Ron Paul finally showed up in one of those old-fashioned telephone polls. He is currently at 8% in some poll in New Hampshire, which is important because there is some kind of primary going on up there. As you can probably tell by these posts, I am pretty new to politics and don't know what I'm talking about half the time. But this isn't about me. This is about the corest politician in coredom (note: not a real place): Ron Paul.
Now, a lot of idiots have gotten on the internet and proposed that Ron Paul's ideas are radical. But the thing is, Ron Paul doesn't really have any ideas. He has the United States Constitution. It's a good document, I've heard. I never read the whole thing, but E. Mike Tuckerson did once and he told me it was a good read. And if you can't trust E. Mike Tuckerson, well, I don't know if it's even worth getting out of bed in the morning.
Anyway, let's take a look at some of Ron Paul's stances and see how they may help the country. And maybe along the way, we'll dispel some myths.
Maybe.
The Economy
Ron Paul believes in returning the country to the Gold Standard. This scares everyone because people are goddamn idiots. I could honestly go on for months about how much better the Gold Standard would be than our current “government prints money whenever it wants to” system, but people are just too stupid to fucking get it. So let me say this: the government worked from 1914 to 1971 trying to get America off the Gold Standard. Every time they got closer to their dream of economic domination (or ruination, in my opinion), they told the American people that these changes were only temporary. They had to tell people these changes were temporary because it's a horrible fucking idea to live in a fiat money society (if you don't know what that means then look it up?I only have so many hours in the day here). Governments do not give back power ever (even that power that is supposed to be temporary?looking at you, Patriot Act). That's why it's up to the people to protect their own liberties. But the people are vapid idiots (because the American Government provided them with an education), so they just give up their personal power and hand the government the studded dildo and say, “Please fuck me.”
Also, and not for nothing, the Gold Standard would work REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH GOLD IS OUT THERE. (I hate it when people type in all caps but people who don't get the aforementioned fact are just as bad.) Regardless of how much gold is available, the value of the money is always in proportion to the amount of available gold. This is not what your money is worth, but rather a way to declare what proportion of money you have compared to a set whole, not an ever-expanding pile of useless leaves. This way, we have a system where the value of our money is independent of government say-so and thus we can curb (if not eliminate) inflation. The American Government has actually fooled people into believing that a financial system without their tyranical control would be worse for America.
And herein lies the problem: people have to believe that the current system is correct because they voted for it, they don't know anything else and they refuse to believe that the way it works is a total fucking sham. Well, I'm here to tell you it is. And I don't care how educated you think you are: I am right and you are wrong.
Anyway, that's my interpretation of Paul's take on the economy. Let's look at his foreign policy.
Foreign Policy
Leave Nato? Awesome. Fuck those fascists.
Free trade? Kick ass.
No legal immigration until wasteful government programs are eliminated? Uhh, seems kind of harsh. Immigrants have never bothered me but whatever. That's Paul's take and I could care less because I'm American.
Leave Iraq? Sign me the fuck up.
No wars without Congressional approval? What a novel fucking idea.
Yeah, it's a pretty core foreign policy.
But what about Abortion?
Abortion
This pisses me off more than the Gold Standard thing. Yes, Ron Paul is against abortion. However, that does not matter because Ron Paul does not believe that abortion should be federally regulated. His stance on abortion is not political, but personal. Paul has a strong stance on freedom and abortion fits right into it. Even if he doesn't believe in it. That's pretty core, too.
Health Insurance
Paul's economic plan calls for the elimination of seventy three percent (source: made the fuck up) of the current income taxes and an abolition of the IRS. And with that savings, you can finally afford health insurance and don't have to worry about seeing some god awful HMO on some ill-advised Universal Health Care plan.
It really is that simple.
Now, some of you may not be behind Ron Paul's ideas or ideals and that's fine. Some people are socialists. Some people believe that the only way to create common good is to put total faith in a system that vows on taking care of the people. But for me, it's a problem of motivation. I mean, why would the current government take our freedoms to make our lives better?
And anyway, as old man TJ once said, “The same government that can provide happiness can take it away.”
And that is especially true when the government in question gets to tell you what your money is worth.
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