Government Solutions Lack Understanding...R'N'R 'N' Paulitics (Ron Paul)
-
Artist:
-
Album:
-
Track:
Things seem to be unraveling quickly for the new administration. The latest unemployment numbers are worse than the last reports. For all the billions of dollars spent and committed to fixing our economic problems, the situation is only getting worse. This was to be expected by those who understand the root causes of the problems. Throwing money around and creating more government programs is both simplistic and damaging to the economy. Of course, the administration claims that we would have been much worse off without these efforts. You can't improve this situation by adding to our mountain of public debt for the benefit of big banks and other special interests. The American people know this. When will Washington learn? In addition, the president's plans for healthcare reform - or health insurance reform - are becoming more and more unpopular as details are examined. But because of all the alarmist rhetoric, politicians in Washington feel obligated to pass something, even if it doesn't help. Rarely are liberty and prosperity at greater risk than when politicians feel they must "do something". It is frightening to watch Washington toy with our healthcare purely for political reasons. However, the saddest shortcoming of this administration is its utter failure to pursue a more peaceful foreign policy. Just last week up to 90 people, apparently mostly civilians, were killed in Afghanistan in an airstrike, and the violence is only getting worse. The administration is mulling over how many more troops they will send as part of their "Afghan Surge" with advisors getting it exactly backwards. They qualify sending fewer troops as "high-risk" and sending more troops as "low-risk".
This is not the perception at all if you were to ask the families of those being sent over. The best answer would be to stop risking any of our troops for the sake of what is, for all intents and purposes, a violent occupation, helping no one. But all of these problems and their wrong-headed solutions come from one greater problem - which is not understanding the reasons that we are here. The economy is in bad shape because of too much government intervention producing a myriad of unintended consequences and perverse incentives. Healthcare is broken because the doctor-patient relationship has been broken down by hyper regulation and too much government interference. Afghanistan is a mess because they ignored the mission approved by Congress - to seek out those who attacked us on 9/11.
They have instead gotten sidetracked with nebulous interventionist tasks such as promoting democracy and nation building. Eight years later, there is no real progress. The Soviets bankrupted themselves fighting in the mountains and caves of Afghanistan and we're about to do the same. If we would just look to history it would be self-evident that there is nothing left to win in Afghanistan, and everything to lose. Most of all, we need to understand that we don't understand Afghan culture and politics, and for that reason alone, intervening in their affairs is unlikely to produce positive results. The best thing we could possibly do now is to bring our troops home, from Afghanistan, from Iraq, from Japan, from Germany, from all occupied countries, and concentrate on mending badly damaged relationships around the world. Free and honest trade has always been the best way to do that, without fail. Not understanding the benefits of peace, freedom, and nonintervention will always bring about catastrophe.
-Ron Paul- http://www.house.gov/paul/
Comments (8)
Disagree with a lot. Totally on board with the Afghanistan stuff though.
Ditto, Cody....
Cody: I thought you would...
;)
.....all over America Cities & towns are going bankrupt & outrageous benefits afforded unionized city employee's play a significant role in the coming insolvencey. Many of these cities & towns are getting "Stimulus Money" to save or create more unionized positions in police, firefighting, & teacher unions, When this stimulus money has been exhausted, the cities & towns will be saddled with greater expenses then before they received these monies and will have to raise taxes or further reduce services to their weary citizenry
.........and then there is healthcare.
Deadman...: The benefits are not as good as they use to be for unions. School unions are member supported,or at least should be. The way I see giving stmulis to towns & cities, is giving back money they shouldn't taken from the states in the first place. We need to pull the troops out, it's an unjustified war, wasting tax payers, & killing American, & Iraqi soilders.
As far as healthcare, Obama did say some good things yeterday on healthcare. Whether he'll follow through is another story. It seemed like GWB said a lot of good things but didn't follow through. I'm hoping Obama doesn't do the same, although he already has on somethings.
Here's an interesting article about this I just read today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090910/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_heckling
Deadman...: The benefits are not as good as they use to be for unions
.....but, on average, still far better than the constituents they serve
"...but, on average, still far better than the constituents they serve"
I really don't know what you mean by that.
Yes they are better, as far as the School districts go. I've only delt with them only in CA, as a classified emplyee. We were under PERS. Cerfied employee's, like teacher's were under FURS. The problem in CA we were having was that a lot of insurance co were going under mainly fron frivoulis lawsuits. It got to the point where they were pasting the buck to the classified employee's. Meaning each individual employee could get sued for things the insurance co were suppose to cover. Ca was down from around 80 to 3 Co in CA when I use to work for them. Our district had a pretty good union. Some of the other districts I heard. It's was a tough job to get, but when you were in, you were in. You really had to mess up to get fired especially if you were in the union. You had the option in out district at the time, not to join. But you did get a lot of slack if you didn't.