Finally you make a thread that isnt a joke. So I shall treat it accordingly.
here is what matters to me as a voter:
my safety
gas prices
health care
my taxes
Ron Paul on Immigration:
Ron Paul wants to bring back the troops from Iraq… and everywhere else in the world. The giant bases in Germany, Japan, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, etc… We dont need those. We are the only country that has military bases in other people’s countries. It’s American imperialism and one of the big reasons why we spend more on our military than all other nations in the world combined. Free up that money and you can have more cops, more border patrol agents, etc. Dr. Paul wants to massively downsize the federal govt and get it back to where the founding fathers envisioned it. If we take all of the money that we are wasting on bloated, ineffective govt. bureaucracies and put it to use to do things that we NEED to do, then this country would be a much better, much safer place.
Also, Ron Paul seems to be the only person that wants to listen to the terrorists. They have told us REPEATEDLY why they hate us. It’s not because we are free and prosperous, it’s because we have bases in their region and support Israel. Want to end the war on terrorism? Make the terrorists not want to kill us anymore. We can do that by withdrawing from the region, stop propping up Israel, stop the rhetoric of “axis of evil” and shit like that… If we do that, in 10 years America will be completely off the map as a terrorist target.
As far as pot smoking hippies, I dont know anyone that really wants to smoke weed but says “well, it’s illegal so I wont.” If you want to, you already are. And you’re not hurting anyone else by doing it. You may not care much for pot smoking liberals, but It’s not right for you to want to imprison them because you don’t like their political ideals. If you do, then you’re dancing precariously with facism.
As far as gas is concerned… Alternative fuels are the answer, but they are not the short term answer. The real problem is everyone driving around in their gas guzzling trucks and SUV’s. Interesting fact. If the AVERAGE gas mileage of all cars in America went up by 2 or 3 MPG, we’d be completely independent from mid-east oil. If you really need a truck or SUV thats one thing. If you could get along just fine in a Camry, do it.