Please suport Ron Paul for President NOW!

[Guest guest]

Ron Paul is NOT right wing. He is a centrist with strong libertarian

leanings. He prefers being called a constitutionalist. The regular

republicans hate him. They call him Dr. NO, because he won't support

their boondoggles.

 

Those of us who support food and health freedom must support Dr.

Paul. He clearly does not understand our desire for raw milk. He does

believe in each individuals right to choose for themselves. ( a

central principal of both libertarians and constitutionalists). We

must support him because when the powers that be seek to outlaw food

supplements, or a particular alternative medical practice, he can and

will block it. Otherwise we will be fighting these issues one by one,

and losing most of the time.

 

Now is the time to support him. Send him money, get out to your

primary and vote for him.

 

Charlie

 

The following is the section from Dr. Paul's bio on Wikipedia:

 

Paul's nickname " Dr. No " [33] reflects both his medical degree and his

contrarian insistence[162] on " never vot[ing] for legislation unless

the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. " [32]

[163] Paul adheres deeply to Austrian school economics and

libertarian criticism of fractional-reserve banking, opposing fiat

increases to money in circulation;[37] he has authored six books on

the subjects, and has pictures of classical liberal economists

Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, and Ludwig von Mises hanging on his

office wall.[20][164]

Paul's foreign policy of nonintervention[165] made him the only 2008

Republican presidential candidate to have voted against the Iraq War

Resolution in 2002.[166][167] He advocates withdrawal from the United

Nations and NATO for reasons of maintaining strong national

sovereignty.[165][168] He supports free trade, rejecting membership

in NAFTA and the World Trade Organization as " managed trade " . He

supports tighter border security and ending welfare benefits for

illegal aliens,[169] and opposes 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,[77] but suggested war

alternatives such as authorizing the president to grant Letters of

Marque and Reprisal targeting specific terrorists.

Paul regularly votes against almost all proposals for new government

spending, initiatives, or taxes.[24] He has pledged never to raise

taxes,[32][170] and states he has never voted to approve an

unbalanced budget. Paul would abolish the individual income tax by

scaling back the federal budget to its 2000 spending levels.[69][171]

Rather than taxing personal income, which he says assumes that the

government owns individuals' lives and labor, he prefers the federal

government to be funded through excise taxes and/or uniform, non-

protectionist, tariffs.[172] He would eliminate most federal

government agencies, calling them unnecessary bureaucracies.[173]

Paul is also vocal in his opposition to inflation, arguing that the

longterm erosion of the dollar's purchasing power arises from its

lack of commodity (such as gold) backing, which would restrain

excess " printing " of money and consequent devaluation. Paul says

he " wouldn't exactly go back on the gold standard " [174], but would

push to legalize gold and silver as legal tender and remove the sales

tax on them so that gold-backed notes (or other types of hard money)

can compete on a level playing field with fiat Federal Reserve notes,

allowing individuals a choice whether to use " sound money " to protect

their purchasing power or to continue using fiat money.[175] He

advocates gradual elimination of the Federal Reserve central bank for

many reasons, believing that economic volatility is decreased when

the free market determines interest rates and money supply.[176] He

favors allowing workers to opt out of Social Security to protect the

system for everyone.[177]

Paul strongly supports Constitutional rights, freedom of the Internet,

[178] gun ownership, jury nullification rights,[179] and habeas

corpus for political detainees.[180] Civil liberties concerns have

led him to oppose the Patriot Act, a national ID card, federal

government use of torture, domestic surveillance, presidential

autonomy, and the draft. Paul defers to states' rights in areas not

addressed by the Constitution. Paul calls himself " strongly pro-life " ,

[181] " an unshakable foe of abortion " ,[83] and believes regulation of

medical decisions about maternal or fetal health is " best handled at

the state level. " [182][183] (He says his years as an obstetrician

lead him to believe life begins at conception;[184] his pro-life

legislation, like the Sanctity of Life Act, is intended to negate Roe

v. Wade for ethical reasons and to get " the federal government

completely out of the business of regulating state matters. " )[185]

[186] He also opposes federal regulation of the death penalty,[182]

of education,[187] and of marriage. He has voted against federal

funding of joint adoption by unmarried couples (including same-sex

adoption); he also supports revising enforcement of the

military " don't ask, don't tell " policy to focus on disruptive

behavior and include members with heterosexual as well as homosexual

behavior issues.[188][189] He defers to private property rights in

relation to environmental protection and pollution prevention.[190]

He also opposes the federal War on Drugs, wishing to leave the

decision on whether to regulate or deregulate drugs, including

medical marijuana, to the states. Paul would eliminate government

involvement and management of health care, which he argues will allow

prices to drop due to the dynamics of a free market.