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- Kishoba, on 01/30/2009, -5/+42This lady seems to think that by using big words that she doesn't understand, that some how her point is invalid. She clearly had no idea what she was talking about. Kudos to Ron Paul - always stating everything clearly and concisely.
- goes211, on 01/30/2009, -3/+38Dr Paul is a National Treasure!
- boulder555, on 01/30/2009, -2/+36Ronald Reagan was my friend and he talked a good fight, but government got larger under him (and both Bushes who governed like Democrats) and I voted against each of his budgets.--Ron Paul
- jaymzdean, on 01/30/2009, -4/+37People have allowed mercantilists to, in their minds, redefine free-market capitalism. Anyone screaming that Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics is a conservative, free-market principle fell for the old bait-&-switch. That was socialism for the rich, just like we have now.
- XxtraLarGe, on 01/30/2009, -5/+30What's funny is that this video wasn't up a couple of hours ago when I last checked. It seems that Ron Paul submissions get delayed by 2-3 hours before they even show up, so they don't get enough diggs fast enough to make it to the front page any more.
- bink0, on 01/30/2009, -4/+29Paul > Obama
- dubdope, on 01/30/2009, -1/+26we need a crash to start over. my only hope is that we learn from the mistakes we've made. i wish i were an optimist.
- thecoolestguy, on 01/30/2009, -4/+27Ah, linking to the segment didn't work. The caller calls in at 3 min 31 seconds into the video.
- williamlanders, on 01/30/2009, -7/+30 We know the education in America has been tainted or outright changed by liberals...
- Nodaki, on 01/30/2009, -4/+24NoLiberty I find it odd that you are a 2nd Amendment proponent seeing as your comments usually are anti-Constitution.
Thankfully my "assault rifle" is going to arrive next week.
Springfield Armory
M1A SOCOM II with Extended Rail
Three 20 round clips, pistol grip, holographic sites, fore grip, tactical light. Oh yeah its for "hunting". - dallasmusicguy, on 01/31/2009, -1/+18Ron Paul is a true conservative I really wish that the liberal media didn't do everything they could to destroy his credibility. The Republicans would of fared much better if they would of had his back.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+18Because McCain voted against the (socialist) bailout when he "suspended" his campaign, but that eeeevil socialist Ron Paul supported it!!
Oh, wait...And yes, someone's reaping what he sowed, but it sure as hell ain't the individualist types who wanted freedom. - DonWigler, on 01/30/2009, -0/+16"The people who get elected refuse to govern." Considering every aspect of our lives that this government is involved in, this may be the dumbest statement I have ever heard. There almost seems to be a contest among our elected officials as to who can pervert the constitution more in order to govern most. Her ignorance is remarkable.
- foolishwolf, on 01/30/2009, -4/+20Dude from Ohio at 1:30 got ***** OWNED..
He's in the House of Representatives, not the Senate, you dumb *****. - Moonkeeper, on 01/30/2009, -1/+17There are a handful of those that dislike Ron Paul that are incessantly searching for and burying articles related to him. They actually seek and comment on more Ron Paul articles then his supporters do.
- hugolp, on 01/30/2009, -4/+20Hey, your trolling level is getting ***** lame. Get yourself together and keep trolling like you mean it! Now!
- szalinski, on 01/30/2009, -5/+20I don't see how a RP supporter could vote for McCain OR Obama
- Moonkeeper, on 01/30/2009, -2/+15Your post is a dupe. Buried.
- cardgame, on 01/30/2009, -3/+16"shown to be wrong"
How is that possible when they have never been implemented yet. You obviously are confusing Corporate/government collectivism with the free market. try again. - foolishwolf, on 01/30/2009, -5/+17haha Nodaki 1, NoLibertarians 0
- jeffiek, on 01/30/2009, -2/+14What I find so interesting is that people still claim that these Libertarian Ideologies have been shown to be wrong WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE.
It's amazing that people still believe in government. There's a much better case for believing in God, yet we now know better.
Government works?????
Every President since Nixon has promised "energy independence". Hasn't worked. Obama is making the same promise. Been there, done that, don't need a T-shirt. - foolishwolf, on 01/30/2009, -5/+17What in the ***** am I reading here? Jesus Christ
- yarcod, on 01/30/2009, -3/+14What libertarian ideologies have been implemented in the last 60 years? I'm confused.
- kaelyiesta, on 01/30/2009, -2/+13"[...]have been shown to be wrong."
Elaborate. - henri3, on 01/31/2009, -1/+12Thanks for the Great Ron Paul video!! I'm passing this on to all.
- jeffiek, on 01/30/2009, -1/+11I agree 100%. The FED is totally unregulated. Able to print all the money it wants and lend it out a rates below inflation.
Oops. What will we do with all this money? I know, we'll use it to fuel a housing bubble. What harm could that cause?
Free trade caused this???? *****. There are more regulations causing this than you can shake a stick at. Franie Mae and Freddie Mac were made by REGULATIONS.
Only an idiot could fail to understand that. - TruthExposed, on 01/30/2009, -1/+11Reap nothing and get your $ out of the USA.
I did years ago. - inactive, on 01/30/2009, -0/+10It's worse than that. The very word "liberal" has become NewSpeaked from its original meaning decades ago, just as the word "deregulation" is now in the process of no longer meaning anything resembling less spending on regulation. 1984, anyone??
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+10Considering civilians aren't currently allowed to own assault rifles, there goes that dumbass statement of yours. The government can only take what it can find, there goes that dumbass statement of yours.
Your last statement isn't worth commenting on. It only further shows you to be amongst the dumbest persons on digg. - inactive, on 01/30/2009, -0/+9None. Dr. Paul even shredded the "Reagan small government" myth because it STILL needs repeated shredding, apparently, due to all the sheep who don't understand economics.
Anyway, the libertarian stuff comes in the form of hot wind at election time. Once they win elections with those fiscally responsible policies, Republicans proceed to govern in an even more statist fashion than the Democrats. Which is going some...Sigh. - TruthExposed, on 01/31/2009, -0/+9What I said is that I have protected myself from socialist policies.
McCain was nearly as socialist as Obama. - yarcod, on 01/30/2009, -0/+8Repubs don't even promise that at election time anymore. McCain was for the bailouts, more foreign intervention, and more government control of anything social.
There is no conservative party anymore. - e1evene1even, on 01/30/2009, -1/+9What are you talking about?
Which specific 'libertarian ideologies' are you referring to?
Give any example and I guarantee the government intervention had more to do with the current 'economic catastrophe' than 'libertarian ideologies'. - inactive, on 01/30/2009, -0/+8Because anyone suggesting any decrease in the size of government, no matter how small, is automatically an "anarchist." Please. As we keep ***** saying, smaller government HAS NOT BEEN TRIED, INCLUDING UNDER REAGAN. And I can't even mention the latest statist hypocrite spender's name in the same paragraph with the word "capitalism."
- tajitj, on 01/31/2009, -1/+9That is very true. They try to say the digg algorithum detects alot of diggs from one site like dailypaul.com
If so, that is ridiculous, many sites have the little digg meter next to their article.
Whatever, in a year when Obama is clearly a huge failure. Inflation and dollar problems come about we will all laugh, sadly, because we actually want to stop it from happening. They just don't understand certain things and want their govt to take care of it. Fine, when we have to fix it and they are down, I will not help them, sorry. - amy31415, on 01/31/2009, -0/+7Hey Nodacki, NoLibertarians is a giant mess--he's argued against the 2nd Amendment and made claims that he's been robbed at gunpoint by peaceful criminals on LSD. He doesn't know what the ***** he thinks except "EEEEEEK LIBERTARIANS--I R SCARED AN I DON'T NO Y!"
I'm quite sure he is lacking in any sort of testicular fortitude and really has no idea what he believes in.
Guess what NoLibs? Soon even your boyfriend COINTELPRO is going to stop backing you up because you have zero consistency. What are you today? A gun-grabbing neo-lib or a war-pimping neo-con? Both suck equally, so why not pick one identity and run with it? - thecoolestguy, on 01/31/2009, -0/+7Regulations created the crisis.
The Fed's centralized control over the currency (a socialist concept that flies in the face of the free market), the Community Reinvestment Act, and Fannie/Freddie, all created the housing bubble that led to the crisis. - KMye, on 02/03/2009, -2/+9I think the placeholder only remains when there are undeleted comments in reply at a lower level to it...
- thecoolestguy, on 01/31/2009, -4/+11What does that mean "freedom is not a religious belief"? Freedom has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with freedom of action, and the absence of restrictions on it.
Let's stick to the facts, something supporters of big government are hard pressed to do.
Supporters of Ron Paul understand the Constitution and what it takes to properly govern a nation. A government that takes up 40% of GDP is too big. It's too invasive. It's too pervasive.
Government was traditionally 3% of GDP. After 1913, government steadily grew, and today, the federal government makes up 20% of GDP.
You can't send that much wealth to Washington DC and not expect cronyism to take over
It takes many decades for a nation's vitality to be sapped, but it eventually happens.
America doesn't manufacture any thing any more. The reason why is clear:
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Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
JOEL SALATIN / Acres v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1sep03
Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from a federal or state agriculture department my heart jumps like I just got sent to the principal’s office.
And it doesn’t stop with agriculture bureaucrats. It includes all sorts of government agencies, from zoning, to taxing, to food inspectors. These agencies are the ultimate extension of a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process.
ON-FARM PROCESSING
I want to dress my beef and pork on the farm where I’ve coddled and raised it. But zoning laws prohibit slaughterhouses on agricultural land. For crying out loud, what makes more holistic sense than to put abattoirs where the animals are? But no, in the wisdom of Western disconnected thinking, abattoirs are massive centralized facilities visited daily by a steady stream of tractor trailers and illegal alien workers.
But what about dressing a couple of animals a year in the backyard? How can that be compared to a ConAgra or Tyson facility? In the eyes of the government, the two are one and the same. Every T-bone steak has to be wrapped in a half-million dollar facility so that it can be sold to your neighbor. The fact that I can do it on my own farm more cleanly, more responsibly, more humanely, more efficiently, and in a more environmentally friendly manner doesn’t matter to the government agents who walk around with big badges on their jackets and wheelbarrow-sized regulations tucked under their arms.
OK, so I take my animals and load them onto a trailer for the first time in their life to send them up the already clogged interstate to the abattoir to await their appointed hour with a shed full of animals of dubious extraction. They are dressed by people wearing long coats with deep pockets with whom I cannot even communicate. The carcasses hang in a cooler alongside others that were not similarly cared for in life. After the animals are processed, I return to the facility hoping to retrieve my meat.
When I return home to sell these delectable packages, the county zoning ordinance says that this is a manufactured product because it exited the farm and was reimported as a value-added product, thereby throwing our farm into the Wal-Mart category, another prohibition in agricultural areas. Just so you understand this, remember that an on-farm abattoir was illegal, so I took the animals to a legal abattoir, but now the selling of said products in an on-farm store is illegal.
Our whole culture suffers from an industrial food system that has made every part disconnected from the rest. Smelly and dirty farms are supposed to be in one place, away from people, who snuggle smugly in their cul-de-sacs and have not a clue about the out-of-sight-out-of-mind atrocities being committed to their dinner before it arrives in microwaveable, four-color-labeled, plastic packaging. Industrial abattoirs need to be located in a not-in-my-backyard place to sequester noxious odors and sights. Finally, the retail store must be located in a commercial district surrounded by lots of pavement, handicapped access, public toilets and whatever else must be required to get food to people.
The notion that animals can be raised, processed, packaged, and sold in a model that offends neither our eyes nor noses cannot even register on the average bureaucrat’s radar screen — or, more importantly, on the radar of the average consumer advocacy organization. Besides, all these single-use megalithic structures are good for the gross domestic product. Anything else is illegal.
ON-FARM SEMINARS & ‘AGRITAINMENT’
In the disconnected mind of modem America, a farm is a production unit for commodities — nothing more and nothing less. Because our land is zoned as agricultural, we cannot charge school kids for a tour of the farm because that puts us in the category of "Theme Park." Anyone paying for infotainment creates "Farmadisney," a strict no-no in agricultural zones.
Farms are not supposed to be places of enjoyment or learning. They are commodity production units dotting the landscape, just as factories are manufacturing units and office complexes are service units. In the government’s mind, integrating farm production with recreation and meaningful education creates a warped sense of agriculture.
The very notion of encouraging people to visit farms is blasphemous to an official credo that views even sparrows, starlings and flies as disease threats to immunocompromised plants and animals. Visitors entering USDA-blessed production unit farms must run through a gauntlet of toxic sanitation dips and don moonsuits in order to keep their germs to themselves. Indeed, people are viewed as hazardous foreign bodies at Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
Farmers who actually encourage folks to come to their farms threaten the health and welfare of their fecal concentration camp production unit neighbors, and therefore must be prohibited from bringing these invasive germ-dispensing humans onto their landscape. In the industrial agribusiness paradigm, farms must be protected from people, not to mention free-range poultry.
The notion that animals and plants can be raised in such a way that their enhanced immune system protects them from kindergarteners’ germs, and that the animals actually thrive when marinated in human attention, never enters the minds of government officials dedicated to protecting precarious production units.
COLLABORATIVE MARKETING
I have several neighbors who produce high-quality food or crafts that complement our own meat and poultry. Dried flower arrangements from one artisan, pickles from another, wine from another, and first-class vegetables from another. These are just for starters.
Our community is blessed with all sorts of creative artisans who offer products that we would love to stock in our on-farm retail venue. Doesn’t it make sense to encourage these customers driving out from the city to be able to go to one farm to do their rural browsing/ purchasing rather than drive all over the countryside? Furthermore, many of these artisans have neither the desire nor time to deal with patrons one-on-one. A collaborative venue is the most win-win, reasonable idea imaginable — except to government agents.
As soon as our farm offers a single item — just one — that is not produced here, we have become a Wal-Mart. Period. That means a business license, which isbasically another layer of taxes on our gross sales. The business license requires a commercial entrance, which on our country road is almost impossible to acquire due to sight-distance requirements and width regulations. Of course, zoning prohibits businesses in our agricultural zones. Remember, people are supposed to be kept away from agricultural areas — people bring diseases.
Even if we could comply with all of the above requirements, a retail outlet carries with it a host of additional regulations. We must provide designated handicapped parking, government-approved toilet facilities (our four household bathrooms in the two homes located 50 feet away from the retail building do not count) — and it can’t be a composting toilet. We must offer x-number of parking spaces. Folks, it just goes on and on, ad nauseum, and all for simply trying to help a neighbor sell her potatoes or extra pumpkins at Thanksgiving. I thought this was the home of the free. In most countries of the world, anyone can sell any of this stuff anywhere, and the hungering hordes are glad to get it, but in the great U.S. of A we’re too sophisticated to allow such bioregional commerce.
EMPLOYING LOCAL YOUNGSTERS & INTERNS
Any power tool — including a cordless screwdriver — cannot be operated by people under the age of 18. We have lots of requests from folks wanting to come as interns, but what do we call them? The government has no category for interns or neighbor young people who just want to learn and help out.
We’d love to employ all the neighboring young people. To our child-awning and worshiping culture, the only appropriate child activity is recreation, sitting in a desk, or watching TV. That’s it. That’s the extent of what children are good for. Anything else is abusive and risky.
Then we wonder why these kids grow up unmotivated and bored with life. Our local newspaper is full of articles and letters to the editor lamenting the lack of things for young people to do. Let me suggest a few things: digging postholes and building a fence, weeding the garden, planting some tomatoes, splitting some wood, feeding the chickens, washing eggs, pruning grapevines, milking the cow, building a compost pile, growing some earthworms.
These are all things that would be wonderfully meaningful work experience for the youth of our community, but you can’t simply employ people anymore. A host of government regulatory paperwork surrounds every "could you come over and help us . . . ?" By the time an employer complies with every Occupational Safety & Health Administration requirement, posts every government bulletin requirement, with-holds taxes, and shoulders Unemployment Compensation burdens and medical and child safety regulations — he or she can’t hire anybody legally or profitably.
The government has no pigeonhole for this: "I’m a 17-year-old home-schooler, and I want to learn how to farm. Could I come and have you mentor me for a year?"
What is this relationship? A student? An employee? If I pay a stipend, the government says he’s an employee. If I don’t pay, the Fair Labor Standards board says it’s slavery, which is illegal. Doesn’t matter that the young person is here of his own volition and is happy to live in a tee-pee. Housing must be permitted and up to code. Enough already. What happened to the home of the free?
BUILD A HOUSE THE WAY I WANT
You would think that if I cut the trees, mill the logs into lumber, and build the house on my own farm, I could make it however I wanted to. Think again. It’s illegal to build a house less than 900 square feet. Period. Doesn’t matter if I’m a hermit or the father of 20. The government agents have decreed, in their egocentric wisdom, that no human can live in anything less than 900 square feet.
Our son got married last year and wanted to build a small cottage on the farm, which he now oversees for the most part. Our new saying is, "He runs the farm, and I just run around." The plan was to do what Mom and Dad did for Teresa and I — trade houses when children come. That way our empty nest downsizes, and the young people can upsize in the main family farmhouse. Sounds reasonable and environmentally sensitive to me. But no, his little honeymoon cottage — or our retirement shack — had to be a 900-square-foot Taj Mahal. A state-of-the-art accredited composting toilet to avoid the need for a septic system and sewer leach field was denied.
When the hillside leach field would not meet agronomic standards and we had to install it in the floodplain, I asked the health department bureaucrat why. He said that essentially the only approvable leach fields now are alongside creeks and streams, because they are the only sites that offer dark-enough colored soils. Sounds like real environmental steward-ship, doesn’t it?
Look, if I want to build a yurt of rabbit skins and go to the bathroom in a compost pile, why is it any of the government’s business? Bureaucrats bend over back-wards to accredit, tax credit, and offer money to people wanting to build pig city-factories or bigger airports. But let a guy go to his woods, cut down some trees, and build himself a home, and a plethora of regulatory tyrants descend on the project to complicate, obfuscate, irritate, frustrate, and virtually terminate. I think it’s time to eradicate some of these laws and the piranhas who administer them.
OPTING OUT OF THE SYSTEM
I don’t ask for a dime of government money. I don’t ask for government accreditation. I don’t want to register my animals with a global positioning tattoo. I don’t want to tell officials the names of my constituents. And I sure as the dickens don’t intend to hand over my firearms. I can’t even use the "U" word.
On every side, our paternalistic culture is tightening the noose around those of us who just want to opt out of the system — and it is the freedom to opt out that differentiates tyrannica - inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+8I'm just asking here, if you were Microsoft and it was a monopoly, how would you make sure something like Linux or Apple didn't exist?
- Navicerts, on 01/30/2009, -1/+8I think it is accurate in theory. You are confusing the term monopoly, I may be wrong but this is how I understood him; Even if a some company "cornered the market" in a free market it wouldn't be a "monopoly" because competitors could still attempt to compete in that market place.
Granted, modernization has made it very difficult to compete as a starter in a market place. If these large companies are cornering the market they still have the ability to fail so that new companies can take their place...... oh wait..... That's right big companies don't fail because the government steps in and saves them. Hmm. - inactive, on 02/01/2009, -1/+8When I first read this headline, I just assumed Ron Paul had destroyed Obama.
- thecoolestguy, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6Somalia's government does not fulfill its proper duty of punishing crime and protecting people and their property, thus it's not a free market. People are not free when there are roving gangs in the country.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+7I'm guessing you're rather good at it yourself.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+7Wow, you must have taken many hits to your head as a child.
- inactive, on 02/01/2009, -0/+6No comparison.
- GhostFace101, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6The problem is to many Politicians are power hunger and want big government, When we start sliding towards a gold standard government will decrees and politicians will not have the strangle hold on domestic and foreign policy and thus will go back to making a average wage just like most of the U.S.
Poli = Many, Tic = blood sucking insect - BaseballGuyCAA, on 01/30/2009, -7/+12You are a dope. Buried.
- GangsterCompute, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5Worked just fine for me.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -0/+5It seems to work if you convert it to seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqyhmSGOZM#t=210s
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