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Et tu, Art Brute?
11 hours ago
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Our Next President?
I'm hoping Ron Paul's next Presidential campaign gets some traction. It would be great to see a Ron Paul/Mike Huckabee ticket!
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Yeah, I dunno Mark. He's right in denouncing the Military-Industrial Complex and right to question our continuing involvement in Afghanistan, but outside of that his ideas on health care and market regulation are unrealistic. Sounds like he's touting the form of capitalism that was rampant in this country in the late 1800s and early 1900s, where the markets were given free reign and regulation was near non-existent. This lead not only to child labor, unsafe food handling and manufacturing, horrendous oppression of the working class and a massive disparity of wealth, but ALSO to the Great Depression (which we got out of with the help of the same Keynesianism he's denouncing today).
Capitalism is not the root of all evil, but it certainly isn't the savior of the world either. I feel like anyone who comes down too hard on either side of that issue should have their ideas taken with a huge grain of salt.
I hear you, Zack. However, I do really like the idea of a candidate who will stand up to corporations and lobbyists, because I believe those two things are MAJOR contributors to the widening gap between lower and upper class Americans.
I don't think he is saying that the government should be non-existent. What he's saying is that the government itself won't fix the problem.
Maybe what I like most of all about him is that he doesn't tow the party line. In my view he's the best of both parties: opposed to Wilsonian expansionism and supporting conservative values.
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