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An Interview With Ron Paul
by Doug Casey
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DC: Much of the politicking this campaign season has certain religious overtones. Are you a believer in a strict separation of church and state?
RP: Yes. However, I believe state and local communities have the right to adopt policies such as school prayer without interference from the Federal Judiciary or any other branch of the federal government.
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Now don’t get me wrong, I am not wavering in my support for Ron Paul. He’s closer to my thinking than any politician that I can EVER remember. I can only think of one fellow who I think might have been a better President and that would be Harry Browne.
That being said. Lest you think I am a mindless sheep.
I disagree with Ron Paul on the role of gooferment in education AT ANY LEVEL. Federal, state, or local. I see ZERO difference between the radiclization of Muslims in their subsidized schools, the communist “reeducation” camps, education in totalitarian regimes, and our gooferment skoolz in the good old US of A.
Remember that the purpose of “gooferment skools”, as designed in Prussia and imported to the US by Horace Man and his ilk, was to make easily led soldier for the army and factory workers for the elite.
No, sorry, every human is an “elite”. The Intelligent Designer put parents in charge of children. That’s good enough for me. Parents had them and they should provide for them. It’s not the gooferment’s job to eddycate them. And, no one should be forced at gunpoint to pay for it. That’s theft. Socialism at its best.
Ron’s right on abortion. It’s is a very hard issue. But, sticking the Federal Gooferment in the issue hasn’t helped at all. It’s very tough because the one role of gooferment is to protect our rights from foreign and domestic “enemies”. One of the rights enshrined in the Constitution is a right to life. But, we are a long way from calmly sorting that one out.
SO we have Big Gooferment in all sorts of stuff it shouldn’t be in and failing in its duties in the things is should be in. That’s a “big stable” to start mucking out. I’ll be happy if Ron Paul gets elected. It’s a very big load of “barbara streisand” to shovel out. Regan said something like a President can only get a few things done. He admitted a list of three things of which he only accomplished two. (Honest fellow!) If Ron can get two done, we’ll be much better off.
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