Originally Posted by samcol

I think many of your dislikes of him come from a misunderstanding of the way the constitution works, specifically how the USA is supposed to be a federation of states. The federal government has specific powers that they are allowed to handle and nothing more. Medicare, medicaid, welfare, and subsidizing are not part of their powers. These shouldn't even be discussed at a federal level because the feds do not have the power to do so.

These are state issues according to the constitution and with RP being a strict constitutionalist he doesn't support these things federally. Now, this doesn't mean your own individual state can't enact these programs. This helps keep government balanced and small, as well it allows variety for certain parts of the country to have more right wing policies or left wing polices instead of everyone being forced to do the same thing federally.

Therefore there is no need for the behemoth IRS code since the money won't be needed for many unconstitutional federal programs.


Again, he opposes federal money to help Darfur. He's not saying genocide is good or that you can't help out through charities.

Abolishing the fed abruptly could be very bad, it must be phased out. The fed prints money out of nothing which deflates the value of the dollar and somehow we've been sold that this is healthy economics. It's called fractional reserve banking.


His definition comes from delievering thousands of babies. RP was very liable to the health of the unborn fetus. Someone who murders a pregnant women faces double murder charges. If the fetus is a person in the above instances, how is it not during an abortion?


I don't know what legislation you're talking about but I'm guessing it was the ten commandments in courts or something. Try reading the constitution and find this 'seperation of church and state' clause. It's not there. You're probably thinking of the 'freedom of religion' clause.


It's not a federal issue. The federal government doesn't have the authority.