Read other letters about this article

• Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:35 PM

  Ron Paul, Another Crazy Republican

  Look, no working person in their right mind would ever vote for a truth telling Republican-their policies are meant to benefit the rich and impoverish the middle and working classes. So, to get elected, Republicans make up these crazy utopias that they know darn good and well they'd never implement and if they did, they know outcome would be vastly different than what they claim. “Social Security is bankrupt and we can make it much better for the working person”; "The war will cost only $50 billion and stop terrorism"; Abolishing Death Taxes will lower taxes for the middle class”; "We should have a flat tax (of maybe 10%)"; Bush said his "tax cuts will go mostly to the lower and middle class"; Just BS. I guess I can't call them lies if the speaker was smiling when talking.

  Ron Paul’s story is just the craziest of the bunch. If he got his way he would abolish public education, social security, police and fire departments and sale the streets to corporations. He'd make Bangladesh look like utopia in comparison. He knows perfectly well that we were all very much worse off under the gold standard-people lost real fortunes in bank runs and lots of kids suffered from serious malnutrition here in the good old USA. But what the heck – maybe the corporation that ended up owning the street corners would still let us sale apples there. (Or maybe not. Commercial Foods may consider it unfair competition.)

  —micberson Read micberson's other letters
  Permalink
  Flag
  Click "Submit Flag" if you feel this post is inappropriate. Explain why below if you wish.

  Cancel