{"id":1303,"date":"2007-07-22T22:50:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2009-04-25T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:20:07","slug":"1298-of-the-crazy-libertarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"[1298] Of the crazy libertarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RON PAUL, a libertarian Republican congressman from Texas, likes to say what he thinks. And among the things he thinks is that the census is a violation of privacy. He has opted out of the congressional pension programme. He claims never to have voted for a tax increase, or for an unbalanced budget, or for a congressional pay rise and never to have gone on a congressional junket. He wants to return to the gold standard. Most notably, he strongly opposes the Iraq war and has from the beginning. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/na\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9514241\" target=\"_blank\">Paul the apostate<\/a><\/em>. The Economist. July 19 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I am currently backing Ron Paul, I do realize that a lot of the policies he supports are a tad too radical, even for libertarians, especially me. Still, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1296\">Democrats leaning farther left<\/a>, I think a radical is what we need to balance the see-saw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay&#8230;: RON PAUL, a libertarian Republican congressman from Texas, likes to say what he thinks. And among the things he thinks is that the census is a violation of privacy. He has opted out of the congressional pension programme. He claims never to have voted for a tax increase, or for an unbalanced budget, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[132,292,319],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-republicans","tag-ron-paul","tag-us-presidential-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}