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Recently I went to watch Ron Paul speak in front of the LBJ Library at the University of Texas at Austin. The first thing I noticed was another dumbass kid in uniform straight out of Basic Training talking politics in front of a camera and before I could stop him, there he went with his opinions and there his career went with them. Many outside of the military don’t know that as a solider, you are not allowed to have a political opinion because your boss is the Commander and Chief and it’s a conflict of interest. The ones that do have opinions, no longer have military careers. Although I am in complete agreement to bring all troops home as Ron Paul stated that evening, the last thing we need to do is decrease our military to non-existence.  There are already too many enemies of this country because of past actions made, that to not have a substantial military would put us all at risk.

I knew Ron Paul was a little out there and his ideas were a little extreme at times, but I didn’t realize that his Economic policies are in direct conflict with my Environmental Science beliefs and actions that I am taking to make the world a more sustainable place. Ron Paul is a free market idealist, and believes that government should stay out of big business and not have any restrictions. If we did that then it would expedite the process of global climate change, deforestation and toxins being pumped into the water. This would ultimately destroy the free market in which Ron Paul is fighting for because without resources, you have nothing to bring to the “market”. I feel that the government is already too blind to the problems the world is facing today and has put big business as a priority over human health. It’s not more or less government interference that is needed but intelligent politicians that don’t use policies to manipulate government actions to make a profit but fight for the sustainability of our entire race.