[Vision2020] Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate

[Joe Campbell]

I need proof that someone would have done something differently. Not
that I disagree with the criticism. The fact is Obama did it. Joe

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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