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  • November 9, 2012 at 8:24 pm in reply to: President Obama's Acceptance Speech and Actual History #14965
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    Ron Paul might be the only politician who acknowledges and recognizes the importance of the founding of the United States

    October 23, 2012 at 9:22 pm in reply to: Alexhander H. Stephens racist "Cornerstone Speech"" #14900
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    JRR, that is an excellent post. Really sums up the true causes of the war. Do you have a link to the data showing the percentage of slave owners in the 1860 South?

    October 15, 2012 at 8:16 pm in reply to: Did the states REALLY have the right to secede? #14881
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    Virginia and I think another state (maybe New York?) made it explicit that they reserved the right to leave the Union if they felt that the federal government had overstepped its bounds. I think there is a gray area in the Constitution in that it allows the federal government to respond to rebellion, but does not explicitly forbid secession. I would argue that secession is permitted by virtue of the 9th and 10th amendments.

    October 15, 2012 at 8:06 pm in reply to: are Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid sustainable? #19271
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    Thanks for the links. So as I understand it, SS is running surpluses for the time being due to favorable demographics, but that money isn’t being stored in a vault for later. It is being spent right now for other uses, with the government essentially owing taxpayers an IOU plus interest.

    I knew something had to be wrong with Greenwald’s assertion. I trust him on most foreign policy matters, but economics is a different story.

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