Ron Paul is a LEFTIST!

• Posted by Jonathan Cousar June 23, 2011 - Filed in 2012 PRESIDENTIAL - #Ron Paul  - 723 views

  There are a lot of things to think about when it comes to Ron Paul. He is a libertarian who has been consistent since his election to Congress in 1976 in advocating unilateral disarmament of America’s defense and trade policy. 
  
  Many of his supporters describe themselves as conservatives, but they back a national security agenda which is almost identical with the radical left.
  
  The introduction to Paul’s book on foreign policy says the Cold War and the War on Terror are both a “farce”, and designed to justify a larger role for government. He compares the U.S. role in Afghanistan to “a schoolyard bully.”
  
  DEFICIT SPENDING: He claims to be for limited government but Ron and Rand Paul were among the few Republicans who opposed the Paul Ryan budget to reduce the deficit by $6.2 trillion over a decade. They said it did not cut enough, but they would not accept the Ryan plan as a starting point.
  
  EARMARKS: He is the only GOP candidate who continues to support earmarks and pork barrel spending. He votes against every appropriations bill but only after making sure he has received his usual $400 million every year.
  
  TRADE: He claims to support free trade but votes against every free trade agreement. He wants America to leave the WTO, and is one of the greatest protectionists on Capitol Hill. ABORTION: He claims to be pro-life, and says the Right to Life is the foundation for all rights in the Constitution. The truth is that he is really pro-choice on the state level. That is the purpose of his Sanctity of Life Bill. He is essential saying it is fine with him to kill a child if a state agrees.
  
  IMMIGRATION: He claims to be against illegal immigration, but has voted against the border fence and the E-Verify program to stop employers from hiring illegal aliens. In fact, he is against all laws that prohibit employers from hiring illegal aliens.
  
  He opposes Arizona’s get tough policies and the deportation of people who are here illegally. He claims to oppose amnesty but that is what his program advocates. If a state wants open borders that is fine with him. NumbersUSA gives him an “F” rating on immigration.
  
  DEFENSE: Paul, 75, says he supports a strong national defense but the $1 trillion in Pentagon reductions he is seeking would end all modernization and readiness programs. It would return America to the hollow military of the 1970s when many service members were eligible for food stamps. Bush and Obama now agree on practically every war on terror policy including the Patriot Act and the use of Predator drones. They are opposed by Ron Paul and Code Pink. WAR ON DRUGS: Paul would immediately end the war on drugs. All dangerous drugs would be legal if they were approved by a state government.
  
  CIVIL RIGHTS: He is the only Republican in the House or Senate who opposes the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We have heard his sovereignty arguments before. That is what the Southern states said when they started the Civil War. They said it again in the Southern Manifesto of 1957 to keep black children out of public schools, and when they tried to stop the Civil Rights Act. Eisenhower and Kennedy had to send in the U.S. military to open the schools.
  
  FOREIGN POLICY: The Congressman says if he was President 1) He would not have authorized the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. 2) Iraq would have been allowed to take over Kuwait. 3) He would have done nothing if Saddam Hussein threatened to capture three-quarters of the world's reserves by taking over the Saudi oil fields.
  
  An attack on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia would have violated the UN charter and had terrible repercussions for our energy security, but Paul would not have responded because "it did not involve an attack on America." 4) No U.S. soldiers were killed in the former Yugoslavia but he believes it was wrong to join the NATO mission which stopped genocide, ethnic cleansing and rape camps. The Milosevic dictatorship would have continued and Bosnia would have been taken over if it was up to Ron Paul.
  
  ISRAEL: He rarely fails to repeat propaganda from terrorist groups. He claims Israel is keeping food, medicine and humanitarian supplies out of Gaza, even though the Red Cross says this is not true and there is no crisis. He claims Palestinians are confined to a "concentration camp." He is the only Republican who refused to vote for the resolution condemning Iran’s President after he said “Israel should be wiped off the map.” He voted against a resolution recognizing Israel's "right to defend itself against Hamas rocket attacks" and reaffirming the U.S.'s support for Israel.
  
  INTELLIGENCE: He accuses the CIA of being in the drug business and says they need to be “taken out. There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.” The CIA did not invent crack cocaine and they have never been in the drug business.
  
  It is Muslim extremists who intentionally target civilians, not the CIA or the US military. ISOLATIONISM AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES: The Texas Congressman is a firm isolationist and wants to pull out of NATO, and to abandon our veto in the UN Security Council. He promotes many conspiracy theories. He frequently talks of the dangers of the North American Union, an “Amero” currency and a “NAFTA Superhighway.” None of these things exists and they were never planned by the U.S. government.
  
  GOLD STANDARD: He is the author of four books advocating a return to the gold standard. It did not work in the past, and no country has ever been able to maintain it. Gold is not sound money and it can be easily manipulated. Gold based dollars were devalued in the past to make exports cheaper. Gold would decrease the U.S. monetary supply by about half, cause massive deflation and threaten an economic collapse.
  
  ECONOMICS: Paul advocates the Austrian School of Economics which is totally ignored by mainstream academia. The standard economics texts used on the university level do not even mention it. There are no more than 75 scholars worldwide who follow the Austrian School while there are over 20,000 economists in the American Economics Association. Mainstream economists use the scientific method, but the Austrians reject it. Mainstream economists make heavy use of statistics, but the Austrians claim they have little value. Mainstream economists believe in fiat money, while the Austrians believe in the gold standard. Libertarian economics is a small cult. 
  
  GUN CONTROL: The Congressman has always been a strong supporter of gun rights, but his unusual views are a real danger to the Second Amendment. He rejects the entire idea that the federal Bill of Rights should be applied to the states. If the states did not have to follow the bill of rights they could ignore the Second Amendment and disarm their residents.
  
  He wants no restrictions at all, but there is no right to own a bazooka, tank or fighter jet. The radical libertarians want no restrictions on gun ownership. No background checks to prevent convicted criminals, registered sex offenders, suspected terrorists, illegal immigrants or anyone else from getting their hands on fully automatic weapons.