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| Source:Liberty Pen- U.S. Representative Ron Paul (Libertarian, Texas) appearing on Firing Line With William F. Buckley, in 1988. |
From Liberty Pen
If you look at where Ron Paul was on the issues in 1988 and where he was in 2007-08 and now 2011 going into 2012, it's hard to tell the difference between the Ron Paul of that era and the Ron Paul today.
If you look at where Ron Paul was on the issues in 1988 and where he was in 2007-08 and now 2011 going into 2012, it's hard to tell the difference between the Ron Paul of that era and the Ron Paul today.
Representative Paul was a Classical Libertarian then and is a Classical Libertarian today. Actually, he's moderated a little bit on entitlements, instead of calling for the elimination of them, he's now calling for a phase out of them. People who paid into them and are retired would still be able to collect those benefits, but younger workers would be able to take the money that they are paying in social insurance and transfer them into personal accounts use that money to pay for personal retirement accounts. And pay for private health insurance once they are retired.
In the 1980s, Ron Paul was preaching the message of limited government which he believes is the only way to guarantee maximize individual freedom. Letting people live their own lives as they see fit as long as they are not hurting anyone else with their freedom.
Representative Paul back then was calling for bringing our troops home and closing our foreign bases that we use to defend developed nations. Europe, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Korea. And overall cutting our defense budget by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Representative Paul back then was calling for bringing our troops home and closing our foreign bases that we use to defend developed nations. Europe, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Korea. And overall cutting our defense budget by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Ron Paul was elected to the House in 1976 as a Republican. The same year Jimmy Carter was elected President with a huge majority in the House and Senate. And campaigned for Ron Reagan when he ran for President in 1980 or the other way around Representative Paul runs or President in 1988 with the Libertarian Party, gives up his House seat to do it, gets elected back to the House in 1996 and has been there ever since.
Ron Paul is very unique especially for a politician because he speaks what he sees as the truth. Whether it's popular or not and continues to get rewarded for that.
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