I strongly urge you to take another look at Ron Paul and perhaps give the idea of free markets and private individuals solving problems rather than government regulations another think-over.

I think by “Free Market”, a Ron Paul supporter would mean exactly as you have said. Corporatism is NOT laissez faire. I despise corporations feeding at the public trough. It is unfair, and in the end, we all pay for it.

Also the MSM wasn’t always in the god awful state that it is in now.

You… ”I can’t support Ron Paul. (now?)”

Who is better?

Peace.

that’s the problem right there:

“by bribing government to pass laws in their favor” … that is not any “Free Market” that RP would recognize. In fact, that is what he is expressly against. And that is what he would like to try to chop out of the government, that connection. You’ll see no RP supporters spouting rhetoric in favor of that kind of corporatist problem.

Now, of course, the most critical issue for us is the War – and that is where RP shines against all the others. None of them will end war as a philosophical principle, because they want to keep the Corporatist/Government gravy train a’rollin’.

Time to stop ‘em!

Ron Paul in 08.

I’ve updated the post to say that I’m not currently a Ron Paul supporter. I have been very recently impressed by things that he has said in interviews on PBS and during the debate. All I meant to say was that I was not campaigning for him; his interview just represented a good example of media abuse.

But to everyone here that has pointed out that the Internet is a good alternative, you would do well to remember that the Internet has been around since the 70s and was funded by DARPA initially and largely built and designed by Universities (who are publicly funded). In fact, the one organization that could have done anything to help the growth of the Internet was AT&T and saw it only as a toy, until now that it’s a threat, and of course they want to cut off net neutrality.

The problem is the phrase “Free Market” and to that end I stand by what I said. If a market is open, has a level playing field, no barriers to entry, transparent information and public standards, the I’m for it. If by “Free Market” you mean massive international corporations that refuse to adhere to standards, dominate their markets, abuse their customers, and erect barriers to entry by bribing government to pass laws in their favor (i.e. ClearChannel, Disney, Microsoft, MacDonald’s, NewsCorporation, Ticketmaster) then I am against it. Those markets are not free despite any rhetoric to the contrary.

Since there is no other alternative to the MSM (other than the internet of course) that must mean that there is a failure in the market.

Though the fact that there is an alternative (the internet) seems to counter that reasoning.

I don’t quite understand though why you wouldn’t support the one candidate that might be able to influence the debate and maybe even help change things.

Oh well. Let your conscience be your guide.

Peace.

2008!

Ron Paul in CNN debate on June 5, 2007!

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor—he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation—he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city—he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.

— Cicero: orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and philosopher of Ancient Rome.

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Ron Paul is a constitutionalist.

Ron has never voted to raise taxes. Ron has never voted for an unbalanced budget. Ron has never voted for the Iraq War. Ron has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership. Ron has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch. Ron has never voted to raise congressional pay. Ron has never taken a government-paid junket.

Ron voted against the Patriot Act. Ron votes against regulating the Internet. Ron voted against NAFTA and CAFTA. Ron votes against the United Nations. Ron votes against the welfare state. Ron votes against reinstating a military draft.

Ron votes to preserve the constitution. Ron votes to cut government spending. Ron votes to lower healthcare costs. Ron votes to end the war on drugs. Ron votes to protect civil liberties. Ron votes to secure our borders with real immigration reform

How can you not love this guy listen to him he is truly a man who tells the truth “We The People” are taking our country back and restoring the original Constitutional Republic and returning Amerika back to America not the Homeland.

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