I’ve seen the debate, and just reviewed some of it – I forgot the IRS, which is major. Now I’m just trying to find a list of the agencies he would like to see gone. If you know of a list like this, let me know.

>Ron Paul has not yet published a detailed plan, but has stated several ideas in the debates and other speeches. Withdrawing US forces from Iraq and other countries around the world would save close to $200 billion per year. Closing down the departments of Education ($56B), Energy ($23B), and Homeland Security ($32B), and ending foreign aid ($26B), could save well more than $100 billion annually. In his speech announcing his presidential bid, Ron Paul said that no real fiscal conservative could doubt that federal spending could be reduced by at least 25 percent, so expect further across-the-board budget cuts.

From http://paul4prez.blogspot.com/2007/07/could-ron-paul-really-abolish-irs.html

Kucinich doesn’t look too bad, but I don’t agree with a few things. I like him a lot more than the other democratic candidates. Banning the legal sale of guns is a bad idea since it only leaves the black market. Why would anyone vote for someone who only wants the criminals to have guns? His opposition to visas is something I agree with, as well as his end to the war on drugs, Iraq withdrawal, pro-choice-ness, and gay marriage. Another one I don’t like is the abolition of the death penalty. I don’t like paying for the rehabilitation of extremely violent criminals.

I don’t really see what’s wrong with the Secure Fence Act since it was defunded as soon as it was put into effect. I would like to stop illegal immigration, and the Act supports that by funding border patrol.

Ron Paul **would** change things. He wants to eliminate the IRS. He wants to make healthcare preventative rather than reactive. I don’t agree on all his social issues, but he has a non-intervention policy on the Internet, so I don’t really see where you’re coming from on the Internet belonging to Ron Paul. He votes against the Republican party routinely, so he’s not the puppet you say he is. He voted against the Iraq War from day one, something the democrats didn’t even do.

Thanks for the comment though – I’ve learned a lot from the comments on this post – I hope its Paul vs. Kucinich in the end (Gravel is a little too crazy for me).

Yeah, so I’ve been a Paulite for a long time. At least one of the Repub debates so far had Ron Paul going on a tangent talking about things other than the Fed he’d abolish. I think the first one.

Anyway, I’m down with everything he says, but I think it’s odd that you’d write about him that way without having seen that debate.

BTW… all your internets belong to Ron Paul in the end. He’s a @#$%.
Anybody who supports the Secure Fence Act and rubs elbows with Reagan must be.
He may play hip, but he’s a drone like the rest. This country will go a little bit of nowhere with him in office.

I want something to actually change in this country. Dennis Kucinich FTW.

IRSSI FTW as well :)