And Obama is a muslim terrorist, everyone knows it! That's how rediculous your statements are, trueleveler. In fact, you are the bigot. You came in here to generalize everyone based on a few statements you saw. That's bigotry.
The media has done an excellent job of hiding Ron Paul and smearing him when they do talk about him.
Let's examine our country's financial situation:
9.2 trillion in national debt
1.5? trillion in state and municipality debt(i'm guessing low on that, I know it is higher)
60 trillion in future social security/medicare liabilities
Our national spending budget for 2008 is 2.9 trillion. Our state and municipality spending is approximately 2 trillion.
What's this all add up to? To maintain our current departments assuming we didn't increase their budgets at all and NOT EVEN PAY DOWN OUR DEBT and to maintain our current budget would cost 290 trillion in the next 50 years. Let's put that in real terms:
Each household will have to pay $53,000 per year in taxes to simply MAINTAIN what we have. The average household income is $45,000 per year.
That means that it is impossible to maintain this and, with this current trend, in a few years America will collapse.
The idea is to save it BEFORE the collapse instead of continuing our course and destroying our country.
This requires huge modifications. Tinkering will not change this destination. We have to go back to the Constitution and see where we went wrong. After the Revolutionary war the country was in complete chaos, but when the Constitution was completed and enforced, within 2 years we were the most prosperous nation in the world. The concept was simple: liberty.
First financial liberty. People kept all the fruits of their labor and so they were able to control where their dollars were spent instead of a few politicians in Washington. The people had the power. Also, with this financial liberty was the limitation on money where it had to be backed by gold or silver. Then people could place a true value on their skills and labor on a set amount of gold or silver. There was no uncertainty and people became more efficient to increase their value instead of trying to find comfy government jobs.
Within two years congress had more revenues then they had anticipated and were running a surplus. This was without an income tax, sales tax, or property tax.
Technology developed at an alarming rate, electricity, engines, electronics, planes, trains, automobiles...
We had something that was the envy of all the world. It wasn't that our people were any better than any other people around the world or any smarter. It was just that we placed restraints on the government and this allowed the power to stay in the hands of the people. But then in 1913 that began to change with the Federal Reserve(a private bank) being put in place as the national bank on that bleak Christmas Eve. This essentially created a monopoly. This then pushed forward fractional reserve banking practices that led to the Great Depression and then through a great many deception, the New Deal pushed our country toward a communist like state where financial liberty was no longer known in America. Whether it is 1% socialist or 100% socialist makes no difference. The trend had begun and soon we will be unable to sustain the burden our government will place on the people.
I'd like to go back to that new concept that was instated with our Constitution, that of financial liberty which leaves power in the hands of the people. Ron Paul also believes in the power of people over the power of the government. It is an entirely new concept never found anywhere else in the world in the past 6,000 years or so of known history.
(copied from somewhere else I posted this)
