Mormons For Ron Paul
At least me and two other Mormons that I know are in favor of Ron Paul. Why?
I'll tell you why I won't vote for any Democrat: Universal Health Care vs the Constitution. There is no provision in the Constitution for Universal Health Care. Besides that, all the welfare ideas of both Democrats and Republicans have proven to do nothing. President Johnson' war on poverty has not wiped out poverty, instead it has made things worse.
On top of that, we are still paying for the New Deal, which also never got anyone out of poverty except a few elite.
What people don't realize is that when we look to the Federal Government to help us out for every financial problem we have, they do it with money, OUR MONEY! Stop thinking that they are going to tax the rich, that class envy garbage is just communism, as you can see, we've been flirting with class envy so long now, and now we are debating the name "God" and if it is constitutional or not. One simple reason, class envy is Communist
Propaganda.
It doesn't matter who the government is going to tax, the important thing to know is this, when the government goes deeper in debt, inflation goes up.
The government currently is trillions of dollars in debt. Would you ask a regular person who was trillions of dollars in debt to help you out of a financial bind? Of course not. But, you think the government has the money right, they can just make more dollars right? RIGHT!
The problem is, to pay off debts, they make more dollars, more paper dollars to pay of the creditors overseas (China is one of the biggest and they are using the interest to build a big military so they can attack Taiwan and us if we get involved).
When the government makes more paper dollars, inflation goes up because the dollar's value declines compared to other currencies. If our paper dollars are worth nothing, our creditors overseas will begin to demand currency of another sort, such as Euros.
Also when our dollar becomes weakened compared to currency overseas, prices go up. That is why it cost more for things like gas (it was a dollar a gallon ten years ago, now it's averaged around $3.20) food and other things. Prices go up when our government prints more dollars to pay off its debts.
And the democrats just want to spend more.
Republicans talk about less government, but we could get rid of the IRS altogether and still fund the federal budget as it was in 2000, Clinton's last year in office. We could get rid of the IRS and replace it with nothing and still be able to do that. But as it stands with George W. Bush and those times when the Republicans had the majority in the House and the Senate, the government that they promised would get smaller, got bigger. We went from a bloated Jackass to an obese elephant.
The Bush administration has promised to uphold the Constitution, but so far, the only part of the Constitution they have upheld was the part of the electoral college, because it came in Bush's favor.
This is a sensitive subject, but I'm really irritated with the defense of the Bush administrations actions with those so called "Enemy Combatants" in Cuba. Bush has suspended habeas corpus, and held them without a trial, and all this time has been using torture.
Some people would say "I don't care if they use torture if it gets information from a terrorist"
First off, cruel and unusual punishment is a violation of the Constitution and International law. Second, if someone admits that they are guilty under torture, maybe they made that confession to get out of being tortured in the first place. That's one of the key reasons the founding fathers made the constitution so that no cruel and unusual punishment would be used and also why no one was to be forced to testify against themselves. It was also the reason why they were not to pass double
jeopardy on an individual.
The thing that we should all worry about the most, is this, a tyrant always begins as a hero. Darth Vader started his career as a hero, even when he turned to the dark side in Attack of the Clones, it was to go after bad guys. But he turned on everybody, there was not a single person important to him that he did not attack, torture, dismember or kill.
The fictional
tragedy of Darth
Vader is a good
illustration of how actual good guys can go bad.
Even Great Britain was never really that bad, but there came a point where we decided we did not want to be a part of them anymore because it was bad enough.
If our government, which I believe for the most part, has been the best this world has seen, begins to torture bad guys and say "you are with us, or you are with the terrorist" forcing any
conscientious decent to be treated as an act of terrorism, what is next? It will get to the point that you can not question the government no matter what they do.
I believe our government has started on the path of tyranny. So they haven't gone after a large number, not yet anyways. All tyrannies start their tyrannical ways by taking on small groups first.
Now that takes me to Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney like myself is a Mormon. If President he will swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. As a Mormon, he is suppose to believe that the United States Constitution is a
Divinely Inspired Document.
But Mitt Romney does not believe in the Constitution. In a Debate, Mitt Romney was asked if
water boarding was torture. His answer was "I don't know if
water boarding is torture" but quickly made his safe slick remark (he's full of safe slick remarks) that he did not believe in torture. How stupid is that? Could I say "I don't know if twisting your ankle is torture" and expect to be taken serious?
McCain chewed Romney out for not knowing if
water boarding was torture. Romney quickly pointed out that he would get advice regarding the subject (everyone but a
spinmyster knows what torture is) Romney also defended his stupidity on
water boarding by saying that presidential candidates should not discuss
interrogations methods in a presidential race. Sure you should, because I want to make sure I'm not going to vote for another guy who's going to torture people and call it not torture.
Romney also said he wouldn't mind wiretapping mosque and churches to find terrorist. This of all people from one who has been both a Mormon Bishop and a Stake President, and knows the need for confidentiality inside the confides of a church building. I'm sure glad he never was my Bishop or Stake President, if he thinks it is okay to wiretap churches, why not just tell everybody in America all the sins and confessions you heard in confidentiality (protected by the Constitution)
Romney won't abolish the IRS, like every typical Republican politician all he's promising is tax cuts. When we need to abolish the IRS and start clean, he promises tax cuts.
The worst thing about Romney is, nobody really knows what to expect out of him. He won't say what he really believes. I don't believe him when he says he is a convert to the pro life movement. I believe he talked the pro choice talk when he knew it would get him elected in Massachusetts, and I think he knew he would give himself once in the governor's office, a pro life record so he could run for the Republican ticket and say "but look at my record".
He says he won't distance himself from his church, but he has. With all the attacks on the Book of Mormon, his response has been "why can't people just accept that there are many faiths in America"
If it was me, I'd point out that the Book of Mormon is a pro America book that today goes throughout the world spreading Christian American ideas
across the globe. This is the fact on the matter.
A certain Book of Mormon character comes to mind, Captain Moroni, who seeing the threat of tyranny on the freedoms of his ancient
American people, took his coat and wrote:
In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children (Alma 46:12)
The Book of Mormon speaks prophetically of the Founding Fathers of this country in this manner:
And I beheld that their mother Gentiles were gathered together upon the waters, and upon the land also, to battle against them.
And I beheld that the power of God was with them, and also that the wrath of God was upon all those that were gathered together against them to battle.
And I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles that had gone out of captivity were delivered by the power of God out of the hands of all other nations. (1 Nephi 13:17-19)
I'm sure there are some in America who will wonder why he hid this from the country. The answer is this, he's worried that the Book of Mormon might make him lose. It wouldn't make me lose if I was running for President because I would not be running just to be elected. That is I think, the problem with Mitt Romney and all the other candidates, Republican and Democrat, except for Ron Paul.
Ron Paul calls it as he sees it. Ron Paul actually looks at the Constitution before voting. He's never voted for a tax increase, he never voted for an undeclared war, he's willing to make the
substantial cuts it will require to save our economy from the socialist ruin that we have put it in.
Ron Paul would not go after terrorist in Iraq, but what he would do, is he would arm you so that you could defeat the terrorist at home when they tried to attack you. This is where you think "But I want to take the fight to their turf" well, guess what, the military intervention in Iraq since 9/11 has not made us safer from terrorist attacks here at home. In fact, being there has made things worse. More people want to be terrorist now because we attack a country with false premises.
Ron Paul would abolish the tyrannical IRS. That alone will save 10 billion dollars off the federal budget not to mention restoring your constitutional rights.
Ron Paul does not suggest small cuts here and there, but he would consider whole departments.
Realistically, take the Constitution, read what powers are actually given to the Federal Government. The Constitution itself gives all power not spelled out in it to the federal government to the states and to the people, and there are only fourteen or fifteen powers that the Federal Government is given in the Constitution.
A lot of the issues that are being debated in presidential debates really if we followed the context of the Constitution, should be debated on the state level. Abortion, the death penalty, universal health care, stem cell research, medical marijuana being produced and used in the same state etc.
Why have universal health care (not a constitutional provision at all) on the federal level when the only states interested are blue states such as Massachusetts and California. Why do people in a state like California need a federal health care program? California itself is the sixth largest economy in the world, most of the wealth in this country exist in this state alone, if the state decides to have universal health care, it can do it (not that I as a California resident would agree to it but I would rather have it debated at the state level than the federal level) all that is done by sending all our money to Washington is create more bloated
bureaucracy.
I'll talk more about this at another time, until then