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CON: Health Care
Ron Paul is NOT for universal health care. As a Libertarian he would never support the government's involvement in health care. This is unfortunate because it's clear to me that something as basic as health care should be the realm of the government just as firemen and policemen are. Would we want a private company policing our streets? no of course not. So why do we place something as basic and important as our health in the hands of businessmen who have nothing but their profits in mind?
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Ah, so this is written by a socialist. Well obviously a person who thinks that the government should own all the means of production is not going to agree with Ron Paul or most individualists on anything.
Out of curiousity though, if the profit motive is so evil, and we can't leave the important things in life to average people to provide and instead need the enlightened politicians to pay for everything, why shouldn't food and shelter be free as well? Clearly those things are much more necessary to life than "healthcare", which in and of it's self is such a vague word that it can mean anything from toothpaste to gastric bypass surgery.
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CON: Abortion
Ron Paul does not support the right of women to make their own choice about whether or not to have an abortion. He believes each state should have the ability to make their own law regarding abortion. If the states were to make their own abortion laws this would inevitable lead to most southern states making abortion illegal. This would bring us back to the dark ages before Roe. Why should a woman have the freedom of choice in New York but not in Georgia? All women in America deserve the right to make their own choices about their bodies.
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Ah, so it's written by a federalist as well. Well again, not much a person who thinks one government is all we really need is going to agree with Dr. Paul on.
Ron Paul isn't running for the president of the "southern states", he's running for the president of the United States. As such, his stance on abortion is somewhat irrelevant as the supreme court decided sometime ago to forgo the constitution and put abortion under the jurisdiction of the Federal government. Since Ron Paul actually believes and abides by the constitution he wouldn't act with dictatorial power and ban abortions or even over turn Supreme Court decisions.
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CON: Education
Paul believes that the US Department of Education should be abolished. He thinks that all education decisions should be left up to the states, local governments, and personal decision. While this may seem like a reasonable position, in reality it will stretch the divide between the rich and the poor even further.
Every child in America should have the right to a good education. I believe education should become more federalized not less so. Why? Because right now children in rich districts (those with rich families) get a good education while those in poor districts (those with poor families) get a poor education. There must be more equality of opportunity in this country. All children whether poor or rich deserve a quality education. This is not only a matter of fairness to all Americans but a matter of national prosperity.
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Um, yeah, because the Federal Governments done so well with improving schools in America. What a ridiculous and stupid stance. I mean is this what we really want? One national curriculum? One national standard? We honestly think people in Washington should have the final say on what our children learn and who teaches them?
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CON: Environment/Climate Change
Libertarians such as Ron Paul believe in a free market to the highest degree. This means little if any governmental oversight. This means that big businesses would have even more power if Ron Paul had his way. Big business must have governmental oversight or they will absolutely trash our environment. With global warming a scientific fact this is an extremely important point.
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More socialist rhetoric here. Business men bad, politicians good, etc. etc. I suppose the author of this list, who earlier counted Paul's stance a personal liberties a GOOD thing, is eagerly waiting for a politician to declare the start of our War on Climate Change so we can quickly enact those carbon taxes on the poor and billions, if not trillions of the poor and middle class's tax dollars wasted on failed ventures in sustainable energy that could have been paid for by greedy rich capitalists looking to make a buck in the new expanding green industry.
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CON: He's against the United Nations.
While I agree with his non interventionist policy militarily the last thing America needs is to make more enemies internationally. The United Nations has done a lot of good for the world and we should be a positive part of that. Ron Paul wants America to pull out of the UN.
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Wait, being against the United Nation is a con?
Ha. Ha ha ha ha.
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I can't understand people's loyalty to this guy. There are more Libertarians out there with better more sensible views on things.
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Out there? Yeah.
In the national debates? No.