The very untalented journalists of MSN are out with a hit piece on Ron Paul because, while in service of the public and engaging his usual fight of government spending, he himself logged 49 flights in first class accomodations.
Woah! A millionaire congressman that flies first class? What is this world coming to??
Needless to say, Ron Paul could have saved the U.S. government some totally meaningless amount of money, measuring in the tens of thousands of dollars, had he flown coach. And I’m sure that the authors have nothing but praise for the trillions of liabilities that current U.S. policies have undertaken and will very likely be defaulted on in the near future.
Next up, a wonderful effort on the horrible waste Ron Paul imposes on the U.S. citizenry by offering fresh fruit to his office staff. Or for buying Swiss cheese, as opposed to American. Thank God MSN is always there, keeping us in the loop of the really important things.
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lol…Funny they forgot about Nancy Pelosi’s PRIVATE jet, paid for by taxpayers, and the 200K in food and beverages she served on it, paid for by the taxpayers.
Hey, did you see the latest liberal media fuck-up? They found a picture of Romney sitting in a chair on the tarmac get his shoes sniffed by an explosives sniffing wand in the hand of a TSA person. What did the media say he was doing? Getting his shoes shined, on the tarmac, outside his private jet. Modern journalism is a complete shame. Pure propaganda.
exactly .. there is no hanky-panky coming from objective journalism on the too-balanced right
Yep, Paul is shelling out a irrelevant amount of money for some extra work space while in transit.
The only way you can nail Paul for this is if you feel that his compensation in net is excessive. Sum up all the perks and benefits and direct pay, then look at the number and try and tell me he’s not worth the money.
I can think of way more useless Congress critters that waste way more resources than that on considerably more corrupt things, like their own reelection campaigns, or loans and grants for their closest friends and supporters.
$30,000 a year from a guy that keeps his head up, actively pushes lower net spending where it would actually make a difference, and is very busy working to those ends, is not at all what I’d call wasteful. I’d call it well worth the pay.
Its interesting to see how much the media dislikes Ron Paul. They tried to ignore him at first but now that he is gaining attention are resorting to the usual hit pieces. It just means he is getting under their skin.
Looking at U.S. demographics, a Ron Paul presidency would destroy Obama. The guy is just super popular among fiscal conservatives and independents.
The GOP would lose Social Conservatives, but who the fuck cares? SocCons aren’t really conservatives anyway. They have the same love of spending other peoples money as liberals, they just blow it on opposing causes. And the best thing is you know SocCons won’t vote for Obama…the fiscal conservatives have nothing to gain from hanging out with the big spenders in the GOP any longer.
Yep.
Well said. I also think Ron Paul has the best chance of beating Obama, since he is the only candidate that can actually take some of the base that Obama galvanized last go around. If it is a choice between Romney and Obama libriterains will hold their noses and vote Obama, with Paul the choice isn’t clear.
Also with the massive amount of hate Paul gets from the media I think he genuinely may do something that changes the status quo, or at least they think so.
why would libertarians vote for 0bama? he represents none of their ideas. think you got your political group mixed up.
nevermind. libritarians. light bulb on.
No way that that the majority of libertarians vote for Obama. Independents, maybe.
True libertarians will vote for Gary Johnson, assuming Paul doesn’t get the nod. This three way split between Johnson, Romney, and Obama will benefit Obama.
http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-west-palm-beach/gary-johnson-polling-9-nationally-inching-further-toward-obama
give them a pulitzer for fabulous investigative journalism!
Paul’s Son, Rand, just returned 500k to the taxpayers–unheard of.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/01/rand-paul-returns-k-in-office-budget-to-treasury-110637.html
This is the worst they could find on him? What a joke. This is absolutely laughable, but I’m sure it will get some media play. People still do not understand how much a billion dollars is, let alone a trillion.
Jim DeMint’s Libertarian Lesson:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/13/jim-demints-libertarian-lesson/
This week, Sen. Jim DeMint offered some advice to the Republican Party: “The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. … There’s no longer room for moderates and liberals because we don’t have any money to spend, so I don’t want to be debating with anyone who wants to grow government.”
Sounds about right. People who can’t count would disagree, and I’m sure I’ll here lots of proposals how we can offer another $100 billion welfare program if we just slash that $500 million of discretionary spending…which will later be revoked by a Senator fighting for reelection, of course.
*hear
This week, Sen. Jim DeMint offered some advice to the Republican Party: “The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. … There’s no longer room for moderates and liberals because we don’t have any money to spend, so I don’t want to be debating with anyone who wants to grow government.”
Ugh this is exactly what is wrong with fiscal conservatives. How the heck can the U.S. not have money to spend if the U.S. can print it? I understand the need to cut wasteful spending and promote efficient spending, but the U.S. is broke argument is just and ideological talking point.
Brian, you either raise taxes or cut spending. There is no other way. Printing creates inflation, which is itself a tax. So again, either cut spending or raise taxes. We’re not broke. You’re right. But we will have to raise taxes, and honestly, taxes cannot be raised high enough to fund our current levels of spending. So really, there is only one choice- cut spending.
Production determines wealth, not stupid slips of paper. And when printing money would seriously harm production (in effect, right now) then yes a government, even one that can print it’s own currency, can very much go broke.
The only concern that I have for a Ron Paul presidency is that if he ends puts some hardcore idealist into the Fed, the consequences will be grave, because their books have shit for assets. We all know it; now is not the time to start that conversation.
Leave it for sunnier days when a market run will not finish off what 4 years of hardship has left crippled.
Lol the guy has inverse etfs in his portfolio (no long etfs) and all gold and miner stocks. Do you really need to guess what happens if he becomes president?
But not to worry. Because he’s not becoming president, you paulbot cultists.
Probably true, he’ll get buried in the primary. But if he somehow wins the GOP nomination, next stop is presidency.
His support isn’t strong enough among conservatives and mainstream republicans. I read that a decent amount of his support is actually from leftists, believe it or not. But he’s really not popular even though some of his young college-age drones like to pretend he is taking the country by storm lol. He’s an old fool, and old voters know an old fool when they see one.
I would say that getting independents and democrats to vote is a pretty good thing if you want a candidate that will win the general election. Right now Romneys in the lead and Paul is 2nd among republicans, I don’t know that it’s taking the country by storm but it is certainly is fairly popular relative to the rest of the field save for Romney. Romney and Paul both are even against Obama (within the 3% margin of error). Everyone else you can be 90% confident based on polling numbers that they would not win if election were held today.
Um, no because evangelicals will stay home, and ron paul doesn’t have nearly enough Dem support to beat the wonder boy Obama. I mean, if you really think he’s drawing that much leftist support, don’t you think he’d run on the democrat ticket? What you envision with Paul will not win an election against Obama. Romney himself will have great difficulty, but come on with this.
If Perry was Rupaul’s VP they’d be a perfect combo for president of the nursing home.