Some people (i.e. followers of Kucinich) claim that Ron Paul won’t reduce military spending in their long rants about how a Ron Paul presidency would destroy us all, because what we really need is just more government to save us all.

This is just flat out wrong, we have been getting more and more government for the last 70+ years, and our students are getting more ignorant (see article here) and Americans are getting less healthy. Ron Paul has said he would shrink the military industrial complex (article in SFGate.com) and eliminate the war on drugs. Without these drains on the productivity of America, we would have more funds to be able to make positive choices for ourselves, our families, and yes even the children.

It’s a sad fact that the children are used to control the present and future, and that they are being ill used by the current “education” system. (a good article is here) The answer isn’t to throw money in the air and hope that the children are able to benefit, but rather, like other countries, to give parents real choices in education. As John Stossel pointed out in Stupid in America, in other countries money follows the students, as long as they go to a decent school, the money goes with them, and they have higher test scores.

More socialism isn’t the answer to socialism (or more accurately national socialism) gone wrong, the correct answer is freedom and following the constitution, not have a new (or different) Uncle Joe. If the states want to have educational choices, they should be free to do so, without the heavy hand of Washington telling them they need more cameras, bio sensors, and dog searches.

Of course, that is assuming that the people who claim they care about the children, care about the welfare of the children, rather than just how to exploit them (as this website on the history of American education supposes) .

If you think that your life is better decided by impersonal dictates from the department of Homeland security (or maybe a department with a different name but similar purpose) then you don’t want Ron Paul to be president and you should run around claiming that if elected your world (and the world of your fellow socialists) will end.

That said, it won’t. The world won’t change overnight, we didn’t get to where we are by one step and it won’t change instantly, what you could expect to see is a gradual return to the principles of freedom and liberty, less meddling in the foreign affairs of other countries, and less border patrol agents being tried for doing their jobs.

You could look forward to April 15th being just another day in the year, and you could look forward to knowing that your children won’t be drafted to fight in some perpetual war.

I guess if you want the opposite of all those things, you need to claim that Ron Paul is the new Satan.

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