Ron Paul 2008, YEAH!!!

I never thought I'd vote republican for the 2008 election, but now I understand that republican != neo-con.

I've watched a lot of his videos on ronpaul2008.com and they all seem to be very consistent with my views.

Gold is money

One thing that surprised me about him is his allowance for investing in Gold without being taxed on it, this is HUGE for muslims, because I think that's the only way to legitimately avoid interest living in the US. He said that Gold is supposed to be a type of currency according to the constitution, who woulda known.

Pro home schooling

Another thing that surprised me was his pro-home-schooling stance, he understands the benefits, and has seen the positive results home-schooling has brought. So, on top of that he wants to give some tax money back to home schoolers, this would be very significant.

Health care: a hybrid approach

Yet another thing is his stance on health care. Yes i watched Sicko. So there are 2 extremes:
1. keep it the way it is, where health care is run by the corporate monster
2. completely socialize it.

The problem with the first option is obvious. W/ the second one the problem is that gov't has a tendency to crapify everything it runs. When we think of the DMV, the place u go for vaccines (forgot what it was called), etc we get an immediate feeling that its going to be a huge hassle. The workers tend to be very slow and seem to not care about the people they serve, etc. Another problem is that in the US we have some of the best doctors in the world, we have the best medical instruments, etc, and it's all I think because of the extra money that's sent in that direction, so it makes me wonder if that trend can still continue if health care were totally gov't-ified. Also if it were free, people would abuse it, and go to the doctor for the most minor things, and i've seen this in pakistan where healthcare is super cheap, it only screws up the system. Well Ron Paul's model seems to be a hybrid approach, which is where you start giving people an allowance of how much you can spend, then after that amount is reached then you start dealing with health insurance. This would push people to go to the doctor only when they REALLY needed to, and would also provide the extra money for the extra quality we see in doctors, medical instruments, pharmaceutical research, etc.

... that's kind of how Adobe's (my) health plan works. We get an allowance per year which accumulates year to year (roll over style), and once we exceed the allowance they pay 90% up to a certain max-out-of-pocket for me, then they pay 100%. No co-pay at all, period. It works very well.

Foreign Policy

Maybe the biggest thing that I like about him is his stance on foreign policy. He actually listens to "the other side." He wants to pull the troops out of other countries fully. That means not just out of Iraq, but also out of saudi arabia, afghanistan, etc. Instead as for his defensive strategy, he wants to rely strongly on the navy. This makes a lot of sense. He also realizes that NOBODY, including iraq, iran, etc is even close to being able to invade the US. This is very true, it's just an image we're given by the media to keep us scared which will cause Americans to allow the gov't to spend tremendous amounts of money on our war machine, and allow us to steal oil more effectively.

I'd really like to know his stance on the israeli/palestinean issue. I haven't seen anything yet, but i'm assuming that he doesn't want to talk about it, cause the Media is fully zionist controlled, and would completely focus all its efforts on taking him out of the competition if he spoke out against zionism.

Conclusion

Other than that, yeah, i love that he's such a straight shooter. The guy is a soft-hearted doctor that wants to make a difference, that's all. I truely don't believe that he is in it for fame or the money.

The only thing is, that he just seems too good to be true. Whenever there's an environment bent on doing the wrong thing (because of whatever material benefits they have at stake), and there is one person that wants to stand up to do the right thing. The environment just crashes down on that one good person. The neo-cons just control way too much, and on the democrat side, they'd want a piece of him just cause he's the competition.