COMMENTARY | After spending over 20 years in Congress, GOP Congressman Ron Paul announced that he would not run for re-election to the House. Instead, he will focus on his presidential bid.
"Ron is all in and will work tirelessly to win the Presidency and save this country." says his campaign spokesman, Jesse Benton, reports ABC News.
Paul has had two previously failed bids for the presidency, once as a Libertarian in 1988 and again as a Republican in 2008. His official announcement that he would be in the running in the 2012 election came May 13. The 75-year-old Ron is said to be the Father of the Tea Party movement. His son, Rand Paul, is a Kentucky senator and poster child for the Tea Party.
Elizabeth Day, a volunteer with Paul's campaign says, "When people come to believe in Ron Paul, there is a passion that burns within us," according to the Associated Press. "To me, Ron Paul is the tea party."
Paul believes that this time he has a legitimate chance at the presidency and people are no longer laughing at his policies.
"During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more. The people [are] coming over here," Paul said during CNN's "State of the Union" on June 5. "No more. No more. The people [are] coming over here," he added.
So how does Paul plan to save our country and what are his beliefs?
On our current healthcare and Medicare crisis, Paul says, " Why can't we opt out of the whole system and take care of ourselves?"
Paul believes that access to healthcare for the general public is not a right, but at the same time the public is paying for Paul's excellent healthcare through our tax dollars. I find this ultra hypocritical, and frankly it makes me downright angry that he intends to leave not only America's senior citizens but the many uninsured Americans without access to decent healthcare while assuring access to care for himself.
Did you know that America is ranked as one of the lowest countries as far as life expectancy? It is number 50, behind all of western Europe and several lower-income countries as well. The reason for this? Only people with money can afford access to healthcare in the United States. Ron Paul apparently seeks to lower our ranking even further.
Paul is against the minimum wage, and voted against increases to minimum wage. He also voted against extending unemployment benefits. The GOP and Paul once again seem to side with big business and against the people who are the backbone of our country.
Paul seems to have as much compassion for animals as he does for people. He voted against the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act that would bar slaughtering horses for human consumption. He also voted against an act that would consider pets when evacuating people during disasters, and scored a dismal 14 percent on the Humane Society Scorecard for animal protection.
In a self-published newsletter called the Ron Paul Political Report published in 1992, Paul stated, "Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
I think I can safely assume that this racist and bigoted man wants to save our country by taking quite a few steps backwards in progress. I would hope that these views are not supported by many Americans. They are certainly not views that are supported by this writer.
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