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We are not interlopers.

Unfortunately, my plea to the senator for the area I live in has fallen on deaf ears. He apparently believes that the telco’s acted patriotically by violating the highest law of our land. I’ve stuck his email with my reply to it intertwined here. Click through to see it.

Ron Paul would never have put forth such legislation that so very explicitly violates the liberties of Americans.

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President Bush on Monday sent Congress a $3.11 trillion budget request that sees a worsening deficit over the next two years but projects a balanced federal budget by 2012.

Not good enough. Send it back and demand a balanced budget. If Bush were my financial officer, and I was on the board of directors (or whatever it is that leads and directs a corporation), I’d fire him.

“We won’t actually be making any money until 4 years from now, by which time I’ll be retired and this won’t be my problem anymore!”

Also, this isn’t a real plan. According to the article, the budget “assumes multi-year cuts in domestic discretionary programs, without detailing where these cuts are to occur beyond the first year.” That’s like saying, “We’ll save lots of money by reducing spending on various programs and things.” Well, where exactly is that going to come from? How much do the individual programs need to be reduced? Unacceptable. This is piss poor management of the money I’ve been forced to give to the government.

 Worst. Budget. Ever.

Unlike our current President, Ron Paul has a tangible plan. I like how specific House Resolutions are cited in the plan. This man is actually doing something to help provide a better economy. He’s not doing it through increased regulations; trying to force people to do things. He’s opening up the market instead. Making it easier to do things, removing the amount of paperwork and bureaucracy that is required to do things.

Quite simply, Ron Paul as president is what this country needs. After that, we need a congress that supports his ideas.

Ron Paul’s beating Guliani and Thompson again.

I’d say it’s going well. The article discusses things like how various candidates get a head of steam in one or two of the primaries, but tend to peter out in other states. Ron paul “lingers like a cold.” I suppose consistency is better than surges of greatness.

I’ve personally never followed politics, so I don’t know how things will go. I don’t know what effect getting a constant 6-10% of the votes will mean. I hope that it means that Ron Paul will win the presidency. I hope it means that he’ll be able to take this country in a different direction than we’ve been going. I hope it means that we’ll have greater personal freedoms. I hope it means that the Federal Government will be smaller and have less of a grip on my personal life.

 I hope all those things happen. I have no way of predicting if they will. I can only do things to try to help make sure it happens. There are things you can do too. If you’re in favor of a smaller government, if you don’t think that the government owns your money, if you favor a government that follows the laws it sets….

Support the Ron Paul Campaign.

While donating is good, it’s not the only thing necessary. Lots of people see Ron Paul as a nutjob. The sound-bites of things he says are often put in a negative spin by the media to promote the candidate of their choice. (I don’t think one of them has chosen to support Ron Paul. Probably due to the fact that he wants to remove the government’s ability to influence the markets. Big corporations can buy off senators and congressman to help influence the market in their directon. Removing that ability weakens the corporation. Let’s face it, the “unbiased” “fair” media are corporations. They’re in it to make money. So if they report favorably on someone that isn’t going to help them make money…. I’m sure you’ve figured it out by now. Now what was I originally ranting about?) It takes a bit of thought to understand what Dr. Paul is trying to say; not a great deal, not a Ph. D. Just a bit more than an 30 second sound-bite, smashed in between a political pundit offering up loaded questions. Take some time and read the issues he’s presented. Watch the videos on YouTube. It might just open your eyes a bit.

But also, get up and do something. Even if it’s a small thing as putting a sign in your yard, a bumpersticker on your car, or a sign in your window. Let the common people know that you believe in Ron Paul and the message of small government.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/11/real.id.ap/index.html

 It starts. By 2011, we’ll all have to have a Federally issued Identification Card. If you haven’t figured it out. This is really, really bad. The majority of the yahoo’s that visit cnn.com think its a good idea! How on earth can you think that having the government track you is a good idea? Hasn’t the mistakes with the VA personal data taught you anything? The government doesn’t need to know everything. The governments job is to protect our rights. Not add additional restrictions.

By 2017 everyone in the US will be required to have a REAL ID issued to them. It’s not going to prevent any attacks. The only way it might stop immigration: People will quit wanting to be here, because they don’t want the government watching everything they do. Orwell’s 1984 was only 33 years too soon.

Ron Paul’s ideals need to live on. Even if he doesn’t make the presidency, the revolution he started must survive. Small government is the way of the republic. Need I remind you that the president’s job is to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. This REAL ID system is a domestic enemy of the constitution. It takes away rights of the individual. In the pledge of allegiance you pledge to “the republic for which it stands.” A republic empowers and protects the individual. Democracys empower and protect the group, sacrificing the individual. We need to stay a republic. We need to stay free. We don’t need a national ID system. It won’t do anything except oppress the most free country in the world, possibly turning us into the least free.