Ron Paul: FEMA Signals Too Much 'Dependency' On The Federal Government In Disasters (VIDEO)

The reason for a federal agency that responds to disasters instead of states is for when states are cut off and isolated, and help and supplies have to come from outside of the affected states.  For example, New York city only has about a one day's supply of food on hand and must be trucked in.  

I don't find Ron Paul to be a particular­ly intelligen­t man.  His 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 last week 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.  Prior to that, before religious fanatics and spongey thinkers took over our government­, in all other ways rights are conferred at birth.  That's when we legally recognize people as citizens with rights.

By conferring rights on an embryo/fet­us, it's the same as if you removed a blood cell from your body (it has the same genetic material as an embryo/fet­us) and said that it had rights to be kept alive.  Even those already born, fully formed citizens have no right to be kept alive through artificial means (life support machines).

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 it's adopting Republican policies.
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