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“How do you know if a politician is lying? His lips are moving.”

Sure it’s an old joke, but the truth of it is inescapable.  Why do any of us even bother to listen to politicians in speeches and debates?  What they say is meaningless.  Most of the time they just spew platitudes and buzz words.  When they actually discuss their positions or make promises, then what they say means even less.

From listening to Hillary and Obama, you’d think they are against the war in Iraq.  Sometimes they even rail against the direction our government is taking with the Patriot Act.

So which of the leading candidates voted against the War in Iraq?  Not Hillary, she was for it.  Ron Paul was the only popular candidate with the wisdom to go against the majority in 2002.

In 2001 surely Hillary was against the Patriot Act!  Nope, she voted for it.  What about when it resurfaced in 2006, Hillary once again supports the right wing stance of giving up civil liberties to big government.

What about Obama?  He wasn’t in the Senate to vote for the War in Iraq.  But he did vote for the Patriot Act reauthorization in 2006.  Although he spoke against some of the provisions, ultimately he supported the Patriot Act.

There is only one candidate that has consistently stood by his position, whether it was popular or not:  Ron Paul.  If you want out of Iraq, if you want your civil liberties returned, support the candidate that has a proven track record of standing by his convictions.

By the time most of us are the voting age we should have learned the valuable life lesson:

“It’s what they DO, not what they SAY that matters.”

Unfortunately we are all too lazy to bother looking up the candidates voting records…

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Fred Thompson (who bores me) gets a lot of coverage.  So I asked a web savvy friend this:

“Can you see how many searches there are for each of the republican candidates in the search engines?  I want to see where Ron Paul falls into that rank.  I’m really shocked that there’s been no mention of him in any media since he came in fourth last night at 8%, and Fred Thompson gets mentioned for getting 1%.”

The results shocked me.  My web guru replied:

“OMG, I know!  It drives me crazy to keep hearing about boring old Thompson who has so little support when Ron Paul is fascinating - even to people that hate capitalism and free societies.”

Here are the results:

#1 Ron Paul 17,400/day

#2 Mike Huckabee 7,900/day

#3 Hillary Clinton 6,700/day

#4 Barack Obama 5,200/day

#5 Fred Thompson 3,500/day

#6 Mitt Romney 3,200/day

#7 Rudy Giuliani  1,900/day

#8 John McCain 1,720/day

#9 John Edwards 3,076/day

It surprised me to see Ron Paul has more searches than Hillary and Obama combined!

What the hell is going on?  How can the media be ignoring a candidate that so many want to know more about?  I feel like we are living in a Banana Republic with a controlled media.

He gets more donations that other candidates — they get bigger donations from Unions, Special Interests, and Corporations — but he has the ground swell support.  This is sickening!

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We Need Government to Manage the Economy.

Without government control over economic policy our economy would be in constant depressions…bull sheep!

If this was true then after every natural disaster government should be able to step in and bring things back to normal quickly.  How normal is New Orleans?  By some estimates the government has spent $400,000 per person affected by Katrina.  It’s still a disaster area.  When hurricane Andrew ripped apart South Florida government stepped in.  Years later the area was referred to as the “Blue Roof Land” — because roofing consisted mostly of blue tarp.  Government bungling had scared contractors away from the area.

Some may say:  “What about the Great Depression?”  This is a perfect example of the FedGov stepping in and making a mess.  Normally recessions and depressions last 1 to 3 years.  The Great Depression lasted nearly 14 years!  Some of Roosevelt’s harmful practices (part of the New Deal) were:  handing out jobs as political favors, forcibly setting ridiculously high wages, closing shops that stayed open too long, and removing capital from job creators to pay for it all!

Let’s keep it simple.  Businesses and individuals create jobs.  Government can only hire people when they remove capital from individuals and businesses that are the job creators.  Government then wastes 70% or more of this capital before finally using it to public benefit.

When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates to “soften” economic downturns they are also destroying the value of the U.S. Dollar.  In 2007 the stock market was up nearly 6%, but the U.S. Dollar lost 25% of it’s buying power to most of the world’s currencies.  By propping up Wall Street, government has hurt Main Street.  Consumers will find that oil and other essential commodities will cost them more USD.

Government should stick to protecting the rights of individuals and defending our nation from it’s enemies.  When government takes on more, we all suffer.

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