The Jackuul Blog

Today, I can only express my shock and utter disgust as a person I knew merely as an acquaintance stated that supporting Ron Paul was unpatriotic. I could not hide my utter shock, revulsion, or my contempt after that statement. It turned into a heated argument with it ending on his leaving after threatening physical violence against me (i.e. he was going to - and I quote “beat my ass” because I dared to support Ron Paul over John McCain). How wonderful. Not only does McCain have idiots, he has stupid idiots too - thanks McCain, you inspire the WWE. Really.

Anyways his statement that a vote for Paul was a vote for the Democrats, and is unpatriotic is the kind of jingoism bull crap propaganda that is being levied at the street level. By supporting the war, and the failing economy, I guess that is patriotic? I dare say it is not. In fact, I believe that dissent and opposition is much more ‘patriotic’ than a blind obedience to what the policy masters want. I believe the freedom to express oneself and the freedom to say whatever one wishes to and support whoever one wishes to trumps any kind of ‘unpatrotic’ claim. By calling someone unpatriotic for their dissent you are no better than a Sean Hannity, a Bill O’Reilly, a gasbag who supports the party line.

Furthermore, to threaten physical violence upon a voter for his support of another candidate - even if that person isn’t hired by the campaign to do so - only shows the culture that the campaign is breeding. It is appealing to the older generation with scare tactics, it is appealing to the young stupid male class of individual, and it is also having the message of “Choose me, I am the lesser evil”. Why can’t we choose the greater good?

Ron Paul’s positions on everything from Abortion to Zebra Conservation (I actually don’t know where he stands on this - but I am pretty sure it would be the same as all other conservation and environment positions) is logical and follows the constitutional restrictions that were put in place over two hundred years ago. Right now our precious document is a step away from being burned by a government we elected (or did we…?) that wishes nothing more than to obtain more authority and more power. The check and balance is dead. The equality of Federal and State government is gone. Governors have less power than ever before, congress has stripped individual liberties further, and our economy lead by the Fed (evil) is tanking.

You think a little tax rebate is going to help the people? Let me make this clear as is humanly possible: No.

The reason the rebate will not help a single soul is that many of the lower and middle classes in this country already owe the IRS, and because of this the money will be going right back to them! It is entirely impossible that a small cash infusion will even make a blip in the economy. All it will do is create a bigger debt on ourselves.

If you want to save the country’s economy and its middle class, and its lower classes, and all the classes, in fact all the people you must END the INCOME TAX in this country! It is only then that you can actually make an economic impact of a greater amount and good. I have looked into it - I have done the calculations. By cutting spending in many unneeded and illegal areas that should be the individual state’s area of control we could save enough to be running on a personal income tax-less government and still maintain a 300-500 billion a year surplus. It only requires that we turn over many of the functions and systems that are inherently state level anyways, back to the states. Also - Social Security would not be cut under what I calculated. If it was, it would be over a trillion a year. Additionally there would be funds for the military that would cover costs still.

It is ridiculous, it is preposterous, and it is wrong to say that Paul is unpatriotic or to support him is. That, my friends, is bullshit.