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To the people making the claim. Please elaborate for this slow hick from Texas. What exactly is extreme about his consistent position on the issues?
To the people making the claim. Please elaborate for this slow hick from Texas. What exactly is extreme about his consistent position on the issues?
Ron Paul is too dam old.............
I wouldn’t say ‘extreme’ but naïve, reactionary, an anachronism – he has this inane idea the government can be returned to the way it was 200 years ago – literally. He doesn’t understand the United States is an industrialized First World superpower of the 21st Century, not the 18th Century; we have the government we have for a reason, there’s simply no going back.To the people making the claim. Please elaborate for this slow hick from Texas. What exactly is extreme about his consistent position on the issues?
well that's the scary part, those changes are on the horizon Editec , serving as sirens for all who would foist extreemism upon us
we really are in deep doo doo.....
1. 33% of Men Don't Have Jobs
2.74% of Americans Will Buy Less
3. Gas Up Nearly $1 This Year
4. Property Tax Creep -- In 2005 the median property tax on a home in the United States was $1,614. It's now $1,917, Bloomberg
5. 8 Million Americans Behind on Mortgage
6. Typical Homeowner in Foreclosure Hasn't Paid Mortgage in 1.5 Years
7. 13% of All Houses Are Empty and Maine is leading the way with 23% of its housing stock empty.
8. Children in Poverty Up 2 Million in 2 Years
9.Half of American workers Earn Less Than $500/Week
10. Credit Card Debt Up 800% (since 1981)
11. $900 Billion in Student Loan Debts
12. 1.5 Million More Bankrupt (One and a half million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2010, the fourth consecutive increase in yearly bankruptcy filings )
13. 52 Million Uninsured (Over the last decade, the number of Americans without health insurance has risen from about 38 million to about 52 million
14. Medical Bills Behind 60% of Bankruptcies
15. Household Wealth Falls 23% (from $125,000 in 2007 to $96,000 in 2009.)
16. 25% of Households Have Zero or Negative Net Wealth
Almost 25 percent of all U.S. households now have zero or negative net worth -- in 2007, that number was just 18.6 percent.
When I was taking a political science class, the Professor put up a graphic (which unfortunately I can't find now) which ranked members of Congress on their support for individual social and economic freedoms (two axes). The Democrats formed a blob that was strong on individual social freedoms and weak on individual economic freedoms. The Republicans were weaker on social freedoms and stronger on economic freedoms (their blob was also tighter-- suggesting a more ideologically cohesive party). Off to one side, far further down towards complete economic freedom than any of his colleagues, was Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is clearly extreme compared to his colleagues. That's why a large minority of people nationwide much prefer him to any other Congressperson. We can argue over whether Paul's positions are correct, but I think it's clear that they are extreme.
Since the original post asks for particular positions that are extreme (see, eg, Wikipedia),
-- Sharply isolationist foreign policy, including withdrawal from UN, NATO, ignoring threats like Iran.
-- Decriminalization of drugs, at least at the federal level.
-- Opposes virtually all federal interference with the market process
-- Eliminating the Departments of Education, HHS, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy. Eliminating FEMA, the ICC, and the IRS.
-- Elimination of the income tax and repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Ron Paul is too dam old.............
Too old to save us from the Socialism all the other candidates seem to promote? If he only lived 2yrs of his term he would put policy's and people in place to turn this country around. NOBODY is ever too old if he is the only right choice.
To the people making the claim. Please elaborate for this slow hick from Texas. What exactly is extreme about his consistent position on the issues?
I don't think you understand what consistency means
Consistency doesn't necessarily make one more or less extreme.
One can be consistently extreme.
Stalin and Mao were rather consistent.
They were also somewhat consistently extreme.
Not that I think RP is like stalin or Mao, but consistency hasn't anything necessarily to do with extremism.
When I was taking a political science class, the Professor put up a graphic (which unfortunately I can't find now) which ranked members of Congress on their support for individual social and economic freedoms (two axes). The Democrats formed a blob that was strong on individual social freedoms and weak on individual economic freedoms. The Republicans were weaker on social freedoms and stronger on economic freedoms (their blob was also tighter-- suggesting a more ideologically cohesive party). Off to one side, far further down towards complete economic freedom than any of his colleagues, was Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is clearly extreme compared to his colleagues. That's why a large minority of people nationwide much prefer him to any other Congressperson. We can argue over whether Paul's positions are correct, but I think it's clear that they are extreme.
Since the original post asks for particular positions that are extreme (see, eg, Wikipedia),
-- Sharply isolationist foreign policy, including withdrawal from UN, NATO, ignoring threats like Iran.
-- Decriminalization of drugs, at least at the federal level.
-- Opposes virtually all federal interference with the market process
-- Eliminating the Departments of Education, HHS, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy. Eliminating FEMA, the ICC, and the IRS.
-- Elimination of the income tax and repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution