Interview: Who Is Ron Paul?

[gilliam]

Can you quote me the biblical passage when Christ mandated that government take over the role that Christians should be doing of their own volition? Christ’s mandates and individual and of conscience, not of government mandate. Treaties of mutual defense still do not require that we send standing armies at the expense of the us taxpayer. The Constitution is pretty clear on this matter.

We are our government. That is what a representative democracy is. IMHO, we can’t avoid Christ’s command of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you by claiming we don’t have the money or power and maybe others may do it (although we know they can’t help to the scale our government can.) We, after all, vote for our government, we pay taxes to fund it and we empower that government so we can demand it does as much as it can of what Christ would want us to do. That is one of the reasons why America is a unique county that we haven’t seen before in the world (closest example may be ancient Rome.)

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

We are our government. That is what a representative democracy is. IMHO, we can’t avoid Christ’s command of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you by claiming we don’t have the money or power and maybe others may do it (although we know they can’t help to the scale our government can.) We, after all, vote for our government, we pay taxes to fund it and we empower that government so we can demand it does as much as it can of what Christ would want us to do. That is one of the reasons why America is a unique county that we haven’t seen before in the world (closest example may be ancient Rome.)

We are a a nation of sheep being ruled over by Ivy League elitist who believe they know better than the rest of us. i know it makes people feel better when they believe that the mechanisms of representation are alive and well. But that hasn’t really been the case for a very long time.

 

[Tigg]

I never said that the US was not important. I merely implied an overinflated sense of self-importance. Our political apparatus lacks a certain humility in dealing with other nations. Much of the information in WikiLeaks bears that out. I never diminished our actual importance in the world stage.

Do I sense a fellow paleoconservative?

We are our government. That is what a representative democracy is. IMHO, we can’t avoid Christ’s command of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you by claiming we don’t have the money or power and maybe others may do it (although we know they can’t help to the scale our government can.) We, after all, vote for our government, we pay taxes to fund it and we empower that government so we can demand it does as much as it can of what Christ would want us to do. That is one of the reasons why America is a unique county that we haven’t seen before in the world (closest example may be ancient Rome.)

I think you are speaking of an ideal that used to be a reality. WTP used to be the government, now it’s nothing more than a centralized welfare state. Let’s see….prayer has been removed from public schools, abortion has been legalized, same sex marriages are promoted at every level, Christians are being persecuted for hate crimes because they uphold their faith, and the Constitution, which no one can deny was influenced by Christian values, is ignored by neoconservatives who demand that their own particular brand of democracy be exported to every country in the world.

 

[a_priori]

We are our government.

This can be the problem too. Our leaders are a photographic negative of us. They show us who we are and the nature of our values/priorities. It isn’t pretty. We are a nation of skittish, self-indulgent people who have managed to delude ourselves. This economic cycle will end badly. We did it to ourselves.

 

[gilliam]

We are a nation of skittish, self-indulgent people who have managed to delude ourselves. This economic cycle will end badly. We did it to ourselves.

We are a selfless people who are usually first on the scene when disaster strikes anywhere in the world. In fact, we do it so often that the rest of the world has come to expect it of us. When you look at history, that is very unusual. In fact, I don’t know if so many people in the world has ever depended upon the generosity of another country like they do the USA.

We will see how the economic cycle ends, but so far we have always gotten over these downturns. I don’t see any reason why we won’t do it again.

 

[TheRealJuliane]

Why are you all arguing about the national defense when what really needs to be cut are social entitlement programs?

Liberal progressives always take things down this road. Cut the fire fighter, police, and teacher budget, and start talking military cuts before ever bringing up the welfare entitlement programs. It is BS and by BS I mean "bacon sandwich’ of course.

Take people off welfare including unemployment payments and watch our nation rocket back to health again. We are the shining city on a hill of the world and we can be again. The shackles of our over-intrusive government have enslaved too many of our citizens for too long. Time for another revolution, only this time, no weapons except education and the ballot box.

 

[a_priori]

We are a selfless people who are usually first on the scene when disaster strikes anywhere in the world. In fact, we do it so often that the rest of the world has come to expect it of us. When you look at history, that is very unusual. In fact, I don’t know if so many people in the world has ever depended upon the generosity of another country like they do the USA.

We will see how the economic cycle ends, but so far we have always gotten over these downturns. I don’t see any reason why we won’t do it again.

We’re selfless. I get it. We give more than…etc…etc. Yes. That is a good thing. However, any people that borrows itself into a $14T hole in order to maintain a standard of living to which it feels entitled is, in the aggregate, self-indulgent.

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

We’re selfless. I get it. We give more than…etc…etc. Yes. That is a good thing. However, any people that borrows itself into a $14T hole in order to maintain a standard of living to which it feels entitled is, in the aggregate, self-indulgent.

Moreover, the US Taxpayer is being forced onto the hook for this 14T bill of borrowed money to go around the world helping countries that won’t even help themselves. It may be selfless, but its also patently stupid.

 

[pnewton]

I realize he is a doctor but so are abortionists, the head of PP here is an OB-GYN.

Ron Paul is specifically an OB-GYN.

 

[James2011]

Why are you all arguing about the national defense when what really needs to be cut are social entitlement programs?

Liberal progressives always take things down this road. Cut the fire fighter, police, and teacher budget, and start talking military cuts before ever bringing up the welfare entitlement programs. It is BS and by BS I mean "bacon sandwich’ of course.

Take people off welfare including unemployment payments and watch our nation rocket back to health again. We are the shining city on a hill of the world and we can be again. The shackles of our over-intrusive government have enslaved too many of our citizens for too long. Time for another revolution, only this time, no weapons except education and the ballot box.

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