franklin wrote:
babe wrote:
I haven't read the complete discussion here, but here's another two bits' worth.
Franklin, I think you need to consider Ain't general view.
Read the discussion and then I'll consider what you have to say, as long as you state exactly what it is I should be considering rather than that blanket statement followed by irrelevant ramblings.
I've seen you go down on one candidate after another. Paul's the one I care about the most. However, in listening to Rick Santorum's response to a Cleveland radio talkie tonight, I thought he did as well as anyone I've ever heard. "I don't believe in lying, and I might say when I think something is a lie, but I don't tell people they can't lie if they want to. I'm just gonna respond with the truth."
Actually, we have a lot of laws against lying, particularly within Courts where they swear you to tell the truth, on an oath with words like "so help me God".
You worry about Ron Paul because of his "Austrian" economic thinking, and you have come out with proposals whereby a sufficiently benevolent government should take actions designed to prevent the development of rich folks with both the interest and the means to influence government.
I worry about people who want the government to solve any problem, because to me it's no different if 85%, or 50.1%, or that influential 0.0001% find me objectionable enough to hang, and can somehow contrive to do so under color of law.
People with "government should" thinking, or "there oughtta be a law" thinking scare me. They terrorize me, and would terrorize anyone who isn't drinking deeply of the collective cool-aid.
I don't worry about economic theories, I just want the freedom to take care of my own business. I realize that running the fiat presses devalues all forms of savings denominated in cash and interest considerations. Not so much stocks and commodities, which have supposedly some value in their trade or merchandise that relates to everyday purchases. But then, when the green bloat has run it's course and changed prices, and you sell your property or stock for a much higher "price", though that price will buy the same sack of carrots the day you sold it as when you bought it forty years ago, the govt. wants to call 99% of the sale "earnings", and make you pay 20% in "capital gains" or some damn thing. . . . . so you end up with a real loss. I call it theft by deception, and I don't care what economic theory anyone is babbling about, I don't want the government doing that.
So let's end the Fed, and shut down the printing presses if we have to learn how to trade sacks of grain or carrots to do our business. I don't want any ignorant blowhards with fancy ideals about what government should do sitting up in the night trying to figure out how they are going to be the first ones in human history who finally got the government to do the right thing.
I'd give you some respect if you were sitting up in the night trying to figure out how to keep government from doing all the wrong things.
Simple answer: less government. . . . . . much less government.
And I think you're delusional for believing Rick Santorum wants to be imposing his "morals" on you, and that that makes him in any way different from Obama, or practically any other human being. Santorum has a grasp of some issues that basically says Romney and Obama, and a lot of other "liberal" high-minded governance advocates are missing the point entirely. They should not be dictating to Catholics, or anyone else, by their government edicts, what any people of conscience should be allowed to do.
He's not going to stop anyone from doing anything they want to do. Except the government. He says the government should not be making those decisions for you.