http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6841086Oh my.
The sensitive lad, the piano-playing primitive:
goodboy (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:09 PM
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It's Jan 20 2009...What would Ron Paul have done as President?
Just got this from a FB friend:
"I'm not happy with either side. I'm for less national government involvement and more power going to the state legislatures. I'm against the thought process that something is broken, we need to fix it, we need to fix it now, let's get something to fix it, doesn't matter if what we are using to fix it isn't perfect, something needs to be done so let's just do it. I was against the bail outs and now I'm angry that the 'pay czar' is telling ceo's what their pay is going to be. What would make me happy? Ron Paul as president."
Barack_America (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:10 PM
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1. Canceled Medicare, Medicaid and unemployment insurance?
Shagbark Hickory (608 posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:11 PM
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2. I think the first thing he'd do is round up all the african americans and march them into the private contractor run concentration camps.
LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:12 PM
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4. Ended the recession immediately, disbanded Al-Qaeda -and everyone gets a free Corvette...
I thought that's what Bo promised us.
And we haven't gotten any of it yet.
The primitives promised us Bo would come through.
TayTay (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:14 PM
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6. Absolutely nothing
He would have been massively opposed in anything he wanted to do by an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress that did not agree with him on just about anything.
It would have been governmental paralysis on a massive scale.
Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:16 PM
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10. Well, he believes government should do absolutely nothing
Mission accomplished.
Rest assured that Ron Paul would at least do nothing better than Gee Dubya did.
Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:14 PM
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7. Abolish the government?
Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:15 PM
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9. Realistically, not a whole lot...
He would've had a helluva time getting anything through the Democratic congress.
Most likely, he would have probably taken a hands off approach on the US economy and it would've forced congress' hand as the crisis spiraled even more out of control.
The stock market would have probably tanked beyond what it did in March. Unemployment probably would be well beyond the 9% (or whatever it is) now due to a lack of stimulus.
There would be no healthcare debate at all. There would be no global warming discussion. Basically, it would've been like the last eight years, but probably worse.
Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:16 PM
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11. The good news is that all the useless foreign occupations would be over and marijuana would probably be legalized.
Bad news is that all government regulation and the public schools would have been abolished.
inna (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:54 PM
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18. He probably would've abolished the Fed as well (good), but that is not worth destroying social safety net (which he would've probably done as well).
Meh on Ron Paul, to say the least - even though he is probably less evil than most republican politicians.
The defrocked warped primitive:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:23 PM
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13. Ron Paul? Damned little
He'd have a hostile Congress, for one thing. He'd have canceled TARP and vetoed a stimulus bill, so the economy would be far worse. Forget about auto company bail outs and C4C, GM would be liquidating right now, hoping foreign companies would buy the bits and pieces. Oh, and forget about stem cell research; religion trumps science and compassion for that jerk. Reagan's gag rule for overseas family planning money would still be in force, also.
Unemployment would be higher, more banks would be failing, and states would be cutting vital services along with more jobs.
Once things got desperate, Congress would likely pass stimulus legislation over his veto, but they'd have to get really desperate. With Paul's ideological zealotry in force, they'd get desperate quickly.
Small government that only runs the military is a great idea for the super rich because the military is the only part of the government they make full use of, protecting their overseas corporations from overseas peasants.
Small government for everyone else means no services and no infrastructure. Think about that for a minute and think about what it would be like without decent roads, traffic lights, signage, firefighters, the postal service, police, libraries, schools, and no regulations in place to make sure our food, water and medicine are all safe.
Ron Paul is a man of privilege who has never thought of any of this and he is incapable of doing so. He would be an unmitigated disaster for everyone but the billionaires.
Sounds like the Kennedys.....and Bo himself.
goodboy (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:46 PM
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15. I like your post. Why have young people seemed to jump in with him?
anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:49 PM
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17. Paul is an isolationist, and would dismantle the American Empire
So the rich are not particularly fond of him either. I also don't like him because his economic ideas are terrible.
That's franksolich's main bitch about the Texas congressman.
It's America's moral, spiritual, material, and historic obligation to get involved in countries where those in power are murdering their own people; and the more we do it, the better the world would be.
get the red out (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:36 PM
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14. Freedom for white males
And they'll have the guns to make sure women and minorities stay in their place. That's how I view the "Paulites".
Johonny (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 01:46 PM
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16. Everyones for more state power until they found out their state absolutely sucks at something they have power in. Who wants to live in the state that gets health care wrong, civil rights wrong, education wrong, housing wrong...
