<a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/05/don%E2%80%99t-fall-for-ron-paul/">http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/05/don%E2%80%99t-fall-for-ron-paul/</a><br><br><br clear="all">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.
<p>No wonder the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave Paul a <a href="http://iava.capwiz.com/bio/id/567&lvl=C&chamber=H">big
fat F</a> on their congressional scorecard. </p>
<p>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 <a href="http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=501&Itemid=60">minimum
wage</a>, <a href="http://www.nolanchart.com/article7907.html">Social
Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the food stamp program</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-freedman/ron-paul-no-to-mandatory-_b_82765.html">mandatory
immunization</a>, and the <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html">1964 Civil Rights
Act</a> that ended Jim Crow segregation. </p>
<p>Yet Paul’s principled opposition to “Big Government” ends when it
comes to the issue of immigration. He supports <a href="http://www.nolanchart.com/article7907.html">denying</a>
undocumented immigrants any form of legal status, <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/tx/Ron_Paul_Immigration.htm">repealing</a>
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. </p><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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