So would you say it's time for our citizens to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?

WE CAN'T HAVE SPENDING LEVELS OF FIVE OR TEN YEARS AGO BECAUSE SOMALIA ROAD WARRIORRRRGARBARRRGGGHHLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

My favorite is privatizing the Department of Energy.



/what could go wrong?

Lando Lincoln; Well, it would kill off a lot of old people. As you know, old people cost us a lot of money. They're a bunch of non-productive leeches. Ron Paul is just making the hard decisions others don't have the balls to make.

If only someone could figure out how to gather up all those dead bodies and boil and render them down to some kind of tar substance that you can then use to pave your roads.

Or into, like, biodegradeable garbage bags.

/if you're gonna go, go all the way

The more I pay attention to the Republican race, the more I'm convinced that you guys are being Punk'd and that they're going to announce at the last possible moment that they're actually planning to run Ashton Kutcher.

RON PAUL 2012: Because there will always be people that want to divide by zero.

We don't need the Department of Energy to make horrible investments in energy businesses (solyndra) and perform useless research. They were created to prevent us from becoming dependent on foreign oil. Great job guys.

Simplify the tax code, stop wasting money on unnecessary foreign wars, bring home the troops from our hundreds of overseas bases, and stop promising entitlements we can't afford.

Why are these such revolutionary ideas to people? It's just common sense.

REPEAL FEDERAL CURRENCY

THIS WILL CREATE JOBS

I supported Ron Paul in 2008.

Then I pulled my head out of my ass, and now I think he's a giant farking moron.

IIRC, he's in favor of letting young people opt out of Social Security. But it's such a great program so no one would do that, right?

What about the Chilean model? It seems to work rather well.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: So would you say it's time for our citizens to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?

PAST TIME!!!!

mmmmmm

These ideas sound familiar ......






Should we also cut taxes?

jigger: IIRC, he's in favor of letting young people opt out of Social Security. But it's such a great program so no one would do that, right?

What about the Chilean model? It seems to work rather well.

I love chili! Especially on pizza. Now I'm torn on who I should vote for!

Good: abolishing corporate subsidies, stopping foreign aid, ending foreign wars, cutting presidential salary (effectively meaningless but creates some good will), cutting federal workforce (although I'd put that off for now and focus on simply hiring fewer people rather than mass layoffs).

Bad: most of the rest of it.

He seems to have great ideas and terrible ideas and nothing in the middle.

I guess it depends on which ideas he'd actually have a chance of passing through congress should he become president.

He would block grant Medicaid to the states, reduce the federal workforce by 10 percent and even take as a presidential salary only $39,226 which he says is roughly the median income of the American worker.

Well that won't have ANY affect on the economy at all. That's only 200,000 jobs destroyed, a drop in the bucket compared to the 14 million who are already unemployed or underemployed. We can totally absorb that.

Mugato: Kill Social Security. That's farking brilliant, you dipshiat.

Well you know, there's far too few old and infirm dying in the streets from exposure. Ron Paul wants to fix that.

First Cain, now Paul (RON PAUL). This must be Republican candidate jump the shark week.

So basically, Ron Paul's answer to our problems is to dissolve the Union. Well, I guess if you think the federal govt is the problem, that's an answer. I'm sure having 48 continuous new countries won't lead to each one spending to high heaven on weapons and armies to protect themselves from the others, but whatever, Ron Paul!

PanicMan: Mugato: Kill Social Security. That's farking brilliant, you dipshiat.

Well you know, there's far too few old and infirm dying in the streets from exposure. Ron Paul wants to fix that.

We cannot allow an exposure death gap!

Tad_Waxpole: I supported Ron Paul in 2008.

Then I pulled my head out of my ass, and now I think he's a giant farking moron.

Same here, when the economy was doing alright I figured it was time for some changes. In our current economic environment we can't afford such BS. Glad he didn't win, but then again, we might actually have a united congress getting things done had he won... Shrugs.

Ron's Plan:

Back to the 19th Century.

watson.t.hamster: Good: abolishing corporate subsidies, stopping foreign aid, ending foreign wars, cutting presidential salary (effectively meaningless but creates some good will), cutting federal workforce (although I'd put that off for now and focus on simply hiring fewer people rather than mass layoffs).

Bad: most of the rest of it.

He seems to have great ideas and terrible ideas and nothing in the middle.

I guess it depends on which ideas he'd actually have a chance of passing through congress should he become president.



How would any of that be good for the United States?
You seem to think we are this independent country from the rest of the world. You do realize we are an extremely serviced based society that requires assistance from the rest of the world to survive ..... just like the rest of the world depends on us?

Also, you want to cut the federal workforce? Not happening. Here is what happens.
The government cannot decrease. Especially not the government of one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world. We are already low on man-power in a lot of areas. What government agencies have done is fire their employees and hire them back as contractors for less pay, less security and less benefits. Basically .... screwing our own citizens.

/worked for DoE and NREL

FTA: [RON PAUL would] even take as a presidential salary only $39,226 which he says is roughly the median income of the American worker.

See, it's things like this that make me appreciate that he honestly believes what he says.

whidbey: Ron's Plan:

Back to the 19th Century.

I dunno, it's more like "filthy cyberpunk future where everyone's dying of Internet Syphilis" than "19th century".