Abortion is such a bs issue. RP does not want the Fedgov involved in legislating life or death. He also does not want taxpayer money spent on abortions. Why should someone in Arizona pay for an abortion of someone in Maine? I'm prochoice, but when a baby can survive anywhere after 24 weeks, it makes me raise an eyebrow when people can still go through an abortion.....Dr. or patient.
Birthright citizenship? Oh please. By all means when a government has free healthcare & welfare, who wouldn't drop anchor babies to get all the freebies? You realize this is an actual, habitual thing that happens. Being indirectly involved in the healthcare industry, I can tell you it's quite the mess. Something the founding fathers probably didn't think about when they drafted that part of the constitution. By the way, keep the birthright clause and eliminate welfare for the anchors and it will solve the problem.
He believes government shouldn't be involved in legislating marriage of either/any sex. He doesn't care who gets married to whom. He, as many people don't think that the government should even be involved in marriage.
You're going to hang your hat on the voting rights act? Which was packaged full of other suspect provisions. It was an overreach of the fedgov, as usual. Do you really think that if that act wasn't passed, that the states would try to prevent people from voting based on racial lines? I highly doubt it. Those problems have been resolved years ago.
The civil rights act was unconsitutional. Not to mention that most of the southern democrats opposed it as unconstitutional as well. These were states rights obligations and would have been handled through free association of people, without any of the quotas. If you are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the USA, why would you complain about people that vote to uphold it?
The separation of Church & state. Wow, you're really digging now. Because I'm sure we would have a Baptist sermon before each congressional meeting. Funny thing, isn't there a prayer at the beginning and end of most of these political functions? Who said the prayer at Obamas inauguration? Being an Atheist myself, I could really care less.
Any country that believes in sovereignty would oppose the Kyoto treaty. There is no reason to sign on to a globalist pact, when we will be the country paying for all of it. Environmental issues can be handled within the US, not at the behest of the UN and lobbyists.
All tax cuts are good. We should eliminate ALL personal income taxes. If we did that, we would still have the same amount of money coming into the US Treasury as we did in 1999. Think about that for a minute. If we were able to streamline and reduce spending back to 1999 levels we could eliminate the entire personal income tax and still fund our government operations, including the military by other means (tariffs, surcharges, fuel taxes etc...). I say that would be a good stimulus program, don't you?
RP would not drain the Social Security system. In fact he's stated many times that he would reduce the spending from overseas imperialism & military adventurism and use the money to stabilize the SS program. You realize that Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid will be practically bankrupt in 10 years, right? That's before all the other trillions of dollars have been added to the deficit. What are you going to do when the SS program bankrupts itself? I for one, would like my own money to invest my own way.
Another note aboug Social Security. If the government established a personal account for each of us for our SS, and provided a fixed 5% return on Treasury bills, we could then finance our own SS program, while paying for the T-bills at the same time. Novel idea eh? The government couldn't touch our accounts & drain them for their "For the public good" mentality.
How does the Brady bill & the assault weapons ban improve our lives? It did absolutely nothing for violent crime and murders. besides, it's unconstitutional. The 2nd ammendment was established to protect the people from the government. Somehow, this is always overlooked.
Who needs to be in the UN? Are you kidding? What benefit does the UN do? Oh wait, unless you mean UN's involvement in Rwanda? I believe there was 1 million people killed and the UN just sat by and watched. What else has the UN botched? We could be here all day.
Who cares how people educate their kids? If they can pass the competency tests at the end, why does it matter if they attend a public indoctrination school? You realize the home schooled kids test much higher than the public educated kids, don't you?
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sdczen on
03/27/2009 02:07:55 AM EST
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