Dude. Presidents are figureheads. They’re elected to uphold the constitution (as opposed to pissing all over it, and I’m not going to name any specific names here). Constitutionally speaking, the President alone could not eliminate Social Security or Medicare – certainly not without putting a replacement system in place. So, this should lead you to support the presidential candidate who HAS A CLEAR AND OPEN TRACK RECORD FOR UPHOLDING OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY’S CONSTITUTION.

Besides, if you think Medicare is teh awesome, why don’t you watch Michael Moore’s Sicko a few more times – the health care industry is beyond sick. It doesn’t work. You don’t fix something that doesn’t work by throwing more money at it. I’m not saying that socialized medicine is necessarily the answer, but what we have in place now clearly does not compute.

So, some guy named “Theo” posted an amazing comment in a thread on the AOL News Bloggers post for Ron Paul’s appearance on the only real news show on television (The Daily Show). I couldn’t have said it better myself:

Ron Paul stands for the abolition of many things. People tend to choose those parts of his message they wish to hear, while ignoring the rest. They then base an entire set of assumptions on this partial understanding of his message. Some people see him as the anti-war candidate, some as the anti-income tax candidate, others routinely claim he is the candidate who is going to let corporations run amok. Oh those evil corporations, the root of all that is evil and wrong with the world. All of these views ignore the larger picture.

While Ron Paul does in fact support abolition of the IRS and the Federal income tax, he also supports, in conjunction, abolition of the Federal Reserve. It is a common misconception in this country that Federal Income tax pays for our welfare state and all of those wonderful social services that FDR gave us. Few fail to realize that in fact they don’t. Nobody knows where income tax money goes, because the government doesn’t provide us with a statement of accountability, explaining how that money is used. A good bet though is pork spending, corporate welfare, and the Federal Reserve, which, by the way, is not Federal, and is not a Reserve. The Fed is a private central bank that loans the government the money it needs to operate, with interest of course. The very elite you so vociferously claim to be against are the very ones who own you, me, our government, and every other piece of property in this country. The current account deficit is so bad, that we are now borrowing $3 billion dollars a day from foreign investors, in addition to borrowing from the Fed, just to keep this nightmare alive. With our current liabilities, each American household is now over $500,000 in debt to the Fed and these foreign investors. I’m tired of repaying loans and interest for government programs, pork and wars to the banking interests that are the true masters of this country. I say we default on the debt, and tar and feather the bankers when they try to repossess our children. Enough is enough! They’ve stolen more than enough from the American people over the last 100 years to keep their families soaked in wealth for centuries to come.

FDR did not invent the income tax, Woodrow Wilson and the robber barons of his time did. It is no accident that the Federal Reserve Act and the Sixteenth Amendment both came into being in 1913 under Wilson. With bad monetary policy and loose lending practices, the bankers created an excess of debt during the teens and twenties, culminating in financial collapse, and the great depression. Sound familiar? Taking a gander at life before FDR, we see a life that was pretty darn good, it wasn’t called the roaring twenties for nothing. But it wasn’t sustainable. Every one of these scumbags, FDR included, worked to destroy this country for the average working family, not promote it. The New Deal did nothing to rescue this country from the financial ruin of the thirties. World War II did that, it was a huge boon to corporations that profited from war, and extended to the boom economy of the fifties. Sound familiar?

Unfortunately, our country has become so dependent on handouts that nobody, including Ron Paul, can eliminate Social Security or Medicare. He has stated quite clearly that abolition of these programs is not high on his agenda. Maybe you should keep trying until you can see the whole thing, rather than basing opinions on a half-watched video. Ron Paul has never stated that he would abolish unions, fair wage practices, or control against monopolies. These claims are nothing more than scare tactics. As for national healthcare, the man is a doctor, if anyone has a vested interest in fleecing the system (i.e. you and me) for free healthcare for all, it’s doctors, and yet the man stands on principles and opposes it. He has stated that a better way of dealing with the healthcare issue is to attack the root cause of the problem, corruption within both the insurance and medical industries. I don’t have healthcare coverage, and I really don’t want you to pay for mine, nor do I want to pay for yours. I would rather have reasonably priced healthcare when I need it, but more importantly, I’d rather have a government that supports preventative care that will reduce my chances of needing it altogether. Outlawing vitamin supplements and alternative medicine, as this administration and Congress have supported, is the very antithesis of what we need. But then, it behooves the pharmaceutical industry if we’re all ill and in need of their drug treatments, all the better if they can get the tax payers to foot the bill.

That’s quite the screed on Bolshevik Russia, but in case you haven’t noticed, we have become a nation of slaves working at the behest of an elite minority. As more and more of the middle class in this country is destroyed, adding daily to the roster of American poor, the answer that socialist/communist propagandists seem to provide is more government intervention, more penalizing of the remaining middle class to support the poor, and further bolstering the elite. The elite have their money safely tucked away in tax-exempt accounts, foundations, and other shelters. Those who will bare the brunt of your utopia are the Average Americans for whom you claim to fight.

As for the pollution problem, I disagree. The very notion of individual liberty precludes a corporation from dumping toxic waste into our water and air, as that is a depravation of our right to life and property. Under Ron Paul, you will likely see more penalties levied against such offenders, and where do you get this stuff about Ron Paul coddling business? First of all, I hate to break this to you, but business is what fuels an economy, there’s nothing wrong with being pro-business. When Ron Paul talks of disentangling government from business, he is not talking about giving “evil corporations” free reign to destroy our nation, he’s talking about eliminating corporate welfare and subsidy programs that we currently use to prop up failing businesses and models, or worse, successful businesses, such as big oil.

Ron Paul, to my knowledge, has never made a commitment to using government funds to advance an alternative energy strategy, nor is he backed by oil money. The market will determine where we go next in terms of our energy sources. The cold, hard fact of the matter is that we have yet to discover an energy source that provides the same density of energy as fossil fuels. Those who buy into this wet dream that ethanol is some sort of panacea that will alleviate the worlds energy problem are fooling themselves. What folks like you fail to consider is all of the energy that goes into producing a gallon of ethanol. If we get 1.25 units of energy from every BTU of fossil fuel energy used to produce ethanol, that means we’re still going to require a heck of a lot of oil to produce ethanol. If we switch to using ethanol to produce ethanol, we’re going to be breaking even, as ethanol has less energy density than fossil fuels. This is going to be a really tough, serious problem for us to face in the coming decades, and throwing tax payer dollars at the problem is not going to make it go away.

Yes, Ron Paul has stated that he will eliminate DHS, good riddance. Good riddance as well to the Patriot Act, the Real ID Act of 2005, terror alert levels, surveillance of American citizens, drug laws, income tax, the Federal Reserve, and this raft of executive orders that have been put into place since the days of Jimmy Carter that smell more like the foundations of fascism than the Republic I learned to love and admire. Restore this country to what the founding fathers envisioned, give every American the freedom to make what they will of themselves, show the world that we can once again be free, prosperous and that we take care of our own, and maybe they will want to emulate us. If not, that’s fine too, I don’t care if other people admire us, so long as they respect us.

Wake the f*ck up, America. There isn’t gonna be a Presidential candidate that you’re going to like (or agree with) 100% of the time. You have to decide which is more important: lip service or living example; experience or ego; party lines or practicality; the Presidency or the U.S. Constitution. Don’t swallow the tripe that the press keeps feeding you, man – the Internet is voting for Ron Paul for a reason. I wish I knew more about who this Theo guy was…

• How not to use a Gun

What’s wrong with people!? I have absolutely no problem with sane adults having the right to bear arms (legally), but there’s something beyond disturbing about this video. Is this some sort of bizarre militia indoctrination? The child’s brain hasn’t even developed to the point where critical thinking is possible! No, no, NO – this is just plain STUPID.

I’m all for protecting our freedoms and everything, but why on earth would you ever do this to your child? The NRA should be up in arms (literally) over this gross display of lunacy. Would someone please point out what’s right about this?!

Worst Dad Award Nominee

Someone, please – tell me this isn’t real.

• The President vs The Constitution