Remember this: Government programs developed to help the poor average a net benefit to those needy folks of 30% of the department budgets that are designed to help them. They also rely on the benevolent distribution of the state. Conversely, private charities average between 70-95% direct benefit to the people they are designed to help. If you want proof, ask any Hurricane Katrina victim who helped more, the Red Cross or the city, state, and federal governments?

As for Chris’s attitude, well maybe he’s just pissed off at having almost half his income taken every year to be wasted by government types. Hostile? Maybe he’d rather donate to the charity of his choice. I know I would. One could argue that the mentality of lefties is that of crybabies and whiners. They, too, piss me off.

Thank you for reminding me of another negative of Ron Paul. The mentality of his supporters. Your first paragraph shows what jackasses they are.

Paul and Kucinich are BFFs when it comes to the war, and Paul stated that if he wins, he will bring the troops home, cut military spending and the Military Industrial Complex, apply it towards the deficit, and then we can talk about entitlements. He is more interested in tackling things that are considered putrid and disgusting to all Americans, the war, taxes, spending.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/davis4.html

“CD: Congressman Dennis Kucinich is kind of similar in that he is one of the more vocal antiwar critics on the Democratic side of the debates. I know you guys probably disagree on a load of things, but you’ve come together a lot to work on issues of war and peace. So could you talk about your relationship with Congressman Kucinich over the past couple years, what it’s been like, what you think of him?

RP: We’re close friends, and we certainly agree [on the war]. And I think we may end up voting closely all the time on the war issue. Sometimes some of these funding bills are a little bit complex, and even Walter Jones and I will disagree even though we agree on what we’re supposed to be doing, but the interpretation will be a little bit different. But I think Dennis and I usually come down on the same side of it. That is, if you don’t want the war you quit the funding, and that’s our responsibility and it’s not the president’s authority to do what he wants because we have the purse strings, so you have to vote against the spending. So we get along very well on that, and since it’s such a major issue I think I will continue to work with him the best we can. And you know, take some of the liberal welfare spending that Dennis might support more than I. But you know, I’m not hostile toward that. If I can save the money from overseas, put some of it against the deficit, end up with a net reduction in the size of the budget, at the same time stopping a war, I may well be very open to funding some of these programs. Because I’m not out to gut some of these programs that have taught people to be very dependant on the government, like medical care. I mean, that’s not my goal. I’ve never run for office with the goal of slashing [those programs] even though philosophically I don’t think it’s the best way to deliver services and prosperity to poor people.

CD: So can we look forward to a Paul-Kucinich 2008 ticket?

RP: Not likely, but I think that Paul and Kucinich will continue to work together and do the kind of work that we’ve been doing for a couple years now.”

Kucinich has had a lot of good things to say about Paul as well. Paul is not a “totalitarian decider”. You want someone who won’t bend and will be the next Stalin, look no further then Ghouliani…

You act like this guy doesn’t know how to reach across the isle. Look at who he typically sponsors bills with and you’ll see otherwise. You worry too much, if anything he can peel back the layers of slime and give us a fresh plate to work off of, or at least one with a lot less stink and rot.

I wish with all my heart that Ron Paul becomes the next president. But I do not have hope. As Iron Maiden says: “You’re outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die.”

What programs can we cut? What agencies and departments should go? A better question is: What should stay on a permanent basis? That’s easy: only those functions specifically outlined in the Constitution. Is foreign aid allowed by the Constitution? No. Is public housing in the Constitution? No. Is federal involvement in education? No. Are the EPA, OSHA, and the BATF? No. Is protecting our borders? Yes.

So there would be no social programs as well. Not one. Should the federal government not support these programs they would vanish from the states as well or at least shrink to being so small that the social safety net might as well not exist. So the practical consequences of a nation where Ron Paul and his supporters actually got their way would be that if it didn’t work out to where private charities had the money needed to help those in poverty you would see massive homelessness and starvation.

There would also be such a patchwork of environmental regulation that the environment would suffer tremendously. In the real world you would get the equivalent of banks going to states that don’t regulate financial institutions. There would be states that would not regulate pollution because of financial considerations. These states would attract business. But of course their pollution wouldn’t stay in their state. And nothing would stop it from happening in Ron Paul’s world where the federal government is only responsible for security and interstate law enforcement.

How many people who like Ron Paul really understand the implications of a modern nation and economy trying to go back to the gold standard? Of what it would really mean in the international economic markets that we must exist within if we did not have a Federal Reserve?

It seems to me that the strongest supporters of Ron Paul are those who understand least about how truly complex our modern world is and how little simplistic answers will ever contribute to it.

Of course it would be nigh unto impossible for him (or anyone else) to be worse than the current moron-in-charge.

Unfortunately, if politics doesn’t change any in the next year, that is EXACTLY why he could be lost in the shuffle.

I will be donating to his campaign and I am going to be a MAJOR flyer-pusher myself for RP… I love his ideas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYDt7kC3Z0

the best Ron Paul site I have seen yet!!!!

If you don’t like Ron Paul, don’t vote for him.
If you do, Send him money, Vote for him, and tell the world.

Shout it from every hillside, Post it on every blog.

I dont care if you like him or not,… if you dont vote for him you’re wasting your vote.

Go Ron Paul! I’ll be donating the max to his campaign!