The devastation that would ensue if he had his way would be the demise of the US.
Please explain. And I mean more than: "Republican ideology is bad, mmmkay?" Go to Ron Paul's site (you can even use his books if you want), take his individual points and explain, without using derogatory lowest-denominator ter
ms like "crazy" and "stupid," why his point of view on specific issues will lead to the demise of the US.
...And there is a large portion of the population not affording that private education. Some kids can't afford a lunch much less a tuition.
And I guess there would never be the Dollar General equivalent of schools in a widely privatized arena? Come on, even you have to admit that the private industry could provide crappy schools for far less than the government currently does. I know that I can send my daughter to decently rated private schools for less than it would cost her to go to one of the local public schools, because I have looked. And I know I could afford it out of pocket because it would be cheaper than our daycare costs are now. I can only imagine how much cheaper it would be if the four local public schools had to compete to get their money.
And before you respond: I know, businessmen are too greedy to run budget targeted businesses and I am crazy to even think that would ever happen. No other industry has ever seen it, have they? Well, they have but they are different.
Not that any of this has to do with the presidential election, because public education is an institution run on the state level. All a president can do, in accordance with Congress (although this bit gets missed), is throw money at states for doing what they want, like a drunk at a strip club. Even if you don't think education should be run on the state level, it is, and what I described above is how it works now.
EDIT: I meant to respond to this:
I know the US currently does an amount of exploring, but we don't concentrate nearly as much effort as we did pre-1975.
We have something headed toward or orbiting around nearly every major body in our solar system. Some of them are 30+ years old, but that is because space is big, really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. And on top of that we have so many telescopes, radars, and whatchamascopes pointing out beyond our solar system that every new item we find gets its picture taken five different ways.
They are talking about taking a picture of an actual black hole in our galaxy.
Do, or did, we focus on putting men into space the way we once did? No. But we don't go sailing for new lands either. We have discovered most of what men can safely and affordably explore in the water. Now we use robots to look beyond that. Space exploration is the same way, only our current technological limits are much more limiting in comparison. But in the end every unmanned object that goes off into the abyss does have one question behind everything it looks at, "Can humans go there too one day?" Curiosity wasn't testing solar radiation to protect itself. It was testing so we had information we can use to protect men who go to Mars one day.
Paul's other ideas would render the US incapable of doing anything financially, and ruin a lot of lives while waiting on free markets to help the millions of people that need it. That is why he is crazy, not because he is for a smaller military.
