In a New York Times article, (yes, THE NYTIMES, that paragon of ______), Ron Paul is an exciting longshot candidate.
If anything, an article titled, "The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Drug-Enforcement-Administration, Anti-Medicare Candidacy" will tell you two things: 1.) Grammatically, the hyphen is difficult to consitently implement and 2.) No Fucking Way Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is a flash-in-the-pan man who's political ideas are so self-centered they aren't meant for government use. The planet is becoming more dense so we have to come up with government solutions that can capture the needs of the largest population, not simply cater to the people with the luxury of insular existences in the stix.
One thing Ron Paul doesn't want to pay for is other people's education. In his perfect world college and university wouldn't be subsidized by taxpayer dollars. The idea is that if one isn't attending college why should one pay for another's attendance?
It's a rhetorical question in treatment, to be sure, but there is a real and simple answer. The answer is this, We are a nation and our survivalibility is dependant on the success of all Americans.
So, if you want to drop out of high school and manage your father's furniture store then you can argue all you want about not wanting to pay for university - an altogether unecessary endeavor, eg, 'Look at me and my furniture store!' - when your husband gets Cancer and the people who would cure it couldn't afford college. Afterall, without government subsidies college will over triple in cost and as the funding dwindles Professors will be paid less and departments will be forced to close.
This is one example of Ron Paul's myopic viewpoint's damaging effects on our society. This is just one example of how he just says shit. He doesn't think it through.
He's exciting and the .net/iphone/XBOX world is falling for it in a way that surpasses logic and engenders the false dichotomies of binary thinking.
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He doesn't say that state and local governments can't provide public schools, in fact they already provide the majority of the funding. He just doesn't want the federal government to impose their ideas on the local schools, like they do with programs like no child left behind.
"Afterall, without government subsidies college will over triple in cost and as the funding dwindles Professors will be paid less and departments will be forced to close."
you don't understand how subsidies work... they reduce the quality for everyone. You're views are very superficial.. almost like you read them from someone else's talking points...
Hooray for Big Government! I mean, look at how great it's turned out this far! Think about how AWESOME it will be if we just keep going!
Obviously it is not Ron Paul who is the crazy one.
I agree totally. I mean I had the assumption that when two people traded ( ie. Money for goods or services like college ), that if the trade was free from coersion, both parties must of benifited. They must of benifited because if the trade was free from coersion so why else would they trade? I also assumed if the two parties didnt trade that one of them had a reason for not trading ( maybe one party didnt think they would benifit ). Thanks for turning this assumption on it head. Now i relize when the goverment coerces me for my taxes ( takes them from me backed up with the threat wage garnishment or policemen with guns ) it is for my own good. I relize now i live in a country and buying education for other members of the country will of course benifit me. It definatly must be in my interest for the goverment to make more trades for me. Even though i didnt attend college ( I am a computer programmer and i am self taught and i own my own buisness ) I need to relize that this is not a realistic option. I wonder if the goverment can improve on other trades i make. Perhaps it could take my money and buy me the best health plan. I would probably screw that up so it is a good thing the goverment is moving in the direction of picking for me. And i dont want farmers to go out of buisness. Please give them some of my money so they can have guaranteed minimum prices. I am glad i pay taxes so that i can pay more for food, otherwise i might starve.
Maybe you should run for president. I need someone to make my decisions about what is best for me.
What, then, is legislation?
It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible dominion over all other men whom they can subject to their power.
It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to subject all other men to their will and their service.
It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to abolish outright all the natural rights, all the natural liberty of all other men; to make all other men their slaves; to arbitrarily dictate to all other men what they may, and may not do; what they may, and may not, have; what they may, and may not, be.
It is, in short, the assumption of a right to banish the principle of human rights, the principle of justice itself, from off the earth, and set up their own personal will, pleasure, and interest in its place. All this, and nothing less, is involved in the very idea that there can be any such thing as legislation that is obligatory upon those upon whom it is imposed."
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