Ron Paul is No Savior: doesn’t care for workers rights or poor
By: Daniel Chubb | November 15, 2007
I have read many articles about Ron Paul, but today my eyes saw something amazing and that was someone that does not like Ron Paul. The reason I put it this way is because so many love him and personally I find him a like fresh air in the world of politics.
The article on ZNet by Aura Bogado mentions “frightening as the amount of friends and colleagues I respect that have signed on as Ron Paul supporters” and with a view that “it’s more likely that pigs will fly before Paul wins the Republican primary”.
This is surely not the view of many of our readers and other people I have met.
Aura Bogado goes on to deconstruct Ron Paul with words like “Ron Paul is a free market capitalist who doesn’t care for the rights of workers or the poor; he is a gun-loving friend of the NRA” AND “that a woman’s right to choose should be crushed, and that same-sex marriage is repugnant”.
This person is very anti Ron Paul and also they have some twisted view of Ron Paul in my view, have a read of their article and let us know what you think.
Follow me on Twitter, or leave a comment on the above story.
Mass Donation Day: Ron Paul and Martin Luther King Jr. as Civil Rights leaders
For Aura Bogoda:
Accepting forms of payment to write articles that smear another’s character is a sign of emotional immaturity. Your character is weak and you are not a mature adult who gives back to society. You are the emotional equivalent of a child. Please refrain from writing until you mature enough to write something that gives back to society.
It is my sincere hope that you one day realize the importance of giving back to society in a positive way. Please use your writing talent in a positive way. Life is short. Make the most of it.
Doesn’t believe in workers rights for the poor?
Why would he do away with the personal income tax and allow poor workers to keep 20% more of their income? Why would he allow competing currencies so that workers wouldn’t be forced to be paid with the worthless dollar? Ron Paul stands up for poor workers in a very intelligent manner. I am ashamed that some of my fellow human beings would be so dishonest about his views in an attempt to make him look bad to the very people he would be helping.
Also, Ron Paul is pro-choice. Women have the choice to get pregnant. There are a number of birth control methods out there for women who want to take a chance and make the choice to have sex. Once that life is created, which happens at conception not when then doctor delivers it, it is murder to destroy that life intentionally.
Actually, Dr. Paul backs the GOA, Gun Owners of America, not the NRA. The NRA leads the charge FOR gun control. If the writer knew anything of research, this would have been apparent.
It’s hard to read the whole thing, filled with nonsense and basically, it attempts to bash Ron Paul for being American and adhering to the Constitution. Doing a quick search, it’s written by a socialist, feminist, trying desperately to get noticed to no avail thus far.
If Ron Paul does not care about the poor and the workers, then how do you explain his stance against inflation. It doesn’t take much research to understand that an inflationary monetary policy is the equivelent of nuclear war against the poor. He is the only candidate I have heard mention this. Meanwhile, gas and food continue to skyrocket and life gets a little harder for the poor.
The “fight” stage has begun. Expect the smears to keep coming, and increase in their regularity.
This is journalistic cowardice. If you want to smear someone, don’t do it by acting as though you support him, but pointing out someone else’s dirty-work and giving a negative headline. Do you think we are blind? Besides, it is lazy to simply write about another story and point to it, as though that is actually doing something productive or creative.
Please, if you do support Dr. Paul, perhaps you will think twice about how you go about covering him, or anything else, for that matter. Think before you type.
I didn’t think this was a smear – people really don’t understand how our government is supposed to work.
Two points:
1. Think of you home state (us U.S. people) – Pennsylvania is mine – think of your state as your country. That is the highest level 99% of your ‘government’ should go. The U.S. Constitution is a very small document – and does not provide great powers to the federal government.
You want welfare and heavy regulations – tell your state senators (etc.).
This is an awesome thing! You want to smoke dope and have high (!) welfare – move to the state that provides that lifestyle… You want tanks and submachine guns – there might be a state for you. At a more local level – your voice has greater weight.
2. Take Ron’s online phenom… Some people really love this guy – very passionate. You want to send foriegn aid to another country? Start an organization – if your message and cause are ‘good’ – your organization can work wonders. WE DO NOT NEED GEORGE BUSH, RUDY, or HILLARY stealing our money (taxes) – and using them ‘as they see fit.’
This way, you don’t fund thing that you oppose. Don’t dig Israel? – Don’t send them your cash.
Think about how much more money would get to where you want it to go!
Take a lesson from Ron Paul’s message and his supporters… the web provides support for even honest endevours.
bill
Take Ron’s passionate
Aura Bogoda is obviously very confused and loves- rather than to do some independent investigation- to rely on stereotypes by lumping everyone into the same neat little “red box” our current broken sociopolitical dialogue has provided her/him/it with.
- “Ron Paul is a free market capitalist who doesn’t care for the rights of workers or the poor”
Ah yes…can we say “paradox?” In a free market, anything you work for is YOURS. As in, YOURS 100% and not the government’s. Going from such a position Im not sure how one could be any more “pro-worker,” unless they were pro-union as well…oops, thats right- Paul IS. Are we to assume then, that the other candidates (literally ALL of them, since Paul seems to be the only one pointing out our $9 trillion debt and has never voted for an unbalanced budget in his life…something the others cant say) who have consistently voted for unbalanced budgets and raided the Social Security and Medicare funds are somehow more “for the poor” than Paul is? A little common sense and consideration of FACT as opposed to the flowery rhetoric full of promises the country knows it cant afford would help Aura greatly here.
- “he is a gun-loving friend of the NRA”
Yep. So were Washington, Jefferson, and the rest of the founding fathers. It seems Aura is one of those who believes that guns cause crime by themselves and ignores the glaring fact that criminals who use guns in their crimes dont register for it at Walmart and wait 2 weeks before they hold up a liquor store or point it at you and tell you to get out of your car. It seems that Aura is also unaware of the fact that the American citizens’ right to keep and bear guns arms the public on a basic level and renders them capable of ultimately defending themselves against ANY threats foreign OR DOMESTIC. To reiterate Paul’s point, had airline pilots been allowed to carry guns to protect their passengers and equipment if necessary, might 911 have been prevented? To raise another point- if all of Germany and Poland’s citizens had been allowed to keep guns in their homes for their defense as they saw fit, would the Nazis’ liquidations of neighborhoods door to door been so easy? Why was Switzerland left alone?
- “that a woman’s right to choose should be crushed”
“CHOOSE” what exactly, you coward? Im sick of this; if youre pro-abortion then grow a spine and say so then back up your opinion. If youre ANTI-abortion, say so and back THAT up with facts. Quit opting for a comfortable label that has nothing to do with what policy youre getting behind and talk straight. And again…you are COMPLETELY wrong on this. And AGAIN…the slightest bit of research would have revealed to you that Paul believes individual states should decide their own policies regarding abortion…kind of like the Constitution intended for these controversial matters, rather than relying on a one-answer, everybody-obey rule from the federal government or a court belonging thereto. Really, get your facts straight or get back to reading before you start blasting.
- “and that same-sex marriage is repugnant”
Whoops! Heres yet ANOTHER position you got absolutely wrong. Paul believes any consentual contract between two willing adults should be recognized and protected by the law…including gay marriage. He has made this clear a number of times and you are either once again speaking from raw ignorance or simply lying.
In closing, Im beginning to wonder (to return the favor in this ongoing campaign dialogue) if people like Aura who criticize Paul and manage to get every position of his completely wrong are somehow automated responses coming from a computer somewhere (“SPAM,” if you will), as opposed to the careful analysis and opinion voiced by a real person. How else do you manage to voice the same general hatred and prejudice while completely missing the factual mark on so many points?
(Yes, I know its reprehensible to lower a debate to the level of speculating that those who disagree with you arent even real humans…but sadly, Aura and her ilk have taken it exactly there. We didnt ask for it, you did)
Maybe one day people will read carefully up on issues they wish to debate, voice their opinions based in fact on a great tool like the internet which makes this possible, and come away respecting the differing opinions of others…even if its a lot of them.
Well I got the jist of it from the first few paragraphs and saw no reason to read futher into that piece of garbage. Pathetic. What will her friends and colleagues think?
Are you crazy?
Ron Paul cares for workers and the poor more than any other candidate by far. The problem is that you and so many others mistakenly think that social welfare benefits the people. Ron Paul is all about minimizing taxation and eliminating inflation (the hidden tax) – the taxation that is currently blown on unjustified wars and the tax money that is siphoned off from the economy and wasted by inefficient government bureaucracy.
Socialism and central planning doesn’t work, it leads to a far less efficient economy and that means the poor and workers suffer. Yet this is what is taking hold in America today. The founding fathers intended for the US to be based on sound money, free market economics and minimal government intervention. This is what makes nations great and wealthy.
Government bureaucrats are only creating a massive burden for American business and it’s workers. Ron Paul promotes personal responsibility and charity provided by the people not by the government. This means churches and social welfare groups take care of the community rather than inefficient government programs. Community groups play a bigger role in a free market and this leads to a stronger more caring community.
Please do your research before writing such slanted opinion pieces.