Title: Ron Paul Posters are welcome here LP Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Nov 11, 2007 Author:A K A Stone Post Date:2007-11-11 00:34:32 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:14069 Comments:35
Why would goldi lox ban ron paul articles? That is ridiculous. Ron Paul posters are welcome here. Or people who don't like Ron Paul are allowed here too.
that buffoon ron paul would actually be good for the country because he would create massive government gridlock. He is a complete jackass loon and would provide lots of laughs. Too bad he won't make it. Either way he's going to end up making a profit on the election because he will drop out (or fade out) and get to keep all the dough his idiot followers were stupid enough to hand over to him.
What policies that Ron Paul advocates are you opposed to? Owning guns? Getting out of NAFTA and GATT? Get out of UN? Get rid of unconstitutional IRS? A currency backed by gold as required by our constitution?
good one.....what policies? Name one thing blowhard Paul got passed through congress. Answer- zero. If you want to vote for a gasbag that can't get anything done, be my guest. Always remember, it's useless to discuss anything the idiot Paul stands for because it's all horseshit, he has done zero, nada, nothing.
Then why complain about someone who is opposing what is wrong with our government. Can you agree that if Pauls bills passed more often then we would have a better country? A lot of change can come simply by vetoing legislation.
I'm not complaining. I just happen to think he is a do nothing loon. You're the one who wanted to talk about him. You started this thread and asked for any comments, pro or con. I don't give a rat fuck about him or the us government or the constution, I don't recognize any of that shit because I just do whatever the fuck I want. As far as politics is concerned, all I care about is gridlock. You can get that with Hillary too. My favorite presidents were Reagan and Nixon. Fuck the rest
Paul sponsors many more bills than the average representative, such as those that would abolish the income tax[69] or the Federal Reserve; many do not escape committee review. Nevertheless, he has been named one of the "50 Most Effective Members of Congress" by Congressional Quarterly.[70] He has sponsored successful legislation to prevent the Department of Housing and Urban Development from seizing a church in New York through eminent domain, and a bill transferring ownership of the Lake Texana dam project from the federal government to Texas.[33] By successfully amending other legislation, he has also barred International Criminal Court jurisdiction over the U.S. military (2002), American participation in any U.N. "global tax" (2005), and surveillance on peaceful First Amendment activities by citizens (2006).[71]
Paul has introduced bills that would apply a $5,000 tax credit per child towards spending on any type of children's education–related expenses, public, private, or homeschool. He has introduced the Family Education Freedom Act in every Congressional session since 1997; the bill currently has six co-sponsors.[72][73] He has also introduced companion legislation in the form of the Teacher Tax Cut Act, which would provide all elementary and secondary school teachers with a $1,000 tax cut, and the Professional Educators Tax Relief Act, which would give all K–12 school librarians, counselors, and other personnel the same $1,000 tax credit.[74] He has also introduced the Education Improvement Tax Cut Act, which would allow $5,000 deductions for any type of donations to scholarships or to benefit academics at any school.[75]
In March 2001, Paul introduced the "Constitutional War Powers Resolution of 2001," which would repeal the 1973 War Powers Resolution (WPR) and thus prohibit presidents from initiating a war without a formal declaration of war by Congress.[76] Later in 2001, Paul voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, which authorized the president, pursuant to WPR, to respond to those responsible for the 2001 World Trade Center terror attack.[77] In order to prevent Congress from yielding its Constitutional authority to declare war to the executive branch, which does not Constitutionally hold that power, Paul introduced legislation in October 2002 giving Congress the opportunity to declare war on Iraq, rather than merely "authorizing" the president to deploy forces without a declaration of war. He said he would not vote for his own bill, but if his fellow members of Congress wished to go to war in Iraq, they should follow the Constitution and declare war. As one of six Republicans to vote against the Iraq War Resolution, Paul inspired the founding of a group called the National Peace Lobby Project to promote a resolution he and Oregon representative Peter DeFazio sponsored to repeal the war authorization in February 2003. His speech, 35 "Questions That Won't Be Asked About Iraq,"[78] was translated and published in German, French, Russian, Italian, and Swiss periodicals before the Iraq War began.[68]
Paul says his fellow members of Congress have increased government spending by 75% during George W. Bush's administration.[69] After a 2005 bill was touted as "slashing" government waste, Paul wrote that it decreased spending by a fraction of one percent and that "Congress couldn't slash spending if the members' lives depended on it."[79] Paul said that between 2001 and early 2004 he had voted against more than 700 bills intended to expand government.[80]
Paul charged his fellow legislators with voting for the Patriot Act without reading it first; more than 300 pages long, it was enacted into law less than 24 hours after being introduced. In response to such Congressional actions, Paul introduced "Sunlight Rule" legislation, which would not allow votes on legislation to occur until ten days after its introduction, with the intent of giving lawmakers enough time to read bills before voting on them. The bill requires allotting 72 hours for House members and staff to examine the contents of amendments.[81]
In 2005 and 2007, Paul introduced the Sanctity of Life Act, which would define human life as beginning from conception, removing abortion from federal jurisdiction and effectively negating Roe v. Wade.[82][83] Paul has also introduced a Constitutional amendment with similar intent. Such laws would permit states to declare abortion to be murder and to outlaw new fetal stem cell research and some contraception and fertility treatments.[84][85] Also in 2005 and 2007, Paul introduced the We the People Act, which would forbid all federal courts from hearing cases on abortion, same-sex marriage, sexual practices, and government display of religious symbols, texts, and images. The Act would make federal court decisions on those subjects nonbinding as precedent in state courts,[3] and would forbid federal courts from spending money to enforce their judgments.[86]
On October 15, 2007, Paul introduced the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007, which would "bar the use of evidence obtained through torture; require that federal intelligence gathering is conducted in accordance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA); create a mechanism for challenging presidential signing statements; repeal the Military Commissions Act, which, among other things, denies habeas corpus to certain detainees; prohibit kidnapping, detentions, and torture abroad; protect journalists who publish information received from the executive branch; and ensure that secret evidence is not used to designate individuals or organizations with a presence in the U.S. as foreign terrorists."[87]
