Why Democrats should vote for Ron Paul

You must have realized by now that many of your goals will never be achieved by electing even those who you thought were the most far left - like Obama... why not look for a new party, with whom you can count on to defend liberty at every opportunity.

• End the wars - NOW - treat every nation like Canada, we trade with them, we're friendly, and we don't give them any of our money. Other nations can and should protect themselves. When we help, we're doing more harm than good. Israel is not even free to defend herself because she must ask the US for permission before she acts. This only prolongs the inevitable outcome, and hurts everyone involved. Every great nation in the history of the world eventually fell because it overreached in its military goals (and expenditures) - why are we so naieve to think we can be any different?
• Put an end to entangling alliances that commit us to war. What gives one generation the right to commit the next to war and conflict? This practice is wrong and immoral.

• End the Federal Reserve Cartel - Inflation is bad for everyone - it's a hidden tax that devalues every dollar in your bank and in your pocket. No FED, no Inflation! Since the FED was created, inflation has gone up over 2000%. Average salary has gone from $633 in 1913 to over $45,000 with only about a 6% increase in purchasing power.

• End corporate welfare, farm subsidies, oil subsidies, special taxes for the privileged and well connected.

• Decriminalize all drugs (War on drugs costs 88 billion a year, and it has not reduced the usage, plus the government has no right to tell us what to put into our own bodies) All drug related violence would cease overnight. Drug dealers would be forced to find other work if you could walk into Walgreens or CVS and buy clean, legitimate, taxed, and cheap drugs. Even theft would decline as it would be easier for the addicts to fund their habit without stealing.

• The Federal Government has no authorization for getting involved with marriage, sex, or abortion. Even state governments really should not have any role to play in any of these most personal issues.
• END the PATRIOT Act - This typically ill-named act is a tragedy of injustice - it gives federal agents the power to write their own search warrants, on the spot. This was the single biggest reason why our founding fathers set out to fight the British in the American Revolution! Forget about the tiny tax on tea, it was this massive invasion of privacy that changed history. The Patriot act goes even further - it allows the feds to serve self written warrants to banks and other financial institutions (who's definition was later changed to mean almost ANY BUSINESS YOU DO BUSINESS WITH) - and the recipient of the warrant is FORBIDDEN to notify YOU that the fed has invaded your privacy! This is quite possibly the worst bill that was ever passed by the American Government.

Why Republicans should vote for Ron Paul

• Read my lips – NO TAXES – Period! Just imagine what you could do with all of that extra money! If that’s not possible, at least a Flat Tax should be attainable.

• Ron may be the ONLY candidate that’s completely committed to cutting the size of government – and cutting Spending! The Tea Party is just echoing the life long fight that Ron Paul has been waging.

• States’ Rights – Ron Paul has been a champion of states’ rights.

• Ending the Federal Reserve (and the hidden tax called Inflation)

• Return to the constitution – Ron Paul has been a champion of keeping government within the confines of the constitution for more than 30 years.

• Return to a TRUE free market

• End the dept. of education

• Property Rights & Gun Rights

• End unnecessary Government Regulations

• Restoration of legislative power to the Congress where it belongs

• International stability - Despite what past war mongers have been telling us, we do not need to police the world – you want SAFETY? The answer is to pull back from the world. Nobody is saying we shouldn’t have the biggest military, the strongest military, the best military, but doesn’t it make sense to use it for defense instead of offense? Just imagine how we would respond to foreign troops on our soil. Wouldn’t we be the ones to fight back no matter how benevolent the troops might be? Can you imagine Americans putting up with even the smallest imposition on our sovereignty? Talk about waking up the sleeping giant! So, why do we expect people around the world to behave any differently? We have 900 permanent military installations ON FOREIGN SOIL! We place our best and brightest in harm’s way – and for what? To protect our oil supplies? It’s not even necessary! We have plenty of untapped energy reserves in our own country – if we could get the enviro-wackos out of the way, we’d have enough energy for the next 200 years or more without having to import another barrel of oil. Even in the short term while we await our own resources to be developed, why are we so arrogant to think that the oil flows because of our military? Many of the nations where the oil is, have little other revenue besides the oil – don’t you think it’s more likely that they will continue to sell us the oil regardless of who’s in charge, or where our troops are? If you really believe in the free market (as all Republicans claim) then how can you believe that this is any different?

What is money?

Everyone knows what money is... right? "It's just money" - but what does that mean? How about "Time is money" - well that's a little better. But, have you really thought what that means? Is money just a greenback? Is money some coins made of nickel and copper which have little value except by the promise of our government? What about gold and silver coins - does money need to be a precious metal? If gold is money, then why do governments coin it? More importantly, what does money really mean to us?

Money really is time - it is the simplest and most accurate of the common definitions, but it is so simple it is little understood despite its common usage. So, what truths does that simple equation hold for us? Money = Time. Money is most simply, the most convenient way for men to trade their time and labor. If we had no money, time and labor could only be traded in a most cumbersome way. A doctor could trade his time easily with another doctor, "work an hour for me and I will work an hour for you." A day laborer could trade his time easily with another day laborer in the same way, but how would a day laborer trade his time fairly with a doctor? The hour is the same, but the years of study and poverty that the doctor endured to become a doctor would not be compensated for, and thus the trade would be hopelessly unfair. Money allows us to effectively trade time and labor in cases like this. All of this knowledge is contained in our little common equation Time = Money.

So, with this in mind, ask yourself if it is moral for government to take our time, by force. By force you ask? Yes, by force. Does government ask you to pay taxes or do they force you? They force you under threat of imprisonment (another way to steal your time). So, every April 15th, you are faced with the choice of having to willingly give 20 - 56% of your time to the government in the form of a check to the IRS, or to give up even more time by imprisonment. If it were a criminal that gave you this choice, you might have the police to defend you, but when it's the government that gives you this choice, what can you do? Is this choice moral? Isn't it immoral to make a man act against his nature of survival?

To read more about these ideas, read Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", and read the writings of Ayn Rand.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Life Mimics Art

Maybe it's time that Aesop's fable about the ant and grasshopper is updated for modern times:

The ant works hard every day during the summer, building his house and storing food for the winter. The grasshopper, on the other hand, watches the ant with amusement and prefers to sing and dance, putting nothing away for the winter ahead.

When the winter comes, the grasshopper has nothing to eat and becomes desperate. he elects a president who promises that spreading the food around is good for everyone. The president demonizes the ant for being greedy and asks how he can live with himself when so many others have so little. An executive order is signed demanding that the ant turn over 50 percent of his food supply to the government. The grasshopper laughs and plays the rest of the winter, getting fat on the ant's assets. The ant is depressed and resentful.

The next summer the ant stops preparing his home and storing his food and instead joins the grasshopper, singing and dancing all day. Unfortunately, all o fthe other ants make the same decision. The next winter, with no one left to exploit, the grasshoppers and ants all die of cold and hunger.

From Glenn Beck "Broke" (2010)

Federal Government's Attack on Gold

Washington doesn't want you to be in control of your own money. They don't want you to buy gold - they'd rather you buy TIPS. Google Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and see for yourself what a complete scam it is. So the logical move (if you're a diabolical progressive) is to put gold companies out of biz, or at least discredit them, then keep pushing the TIPS. It's kind of like a drug dealer killing the other dealers in the hood.

Congressman Weiner doesn't want you to buy gold, so he's going after the companies that sell gold - on the premise that you are too stupid to read - I mean - on the premise that these companies are not disclosing enough... um - I just checked out Goldline (A top rated BBB company) - seems pretty straight forward to me. So what's Weiner's problem? Maybe he thinks people are all just Homer Simpsons.

Germany's Summer of Recovery

So, in our "Summer of Recovery", while we are enduring the continued 10% unemployment, and worrying about a double dip recession, Germany has cut taxes, reduced regulation, cut pensions, union pay, and vacation time and has experienced nearly FULL EMPLOYMENT and 9% GROWTH in the last 6 months. I'd say THIS is a "teachable moment" - Keynsian Economics has failed yet again, and rather miserably!

Obama's Alger Hiss?

Obama's Buddies:

- Van Jones, Green Jobs Czar

- Cass Sunstein, Information Czar

- Eric Holder, Solicitor General

- John Holdren, Science Czar

- 10 Russian spies (one really sexy) - funny how we traded Russian spies so quickly...

- Mark Lloyd - FCC Diversity Czar

FDR's Buddies:

- Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce Secretary, Vise President

- Duncan Lee, Chief of Staff (OSS - predecessor to CIA) - and was spy for KGB!

- John Abt, General Counsel for WPA

- Lee Pressman - Counsel for New Deal AAA

- Nathan Witt - CPUSA, Ware group, New Deal AAA

- Alger Hiss - Russian Spy

- Victor Perlo - Communist Party Economist

-Henry Collins

- Nathan Silvermaster