Ron Paul's positions on wars and auditing the Fed are laudable, but his positions on regulations (none) and taxes (none) and abortion (none) aren't, and won't solve our problems and will only make our misery worse.
I saw him in an interview the other day with Piers Morgan, and his response to why he was opposed to abortion under any circumstances was probably the most cowardly, intellectually dishonest response I've ever heard out of a politician. Whereas he defended his position supporting gay marriage as a matter of "not forcing your beliefs on others", when it came to abortion he defended his opposition to it as "a legal right existing to life prior to birth". Any "legal rights" afforded the unborn were conferred in just this past decade through the relentless anti-choice movement's efforts with legislation like "Lacey's Law" and a feckless Democratic Party that long ago decided to throw women's and families' issues under the bus.
Ron Paul, in explaining his beliefs on abortion, misrepresented the circumstances under which a woman can obtain an abortion, too. That told me he's no honest agent.
Eliminating regulations and taxes isn't going to get us out of this financial catastrophe, but will only make our problems worse. Cutting taxes doesn't create jobs. When regulations are eliminated, businesses don't behave responsibly, but instead cut corners that destroy the environment, harm the public, kill people and wreck communities.
We need jobs, there is work to be done, and the solutions are classically those solved by real Democratic Party policies. Our problem is that we have a Democratic Party trying to emulate the Republican Party, and is adopting Republican policies.
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