Your nomination for most bizarre proposal and/or statement last night:

[hedgehog]

I think both Perry and Paul advocated going on to the silver standard.

[phleshdef]

1. Ron Paul proposals don't count. They are almost always bizarre.

Perry wants to line the border with Predator drones. Thats pretty wild!

[bobw999]

9. That statement made Bush look like rainbows and lollipops compared to Perry.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Reminded me of stormtrooper mentality.

What are the drones gonna do, exactly? :shrug:

[Ohio Joe]

2. That a repug debate was being held

When it was just a gathering of loons trying to out do each other.

[emulatorloo]

3. Romney's earnest plea to "save" Social Security from the evil Rick Perry

When Romney basically wants to privatize it.

[hedgehog]

4. If Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, how come it's OK to keep

issuing checks to current recipients?

[teddy51]

7. How can Social Security be a Ponzi scheme when workers are

taxed at 6.2% (along with employers 6.2%) to pay for it? I don't understand where Perry gets that from at all!

Most working people split the costs of social security with their employers. The self-employed also pay social security tax. Many people recognize this tax as the “FICA” line on their pay stub. This stands for the “Federal Insurance Contributions Act” and the Social Security and Medicare taxes levied under it are used to fund the Social Security system.

Amount of Social Security Tax Americans Pay

If you work for someone else, 6.2% of your wages is withheld from your paycheck. Your employer deposits the withheld amount, along with a 6.2% matching contribution to the Social Security program. In 2010 and 2011, the employee tax and matching contribution to Social Security stopped after the first $106,800 of wages. Additionally, if you work for an employer, 1.45% of your wages is withheld and the employer makes a matching 1.45% contribution to the Medicare program, making the total withholdings 7.65%. There is no income ceiling for Medicare taxes.

For those who are self-employed, things work a bit differently. You pay 15.3% of your taxable income into the social security and Medicare programs, up to the first $106,800 of income. You continue to pay 2.9% of your taxable income into the Medicare program for your earnings above $106,800. Although the impact on you is greater because you pay twice the rate of employees, you get a break at tax time. You can deduct half of your federal self-employment taxes from your income when it comes time to pay your federal income tax.

http://law.freeadvice.com/government_law/social_security_law/social_security_tax.htm

[DURHAM D]

5. Paul - We don't need air traffic control.

Apparently without federal control airplanes just won't run into each other because it would be against their own corporate/profit self-interest.

[hedgehog]

6. My head hurts from all the face palm last night!

At one point Paul I think said we needed to hand over drug approvals to the drug companies because right now the FDA bureaucracy is corrupt and listens to drug company lobbyists.

[bobw999]

8. How is returning to a silver/gold standard bizarre?

The FED printing money and causing all this inflation is one of the few policies I agree with Ron Paul on.

[LonePirate]

12. What inflation? The American economy may have many problems but inflation is a small one.

[sammytko]

10. Bachmann mentioned the "caliphate" or however it is spelled

What is the deal with that?

[JustAnotherGen]

14. Her whole Sharia law thingy

I know - yet another face palm.

[LonePirate]

13. Perry likening climate change deniers to Galileo and heliocentrism.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. ^^^that one^^^

[emulatorloo]

16. Yes, that was high on the Crazy Meter.