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<blockquote data-quote="TRAINr" data-source="post: 1614205" data-attributes="member: 16522"><p>I'll agree with you on working. I've lost jobs and always went to work to find work. Never have accepted help from government or family as I always try to have a little put aside for emergencies. It's gotten down to eating peanut butter sandwiches (couldn't afford the jelly) at times but I managed to survive. Free trade I'm still not decided on entirely as being right or wrong in the long run. I do know that just about everything I own today is made everywhere else but in the US. That's sad. I'd like to buy stuff made here but know that if it was made here it would cost more. Why? I don't know. The cost of food made here is going higher. I need food. Agreed that a nation is made up of many things. I guess I was trying to view it in light of how two people interact. If you and I meet to say trade on a gun deal we'd mutually agree to a place to meet, the time and the terms of the exchange. It would be civil and cordial. You'd get something and I'd get something. The exchange would be mutual beneficially to both of us. Why can't nations do the same? Again, too simplistic?</p><p></p><p>I've been reading this forum for eight months now since joining. I just only posted yesterday for the first time. The situation in the nation concerns me. I have a decent job for the moment but realize that tomorrow it might be gone. It's scary to be honest. This thread was about Ron Paul. I hadn't planned on voting. The last time I voted was for Reagan on his second run. So when I began to look at the candidates I gravitated towards Bachmann because she stood up for the Constitution. But I'm not a hawk so her position had me give Paul a look. He too stood up for the Constitution. More so than Bachmann. I like that. I've always viewed the Constitution as the rule book that the federal government was suppose to play by. And since that last time I voted for Reagan I've watched the federal government work tirelessly to get around the rules. To make excuses to justify their actions. And each time they succeeded in getting around a rule I felt cheated. Why do these people in government with money and power get to cheat when I have to live by the rules? It's not only unfair it's not right. In sports both teams have to be playing by the same set of rules. Why doesn't the government, which is supposed to be representing our will, playing by the rules?</p><p></p><p>Everyone keeps saying Paul isn't presidential material. But why? If he constantly refers back to the Constitution when he discusses an issue, how is that unpresidential? Isn't the job of the president to defend the Constitution? I would if I could be president. I'd want to do what is right. Not what is convenient or goes along to get along. All the candidates aren't perfect. I've learned long ago that when everyone is against someone it doesn't hurt to investigate and research that person's positions. If the media and many on this forum that I'd been reading quietly for eight months hadn't kept saying negative things about him I'd probably never looked at his positions. I like what I have discovered. I'm almost convinced to spend my vote on him when the time comes. It means I'll have to register as a republican to do it but I can swallow that pill. I want the best for the nation. I want to be able to live in a nation where I'm free. I want to respect the government. I don't want to distrust it. But with each passing year they've caused me to distrust them because they're not playing by the rule book that is the Constitution. If they won't play by the rules, where does that leave me? Or my family and friends? I feel as though I'm losing my freedom. And that scares me more than not having a job or having a house or anything else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRAINr, post: 1614205, member: 16522"] I'll agree with you on working. I've lost jobs and always went to work to find work. Never have accepted help from government or family as I always try to have a little put aside for emergencies. It's gotten down to eating peanut butter sandwiches (couldn't afford the jelly) at times but I managed to survive. Free trade I'm still not decided on entirely as being right or wrong in the long run. I do know that just about everything I own today is made everywhere else but in the US. That's sad. I'd like to buy stuff made here but know that if it was made here it would cost more. Why? I don't know. The cost of food made here is going higher. I need food. Agreed that a nation is made up of many things. I guess I was trying to view it in light of how two people interact. If you and I meet to say trade on a gun deal we'd mutually agree to a place to meet, the time and the terms of the exchange. It would be civil and cordial. You'd get something and I'd get something. The exchange would be mutual beneficially to both of us. Why can't nations do the same? Again, too simplistic? I've been reading this forum for eight months now since joining. I just only posted yesterday for the first time. The situation in the nation concerns me. I have a decent job for the moment but realize that tomorrow it might be gone. It's scary to be honest. This thread was about Ron Paul. I hadn't planned on voting. The last time I voted was for Reagan on his second run. So when I began to look at the candidates I gravitated towards Bachmann because she stood up for the Constitution. But I'm not a hawk so her position had me give Paul a look. He too stood up for the Constitution. More so than Bachmann. I like that. I've always viewed the Constitution as the rule book that the federal government was suppose to play by. And since that last time I voted for Reagan I've watched the federal government work tirelessly to get around the rules. To make excuses to justify their actions. And each time they succeeded in getting around a rule I felt cheated. Why do these people in government with money and power get to cheat when I have to live by the rules? It's not only unfair it's not right. In sports both teams have to be playing by the same set of rules. Why doesn't the government, which is supposed to be representing our will, playing by the rules? Everyone keeps saying Paul isn't presidential material. But why? If he constantly refers back to the Constitution when he discusses an issue, how is that unpresidential? Isn't the job of the president to defend the Constitution? I would if I could be president. I'd want to do what is right. Not what is convenient or goes along to get along. All the candidates aren't perfect. I've learned long ago that when everyone is against someone it doesn't hurt to investigate and research that person's positions. If the media and many on this forum that I'd been reading quietly for eight months hadn't kept saying negative things about him I'd probably never looked at his positions. I like what I have discovered. I'm almost convinced to spend my vote on him when the time comes. It means I'll have to register as a republican to do it but I can swallow that pill. I want the best for the nation. I want to be able to live in a nation where I'm free. I want to respect the government. I don't want to distrust it. But with each passing year they've caused me to distrust them because they're not playing by the rule book that is the Constitution. If they won't play by the rules, where does that leave me? Or my family and friends? I feel as though I'm losing my freedom. And that scares me more than not having a job or having a house or anything else. [/QUOTE]
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