Recent content by Chickensoup

and this is why the Republican party is in absolute shambles right now. It is so unheard of for a Republican to talk about abolishing needless government agencies that a republican who talks about doing it is asked if he is running for the wrong party. Anyone remember 15 years ago for crying...

Thats a pretty concise link for the major arguments I'd say. People will look at you strange when you mention a "gold" standard but explain to them that it does not have to be gold. It can really be any commodity as long as that commodity has a value on the open world market (including gold...

I only respect polls that put the exact question asked with them because ultimately thats the most telling part of the poll. You can get a poll to say virtually anything semi-respectable depanding on what question you ask, how you say it, when you say it, and how you verbalize it (different...

Dr. Paul has said in a few debates that in order to cut out the income tax you have to curtail spending. There are so many bad federal expenditures that getting rid of them is easy. You can get rid of 3 or 4 entire federal departments in their entirety and just simply abolish the income tax...

There is plenty of evidence out there for what the Romney flip flopping was all about, getting votes. He says he wont try to change abortion laws before getting elected to one of the most liberal states, then after elected tries to go anti-abortion......hmmm

I doubt that. Some people are waaaay to cynical. I actually enjoyed the ad and it in a half assed way showed what I believe should be the biggest issue of the campaign (but isnt) and that is money and the Federal Reserve. It basically blasts the money system we currently have right now...

State government spending has more accountability than federal spending simply because states do not have the right to coin money to make up the difference between tax income and spending. In order to get all of those programs people enjoy at a state level, the state must increase taxes which...

Deficit spending (i.e borrowing money from the Fed) is what makes up the difference between tax revenue and actual spending. This is why the Fed is so devious. They don't want the Federal government to have an honest to god balanced budget. Government borrowing money means more profits for...

On the flip side however, the Constitution absolutely gives Congress the power to "To provide and maintain a Navy" and "To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces". So while it is debateable that a "standing army" is allowable the Navy is not arguable and is a...

The day before Thanksgiving is an absolutely excellent day for this. While I don't like the whole Christmas shopping spree crap that happens the day after Thanksgiving, getting ads in right around there is monsterous and ads are seen by literally millions of people (most are shopping for deals...

My idea wasnt balloons but a whole crap ton of monopoly money with "federal reserve note" written on them (or could just be colored paper i suppose). Monopoly money would have a greater effect I think

Without looking it up, name one thing that the Department of Education does. Thats what I thought. This is a major department of the Federal government and almost noone can correctly state what it actually does. Whats the point?

The reasoning behind all of the wanted cutbacks in federal departments is the same. They are massively inefficient and they centralize power in Washington. The Constitution is very specific on what congress has control over. That is supposed to be the scope of the Federal government. Ones...

The big issue with Isreal foreign aid and all other foreign aids just like it is clearly mapped out in Ron Paul's book A Foreign Policy of Freedom. 1) American foreign policy over the past century has been to subsidize one side of a conflict, then when they do something we don't like them...

I can understand peoples frustrations. When you watch most media coverage that is even trying to be unbiased (i.e. not extremely right of left winged channels like Fox News), their coverage is at least semi-fair. people will state they don't believe the message of the person but they let them...