1.) Bring troops home <----Good and bad
2.) Put half the money that would've been spent on war towards the debt <----is war more expensive than peacetime military and by how much
IS that a serious question? I couldn't bother tallying up every single missile and bullet fired, or every single gallon of gas and diesel burned, or the cost of sending huge equipment all over the middle east, how much each peice of equipment made specifically for this UNCONSTITUTIONAL war costs. I can assure you it's much cheaper when those missiles,bullets, equipment is sitting in a bay somewhere on our land.
YOU know you can't claim this was is not unconstitutional and you ignore that fact every time you question the idea of coming home; since when is allowing the constitution to be broke justifiable? Since when is allowing us to rule other people justifiable?
3.) Put the other half towards the rebuilding/improvement of infrastructure. <----Good Sounds like what Obama is trying to do
4.) Troops coming home means more spending which ultimately equals more jobs. <-----Troops coming home means nothing as they are either still troops or unemployed looking for work
Obama isn't trying to reduce deficit? He's trying to rebuild by adding onto the debt, a FAR cry from Ron Paul's plan.
Troops coming home means tons of people with skill sets than can be honed towards rebuilding infrastructure, hey being as you like big government you can even have the Federal government still paying these troops only paying them to rebuild bridges, improve electrical grids, develop more efficiency methods to collect natural energy.
Which would you prefer? Our citizens shooting other people in other countries OR our citizens building and creating in OUR country?
Same cost, guess which one actually accomplishes something?
5.) Repeal the multitude of laws that tax and encroach on companies such as they keep capital overseas<--------Capital goes overseas for Markets and profits. taxes get passed on to consumers. And I like clean air and water laws
6.) Repeal most of the free trade agreements and replace with mild tariffs. <----tariffs alwasy beget tariffs. We put tarrifs on goods so will other countrys No gain there
You make no argument by stating capital goes over seas for markets and profits, get more specific.
Yes, our tariffs will result in their tariffs, and guess what? That would make the idea of putting manufacturing jobs back in America a more feasible option for the companies. Companies are only out to make money, if they can't make a substantial amount of money more having jobs overseas versus having them here they are going to put American to work as that would also decrease shipping costs.
7.) Restore sound and gold backed money which improves buyer confidence. <-------So if we back the dollar with gold wouldnt the cost of gold get inflated? There is no infinite supply of gold
If dne all of the sudden, sure. But the transition would take years . And you stated the perfect point, there is no infinite supply of gold. Which means OUR government can't print an infinite supply of money which is exactly what it is doing now and that is a major factor in the problems we are having today.
Are you against the government having to face reality and control it's spending and forcing them to take action to save what little value of the dollar is left.
8.) Get rid off the Federal Departments and use the money saved half towards the deficit and half towards energy independence. <------Which Federal departments? Like I said I like my clen air and water
DoEn, DoEd, DoD, FEMA, EPA, etc etc. Eventually the IRS and the CIA would be in the crosshairs.
We all like our clean air, you act like the EPA does everything and every single company is only trying to pollute our world, if you understood that companies have PR and when people are customers and don't like a company polluting their local environment they take it to local government, I doubt Ron Paul supports free rule when it comes to how environmentally unconscious a company is only that a bureaucratic agency like the EPA is inefficient and mostly causes more problems than good.
1.) Bring troops home <----Good and bad (obviously)
2.) Put half the money that would've been spent on war towards the debt <----is war more expensive than peacetime military and by how much (very much so, the constant deployment requires extensive amounts of transportation, broken down into Fuel, maintenance, food for soldiers)
3.) Put the other half towards the rebuilding/improvement of infrastructure. <----Good Sounds like what Obama is trying to do (Obama is trying to build infrastructure with more loans which are unecessary)
4.) Troops coming home means more spending which ultimately equals more jobs. <-----Troops coming home means nothing as they are either still troops or unemployed looking for work (The population of troops currently overseas have a modest amount of personal wealth built up which upon returning home will boost our economy as these soldiers may now afford a house for their family, return to college, start a business, etc...)
5.) Repeal the multitude of laws that tax and encroach on companies such as they keep capital overseas<--------Capital goes overseas for Markets and profits. taxes get passed on to consumers. And I like clean air and water laws (states can monitor their own manufacture and agriculture with a smaller more efficient beauractatic entity making the cost of production cheaper, while also allowing for the local voice to be heard in discussions like where to put the next biomass plant, cause the EPA thinks burning wood for electricity is a green alternative energy, Adage tried to put one of these plants in my hometown, paid off some officials, we ran them out the whole time they wehere telling us their wood powered steam plant was harnessing a renewable resource which made it environmentally sound)
6.) Repeal most of the free trade agreements and replace with mild tariffs. <----tariffs alwasy beget tariffs. We put tarrifs on goods so will other countrys No gain there(right now the price of sugar in the super market is spiked by tariffs to financially force the use of corn syrup in manufactured foods, that is why coke cola switched to using cornsyrup and most cookies dont have normal healthier sugar)
7.) Restore sound and gold backed money which improves buyer confidence. <-------So if we back the dollar with gold wouldnt the cost of gold get inflated? There is no infinite supply of gold(there is no infinite supply of wealth the more we create money out of thin air the less our money is worth, The buying power of the average american family has actually gone down over the last forty years significantly, technology has increase but mostly in the efficiency that all our little trinkets can be made, your paycheck is significantly less than your grandfather's)
8.) Get rid off the Federal Departments and use the money saved half towards the deficit and half towards energy independence. <------Which Federal departments? Like I said I like my clen air and water
IF our country shifted focus on rebuilding infrastructure and our energy efficiency and independence we would have more than enough jobs to fill which would be BUILDING up our country.
Another view point on these ideas and I agree with them. Just hard to read between the red. haha
