Ron Paul wants to build more bases in the U.S.

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25. This is not what Ron Paul is suggesting at all.

Your logic isn't bad. The idea isn't bad. But this is almost entirely the opposite of what Ron Paul is suggesting. Here's the main reason Ron Paul is suggesting building new bases. (A) He's called to eliminate oversea bases. (B) He's committed to maintaining our current military... If he's gonna be bringing all these troops to US bases, he needs to provide facilities for them. We don't have adequate facilities for that many additional troops on US soil at this point.

But Ron Paul ain't never gonna put a gun to the head of some taxpayer in Omaha to pay for the construction of a teaching hospital in Armadillo just so that it can be passed to local authorities for civilian purposes a few years later. That's completely contradictory to his libertarian philosophy. I understand that progressives hear the soundbite version of Ron Paul and think "Hey, this sounds like us." Libertarians use very similar, even the same, language as progressives a large part of the time. But they mean very different things.