Ron Paul: Elizabeth Warren Is a ‘Socialist,‘ Public Schooling Is a ’Socialist Idea’

this gutter trash Ron Paul....is truly dangerous to the world. Public school is a socialist idea? waht a friggin joke? 99% of the fat obese and others...parents..that is....don't know #$%$ about education..can't discipline their own kids....andare totally lost about science, math, social studies..etc...complete morons who have no clue and no time...to educate their kids on their own...it would be mass chaos..without schools...kids would eventually win the "at home" battle and wold not study.....I know 7 home schooled students///i.e, supposedly educated by my friends who are their parents. These kids are social morons...copletely..cannot cope with stress..they run home to their iiot mother and suck tit....when confronted with pressure..from the outside world....they are completely behind in the sciences and math .....IT S AFRIGGIN joke....giving people the chance to home school......we lose...Europe/japan/china wins.....and the usa are #$%$ ing idiots...actually...that makes me feel good.....let america rot in it's own stupidity....even with school, the kids suck at everything....andif they are not sucking their b. friendin the restrrooms...or kniving an enemy or..other shid.......wel....they are mediore trash at best....BUT, it still beats being a COMPLETE piece of trash via the laughable home schooling

Ron Paul's ideas are just "Theories". They are untested. He doesn't even try to imagine what the implications would be if his crazy ideas were actually put into practice. For somebody running for President, this is irresponsible. But he doesn't care. He's wealthy. He would be protected. His ideas would hurt only the poor and middle class. Home Schooling??? F U Ron Paul !

No matter what Ron Paul and other similar thinkers say, the bottom line is that those who are wealthy could never have gotten that way on their own. Even someone as brilliant as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates initially needed the assistance of banks (regulated and guaranteed by the federal government) to provide funds to begin operations. They needed state and federal laws and agencies (funded by taxpayers) to provide a framework for establishing their business. They needed educated and dedicated workers to expand and grow their business. They needed consumers to buy their products. And they needed the established stock exchanges and financial markets to maintain and grow their own wealth and the wealth of their shareholders. And those are the wealthy that actually did something. What about those who received their wealth through inheritance. Who never did nor ever will do anything productive in their entire life. Think Huguette Clark, the billionaire copper heiress who just passed away after spending the last 40 years collecting dolls (who were her closest friends). Now, we taxpayers get to pay for the criminal investigations and possible prosecutions of her accountant and lawyer because the family is not happy about how she distributed her estate. Those who think that the 99% are jealous of the supposedly successful 1% have got it all wrong. We aren't jealous, we're angry because the 1% believe they are entitled to their wealth based upon their own efforts, when in reality they were simply playing the drums in front of an entire orchestra that came together to facilitate their success.

Ron Paul once introduced legislation that would have made it legal to SUE an elected official if he or she did not pursue the same platform that they campaigned on

There is a difference between Steve Jobs and AVG. Capitalism good. Crony capitalism bad. The government should not get involved in corporations, Let them fall for their horrible ideas. Capitalist should not be categorized the same as crony capitalist.

"The tax which will be paid for [the] purpose [of education] is
not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,
priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the
people in ignorance." --Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 1786.

Was it not Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding Fathers, who put nearly all his money into a public school system and died broke, giving all in the belief, that all children deserve an education?

Umm, isn't the government supposed to be us?

You're right about one thing, Paul. The governent does take money from some and give it to others. In this case, it's the rich who are getting richer at the expense of the lower and middle classes.

Sounds like Ron Paul wants an entirely new country.

"Who’s the government? The government created nothing,” said Rep. Paul. “The only thing they can do is steal, and rob people with a gun, and forceable transfer wealth from one person to another. ”

We the People are the government. We created the government (at least our Founding Fathers created the organization).... Therefore if you don't like the government blame the People of the United States. If al-Quaida can make those connections and use them as justification to make war on the US public, then surely Mr. Paul can too.

Anybody with two first names has to be inbreed.

I do not think any responsible or knowledgeable person would claim that Thomas Jefferson was a "socialist". However, he valued public education above nearly all else, due to his belief that it was essential for a democracy. Jefferson felt that if you empower people to vote, there is a critical need to educate these people so they can be a productive and informed citizenry. Therefore, public-funded education was key to being a good citizen and a responsible democracy. It is for these reasons that he valued his contribution to public education above that of being president, vice president, secretary of state, and the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson would have rejected Ron Paul’s statement on public funding of education.

LISTEN to the interview.... not what is written

You know, I stand corrected about Ron Paul. I have made statements that he is a "nut job". I regret making those statements. He sounds more like the sane one than 90% of politicans.

Many of our Founding Fathers were very strong proponents of Free public education for Americans. Abraham Baldwin was just one of them! The founding of the University of Virginia was more important to Thomas Jefferson than being President!!

Homeschooling can serve as a national education model. Just tune to the shows "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" and "Jeopardy" as teaching materials, "Mythbusters" to cover the sciences, and read the cooking instructions from a TV dinner box.Reply

It's OK, there wont be any public schools if we keep electing the status quo.. policing the world, and bailing out countries and banks.... hell you almost have to pay to go to public school now... they have to have fundraisers for everything
(and our public school system is number 1 in the world right?) Blind sheep.

Too many of you USers (non-Canadian North Americans) have a problem with semantics. You take words like Communist, socialist, even liberal and make them into dirty words to label people and ideas with in a priori manner instead of considering ideas on their merits. You deserve to have "capitalist" made a dirty word, but the rest of the world has a little bit more sense and for the most part refuses to play your childish semantic games... Try thinking and reasoning without use of ideological hate epithets for a change if you're still at all capable of it, which is doubtful!

Ron Paul went to public school himself, he also worked his way through college and made a medical practice that didn't accept medicare because he didn't believe in it so he treated all of those patients FOR FREE. Even if they needed surgery!!!! He's such an uncaring man. Do a search on google: Before He Delivered For Voters, Paul Delivered Babies