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Defence spending – 2008 ranking by Stokholm International Peace Research Institute:
1. United States – $607 BILLION
2. China – $84.9 BILLION

Beijing would have to spend 7 times more than it is today on its military to catch up to the US.

BUT

the 2010 Defense bill is… $663.8 BILLION. Up 10% from 2008.
That’s faster than China’s economy is growing so that defense spending gap is going to get even large. In just over a year the INCREASE alone in the US’ defense spending matches China’s ENTIRE spending for a year.

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Libertarians are for LESS government. How can a smaller government = socialism?

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If our government went bankrupt right now, and all of our creditors called in our debts, would you enslave someone? No. Could you pay for it? No.

Look ahead at the road we are on right now. We are on the road to an all powerful government. It wasn’t Abraham Lincoln or JFK who created slavery. It was from the Europeans, who did NOT have FREEDOM of speech or religion, that slavery in the U.S. came from. Not everyone believed in slavery back then, otherwise we would not have had the civil war.

The citizens of all powerful governments don’t trust anybody, including their friends and neighbors. There is a reason for that!

The U.K. has cameras looking over sidewalks. Why? So people in the UK can spend all day watching their CCTV monitors on their computer, and point out who is throwing McDonald’s wrappers on the ground, and fine them.

Never trusted the government, and never will. Of course! I’m GLAD I’m paying all these taxes to support your need for food stamps and welfare. Start going to work. Get off those greedy welfare programs you are on now and understand why the hell I feel like I do about these things.

Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. Notice I didn’t just type “Life, Liberty, and Happiness.” You are NOT ENTITLED to happiness on MY behalf!

Of course freedom always comes with a price. The government is not responsible for you. Period. Stop thinking it is. Why should we as citizens have to pay for Auto and Bank bailouts? You know the true socialist would have given the citizens the money. It came out to about $8,000 per citizen. Now how good of a stimulus would that be?

You guys might start thinking differently once this inflation catches up, and all those boxes of Hamburger Helper start costing $10 instead of $2.

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Libertarianism promotes socialism.

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Socialist/Liberal = All powerful government. You make the same amount of money no matter what you do for a living, hence no incentive for training/education/to do better. All wealth accumulated goes to programs to feed the poor. Great in theory, fails miserably in practice.

Libertarian = Power to the people. Power to the businesses. Anything BUT power to the government. If everyone in government nowadays were libertarian, the system would also fail.

My case is that we need young people to support the libertarian idea, solely because we as a people are all falling more and more dependent on the government. The country was founded on limited government, and that is why we became superpower after only 200 years.

We have found excellent balance before, and we can do it again. This is the true libertarian argument.

Political parties have to duke it out knowing the other will keep them in check also. We can’t soley base our political system on purely limited government, and we most certainly CANNOT have an all powerful government.

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In my opinion, liberals are the ones taking us on the fast track to socialism/communism. Bigger government leads to more government control, which can lead to socialism if kept unchecked. This is exactly what Ron Paul is fighting against.

You can tell how well a country is doing by looking at it’s poorest citizens, and how well they are doing. Sure they are probably not doing as well as two years ago, but we are certainly better off than China! Socialism doesn’t work. We saw it in ancient Rome, we saw it in the USSR.

Now the EU is turning socialist and the US is next in line. Ron Paul is a die-hard conservative. If you are looking for someone to be Anti-Socialist, Ron Paul is your man.

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