Reply #35: Ron Paul - Good Choice!

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I really respected the way Ron Paul spoke out against the Iraq War and he has proposed bill to cut taxes on Seniors receiving Social Security, to cut taxes on teachers, to preserve the child tax credit, and opposed the flag burning amendment. More below.

As for Dick Lugar - I cannot agree with you - he is brilliant and all he does with his intelligence is play games of strategy - power plays. He could have stopped the attack on Iraq, but he didn't.

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Here is a good statement from Ron Paul:

"The Myth of War Prosperity"

Mr. Speaker, I want to talk tonight about an economic myth. There is a longstanding myth that war benefits the economy.

The argument goes that when a country is at war, jobs are created and the economy grows. This is a myth.  Many argue that World War II ended the Great Depression, which is another myth.  Unemployment went down because many men were drafted, but national economic output went down during the war.

Economic growth and a true end to the Depression did not occur until after World War II. So it is wrong to think there is an economic benefit arising from war.

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We are lingering in Korea. What a mess! We have been there for 58 years, have spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and we still have achieved nothing- because we went there under U.N. resolutions and we did not fight to victory. The same was true with the first Persian Gulf War.  We went into Iraq without a declaration of war. We went there under the U.N., we are still there, and nobody knows how long we will be there. So there are many costs, some hidden and some overt. But the greatest threat, the greatest cost of war is the threat to individual liberty. So I caution my colleagues that we should move much more cautiously and hope and pray for peace."

More from the moderate Republican from TEXAS:
<http://www.house.gov/paul/legis.shtml>