Ron Paul says he raised nearly $20 million in final quarter of 2007

Boston Globe ^ | 01.01.08 | Foon Rhee

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911

[Bastiat_Fan]

Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner, but better late than never, eh?

First off, I don’t feel the Civil War was about slavery. The Slave/Free state ratio was even, there was no way a constitutional amendment ending slavery would have been passed at that point of our history.

The ending of slavery was about the only good thing to come from the Civil War. That said, slavery is just a pretty picture we paint over the Civil War to make ourselves feel good about it. If that was all we were trying to accomplish, a much cheaper compromise would have been to buy and free all slaves. That is all Paul is really saying.

I know it’s a movie, but I watched National Treasure a couple weeks ago, and Nicholas Cage says his favorite president was Lincoln. His line goes something like this, “before Lincoln, they said THESE United States, after Lincoln, they said THE United States”. He said it like it was a good thing. This was not a good development, it has led to the ever expanding ever enchroaching government of today. IMO, Lincoln was about as bad a president we’ve ever had.

Our nation came into being as a collection of states who banded together for protection and trade reasons.If some state wants to go, let them. Don’t waste 600k lives just to build a stronger federal government.