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Originally Posted by ribosoma
If I actually believed that there was a political solution to the problems of the world and that the process of voting wasn't a mass ritual of collective servitude, I would be far more concerned with Paul's connections to the Rockefeller-funded Council for National Policy and the John Birch Society than a spurious connection to a pathetic fringe group of marginalized, frustrated white supremacists.
When I think of a true Libertarian, I think of Thomas Paine and the Quakers, not some used-up, frail politician who plays the political game while doing his best to convince his followers otherwise. Or a guy who accuses "Washington insiders" of taking corporate money while receiving millions of dollars from big pharma, big banks, big insurance, big alcohol, and Wall Street over the course of his career. So now we have the lesser of three evils, as opposed to two. Whoop-de-frickin' doo.
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Thomas Paine on Social Security:
"It is painful to see old age working itself to death, in what are called civilised countries, for daily bread... pay to every such person of the age of fifty years ... the sum of six pounds per annum out of the surplus taxes, and ten pounds per annum during life after the age of sixty... This support, as already remarked, is not of the nature of a charity but of a right."
He also had a lot of forward thinking ideas that some here today would label as being socialist. I just love the historical revisionism on this board where Thomas Paine - one of the biggest advocates for the poor and needy - was a Libertarian. LOL.