trumpeted (and will be somewhat discredited due to Paul's inherent flaws) on a large national stage by only one candidate for Republican POTUS, and not the huge majority of Democrats (President Obama, are you listening?).
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