Quote Originally Posted by the image reaper
in all seriousness, Ron Paul has a couple of ideas that I agree 100% with (flat tax, pro-guns) :thumbsup: ... but, as a whole, the guy is chasin' UFO's ... besides, he wants to take away my Social Security and Medicare :wtf: ... bullshit, (not, unless he takes away my guns first ) ... it's one thing to have good ideas, and principles, but quite another to make them work in the real world ... I think Paul is a sincere man, and very honest (for a politician), but a bit short on common sense ... good thread, btw :thumbsup:
I will agree, I wish he hadn't said he believed in aliens. It took me a while to look past that and find out what he stood for. I love Ron Paul though. I think Ron Paul is an extremely intelligent man who is constantly coming up with plausible and good solutions to many problems our nation faces. I have seen some crazies among his supporters though. I tend to see a lot of Ron Paul signs amongst "9-11 was an inside job," and other conspiracy slogans.


As for Social Security, I'm not sure what they should do with that. I only made $6,000 bucks last year (I was unemployed a while ) and I paid $380 of that to Social Security. In ten years I will have paid around $7,700 (rough estimate of college students who make about $12,000 a year) to social security. I won't see any of it. I could take that $7,700 and go on a trip or put away for my own personal security fund.

That's not even including medicare tax.

My generation will never see a dime of that money. From what I understand, his plan is to allow us young guns to opt out of the program if we choose(any of us with a brain will do so.) Than they will gradually eliminate both programs.

I believe social security will be depleted by 2040 and medicare about 10 years from now.