I recently learned from an 'inside source' in the Ron Paul campaign (grass-roots) how the Ron Paul campaign actually has the audacity to have its volunteer staff 'self-fund' things like bumper stickers, campaign placards, etc.
When I heard this news, I kept my mouth closed quite shut, but inwardly a rage welled up inside of me . . .
Just like places such as the University of Phoenix-Online (former employer), now the U.S. Post Office (another "inside source") and it seems likely the military even, such "out-sourcing" of expenses seems to be "all the rage" in our POST-REPUBLICAN ERA FINANCIAL MELT-DOWN!
From utility companies to pay phones being ripped out of storefronts it seems like the move towards 'privatization' has left a GAPING HOLE in the U.S. domestic economy!
Whether it is the University of Phoenix-Online expecting its professors to 'front the bill' for their own computer access or the military similarly expecting Reserve soldiers to 'pay for their own mass transit' to show up for drill duty (TRUE STORY and against ARMY REGS apparently!!!), this 'privatized society' is a colossal nightmare and a looming ECONOMIC DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN!!!
Well, friends, whether it is the Public Library system (where my Mom supplemented my Catholic parochial school education with regular trips to check out books in order to learn how to READ!) or whether it is our Parks & Services (now often a place where only the homeless camp out indefinitely due to no Government oversight other than to arrest these poor folks . . .) it seems like the days of the American "Commonwealth" are OVER . . . OR, if the Democrats can have a TEN YEAR REIGN over the polluting, wealth-at-all-costs Republikaaners (left of center Christian democracy is my own affiliation!!!) then MAYBE our nation can be saved fiscally . . .
So, if you want to be shelling out your own hard earned dollars for your own light poles, manhole covers, running water, electricity and food because Armageddon has just arrived and the Ron Paul-ites have taken over with their "back-stabbing don't pay tax to support your fellow man" rogue political philosophy ("good in theory, but without taxes, we don't have public utilities anymore . . ."), then cast a vote for the libertarians . . .
OR, if you want a Pro-life, but corporate slut known as Republicanism, vote Romney.
BUT, if you want a TRUE grass-roots candidate, then get the ball rolling. My rich friends from Duke will actually PAY for the bumper stickers so that you don't have to . . .
Love in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King, Christian Radical politician and wanna-be scholar who still needs to finish a dissertation! ;-)
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I think the national Ron Paul campaign is saving themselves a lot of money by requiring local supporters to finance their own bumperstickers and other materials. At least it's presenting authentic conservative values. And the supporters are doing well with it.
There's a significant difference between campaigns and governance, but I agree with you that the end does not justify the means, but instead the means become the end. The privatization of the campaign is an example of the kind of privatization that will occur if he wins. Total, complete privatization. Welfare, gone. Social Security, gone. Public infrastructure, destroyed. Parks and Recreation, along with the environmental issues that go with them, gone.
America as we know it, and as we would wish it to be?
Gone.
Chad,
Thank you for the GOOD WORDS! Yes, actually, the 'pragmatic'approach to just cover the expenses rather than giving actual $$$ donations is VERY astute! For example, I just bought my own toilet seat at my apartment so that the overly-stressed property manager didn't have to and then I can defray the costs by taking it off of my rent . . . (CREATIVE solution which saved shelling out BIG BUCKS to a PLUMBER who would've charged like $50 just to change a toilet seat!! :-).
But, yes, again Chad, your Rational Mind spotted the trend in how political 'theory' can result in potentially disastrous consequences. Libertarianism I ADMIRE in safeguarding CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM (freedom of speech, freedom of political views), BUT as a 'free-market, laissez-faire economic theory' the results CAN be disastrous. Just look at countries like El Salvador or Guatemala and see how unbridled capitalism without an adequate TAX BASE to construct roads, plumbing etc. RESULTS IN SOCIETAL CHAOS . . . From the inability to even flush toilet paper down a toilet in Guatemala (TRUE STORY, I have been there THREE TIMES) due to their pipes being too small to the drinking water being contaminated in Mexico and throughout Latin America (remember, DON'T DRINK the WATER in Latin America as a "gringo" . . . otherwise, dysentary is the end result . . .), such 'free market' principles that LIBERTARIANISM espouses ARE disastrous!!!
Thank you again for ALL that you do!
Blessings in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King
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