Why we need Ron Paul

Does anybody really know what Barack Obama believes in? Every word he spits out of his lying mouth is tailored to sound good and make a specific group of people feel better. I think most people stopped buying it a long time ago, but it's still frustrating to have a leader who doesn't seem to have any specific goals other than running our nation into the ground.

It's only been over the last couple of years that I'

ve really started paying close attention to the workings of our government and the people who run it. Like most people, I was preoccupied with other things. But I'm awake now, and paying attention. Unfortunately, it seems to me that most politicians are less in the business of doing what's good for our country and more interested in reelections. Most of them will say whatever they think people want to hear. They're schmoozers, and most of them are pretty good at it. That's not the case, however, with Ron Paul.

The first thing I noticed about Ron Paul was that he tends to say what he thinks, regardless of whether or not it's popular. In fact, it's actually gotten him into hot water a few times. And while I don't agree with some of the things he said (see wikipedia.org for details), I still think he would make a great president. For one thing, he wants our Southern border secured. He's against birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants. He's against welfare for illegals immigrants, and he's against amnesty for illegal immigrants. Ron Paul is in favor of less federal control and more localized state government. Here is a clip I took directly from the wikipedia article I read about Ron Paul. I suggest anyone who is interested go and read the entire article.

Paul has been

described as conservative, Constitutionalist, and libertarian. His nickname, "Dr. No" reflects both his medical degre

e and his insistence that he will "never vote for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by t

he Constitution." One scoring method published in the American Journal of Political Science found Paul the most conservative of all 3,320 members of Congress from 1937 to 2002. Paul's foreign policy of nonintervention made him the only 2008 Republican presidential candidate to have voted against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002. He advocates withdrawal from the United Nations, and from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for reasons of maintaining strong national sovereignty.He supports free trade, rejecting membership in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization as "managed trade". He supports tighter border security and opposes welfare for illegal aliens, birthright citizenship and amnesty; he voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006. He voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks, but suggested war alternatives such as authorizing the president to grant Letters of Marque and Re

prisal targeting specific terrorists. An opponent of the Iraq War and potential war with Iran, he has also criticized Neo-conservatism and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, arguing that both inadvertently cause terrorist reprisals against Americans.

Paul adheres deeply to Austrian school economics; he has authored six books on the subject, and displays pictures of Austrian school economists Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, and Ludwig von Mises (as well as of Grover Cleveland) on his office wall. He regularly votes against almost all proposals for new government spending, initiatives, or taxes; he cast two thirds of all the lone negative votes in the House during a 1995–1997 period. He has pledged never to raise taxes and states he has never voted to approve a budget deficit. Paul believes that the country could abolish the individual income tax by scaling back federal spending to its fiscal year 2000 levels; financing government operations would primarily come through the corporate income tax, excise taxes and tariffs. He supports eliminating most federal government agencies, calling them unnecessary bureaucracies. Paul also believes the longterm erosion of the U.S. dollar's purchasing power through inflation is attributable to its lack of any commodity backing. However, Paul does not support a "return" to a gold standard, as in what the U.S. government has established in the past, but instead prefers to eliminate legal tender laws and to remove the sales tax gold and silver, so that the market may freely decide what type of type of monetary standard(s) there shall be. He also advocates gradual elimination of the Federal Reserve System.

Paul supports constitutional rights, such as the right to keep and bear arms, and habeas corpus for political detainees. He opposes the Patriot Act, federal use of torture, presidential autonomy, a national ID card, domestic surveillance, and the draft. Citing the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, Paul advocates states' rights to decide how to regulate social matters not directly found in the Constitution. Paul calls himself "strongly pro-life", "an unshakable foe of abortion", and believes regulation or ban on medical decisions about maternal or fetal health is "best handled at the state level". He says his years as an obstetrician led him to believe life begins at conception; his abortion-related legislation, like the Sanctity of Life Act, is intended to negate Roe v. Wade and to get "the federal government completely out of the business of regulating state matters."Paul also believes that the notion of the separation of church and state is currently misused by the court system: "In case after case, the Supreme Court has used the infamous 'separation of church and state' metaphor to uphold court decisions that allow the federal government to intrude upon and deprive citizens of their religious liberty."

He opposes federal regulation of the death penalty (although he opposes capital punishment), of education, and of marriage, and supports revising the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy to focus on disruptive sexual behavior (whether heterosexual or homosexual). As a free-market environmentalist, he asserts private property rights in relation to environmental protection and pollution prevention. He also opposes the federal War on Drugs, and thinks the states should decide whether to regulate or deregulate drugs such as medical marijuana. Paul pushes to eliminate federal involvement in and management of health care, which he argues would allow prices to drop due to the fundamental dynamics of a free market. He is an outspoken proponent for increased ballot access for 3rd party candidates and numerous election law reforms which he believes would allow more voter control. Ron Paul has also stated that “The government shouldn't be in the medical business." He is also opposed to government flu inoculation programs.

Paul takes a critical view of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, arguing that it was unconstitutional and did not improve race relations. He once remarked: "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society

In short, when considering the 2012 Presidential Election, Ron Paul is the man for the job. I'm going to continue to do my research, and I encourage everyone who reads this to do the same. It's time we got somebody into office who will actually do the job that they are elected to do.