a reminder about ron paul
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/05/don%E2%80%99t-fall-for-ron-paul/ Paul voted against providing housing assistance to very low-income veterans, against expanding education benefits for returning troops, and against improving how the Department of Veterans Affairs is funded. No wonder the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave Paul a big fat F<http://iava.capwiz.com/bio/id/567&lvl=C&chamber=H>on their congressional scorecard. Paul’s anti-veteran votes are the logical conclusion of his libertarian politics. Libertarians hate “Big Government,” by which they mean just about every federal law and program under the sun. That’s why Paul is against the minimum wage<http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=501&Itemid=60>, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the food stamp program<http://www.nolanchart.com/article7907.html>, mandatory immunization<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-freedman/ron-paul-no-to-mandatory-_b_82765.html>, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act <http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html>that ended Jim Crow segregation. Yet Paul’s principled opposition to “Big Government” ends when it comes to the issue of immigration. He supports denying<http://www.nolanchart.com/article7907.html>undocumented immigrants any form of legal status, repealing <http://www.ontheissues.org/tx/Ron_Paul_Immigration.htm> the Constitution’s fourteenth amendment guaranteeing citizenship by birthright, militarizing the border, and forcing hospitals to report suspected undocumented immigrants. A consistent libertarian would oppose all immigration controls because they restrict an individual’s freedom to live where they please and interfere with the laws of supply and demand governing international labor markets. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
Maybe post less & read more. Start with the most recent “Reckless Endangerment” by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner-experts in financial journalism not right wingnuts. There you’ll trace through the Affordable Housing story. Irag/Afghan Vets give more money to RP than all other candidates combined. As 2 immigration-RP is in line with the overall view of average Americans-the ones demanding “Democracy Now.” I don’t think left elites really want democracy. The border is a very appropriate place for the military-when its keeping invaders out-not its citizens in. Paulistas don’t support an aggressive foreign policy-against regime change wars From: Michel Bauwens Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 7:29 AM To: p2p-foundation Subject: [P2P-F] a reminder about ron paul http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/05/don%E2%80%99t-fall-for-ron-paul/ Paul voted against providing housing assistance to very low-income veterans, against expanding education benefits for returning troops, and against improving how the Department of Veterans Affairs is funded. No wonder the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave Paul a big fat F on their congressional scorecard. Paul’s anti-veteran votes are the logical conclusion of his libertarian politics. Libertarians hate “Big Government,” by which they mean just about every federal law and program under the sun. That’s why Paul is against the minimum wage, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the food stamp program, mandatory immunization, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act that ended Jim Crow segregation. Yet Paul’s principled opposition to “Big Government” ends when it comes to the issue of immigration. He supports denying undocumented immigrants any form of legal status, repealing the Constitution’s fourteenth amendment guaranteeing citizenship by birthright, militarizing the border, and forcing hospitals to report suspected undocumented immigrants. A consistent libertarian would oppose all immigration controls because they restrict an individual’s freedom to live where they please and interfere with the laws of supply and demand governing international labor markets. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Natalie Golovin <[email protected]> wrote:
Maybe post less & read more. Start with the most recent “Reckless Endangerment” by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner-experts in financial journalism not right wingnuts. There you’ll trace through the Affordable Housing story. Irag/Afghan Vets give more money to RP than all other candidates combined. As 2 immigration-RP is in line with the overall view of average Americans-the ones demanding “Democracy Now.” I don’t think left elites really want democracy.
I don't think Paul would compromise human rights based on a democratic majority in any other area of policy. Suppose a majority of average Americans favored the Drug War? A majority has no rightful authority to use the state to exclude people from the territory of the United States, when there is vacant land to be homesteaded, any more than a majority of people on a suburban block have a right to prevent outsiders from moving into a house that doesn't belong to them. The people of the United States, or its government either, don't collectively own vacant land or have a right to exclude people from homesteading it. The central principles of libertarianism are non-aggression, and that no group of people -- including a state -- can rightfully exercise powers beyond the rightfull authority of an individual to delegate. And no voluntary grouping of individuals has a right to fence off a territory. As a practical matter, a border is a mathematical line on a map. There's no way it can be militarized or policed without a substantial degree of militarism and uniformed thuggery on the actual territory of the United States. And unless anti-immigration policy aims to have only the border itself as a single point of failure, it must be backed up by police statism in depth like "papers, please" laws and mandatory national IDs for employment. -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
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