[Vision2020] Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate

[Paul Rumelhart]

It's really his stance against the Patriot Act and many of the other 
abuses that have happened under Bush's watch and under Obama's that I'm 
interested in.  I can get behind a lot of his other positions, too, but 
not all of them, but that's the big one for me.  Neither Obama nor 
Romney even care about the issue.

Paul

On 09/11/2012 07:10 PM, Sue Hovey wrote:
> Sorry, Paul.  I always check a libertarian's stand on choice and 
> haven't found any who are truly libertarian in the full sense of the 
> word.  If leaving any civil right to the states is truly an American 
> right, then slavery in the South should fit that paradigm.
>
> Sue H.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Paul Rumelhart
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:59 PM
> To: Vision 2020
> Subject: [Vision2020] Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Presidential 
> Candidate
>
> Not happy with our current President or with Mitt Romney, I decided to
> look into the other candidates.
>
> Here is what I found out about the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary
> Johnson.  He is a former Governor of New Mexico and is currently a
> business man.
>
> Where he stands on some of the issues, condensed (from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Gary_Johnson):
>
> For:
> - balanced budget
> - vetoing any bills with expenditures in excess of revenues
> - replacing income, corporate, and estate taxes with the FairTax
> proposal (a high sales tax with an "up-to-poverty" monthly "prebate")
> - building new coal-fired and nuclear power plants
> - clean air, clean water, conservationism
> - auditing the Federal Reserve
> - free trade
> - tort reform and control of frivolous lawsuits in health care
> - trade unions, except that he supports merit-based wages
> - continuing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, but would enact
> "responsible entitlement reform"
> - raising the retirement age
> - cutting the military budget by 43% (back to 2003 levels)
> - military intervention only as the last option
> - humanitarian interventions in other countries, if emergencies
> - 100% campaign finance transparency
> - amendment to reverse Citizens United
> - States' rights
> - continued legalisation of abortion
> - legalisation of marijuana
> - school voucher system
> - simplified legal immigration
> - work visas for illegal immigrants rather than amnesty
> - marriage equality for same-sex couples
>
>
> Against:
> - earmarks
> - TARP
> - bailouts
> - American Jobs Act
> - "quantitative easing" (printing more money)
> - government subsidies to businesses
> - tariffs
> - "ObamaCare"
> - medicare prescription drug plan
> - continued US involvement in Afghanistan
> - renewing the Patriot Act
> - physical or psychological torture
> - due process for Guantanimo detainees
> - "Americans giving up their civil rights in the name of fear"
> - War on Drugs
> - death penalty
> - Department of Education, would abolish it at Federal level
> - Federal involvement in student loans
> - gun control
> - fence along border with Mexico
> - internet neutrality
> - government regulation of marriage at all
> - public funding of stem cell research
> - sin taxes on cigarettes
>
>
> Lots of things I personally agree with, some I don't.  What do others 
> think?
>
> Paul
>
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