Ron Paul On Meet The Press

December 24, 2007

 The Facts

Ron Paul was on “Meet The Press” yesterday with Tim Russet. It’s always interesting to hear what Paul has to say. He has some very novel ideas of what a President should be doing and not doing. You can see his interview here.

My View

As always there were just a couple of things that really caught my ear, but the one thing he always mentions is “getting back to a Constitutional government”. On this interview, he made reference to using the Constitution to resize the government. If Ron Paul were elected President and just focused on that alone, he would have his hands full. There is no question that we should refocus our efforts in that direction, but I believe it will be an impossible mission. There are literally hundreds of things that could be cited here toward that effort, but the starting point is what the forefathers had in mind relative to a government job itself. As I pointed out in one of my earlier post, the forefathers had the vision to know that if a government job became full time, abuse, greed, and corruption would set in. Boy, were they ever right on that point. That is why they said that elected government officials should take about three months out of the year to conduct government business, then go back to their “day job”. Although in my earlier post on this matter I said that in today’s world that would be impossible, I now believe it could be. But the reason that it won’t happen is that those same government officials wouldn’t have time to screw up the government. If all greed, corruption, & power hunger went away, the job could probably be done in less than six months. But they will never give that up.