I’ve never been a fan of Ron Paul: His foreign policy is irresponsible and disqualifying. His domestic objectives are impractical. (“Shut them all down” is fine for a gadfly to shout from the outside, but it’s not a realistic legislative agenda. We need a real plan to downsize the government, and he doesn’t seem to have one.) I don’t share his obsession with the gold standard. And then there’s the troubling material in his newsletters.
But even as a non-fan, I still found this dismaying:
He turns out to have no plan to reform Medicare and Social Security, other than cutting defense spending to make more room for them in the budget.
He wants to slash defense spending in order to prop up entitlements (which won’t work anyway). Yikes.
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