Are there any issues you disagree with Paul on?

[TIMB0B]

He was trying to come up with a way to balance the budget and pay off obligations already incurred, defense, courts, etc. but he ended up with a better plan, the Plan to Restore America. He was looking for feedback and clearly got some.

Which means to me currently, that I can't think of any of his positions I oppose.

 

[Jamesiv1]

As it pertains to political office, I vote for views on policy, and don't care much about their personal beliefs - as long as they don't try to impose their personal beliefs on me (through legislation and public policy.)

I can't think of any of his policy views I disagree with. There probably are a few, but I can't think of any.

Like many have said, I'm lock-step in line on the big issues: 1. End the Fed 2. Sound money 3. Strict adherence to the Constitution 4. Slash big government 5. Slash the global empire

I don't mind at all if we disagree on things I consider "2nd tier" issues.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

Ron doesn't support that, does he? I'd be very disgusted if he does.

He does not. I feel that if someone has the right to defend their life, there's no way you can say they have no right to control their death, especially if they have degenerative disease, or there's a disease with no hope of recovery and they feel they are instead a burden to not only their family but to society.

Spending months on end on a ventilator, IMHO, is not a way to die. Getting pumped with morphine after 6 back-to-back heart attacks, a brain aneurysm, and developing a systemic infection, IMHO, is not the way to die.

Therefor I do support it. I do not have the amount of clinical experience Dr. Paul does, but after spending a good amount of time in the back of am ambulance and doing many rounds in the ED department of a major hospital... I definitely think it's something many don't understand until they see a patient begging for "mercy."

 

[pacelli]

The only thing I personally disagree with Paul on is using ghostwriters.

I understand his reasons for using them, but I personally wouldn't make that choice.

 

[eduardo89]

He does not. I feel that if someone has the right to defend their life, there's no way you can say they have no right to control their death

You do not have the right to end your life because your life does not belong to you. It belongs to God and He alone has the power to give and take life.

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

I wish he stuck more to Rothbard (seeing state governments as just as destructive as the federal government) but I understand that it would be political suicide to do so (see '88 campaign).

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

You do not have the right to end your life because your life does not belong to you. It belongs to God and He alone has the power to give and take life.

So no one could defend themselves from an attacker?

 

[eduardo89]

So no one could defend themselves from an attacker?

Of course you can, and you should. You are defending the gift God gave you. The person attacking you has no right to take your life, just like you have no right to take your own life.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Ron is pro-gay marriage.

No, he is not. He is anti the government being involved in marriage.

 

[Simple]

I for one agree that all of Dr. Paul's policy proposals would be beneficial, but he has taken a moderate position in many places where I'd like to see him go farther. I know it might be hard to propose more than incremental change without scaring the electorate, but I'd like to see military modernization, using marques and reprisals to reign in Blackwater, the procecution of the criminals in this and past administrations, shuttering even more agencies, legalizing private mail delivery,.....

 

[Shane Harris]

LOL at global warming. Al Gore? Is that you? No I agree with Ron Paul on everything I can think of. Weird? Not really. He has a consistent philosophy and I share it.

 

[qh4dotcom]

 

[John F Kennedy III]

I think NASA's funding should be increased.

Why NASA specifically?

 

[nobody]

How many deaths have occured in the name of freedom and America? We go to war all the time and people die. It's accepted practice. The death penalty is of value to a society if used properly. As in ANY crime/penalty process, the penalty must fit the crime. How many people get locked up for peroiods of time that way over scale the crime done? The whole justice system is slanted against the poor citizens like their lives are less valuable than the people with means to defend themselves. The Courts act like its game time towards the poor. Not so funny when it's their lifetime on the hook. I also believe a society has a responsibility to control itself socially and moraly. Self control is the essence of Liberty and Freedom shared. It is the American principle. Your Freedom stops where mine begins. It's a shared responsibility. The arguement is over the balance. Non-preemptive war is a no brainer. A genius is not required to know, not to make war before it is neccessary; as time is the friend of negotiation and hope. I think sane persons all hope against war.

 

[otherone]

You do not have the right to end your life because your life does not belong to you. It belongs to God and He alone has the power to give and take life.

To Christians, suicide is the biggest no-no of them all. Atheists....no problem.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

He does not. I feel that if someone has the right to defend their life, there's no way you can say they have no right to control their death, especially if they have degenerative disease, or there's a disease with no hope of recovery and they feel they are instead a burden to not only their family but to society.

Spending months on end on a ventilator, IMHO, is not a way to die. Getting pumped with morphine after 6 back-to-back heart attacks, a brain aneurysm, and developing a systemic infection, IMHO, is not the way to die.

Therefor I do support it. I do not have the amount of clinical experience Dr. Paul does, but after spending a good amount of time in the back of am ambulance and doing many rounds in the ED department of a major hospital... I definitely think it's something many don't understand until they see a patient begging for "mercy."

I agree. Physician assisted suicide should be legal. It's YOUR DECISION, you just don't have the capability of doing it yourself.

 

[Karsten]

The issues I posted were disagreements I had with Ron Paul were I thought he was not libertarian enough (immigration-open borders, pro-choice). I'm shocked that it seems most of the disagreements in here is from those who think he's TOO libertarian (global warming, higher taxes, supporting the death penalty, more immigration restrictionism, more foreign intervention). It just surprises me. Then again, I supported RP pre-2007 when just a handful of libertarians knew about him.

Supporting the Death Penalty is just something that I can't imagine a RP supporter doing in a million years. Do you REALLY trust the government to kill only the bad people? SERIOUSLY??? When we know how corrupt our government is? When they have defined freedom fighters like us as terrorists? When we've got things like the NDAA??? I would NEVER give ANY government the power to kill. That could ONLY be abused.

 

[Karsten]

 

[slamhead]

I take a stronger stance than Ron on the issue of border security and illegal immigration. I support the death penalty as well. Those are probably the main issues I disagree with him on.

I was happy when I heard the reasons Ron Paul does not support the death penalty anymore. He changed his mind for the same reason I did. After Illinois released so many condemned men from death row with DNA evidence they put a moratorium on the death penalty.

During this time I changed my stance on the death penalty. Poor people are more likely to get the death penalty. The fact that it takes 20 years to put someone to death does not make the threat of death a deterrent to crime. If it is not a deterrent then what is it? It is nothing but revenge carried out by the state for the sake of the victims family and it does not serve the people. I would be all for the death penalty in some cases if they carried it out in a timely fashion, like tomorrow at noon. Then it would have a deterrent affect. I say if the families of victims want someone dead they have to participate and throw the switch themselves.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

You do not have the right to end your life because your life does not belong to you. It belongs to God and He alone has the power to give and take life.

You need to take a stroll around your ER/ED, a children's hospice, or a general hospice.