Yesterday, Ron Paul was on Meet the Press as part of the Meet the Candidate series. I came out of the interview quite low on Ron Paul.
Ron Paul says he will cut $1 trillion of spending if he is elected. Now, that sounds great at first glance, but he does this by cutting five government departments. These are the Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Commerce, Department of the Interior, and the Department of Education. Why would anybody think cutting these departments would help things at all? As a teacher, the one that really doesn’t sit well with me is cutting the Department of Education. This country has serious problems in terms of educating kids (look at the stats, I think we’re not even top 5) and I think cutting that department will push us further back.
Ron Paul had two comments on Meet the Press that were quote-worthy. One was hilarious and one was just plain stupid. The hilarious one was when Paul was talking about the difference between Obama and Romney. “We’d have to figure out which position we’re looking at with Mitt Romney, (laughs) you know, it changes.” That was very true, Romney’s main drawback is that his positions seem to flip-flop making him look at times like a liberal and at times a conservative.
The thing that made me get annoyed was when Paul was talking about making huge spending cuts. “After World War II….. finally we got over the depression, by these draconian cuts.” The depression ended BECAUSE of World War II. The country had to create jobs because men left to fight and women and the remaining men staying behind had to go to work manufacturing weapons, etc. for the combatants. This is what ended the depression, not the spending cuts made afterwards. Also, spending cuts were made because America no longer had to fight an all-out war, not just because the country was in a depression.
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