[P2P-F] a reminder about ron paul

[Michel Bauwens]

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.

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