USA election 2008

So who would I vote in the USA 2008 election (if I could)? I would vote for Ron Paul. I actually would vote for Dennis Kucinich but he dropped from the race (darn!). 

My favourite Ron Paul's ideas: 

• Eliminate the federal reserve and go back to the gold standard. That alone would change the world in so many ways. If most countries would do that that would eliminate pretty much all wars, economic bubbles and busts, etc. Ever since 1913 or so we have been run by bank cartels. Both world wars and other wars have been created and funded on both sides by the bank cartels. The way money is created out of thin air causes inflation which is a flat tax on everybody but the elite. Also most of the income tax in the US and Canada is spend on paying the interest that central banks charge when they create money out of nothing! So they create money out of nothing and then charge interest on top! And we are paying our income taxes only for that! 
  
• Getting out of any wars. I guess everybody can agree with that. But in reality this could be accomplished as a side effect of eliminating the federal reserve and the bank cartels.
• Energy. That's another arm of the bank cartel: the energy cartel. Even though Ron Paul is focusing on the known energy technologies including nuclear, which I am not fond of, I like the idea of eliminating subsidies on nuclear. I, of course, like the tax credits on solar and wind energies. One thing though: I would love to see investment and support for other alternative energy sources such as zero point energy and cold fusion. That would completely change the civilization as we know it.
• Government secrecy. I have not found this on his list of issues but I have seen it mentioned in some of his speeches. I am for open government (who isn't). I would say that most of the secrecy in current governments is because they actually are the elite servants. And secrecy is used to maintain the illusion that governments are here to serve the general public.
• Wars and foreign policy. This is a big one. I mean the threat of war with Iran is scary. Not only that, the main reason why the US is at war with Iraq and Afghanistan is to limit the production of oil and keeping the prices up. Again this is done by the banking cartel via the governments (USA, Britain, Germany, etc). And now they are threatening to go to war with Venezuela? Also, they change governments all over the world, including the last stolen election in Mexico. So definitively I am for "non policing the world, talk and make deals with the countries of the world". 

Least favourite ideas:

• Health care. In principle he is right that the current way health care is handled in the US is appalling and that HMOs should be eliminated. But I don't agree with the argument that we Canadians would prefer the US health care. The canadian healthcare needs a lot of improvements and right now is currently under heavy attack by the Harper Conservative government by decreasing its funding and forcing private industry involvement (well, actually the health care industry is forcing this government to do so). But it is probably one thing that canadians are the most proud about. I love it. I mean the fact that when you have an accident or have to use the hospital for any reason, you don't have to worry at all how much it is going to cost is awesome! In this year alone I have saved a ton of money. My wife had a baby and we spend around 4 days at the hospital and that cost us zero dollars! Then she had a skin infection and had to have a small surgery plus multiple trips to the hospital to get IV antibiotics. My daughter had a wrist fracture and had to go to the emergency room and got a cast plus follow ups. And all the visits to the pediatrician and vaccines and whatnot. Everything at a cost of zero. Well not really, we need to pay a monthly fee of 108.00 canadian dollars. That's it! I mean how cool is that! But I would love to have the nordic system where they get the full royal treatment: Hospital, doctors, medicine, etc paid by taxes. All levels of school paid by taxes (all the way to PHD level, which is why the minimum level they consider worth doing is a masters degree). 
• Which is why I am not that big on small government. I mean, sure everybody would like to get the government off their backs (me too), but we the people via the government should be able to decide what is best for us. One thing that I would change in the way of laws is the corporation personhood. Which is where I coincide with Ron Paul.

This post could go on forever, but I think I capture the keystones of my ideas and why I would support Ron Paul (If I was a US citizen).