Advocating Progress

kileyrae:

“Education isn’t a right. Medical care is not a right.”

No comment.

Ron Paul is an asshole. This needs to be repeated early & often, until enough people hear/read/see/know the truth. Ron Paul is an asshole. Ron Paul is an asshole.

moronpaul:

“Chernobyl was very very bad but we still don’t know the results here, and I think it was overblown.”

S.T.O.P-

Listen Ron, these are the kind of comments and views that make you sound like a conspiracy theorist, and/or a heartless piece of shit doctor who denies everything, EVEN CHERNOBLY, in effort to get his way. For the record, the damaging effects of chernobyl are terrifying, and VERY REAL. I would post photos, but the images of people (especially the children who were born after the disaster) are highly disturbing. How anyone, especially a medical doctor who calls himself a “scientist” coould doubt or question the serverity of Chernobyl, is beyond me. It’s no different than denying the severity of the Holocaust, or the concentration camps, which by the way- many of his followers do. Prime example; David Duke, or as someone refered to him in Ron Paul’s racist newsletters; “The Duke.” I’m begining to see more similarites between Ron Paul’s views and the views of his white supremacist groupies. [Chernobly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects]

Go on..

“Just not that many months ago, when we had an oil leak in the Gulf! They don’t show you any pictures of the damage anymore. I mean, that was a good excuse to put a moratorium on drilling in deep water.”

And by “excuse” you mean “cover up.” Looks like we got a conspiracy theorist folks! And actually Ron, you’re wrong: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=was+there+continual+photo+coverage+of+the+gulf+oil+disaster%3F

What else?..

*sigh*

“And I think that nuclear power is very very dangerous, but I’m also convinced it’s the SAFEST FORM OF ENERGY WE COULD EVER HAVE.”

Um.. VERY VERY DANGEROUS.. yet also .. IT’S THE SAFEST.. Makes.. sen- no it doesn’t. We have other much safer recourses but Ron Paul is clearly anti-environmental studies. He wants to get rid of the EPA for shit’s sake! Not to mention his voing record, and denial of climate change…

“The Environmentalist are gonna go nuts. And I’m scared to death they’re gonna quit buidling nuclear power plants!”

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Oh, for fuck’s sake. If they gave everyone the same rights, we wouldn’t have to fucking fight for them separately, you stupid clown.

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i really hate libertarians.

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goodreasonnews:

drinkthe-koolaid:

Ron Paul suggests basic freedoms depend on property rights

And here we come to what is my biggest problem with the libertarian philosophy. If you pay attention, you realize libertarianism elevates property rights above what most sane, rational people would say are inalienable human rights. It’s narcissism elevated to a political philosophy, and no matter how you dress it up, it’s just plain wrong.

Also, it would never work.

Somebody asked me earlier why I have such a problem with Ron Paul. I tried to explain it, but Mr. Paul does a much better job here.

 Ron Paul is an asshole.

timetruthhumor:

By Tanya Somanader at Think Progress:

This morning, Libertarian hero Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) announced that he will join the motley Republican presidential field, marking his third run for the office. Offering further insight into his presidential sensibility, Paul told CNN host Wolf Blitzer today that he would do away with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), even at a time of unprecedented need.

Viewing the agency as unconstitutional, Paul questioned why federal funds should pay to protect citizens from natural disasters and concluded, “It’s a moral hazard to say that government is always going to take care of us when we do dumb things“:

BLITZER: On the whole issue of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, do you want to see that agency ended?

PAUL: Well, if you want to live in a free society, if you want to pay attention to the constitution, why not? I think it’s bad economics. I think it’s bad morality. And it’s bad constitutional law. Why should people like myself, who had, not too long ago, a house on the Gulf Coast and it’s – it’s expensive there and it’s risky and it’s dangerous. Why should somebody from the central part of the United States rebuild my house? Why shouldn’t I have to buy my own insurance and protect about the potential dangers? I mean it’s – it’s a moral hazard to say that government is always going to take care of us when we do dumb things. I’m trying to get people to not to dumb things. Besides, it’s not authorized in the constitution.

BLITZER: And if there’s a disaster, like flooding or – or an earthquake or Hurricane Katrina, what’s wrong with asking fellow Americans to help their – their – their fellow citizens?

PAUL: Nothing. And I think Americans are very, very generous and they have traditionally. The big problem is Americans are getting poor and they’re not able to voluntarily come to the rescue.But to coerce people, to ask them to help, that is fine and dandy. But when you bankrupt our country and nobody has a job and then they say, well, FEMA needs to bail out everybody, then all we’re doing is compounding our problems.

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Paul’s brand of morality is particularly callous given the numerous natural disasters destroying Americans’ homes and livelihoods across the country right now, from floods to tornadoes to wildfire fires. Gov. Nathan Deal (R-GA) requested FEMA to respond to the devastating tornadoes that tore across the southern states, leaving at least 290 dead. Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) is telling Mississippians that are victims of disaster-level flooding to register with FEMA to receive federal aid.

After wildfires tore across Paul’s own state of Texas, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) pleaded for even more FEMA aid. Perry said that “the ‘severity and magnitude‘ of the fires was so great that FEMA should direct other federal agencies to step in and help run the fire-fighting effort in those counties.”

Paul’s suggestion that Americans are “dumb” for being victims of natural disasters is not only heartless, it seriously calls into question his credibility to preside over the country’s welfare.

(Source: truth-has-a-liberal-bias)