When we live in a glass house we should be the last to throw stones.

Our leader has approved Torture, lying to the People, forsaking his Oath of Office, to send the country to war! Mainely to prop up the dollar against the purchasing of oil in currency other than Dollars. And will use any excuse to ruin Iran for the same reason. Read The secret of the American Empire. Perkins author.

We have a lot of work to do at Home before we can lead again.

With all due respect. The point here is Dr. Paul

The US is not the wealthiest nation in the world though. We are 9 trillion in debt. We are 8th in the world of GDP per capita (Wikipedia), unless you count that we each owe 30K to the US government's debt pool. Everyone in the world needs help even in our own country. The government has no right to try and send our money or its “loaned” money overseas. This is because the government turns its donations into politics. The government picks and chooses when and why to help a nation. Remember the issues with Dafar? Remember Iraq was about doing good will in the 80s and today. North Korea and China are allowed to violate human rights, but Iraq isn't. That is why donating as an individual is important because you have different goals. You could easily donate yourself to the cause. You could also pick a cause that was meaningful to you. What is even better, is that when I donate time or money helping someone, I feel a sense of satisfaction. I feel nothing when the government throws my money around. The problem is we want the government to do what we are to lazy to do, for charity takes time and money. Then we complain when the government doesn't do what we think it should be doing. We need is a government that doesn't get involved and gives us our money back so we can get involved.

It is fine to donate individually as Americans, by the way, to aid another country in its time of tragedy, but it is not the business of our government to donate nor attempt to interfere with its policies and politics, no matter how tragic or sad or immoral or unethical that country's policies and politics are.

Congratulations to Dr. Paul for standing up for the Constitution and non-interventionist philosophy upon which this country was founded. He is the last true conservative and last true stateman this country has.

Thank you Dr. Paul, you make me proud to call myself a supporter. I (and prolly many others) will follow your lead, just let us know what is needed. I voted for you in 88, and earlier this year and look forward to the priviledge of voting for you may more times.

Mike, I appreciate you candid response about the idea that we live in a global community. I couldn't agree more that we should support those that are less fortunate or those who have experienced a misfortune of whatever magnitude. Notice the pronoun I used above, “we”, as in those of us able to volunteer for such a cause. Though I appreciate your response to the article, your ideas are misguided. See Ron Paul is following the rules of the Constitution not his personal opinions, only because he's not allowed to follow personal opinions. If he followed his own ideas of what should be done with government power or money then he would be in violation of his oath of office. What Ron Paul is doing is demonstrating the limiting power of the Federal Government. He is demonstrating that individuals who believe that something is a worthy cause can give to the cause and can seek to make change for that cause. In the case above Ron Paul is simply showing that every individual of Congress can send their condolences as a individuals, and so can the individual citizens, but it is not in the power of the government to address the issue in any way because it is out of the governmental jurisdiction. When his spokeswoman said that, “It's none of 'our' business”, she was referring to the government. If an indivdual or group of individuals or the rest of the country wants to make it their business then they can, but the Federal govenrment doesn't have that athority according to Article I Section 8 and 9 and the 10th amendment of the Constitution. Ron Paul wants people to engage in global issues and not the government. He wants people to demonstrate care, and love, and community. The government would only divide communities. This issue is not about the Burmese people it's about government overstepping its boundaries and about individual people not taking responsibility for people that need their assistance.