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Re: Ron Paul to release serious fiscal reform plan...

By: DueDillinger in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 19 Oct 11 4:52 PM | 55 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 15787 of 21975
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Here's a comment from Michelle Malkin's "GOP 2012 Hold Your Nose Tracker":

I know I’m going to get some hate for pointing this out, but Michelle left off a candidate that’s still in the hunt: Ron Paul. Yeah, I know. But we’re going to have to pick our poison this time around and – at least in my opinion – the economy trumps everything else, and Ron Paul has that nailed. A broke nation can’t defend itself. If the economy is wrecked then the national security stuff becomes irrelevant anyway. Our national debt and the collapsing dollar are a bigger threat than Al Queda and Iran combined times a million.

Ron Paul released his economic plan today. It’s all cuts, and balances the budget in three years with no gimmicks or other BS. Paul knows he’ll have to fight Congress for every dime of them, so the plan cagily places heavy emphasis on what the President can do with constitutional exercise of executive power – Congress appropriates money, but the President isn’t necessarily required to spend it.

I really like some of his other ideas – he’s an absolutist on the 2nd Amendment (and the rest of the Bill of Rights), pro-life, and he thinks people should be able to opt out of Social Security and Medicare.

Yes, there’s a lot to dislike as well, but I’d rather have 70% of what I want from a candidate who doesn’t flip-flop then voting for some ballot leach whose positions aren’t really what I want and will change another half-dozen times before the election anyway. Sometimes I think Paul’s campaign slogan should be: “Screw it, at least you know what you’ll get.” 

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/10/17/gop-2012-the-hold-your-nose-tracker/

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Re: Ron Paul to release serious fiscal reform plan...
By: monkeytrots in CONSTITUTION
Wed, 19 Oct 11 11:32 AM 		Msg. 15785 of 21975

Don't like a single one of them. Plain and simple.

But then, I am in a pissy mood.

A balanced budget within 'three years' really is not acceptable. It might be 'doable' - but it still is not acceptable.

Personal Savings - what a joke. Until the Fed is halted from the century long gutting of savings through their very deliberate policy of cutting the value of savings in HALF every 6-14 years (sometimes faster) through deliberate inflation - 'personal savings' are financial stupidity - no, correction, financial INSANITY. Ask the East Germans about that.

We have seen a 50% decrease in the PURCHASING POWER of the dollar in the past 3 years alone - Personal Savings have been GUTTED paying for the un-balanced (full range of meanings to that) policies of the FED and the federal government.

The Corporate 'tax rates' and 'capital repatriation' - not going to happen in our life times. Corporations are INDIVIDUALS under the law - and, according to the 14th ammendment - What is being proposed there is strictly UN-Constitutional. Start thinking in that direction - it is an eye opener.

Sarbanes Oxley has ALWAYS been a joke - a very bad joke from day one. The only ones to 'benefit' from it have been the huge corps - where the additional overhead is miniscule - compared to what it does to small and mid sized businesses. Does the 'average American' even KNOW that SO exists, much less what it does ? No.

Congressional Review of 'new regulations' - STILL UN-Constitutional - the power of these 'regulatory' bodies to issue regulations with the force of law belongs SOLELY in the hands of the Congress - that is the FUNCTION of the Congress - legislation. It is NOT the function of the 'executive branch' in any way, shape, form or manner.

As I said - freeping incrementalism. Time to bring the hickory baseball bat out of the closet - and start swinging. Everything else is going to get 'compromised' to death - and we both know it.

I could go on, Due - but, quite frankly - it is a non-starter with me.

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