Every candidate negatives; it is no secret that Ron Paul has his. He has the obvious one; he is fighting an uphill battle running in the GOP as libertarian. In addition, he is on in his years and has the charisma of jagged broken glass. The GOP base loves his domestic policy but cannot stand his foreign policy. Nonetheless, after 20 some years of running for president, it looks like he may at least win the first two primaries. He is holding the steady lead in Iowa is and cleaning up in New Hampshire. This is for the other states primary goers who are still dead set against Paul.
About Those Newsletters
If there was one thing Paul had going for him, it was his reputation as being squeaky clean. There was no flip-flopping or Tiffany’s accounts in his past to muddy the waters. As his gains seemed to be legitimate, the GOP machine went digging for some dirt in an attempt to turn the tides onto one of their chosen candidates, and in doing so came across some awful newsletters baring Paul’s name.
Some have pointed out that Paul could have profited up to one million dollars on the newsletters. While I have not seen an evidence to lend evidence to this claim, even if it were true, I am not sure that should matter. After all, Paul is a self-described capitalist and anyone who is concerned with the GOP primary ought to be as well, so the concern of the profit is thrown out. Now, it is no secret that these were written by Lew Rockwell and Paul has addressed them in the past; this time however he got all senile and retorted that he had not written them. If had just taken responsibility, and brushed them off nonchalantly it would never have mattered. We all know the other candidates have far worse things in their mcmansion sized closets, and since republican politics is often about the lesser of two evils, I would have found a way to make it about the other guys and their problems.
That Icky Foreign Policy
I like pieces of Ron Paul’s foreign policy. I like the idea of ending foreign aid and getting rid of our bases on other countries and bringing our troops home from all the entanglements were are currently engaged in. I for one like what Obama did to kill UBL. To heck with international law, to heck with Pakistan, we found our man and we clipped him. That’s America and Pakistan should know that if the hold a guy we want dead then were will trespass wherever the heck we dang well please to send him to the virgins.
Ron Paul is nothing if not a man of principle. So his crazy notions of isolationism would not go far in congress, that whole thing about checks and balances is starting to make sense, isn’t it? Yes, we are surely guaranteed some gridlock, but that is better than the extremes both sides offer. If we must go to war, it will be done the constitutional way and that seems to a notion that most humans like.
Like I said, every candidate has their drawbacks. Most of Ron Paul’s policy drawbacks would get checked by another branch of government making them a non-issue. As to those newsletters that Lew Rockwell wrote – well at least he didn’t create the system that underpins obamacare, flip-flop on social issues when it suited his political advancement. Nor did he vote to create ANWR, the Federal Department of Education, or sit on a couch with Nancy Pelosi and talk about how concerned he is about global warming. Sure, Dick Morris and Karl Rove call him a liberal, but that is simply because they realize that a Paul presidency would put an end to the shenanigans they engage in that make themselves rich at the expense of the taxpayer. Not to mention the fact that most of Paul’s stances are common sense and they cannot combat them with their arsenal of weapons, so they just call him liberal. Its the conservative equivalent of calling someone racist. After all, do we want a guy like Karl Rove dictating who we are allowed to have as our candidate? Is that not why we have the primary process? As for Dick Morris, I am not sure the lisper cares what happens so long as he can plug his new book, whatever it happens to be called.
Vote Paul or America dies, it is just that simple.
My first ever interview with a candidate?
Would you vote for him if he was running in your district? How was I as an interviewer? Can he win? DISCUSS!
Cain is on his way out, but I hope remnants of his tax plan stay with us. No other plan offered attacks our highly discriminatory system and creates equality in taxation much like the oh-so memorable 9-9-9 would.
His detractors suggest that the plan would magically be increased in the future, however Cain made the salient point that his plan would never increase taxes, rather a politician would. Not acting because some future politician may or may not increase the rate of taxes is not a valid reason not to at least consider the benefits of his plan.
First off, I will say I take issue with the corporate tax. Perhaps it shows how DC Herman Cain really is; of all people a businessman like him ought to know that corporate taxes are just passed on to the consumer. That’s why when other presidential hopefuls criticized the plan for creating a new sales tax I knew none of them would be the fix America needs right now. How can any of them claim to remotely understand what plagues our economy if they cannot understand the simplest of taxation principles? This would eliminate the hidden nature of government and taxes and make it very real to consumers just how expensive big government can be. I think his opponents were just mad they did not come up with something so simple and so catchy before he did. Oh well.
I think a plan more like 15-15 would work better; a 15% tax on all goods and a 15% tax on all income. That is right, all income. Everyone, even the “poor” would be included in my plan, and that would insure the plan would never change. No self-interested politician (is there any other kind?) would dare hike up the rate because of the toll it would take on the poor. I would suggest this plan until America is all caught up on its debt, and then I would trim it to a single 15% national tax on all goods, no exceptions, write-offs, credits or waivers. Everyone must pay. When everyone is included in a tax plan, it shackles the hands of future politicians.
They call themselves the 99%. The protest seen throughout Europe and Africa are finally on our shores. The hacker group Anonymous has gone political and they are organizing nationwide protests to occupy capitals and city squares. They have been occupying Wall Street for days now. They are mad as hell and they not going to take it anymore. They say that this is their Tahrir Square moment.
Mad about what? No one exactly knows. But what we do know is they call themselves revolutionaries and anarchists. They clearly take major issues with social order, personal hygiene and employment. Nonetheless, this is spreading like wildfire. Protests are currently planned for cities all across America.
Young people are clearly upset that they were duped into taking massive student loans and indoctrinated by their professors into thinking that holding a degree entitled them to a job. Now, short of joining the Peace Corps they have little in the way of productive prospects. Sure, there are some geriatric protesters, such as the always insane Frances Fox Piven, however the footage suggests the vast majority of the occupiers are young folks.
The fact is, we are the freest nation in the world. While that status is up for grabs, we still hold the title. However, the kids of my generation lack a cause, so naturally they latch onto anything when it comes along. They want to be seen as hip and with the zeitgeist. As you may recall, there was a black kid who cried out in front of Chase Bank that they were “taking” his parents’ home, when it turns out that it was not the case whatsoever. His parents live in a $500,000 home and were indeed short selling it. Not to mention the fact that he had an education that costs several hundred thousand dollars, if he was so concerned about their home, he surely could have dropped out and flipped burgers to help.
I liken these protestors to the character Britta Perry from the NBC comedy Community. They hope to be the oppressed and victimized minority. They have trouble reconciling the fact that their lives are not horrible. They lack direction, and feel its societies fault. The funny part is that most of these kids are middle class and white. They do not know what it is like to have to choose between living under an oppressive regime or dying for freedom, although they would like have us believe it is the same as having to choose between making a car payment or buying a new Coach bag. They simply cannot deal with the reality that they represent the big bad wolf to most underprivileged nations. We are the bad guy. You own shoes, seriously stop whining.
Most of them are very delusional when it comes to how the world works. They attend college with the understanding that it would prepare them for adulthood, and it cannot. The facts are simply this: Like all things, there is a science to the economy and motivation. Free markets work. Liberty works. Choice works.
This may seem far away, however I think the timing is just perfect. I hope that free thinking, pro free markets folks can gather around to show and teach everyone and anyone who will listen that we need capitalism, now. I firmly feel that the sun could set on America, however if we return to the system that made us who we are, we can thrive once again.
Tea Partiers, 912 Projects, Libertarians and Capitalists:
On Friday, November 25, 2011. Gather.
Respond. Make America capitalist again.
Well, isn’t this grand? Housing is a right, and the government is the arbiter of all the things you are due. This sounds like it is right of the Van Jones playbook. In fact, it is. Wow, it is like Van never left office. I feel as though there might be some sort of Glenn Beck style conspiracy here that I could point to, equipped with pictures of organization’s logos and lines drawn between them. It may very be the case; however that would assume that the progressives in power recognize that the free market works and the best way to manipulate it to represent their spread-the-misery ideology is to creep in with government entities.
In case this comes to you as a surprise, The Federal Housing Finance Agency is looking into how they can rent homes that Fannie and Freddie own:
The U.S. government rescued Fannie and Freddie in September 2008 and has funded them since the financial crisis. The mortgage giants own or guarantee about half of the nation’s mortgages and nearly all new mortgages.
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Many foreclosures have been stalled so attorneys general and federal regulators can investigate whether lenders cut corners and improperly handled thousands of cases. Once a settlement is finalized, foreclosures are expected to pick up again and further depress home prices.
Converting the homes into rentals may reduce “credit losses and help stabilize neighborhoods and home values,” said Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie.
If you are unaware, Freddie and Fannie were responsible for the housing bubble that has reset inflated housing prices as of late. They purchased mortgage backed securities that no one else really wanted to touch. This is the perfect play for the oh-so desperate Obama.
Redistributing Your Home
According to Bloomberg last year:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled companies that issued and guaranteed more than 71 percent of mortgage-backed bonds last year. Between those companies and Ginnie Mae, which guarantees loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration, the government backed nearly 97 percent of U.S. mortgages in 2009.
We have all heard the horror stories of major banks randomly foreclosing on homes they had no right to. What if the government decides in all of its wisdom that your house is simply to lavish? What if your home sits on a large piece of land that could better serve the community by becoming a massive housing ghetto? Sure, this sounds very black-helicopter-Alex-Jones, but is it that far off?
The constitutional scholar that is Obama has found ways to make us do all sorts of wrong things, such as forcing people into insurance as a requirement of good citizenship and sending troops into battle without congressional approval. Sure, brown shirts will not show up to your door and force you out of your home and into a FEMA camp. Even progressives realize that small localized government is the most expedient, so they will nudge you out with small legislation enacted by regional planning boards and committees created and appointed by elected officials. The EPA creates silly standards every day; and these laws have the same force as any law passed by the federal government or your local one.
There are two conclusions one can draw from this scenario. Either, the federal government is completely incompetent and ought to be thrown out of office or just ignored or, this is done by design in order to create a new society.
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