January 2008 - Posts

Every time I hear him speak, Ron Paul teaches me something

Ever since I started really contemplating the state of our country with the Military-Industrial Complex and how it controls our government through lobbying and no-compete contracts and political contributions, it has made me angry.  I always thought that we need to make laws to change this.  We need to somehow restrict the ability for lobbyists to control politicians.

I was wrong. 

Ron Paul had a "Town Hall Meeting" in New Hampsure, that he was forced to do by Fox ("Fair and Balanced", yeah right!) because they excluded him from the debates.  In this meeting, he mentioned that restricting lobbyists could potentially violate people's Constitutional rights.  He said the real solution, instead of restricting lobbyists, is to restrict the politicians.  The way to do that is to limit the power the government has.  If we have a small, Constitutional government, the lobbyists wouldn't have any motivation to give money to politicians. 

The answer was so simple, I never thought of it.  This country needs more men like Ron Paul in politics.
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George McGovern speaks about Bush-Cheney

This is a well-written cry for help for our country.  This man has the wisdom of age and the experience of having run for President in the past.  He ran against Nixon and he is pining for the days that his old adversary was President...

Read the article here
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Another reason I'm being convinced that Universal Health Care is a good idea...

I have decided that Universal health care is a good idea.  Not for the typical bleeding heart "we must cradle everyone in our arms and allow them to suckle on the taxpayers teats"-kind of approach, but ... we're already paying for it anyway.  Just look at all these a-holes in the "Emergency" room that just have a cold or a splinter... never mind the illegals, homeless, etc..  Rather than having hospitals close because their Emergency Room is going bankrupt, we might as well drink the Kool-Aid and get it over with.  Give everyone a basic level of health care (NOT illegals). 

Now, I have another reason: atheism.  I am an atheist (why aren't you?).  This article explains how the rise in universal health care in other first-world countries is just the security blanket that people need so that they stop praying to the Easter Bunny to help them win the Superbowl.  That, and how atheists and agnostics are increasing in numbers at a crazy rate while theist are not.  Yay!



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