Ron Paul/FP.com Flashback Pop Quiz

Adam Weinberg

Goldwater Republican
Two members of FullPolitics.com posted this statement of principles by Congressman Ron Paul in 2006. Name the one that ain't me who also wrote:

"I would vote for anyone that is truely promoting what is in Ron Pauls letter."

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If we’re inclined to improve conditions, we should give serious consideration to the following policy reforms, reforms the American people who cherish liberty would enthusiastically support:

1. No more “No Child Left Behind” legislation;

2. No more prescription drug programs;

3. No more undeclared wars;

4. No more nation building;

5. No more acting as the world policemen;

6. No more deficits;

7. Cut spending—everywhere;

8. No more political and partisan resolutions designed to embarrass those who may well have legitimate and honest disagreements with current policy;

9. No inferences that disagreeing with policy is unpatriotic or disloyal to the country;

10. No more pretense of budget reform while ignoring off-budget spending and the ever-growing fourteen appropriations bills;

11. Cut funding for corporate welfare, foreign aid, international NGOs, defense contractors, the military industrial complex, and rich corporate farmers before cutting welfare for the poor at home;

12. No more unconstitutional intrusions into the privacy of law-abiding American citizens;

13. Reconsider the hysterical demands for security over liberty by curtailing the ever-expanding and oppressive wars on drugs, tax violators, and gun ownership.


Finally, why not try something novel, like having Congress act as an independent and equal branch of government? Restore the principle of the separation of powers, so that we can perform our duty to provide checks and balances on an executive branch (and an accommodating judiciary) that spies on Americans, glorifies the welfare state, fights undeclared wars, and enormously increases the national debt. Congress was not meant to be a rubber stamp. It’s time for a new direction.
 
The answer?

None other than uscitizen, then writing as "dicksie"!


...Wasn't this even better than those slides at the movies?
 
I thought that looked familiar. But then would would believe anything a politician said ? Has /ron Paul stood up for these items ?

Notice the opening qualifier.
"I would vote for anyone that is truely promoting what is in Ron Pauls letter."

People just talk it no one has the balls to do it.
 
I would say he definitely has stood up for each and every one of these things, and that they all make up a significant part of his Presidential campaign.
 
each and every one, did he vote for none of bush's spending, etc ?
even if so he would be more impotent than Cartter to get them done.
 
He's always been a Republican. When you quoted him in the letter he was a Republican.

Does this prevent him from having good ideas?
 
His voting record does not quite match his list.....
Also his voting record seems to show a pro business view like Bush.

Voted to zero fund OHSA .....
From watching China we can see this approach will not work. Nice ideology but does not work with greedy humans.
 
No, his voting record indicates he has a pro-free market view. This is different than being for "business interests" because that is always directed toward one politically-favored source or another.

He is firmly against corporate welfare and even outlines it in the opening list of this thread.
 
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