Posted by
Im4Liberty on Friday, October 19, 2007 4:47:19 PM
On just three issues that concern many conservatives, where do you line up? With socialists (group rights) or libertarians (individual rights)? Conservative that I am, I find myself agreeing with these positions....
Border Security and Immigration Reform
We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked. My administration will:
•Physically secure our borders and coastlines.
•Enforce visa rules.
•No amnesty.
•No welfare for illegal aliens.
•End birthright citizenship.
•Pass true immigration reform. The current system is incoherent and unfair. Legal immigrants from all countries should face the same rules and waiting periods.
War and Foreign Policy
Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations. Today, we have troops in 130 countries. We are spread so thin that we have too few troops defending America. And now, there are new calls for a draft of our young men and women.
We can continue to fund and fight no-win police actions around the globe, or we can refocus on securing America and bring the troops home. No war should ever be fought without a declaration of war voted upon by the Congress, as required by the Constitution. Under no circumstances should the U.S. again go to war as the result of a resolution that comes from an unelected, foreign body, such as the United Nations.
At the same time, we must not isolate ourselves. The generosity of the American people has been felt around the globe. Many have thanked God for it, in many languages. Let us have a strong America, conducting open trade, travel, communication, and diplomacy with other nations.
Social Security
Our nation’s promise to its seniors, once considered a sacred trust, has become little more than a tool for politicians to scare retirees while robbing them of their promised benefits. Today, the Social Security system is broke and broken.
Those in the system are seeing their benefits dwindle due to higher taxes, increasing inflation, and irresponsible public spending. The proposed solutions, ranging from lower benefits to higher taxes to increasing the age of eligibility, are NOT solutions; they are betrayals.
Imposing any tax on Social Security benefits is unfair and illogical. In Congress, I have introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act (H.R. 191), which repeals ALL taxes on Social Security benefits, to eliminate political theft of our seniors’ income and raise their standard of living.
Solvency is the key to keeping our promise to our seniors, and I have introduced the Social Security Preservation Act (H.R. 219) to ensure that money paid into the system is only used for Social Security.
It is fundamentally unfair to give benefits to anyone who has not paid into the system. The Social Security for Americans Only Act (H.R. 190) ends the drain on Social Security caused by illegal aliens seeking the fruits of your labor.
We must also address the desire of younger workers to save and invest on their own. We should cut payroll taxes and give workers the opportunity to seek better returns in the private market.
Americans can rally around these founding principles; however, RINOs and DEMs talk out both sides of their mouths rather than act upon these principles, in contrast to Ron Paul who has walked the conservative life for years in Congress
Get the real story from http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/, not the propaganda thrown about by neocons, “realists,” or the morally superior. You, too, will come to your senses.
American for "America the Beautiful," not "America the Fairly Good to those Who Agree with Me."