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• Monday, December 3, 2007 11:34 AM

  Ok...

  I don't understand the love for Ron Paul at all. Seriously. There is no reason to vote for him. He will make us "free!!11one" Yeah, but what the hell does that mean? It means he will take away, as other letter writers have mentioned, all of the safety nets that modern society has constructed for its people. A society run by Ron Paul is like 15th century Europe except that it doesn't even distinguish between the worthy and unworthy poor... it lets them all die just the same. Hell, the middle class people will all die just the same. I had $350,000 life-saving surgery for a congenital heart condition when I was 15 months old. Think my middle class parents could have afforded that without my dad's military insurance?

  There are many things that need to be fixed about our government. But the answer is clearly not to abolish the whole thing and pray that major corporations hold themselves to a moral standard anywhere near the current ethical requirements for government workers.

  Besides, even if Paul got elected, what the hell would he do with Congress? Ron Paul's idea of "reform" scares the shit out of me, because it would likely mean the collapse of this nation, but realistically he would be completely ineffective as a president.

  —Rosenkavalier Read Rosenkavalier's other letters
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