Give Ron Paul his due as someone who believes in the Constitution

Give Ron Paul his due as someone who believes in the Constitution

Peter Goldmark’s Oct. 12 col- umn attacking Ron Paul was deceptive and misleading. It uses the classic smear tactic of mentioning Paul’s name in the first couple of paragraphs before making numerous negative statements about “the significant movement in our midst that seeks to paralyze or take apart the American government” — which is code for people that believe in the Constitution and want the politicians in Washington to stop spending the country broke.

Congressman Paul’s statement that 9/11 came about because there was too much government refers to a comment made by Osama bin Laden that one of the main reasons the terrorists hate America is because we have military bases in Saudi Arabia. Paul’s contention has always been that overseas American military bases are an example of too much government, and that if we weren’t spending so much money overseas we would be able to take better care of our own people. Goldmark takes this belief and jumps to all kinds of crazy conclusions about Ron Paul trying to destroy our “system” of government, using the word “system” at least six times without once mentioning our Constitution.

Peter Goldmark writes about foreigners admiring our “system of government” and its individual liberties without bothering to mention that Ron Paul’s core belief is that individual liberty is the highest American ideal.

The system of government that Peter Goldmark approves of is one where all the money in the Social Security trust fund is stolen by the politicians and spent on things other than Social Security, it is a system that busts out the Postal Service by forcing them to pay retiree benefits in advance for people that have not even been born yet, it is a system that gives trillions of dollars away to foreign banks with no strings attached and it is a system of crony capitalism that allows the big corporations to write a lot of our laws. Mr. Goldmark, your system has bankrupted our country. We are broke and living on borrowed money.

Ron Paul wants for the federal government to be run according to the rules in the Constitution and wants us to stop meddling in the affairs of foreign countries. Ron Paul believes in you and trusts you to make your own decisions. Ron Paul believes that the federal government should not spend more than it takes in and has never voted for an unbalanced budget. That is the system for me.

Patrick G. Howard, Youngstown