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Your comment here is duly noted. Thanks for making it, Brad. We've great respect for Dr. Paul and all the candidates. And your opinion, too. What is Dr. Paul's greatest strength?

Why are we in such a pickle in the first place?

The greatest benefit our government gives us BAR NONE is the ability to relocate to another state at ANY TIME with all legally acquired possessions. When our government has FEW federal powers, as it should, 99% of the body of law comes from the state you live in. What does that really mean? It means if you are a Tea Party type and want limited services and low taxes, you can move to a state that has them - whenever you want! Similarly, if you are of a more liberal persuasion, you can move to a state with single payer health insurance, paid college benefits, safety nets for the unemployed and a host of other benefits - just by moving to another state. Whether conservative, liberal or centrist you are FAR more likely to find a state run the way you'd like it than you would with a one-size-fits-all plan.

Further, the viability of these governments would also rest on the business environment they provide to business owners and consumers both. Things that cannot be made economically in a high tax state can be made in a low tax state and shipped in. High value products are more likely to be made in somewhat higher tax states because their employees are more in demand and so garner better working conditions.
The REAL point is competition. Just as competition brings us cheaper computers and cell phones, so would competition bring us better cheaper government that truly serves the end user.

gas prices go up, yet mobile is recording record high profits... taxes go up, yet we sell our bridges to foreign countries.. billions are spent on war, yet we americans have very limited soldiers on our homeland here to protect us if something were to seriously go wrong.... how does any of this makes sense??? there's all this talk about jobs, but what good are the jobs if they pay a minimum salary ?have you ever tried to support a family on a minimum wage? you can't. people don't want know where jobs that only makes the c e os rich. decent jobs like landscaping only pay 10 dollars an hour because the truck full of foreigners will do it for 5

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That's just silly. You think laws are written to protect YOU? YOU, with no money to lobby? YOU, who are limited in your ability to make campaign contributions? YOU, who don't have million dollar jobs to hand out when our fine elected officials retire? Legislation isn't even WRITTEN by our legislators anymore - it's written exclusively by lobbyists. DownsizeDC.org is trying to get legislation passed to limit that, you might give them a look see too.
I think when you read about the 1800s you read only one type of book - the ones written to sell you on just such programs as you have unabashedly supported. Yet that was not the only thing happening in the 1800s. For instance, did you know there WAS no middle class until the higher wages the 1800s brought gave people the ability to save up and buy their own lands? It is part of the predictable tendency to think things long ago were the same as now, or different in only a few particulars. This is NOT the case, so when you go reading biographies, remember those are rich or famous people, NOT the average guy back then. The ability to own actual property, and an actual house which no one could take from you was a VERY big deal, though we take it for granted today.