He may be more consistent that others. I don't know. I don't know of any blatant flip-flops he's made.
I purused his campaign website. I've been ridiculed for doing that with other candidates because, you know, they are all liars anyway. But maybe Paul is unique. Perhaps he's the only honest one of the bunch. So maybe his website is okay.
I can't find many solutions there. What I find are a lot of problems. He's a problem identifier. But his solutions, IMHO, are either non-existent or nuts. To the extent he talks about the deficit, he wants to abolish the IRS and the Federal Reserve system. Oh yeah, and return to the gold standard. These are not solutions. How does abolishing the IRS end the deficit, exactly?
He complains that the FDA isn't doing its job to protect Americans from "dangerous drugs, genetically modified foods, dangerous pesticides and other chemicals in the food supply. His solution? Opposing legislation to increase the FDA's legal power. I don't get it.
He proposes radical surgery on a system that has produced a pretty good standard of living. That is what seems to get lost on most discussions of Paul. His advocates think everything stinks, the world stinks, America stinks, and Paul is going to put everything right with his radical ideas.
Okay, sometimes he's not radical. I read his section on the environment and it makes some sense, even if his support of governmental subsidies for alternative fuels runs counter to his anti-government, Libertarian, free enterprize rhetoric. I guess no one can be 100 percent consistent, eh?
I think our economy has been on a really good run since WWII. We have a deficit problem because we gave the tax cut fanatics too much power. It's really pretty simple, and radical "solutions" are not needed.
jpn, You don't know the first thing about our monetary systems problems as is evident by your statement "its really pretty simple" and "radical solutions are not needed". Because, radical solutions are definitely needed. Our dollar stability relies on foreign oil producing nations pricing THEIR oil sales in U.S. dollars. We pay interest an all the money created by the Federal reserve. The federal reserve has inflated the money supply so that our dollar has been reduced t being worth less then 4 cents each. When we went off the gold standard in the early '70's gold was $35.00 an oz. Gold is now at $799.00 an oz. The dollar is rapidly dropping against nearly all foreign currency and we are on the verge of losing the petro-dollar.
"Tax cut fanatics" are a drop in the bucket compared to what it costs to maintain over 700 military bases around the World, some for over 50 years. This needs to end. Every year the Government spends far more then it has. This has to end. The Federal government is growing at a far greater rate then we can pay for. This must end. Who even acknowledges theres a problem? Ron Paul.
