Don't Steal - The Government Hates Competition

I heard local radio talk show host/Ron Paul hater on the radio this morning bemoaning the fact the Dr. Paul has passed no significant legislation during his 10 terms in Congress. Although Dr. Paul has passed little or no 'significant' legislation, that is more of an indictment of Paul's fellow Republicans than of Dr. Paul because he has introduced lots of significant legislation. It is all available for you to browse at the Library of Congress. It is telling of the supposed "conservatives" in the Republican party that most of the legislation introduced by Dr. Paul languishes in committee, dying a slow death.

Recent legislation introduced by Ron Paul includes H.J. RES.23 which would repeal the 16th amendment (that is the income tax for those of you educated in government schools). The income tax provides approximately half of the federal budget. I believe that the nation can survive with the government the size it was in 1994. And if turns out to be such a bad idea, I'm sure there will be plenty of politicians (Democrats and Republicans alike) ready to 'pass significant legislation' and recoup the government's losses.

H.J. RES.46 would end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens. Sounds like a good idea to me. Of course the Republican party is afraid of offending the Hispanic voters (who are going to vote democrat anyway).

Finally, H.R 1094 would establish human life at conception, redefining personhood and effectively ending abortion. If the Republicans really wanted to end abortion they would all be behind this legislation. But the Republican establishment doesn't want to end abortion, because then they would no longer have it as a campaign issue. And the Republican establishment know that the sheep that fill church pews every Sunday morning (the people who do care about ending abortion) are going to vote Republican regardless. You would think that the evangelicals would finally wake up and figure it out. But I don' see it happening.

Anyway, maybe we should have a 10-year moratorium on all legislation. The federal budget has grown from $1.9 trillion in 2001 to $2.9 trillion in 2008 and that does not include the cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is a 50% increase in 7 years. The federal debt has increased from $5.7 trillion to $9 trillion since the "conservative" Bush took office. That is $11,000 thousand dollars of additional debt for every man, woman and child in America. The US military budget is larger than the rest of the world's military budgets combined. To quote Pat Buchanan, "We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy." I believe it is immoral to leave our children and grandchildren to bear this burden because someday the bill will come due. Obscene is the only way that I can describe it.

Wake up, vote Ron Paul and end the madness.