You know very little of Ron Paul, and I wager that you don’t really care to learn anything. That’s a shame. You delude yourself with these word games, and prove yourself? a hypocrite by voting in someone who has shown a flagrant disregard for the freedom that you proclaim the Federal government supposedly bequeaths to you instead of “reforming” the government by voting him out of office and voting someone in who will bring about the “reform” you want.

He has said that he would not simply dissolve any of the departments that he has targeted: they would be phased out through attrition. He also said that one or? more of them would simply be rolled into other departments (such as the CIA), and some would be retained if enough people retained interest in them (like Social Security).

If you want to continue pretending to know about him, or glossing over the very real danger that Obama poses, then go ahead.

Also, he would give back to the states what should have been with them all along: the Federal government should be limited to those things which it was originally intended, and which Ron Paul plans to retain. I see no issue here.

Seriously, go Google “Budget Simulator” (the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget should be the first link), and fill it out doing only things from that plan. See where it gets you.

If the Republican party? would be willing to give a little in negotiations, which many have actually signed pledges not to do, I’m sure the Democrats would be more willing to work with them.