Private ships once sailed the seas buying and selling in port after port. No government or trade sanctions were ever involved. Ship owners and crews did well. Why does government have to get involved and mess it up today. Like they say-Special Interests!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I voted for him instead of McCain in the Texas primary others were asking, "Who is he?" Well, they know who he is now as well as his son, Rand.

It would be both helpless and the worst tyranny.

Criminals tend to strike their easiest targets. If they know you have the means to resists and that you will resists-they will move on to an easier target.

The enormous cost to comply could be better spent elsewhere, but also the freedoms and privacy lost to the 16th ammendent is abhoring.

Mike, peoples ignorance is beyond bliss. How many I tell it to just like you said here, but they feel there is a SS account in DC with their name on it and all that money they paid is still in their account. No one has ever put a penny in their own account. It is always paid to someone else. A real Ponzi scheme.

Easy to see what it means. The total federal control over everything in our lives. Oh yeah! It's all for our own good of course and it's scary how many believe that.

Who said our modern day school graduates are our greatest ever. Old quill pen and paper scholars like our founding fathers governed far better than our Ivy League graduates today.

I'd say he was speaking of the French Revolution. They rid themselves of a king, but gained a self crowned emperor.

Oh hail the great President Jimmy Carter. How compassionate he was-when using other people's money.

Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, said that the chairity of Gates and Buffet is futile. The best thing a man can do is create wealth which gives people jobs. "Don't give a man a fish-teach him to fish!"

Thomas Jefferson, our greatest president, aknowledged that government is "a necessary evil." He also said that less government is desirable. Education belonged to the states and locals until JFK started the federal Department of Education. This got the federal courts involved and education in the public sector has been adrift ever since. RBESQUE, charity is a personal and private concern which should always be voluntary, and government must never be involved with it.

Freedom and equality are two different things. Enforcing equality becomes "taking from Peter to pay Paul."

I agree with J Carlton and Mike.

He was a student of Ayn Rand in his young days, but he must have forgotten everything she said. If Ron Paul cannot get rid of the Fed-then at least he will obtain the first-ever audit of it.

If gratitude is expensive-then it's a price I'm willing to pay.

The democrat congress got rid of John Bolton as our ambassador to the UN. They said he is a "bully!" Just what is it they want? Someone who gives in to everyone!

It's not the taxes so much as the spending they do in DC.

I can see what Dr. Tom is saying. We have a $1.5 trillion deficet in our budget this year. Rand Paul wants to cut it by a third and even his fellow Republicans think that is too much. We'll have to wait and see what they DO.

How far we have strayed. GW talks about debt "in war time only" and we now have it in every budget.

There is still no moral reason known why America entered WWI.

To all you complaining liberals. It was FDR and Harry Truman who got us into the UN. Truman put us into Korea and JFK-LBJ placed us into Vietnam. I ask you now, "What are you complaining about?"

Of the few jews I have met, only one was not atheist. Einstein ism not exceptionn to any rule.

A jury is right to determine these things in a case by case method. Circumstances show that one law will never serve all purposes everytime just as one shoe will never fit everyone.

Waffler just wants someone to always tell him what to do, how to do it, and when to do it.