Ron Paul's first inaugural address

Ron Paul is a hero and the closest person we have to a modern day founding father. This man is utterly dedicated to the constitution and his positions have been consistent for decades. His understanding of the economic system, liberty and the problems we face as a nation is utterly unmatched by any of the other Republican presidential candidates or any other politician.

No a wasted vote is a vote for the other 3. Gingrich, a Washington insider who has flip flopped on so many issues, most notably climate change issues, which would have created carbon taxes and a huge burden on everyone, if the Democrats had got it through. Then there is Romney, a guy who has his fingers in universal healthcare in Massachusetts and, whether you agree with the left-wing talking point or not, will be very vulnerable on the Bain capital stuff. Then there is Santorum the bigot, who frankly has an aggressiveness and arrogance which I find scary. This guy also has limited appeal which only stretches to the Republican right.

Contrast this with Ron Paul. A man who gets more support from veterans and serving military than all of the other candidates combined. The man who gets the most enthusiastic support from younger Americans, who are after all the future of the nation. Then there is the fact that Ron Paul does as well or better than both Obama and Romney among independent voters, the people who decide elections. Then there is the fact that Ron Paul has a unique foreign policy position which will attract a lot of anti-war democrats to ditch Obama.

For all of the people that say that they don't like his foreign policy, tell me this: How can a country in economic decline, which is engaged in quantitative easing, (debasement of the dollar), to survive, afford to keep spending trillions of dollars to police the world? Like the great empires of history like the Romans and the British empire, the US 'empire' will collapse from within due to financial and economic collapse, unless we act soon. Britain is the best modern example; prior to WWII, Britain had the largest empire in the world, (1/4 of all land and people were under it). But Britain was overstretched and suffered a financial crisis in the 30s which led to bankruptcy thanks to WWII. The empire collapsed and the socialists took power and created the NHS (universal healthcare). Britain is now a socialist state, despite a brief reversal of fortune in the 80s thanks to Margaret Thatcher.

America does not want to become another social democracy like a European nation, our destiny is much special that the mediocrity of socialism and decline. The US needs to return to its constitutional roots, and this means constitutional foreign policy and constitutional money. The Federal Reserve needs to be abolished, the money backed by gold and silver again, the budget balanced, government departments abolished, corporate loopholes and special favors ended and a more careful foreign policy which doesn't involve the US constantly at war with someone. People say Ron Paul would weaken the military, but this is the opposite. Ron Paul would not cut the defense budget, just the militarism. By bringing troops home and closing bases, more money in the budget could be allocated to taking care of returning veterans, military research and building of high-tech and deadly weapons systems that will make the US more technologically advanced than China. Rather than dying by a 1000 cuts because we are overstretched and policing the world, we should draw back and concentrate on creating a technologically superior military which China would not dare to trifle with. China has the advantage of numbers and so we need the advantage of technological superiority. Lets spend the money here, rather than on pointless foreign adventures.