Who cares? Token crap like this doesn't solve our problems. It's just an easy way to score points with uninformed voters. Now if CEOs started offering to take 30,000 dollar salaries, I might be impressed. But this is just silly pandering.
Well IMHO, I want someone making decisions for our country who see's and realizes how hard it is for the average Joe to make ends meet. Not saying he would be in our shoes, but he will get a "Taste" of what it's like. Let's see if Paul gets elected, if anyone rakes up $10m + in vacations alone.
Cutting a trillion from the Congressional budget and eliminating five executive agencies is pandering?
Great point! Leadership starts at the top of any organization. When you tell people to stop complaining and grumbling and to march on while you're living the high life and your wife is living like she's on the house wives of Jersey, it doesn't exactly come across as genuine.
No taking a salary of 30000 is pandering. Cutting a trillion is his proposal and that's fine (though I disagree with it). I wasn't referring to that. And taking a salary of 30,000 doesn't mean you empathize with anyone. You still get the white house and all of the executive privileges that come with being a president. Politicians need to focus on policy and not on token gestures like this. I'm all for paying them well if they do something. I'll gladly support paying the president a million dollars a year if that means we get policy done. Saying you'll take a paycut to 30,000ish SHOULD NOT be a criteria for voting for someone. I want our politicians to talk about macro-economic policy and not folksy nonsense designed to grab the attention of the uninformed.
How much is he making now and who he is getting paid by? Is it more than $40k and is it from the federal government? Some words are just political speak.
He should relocate the White House to the ghettos of Baltimore while he's at it. If we send billionaires, monied donors and dignitaries there for their hotel stays, I think someone would notice...
Here is why Dr. Paul's philosophy of government is wrong: eliminating the Departments of Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Interior and thinking that either the states or free markets will look after society's best interest. Like the Cain man, simple is sometimes just...simple.
Yes. And how else would Obama administration be able to keep raiding medical mar1juana facilities (pointing guns at patients and citizens / seizing property) in states that voted it legal? That federal power must be maintained, it is vital. Raise my taxes.
I promise to take a $50/yr salary when I'm elected. And I have just about the same chance of getting elected as Paul. It's easy to make promises for conditions that won't happen.
you can disagree w/ him, but if you dont think paul is focused on economic policy than you are not paying attention. and of course this is a symbolic/token gesture. nobody is claiming that its should be criteria for voting for him. but it sets a great example for other politicians to follow. symbolic gestures might not mean much on a marco-level, but like when a CEO takes a $1 salary, its shows a level commitment and gesture of good-will. its good PR, and that is never a bad thing. you dont think the average american would appreciate our politicians following pauls example and setting their salary at the current average americans? again, its a symbolic gesture, but in an age where our wages are shrinking while they give themselves pay raises it would be positive gesture of solidarity and great PR.
He is hell-bent on economic policy - and it happens to be about the single stupidest economic policy in the universe, based on wack-o 17th century ideas, which is why it will never happen, thank god.
Not a fan of Obama but I'm also not a fan of economic apocalypse so I'll pass on Ron Paul. Although I do respect the guy, I just don't want him to be in a position with so much power.
Rank and file members of Congress get paid $174,000. The party leaders in each house make $193,400 and the speaker of the house makes $223,500.
And sanity, not some moronic former doctor from Galveston with an addiction to fantasy, who thinks that if we just turn the clock back to 1893 and discard everything we know about the way the world works, everything will magically be better.
