Hope for America Day
As supporters of Ron Paul and striving to help our country we should come together on August 20th and help to better America. What a better way to honor Dr. Paul then to celebrate his birthday through community service. We can come together to clean streets, paint over graffiti, help the homeless, or provide a volunteer service needed in our communities.
Working together we can make a difference in our local areas while promoting Ron Paul as President. Imagine if we do this in cities across the country? What will people think when they see volunteers? We have the volunteer force working in their hometowns to better them, not just out working the campaign trail. We all know that we have a very large volunteer force, lets show the world what we can accomplish.
Work together with your local meetups and groups and set aside August 20th as a day to help you community. Find out what you group can do to help in your area. And then take action!
Join the discussion: http://www.ronpaulforums....
Let's show our communities that we don't need BIG government to get things done.
Western Civilization
is crumbling because most cannot make the distinction between responsibility and what part of it ought to be government. I've written often of "the third dimension" - there is the market, and the state, but also churches, clubs, unions, and every other voluntary organization and association.
Neither the market NOR GOVERNMENT is competent to handle things this third dimension should take responsibility for. If you want a clean neighborhood, you and your neighbors should clean it, not wait for a grant from DC which goes through a bureaucracy, imposes many conditions on who can work and how, etc.
The market is about things subject to economic laws (goods and services) and about efficiency. Marriage isn't one of those things, but it can't be a government institution either. Government is a backstop to enforce contracts, and then only when something goes wrong. It can provide standards and definitions. But when it touches families it destroys them. And a family can't be bought in a bazaar.
So this service day is a way of saying not that we want liberty to abuse it - become stoned, have orgies, do horrid things, but SPECIFICALLY because we want to seize responsibility and do the right and needed things in our community OURSELVES. To DC it is the clearest way of saying - go away, we don't need you.
Great idea!
Count me in on that day Aug 20th.
Hope for America Day
No offense intended!
Another May Day in this country would probably go over pretty big now-a-days.
Anyways when the Universal National Service Act (HR 4752, 2006) finally gets passed everyone will get his/her fair share of Volunterism as the following excerpt addresses:
"Those who are not sent overseas to the war theater would, according to the clauses of the bill, be inducted into the civilian homeland defense corps and other civilian duties, including the Citizens Corps, the "Neighborhood Watch Teams" and the "Volunteer Police Service" established in partnership with local law enforcement. (see http://www.citizencorps.g... )"
[from Restoring the Draft by Michel Chossudovsky May 30 2006]
Regards
Hope for America Day
Is Ron a liberatarian or a communitarian?
Community, Without Force
Forget the labels. Just take force out of the equation, every time.
Current reality: we live uncarring lives in very uncarring communities because we've been conditioned to rely on government taking care of every problem. We've forgotten that only individuals can make moral choices. Think about how immoral it is to delegate personal accountability to an abstract entity, and then walk away.
A vision of the future: Take government out of the equation - no forced redistribution of wealth, no cut to a parsitic elite. Then it's up to us, to each of us, to decide if we care about a problem, and if we do, what we actually are going to do about it, individually, and in voluntary cooperation with others. That's a very different vision from what we experience now, each day while we work and try to create meaningful community. It's not going to be easy because we will have to make moral choices.
Voting is the smallest part of Democracy. Real Democracy, like Real Money, is do-it-ourselves.
FreeOregon
Good Post FreeOregon
FreeOregon said: "Forget the labels. They just take force out of the equation, every time." What a good reminder on a political site that is united in trying to get someone they all feel is their only hope elected as President.
We all want our country back. We all want our Constitution back. We all want a president who will restore our trust in government. What unites us is so powerful that no other campaign can touch that kind of force/energy in supporters. What unites us is so much more powerful than individual differences and we are all unique individuals.
Another thing I try to remember is the number of people who come here each day...some are exploring...searching...trying to gain information...decide who they will vote for. This site serves many purposes.
I don't have a problem with 911 truthers for Ron Paul ...not at all. I have questions, too. And, I appreciated Ken's question. Went off and learned a lot about "communitarians." I enjoyed the side-trip, Ken!
There are a lot of people fervently for Ron Paul who are extremely involved in issues that not everyone here is involved with, cares about, or perhaps even agrees with. And, they are going to vote for Ron Paul because they (1)Want their country back (2) Want their constitution back (3)) Want a President who will restore their trust in government and (4) They want Liberty and Freedom. I feel a lot of affinity with anyone else who passionately wants those things right now. done
communitarian?
I do not understand how anyone would think of such a question if they understood the basis for communitarianism. Ron Paul obviously stands for individual liberty and freedom granted to us by our Creator and guaranteed by the Constitution, of which he is champion. A communitarian slash communist stands for the collective. Get real.
That's what socialists would
That's what socialists would like people to think of libertarians. We're not anti-social. We're just against forced relationships. That's what's really anti-social to me.
you're confused
i doubt he'd object to this...
he would more likely object to the government doing it !