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How to tell when the rest of the gop field considers Ron Paul a threat.

So it’s only a matter of time. Ron Paul will win this election. He has to. The futures of our children ride upon it.

If you’re registered to vote (and if you’re not, get it done!) and you don’t know who to vote for. Consider Ron Paul. It doesn’t get much better than him. If you envision a government that isn’t above the constitution or the law, vote for Ron Paul.

This really is too good. I don’t know why that’s so funny to me. All you network admins can have a good laugh at this one. Especially if you work for an ISP. “Hello, Tech support person? The internets are broke.”

This is a very interesting read on why governments should hold little power and why the free economy works. I’m not one to be political typically, but this time around, there’s one good candidate and this is something he believes in.
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

A few excerpts:

The Law and Education

You say: “There are persons who lack education,” and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a torch of learning which shines its light abroad. The law extends over a society where some persons have knowledge and others do not; where some citizens need to learn, and others can teach. In this matter of education, the law has only two alternatives: It can permit this transaction of teaching-and-learning to operate freely and without the use of force, or it can force human wills in this matter by taking from some of them enough to pay the teachers who are appointed by government to instruct others, without charge. But in this second case, the law commits legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

The Law and Charity

You say: “There are persons who have no money,” and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the law then plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.

With this in mind, examine the protective tariffs, subsidies, guaranteed profits, guaranteed jobs, relief and welfare schemes, public education, progressive taxation, free credit, and public works. You will find that they are always based on legal plunder, organized injustice.