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- jaymzdean, on 05/09/2008, -20/+130The cool thing about Ron Paul's model of true, free-market capitalism, is, you get your property rights back. The reason that's important, is that it brings liability to those who pollute and practice irresponsible business practices which lead to regional or community contamination. It's an environmentalists solution, and would stimulate the economy something fierce, as people began to realize that their land was theirs again. A whole new industry would emerge in the eco-friendly/fixing industry. As it stands, multi-national corporations are giving themselves immunity to damages to our air, soil, water, food, and bodies through their power-grip on Washington politics.
- tastypickles, on 05/09/2008, -10/+104Danger: small-government, anti-invasion ideals might sneak into the public debate.
M-U-S-T C-E-N-S-O-R - Frnnkdlxx, on 05/09/2008, -22/+91wtf is a Paulite? I'm a man, I have a name, I support Ron Pauls candidacy, I believe in the idea of a republic. I do not appreciate namecalling. Paulite. Paulie. You might as well be calling me a hippie, a yippie, a yuppie. It's rude. Why don't I call you an Idiodite?
- VastSully, on 05/09/2008, -12/+81It's amazing the only guy out there willing to fight for the little guy gets ignored.
Let's just re-elect Bush with a different face...... He or she will change everything!
Do you want to buy my bridge? - wigginz, on 05/09/2008, -6/+55I wasn't a Ron Paul supporter until it was clear that McCain was the front runner for the Republican nomination. Please, oh please Ron, somehow deliver us from the certain doom that McCain is sure to bring the Republican Party.
- tcpip4lyfe, on 05/09/2008, -5/+53Anyone else have his new book?
- calantus, on 05/09/2008, -7/+50Ron paul knows he can't win. He wants to continue to give the message.
- Lurtz, on 05/09/2008, -4/+47The U.S. Government is too set in it's corrupt ways to allow a president like Ron Paul. Democracy is the illusion of choice, and the inevitable predecessor of Oligarchy. Thomas Jefferson said it best, "And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?" We as a people have gone far too long without asserting our resistance to a corrupt government.
- SpeshulEd, on 05/09/2008, -10/+42Good, his chances are better than Hillary's at this point.
- bullhead2007, on 05/09/2008, -3/+34I totally agree. It's okay to flood Digg with Obama blogs all day, but everyone always bitched when there were a few Ron Paul blogs coming up. Even though Ron Paul had no media coverage, and Obama has plenty.
- MillionsLivio, on 05/09/2008, -0/+24I do, it's fantastic so far.
- Diderotten, on 05/09/2008, -3/+25doug.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7676Ss_KAgk - kemp34, on 05/09/2008, -1/+23Yup, read it, great book, passed it on to a friend. Handed out a few copies to family. I'm with it.
- shutaro, on 05/09/2008, -11/+32Yeah, I know what you mean... Name calling is simply not very Paulite. *rimshot*
- Todash19, on 05/09/2008, -5/+25I am partial to Paultard.
Whats in a name? I could care less.
It's the message, not in some stupid name. - kemp34, on 05/09/2008, -2/+21Man, that early you had given up on Paul? I think votes were stolen in both sides in that state, so your vote might not have counted properly either way. Sad.
- Arcueid01, on 05/09/2008, -4/+23Yeah I suppose we call McCain supporters dumbasses.
- Nerys, on 05/09/2008, -4/+23You speak as if this is not what we already have. 6 CEO's control over 90% of every radio newspaper and television outlet in this country.
We are down to essentially 3 Cell Providers 4 if you add t-mobile.
We are down to 1 satellite provider for radio
Down to 2 for TV
so CLEARLY the method we are using RIGHT NOW is NOT working. Lets try something else. - kemp34, on 05/09/2008, -2/+20You realize it is Ron Paul's supporters, not Ron Paul leading the charge right? It's not like Hillary who is PERSONALLY fighting tooth and nail and throwing the kitchen sink. Paul is chilled, educating, speaking policy. His supporters are the ones who keep trying because they are passionate.
- NelsonR, on 05/09/2008, -4/+21As an Independent I see Paul as being a true Republican unlike what is today, Repugnant Republicanism stands today for corruption and thievery including wars, deficit spending, government intrusions into personal lives, elitism and the list is endless with hypocrisy ruling the agenda. Ron Paul is fresh but he does not represent his party. All truth but there are many followers who would rebuke my post while thinking piety but it does take 90% of a human populous to perpetuate a lunatic ideology.
- thedrizzle21, on 05/10/2008, -1/+18I'm so tired of people bringing up conspiracy theories and accusing people of being crazy whenever Ron Paul's name comes up. Do us all a favor and learn a little bit about the Constitution and his platform and you'll understand where he is coming from.
Wait that would be too much work for you, I keep forgetting you don't actually know anything about politics and you just like to throw rhetoric around so you can feel smart.
Your contributions are invaluable to the democratic process, please don't ever stop repeating what you hear elsewhere! - kemp34, on 05/09/2008, -5/+24Yeah, allowing big companies with huge legal teams and lobby budgets to move government in its direction is a huge problem. Ron Paul is against fascism which a lot of diggers fail to realize.
- Nerys, on 05/09/2008, -3/+20He did not quit. He is in fact still going. Off course thats not what the media says. Go figure you base your info on the media?
Erasing parts of a debate to remove his voice. CANCELING THE LAST DEBATE in order to avoid putting him on TV and REFUSING to acknowledge him in the media. Yeah I guess you do not see a difference between quitting and being THROWN OUT by the media. - PeppermintPig, on 05/09/2008, -6/+22"The natural state of unregulated capitalism is monopoly."
Uh, what? That makes about as much sense as 'freedom is slavery.' In a free market, companies must compete to provide the best service to its customers. If force is involved, it's no longer a free market. USPS has a monopoly on mailing letters.
If people don't defend their rights, then expect others to walk all over them. Self-government, voluntarily promoted regulation and reputation rating are all valid means of safeguarding against systems that implicitly assume force is necessary for the economy to work.
"Time and time again we've had this happen in our country (ATT being the best example.)"
Except that AT&T had their infrastructure subsidized with tax dollars. They were a creation of government manipulation.
"That's what makes the current system so great. It's a free market, with the government stirring the pot so to speak, keeping larger companies from taking too much control of the market."
That analogy would work, if the pot was owned by a cannibal. Innocent people also get swept up in the mix of arbitrary regulation. - matador3, on 05/09/2008, -11/+26I love it when people complain about monopolies and call for government regulation. What the hell do you think a government is? Think of it this way, a government is a corporation that can imprison or kill you for not purchasing their services. If you disagree I invite you to stop paying your taxes and see what happens to you. A government is an automatic monopoly of force. If you disagree I invite you to try to start your own competing government and see what happens to you. I suppose a monopoly is theoretically possible in a pure capitalist system but only so long as people are happy with the product or service being provided. If people were truly unhappy with the monopoly they would be free to look elsewhere or start their own competing company. There would be no barrier to entry in the market to prevent them.
If you look closely at any of the so called monopolies you mentioned you will find a plethora of favorable regulations, corporate welfare, and other artificial barriers to competition provided by the government which is propping them up. You honestly expect more government to fix the problem? - inactive, on 05/10/2008, -0/+15Not only do I HAVE it, I traveled to 4 bookstores in NYC to actually FIND a copy so I could bring it back to the Borders that Ron Paul was signing it (they were sold out everywhere). And I got myself a funky fresh photo of me shaking Ron Paul's hand! EPIC WIN!
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -2/+17Ron Paul and our movement is a deviation from the script to take over the world. The seeds of revolution have been planted.
- Elderon, on 05/09/2008, -9/+25I like paul, Out of the people that have a shot now for the presidency I hope Obama wins, but It's kinda disheartening to see how anti-paul people were and all of a sudden being for Obama is the cool thing to do now. It's the same stuff the paul people were doing but now it's acceptable.
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -2/+17Why so long? Ron Paul was always THE MAN.
- BlakeEM, on 05/09/2008, -1/+16The problem right now is that it's too hard to compete so using our current market as evidence that monopoly will always exist in a free market is flawed. This is where regulations come into play. You make it to hard (and expensive) for anyone to create a business you will have a lot less business and a lot less competition. Another big issues that I wish Ron Paul would address is current copyright laws. I think this is a big reason why we have monopolies more then any other reason. This is especially true when it comes to technology. When one company can control all innovation in one area this obviously greatly hinders competition. I will agree however we do need laws to stop things like price fixing as the oil companies do currently with limited resources (Oligopoly.)
- Bilabrin, on 05/09/2008, -3/+19The devil is in the details. There are currently barriers to entry created by govenment which prop monopolies and oligarchical systems of industry.
- gurudrew, on 05/09/2008, -0/+15corporations should not be allowed to do evil things just because they can afford the tax.
- an0nymous, on 05/09/2008, -1/+13Ron Paul gives two ***** for McCain's hurt feelings. He's got something to say and he's tenacious.
- fuzzmeister, on 05/09/2008, -19/+31I know you weren't completely serious, but here are some delegate numbers for you:
Obama: 1,860
Clinton: 1,696
McCain: 1,409
Paul: drumroll please... 26 - ZenMojo, on 05/10/2008, -1/+13Yeah, but those people are just parasites. We need a society of intellectuals and artists to make really awesome buildings and wash their own ***** underwear.
- UnFriendlyFire, on 05/09/2008, -3/+15Yes he did.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/press-releases/237/ron- ... - Todash19, on 05/09/2008, -0/+12Does a cow have *****? Hells yeah i have the book. Well, the audio book anyway.
On my third listen. I plan to put it up against visuals... - asus2000, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12That isn't what happened. The management at Digg pulled some strings and turned off the Ron Paul machine with a simple software filter. It happened so suddenly that it was obvious. A few days later they turned on Obama with a similar mechanism. Easy to write actually... And now, every once in a while they let one Ron Paul story through to throw us a bone and make it not look so obvious.
- fuzzmeister, on 05/09/2008, -9/+20As long as you don't purport that your ideals for government are the only ones that a rational person could ever have (arrogance doesn't win you any friends), I should hope that you are welcomed into the "public debate".
- XanderDee, on 05/10/2008, -1/+12It's not the man it's the message of the constitution and undoing the monetary cheating going on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6NfXk7Bvc8
But go head digg me down and support your person for president who will dilute the dollars so you can't buy food. Good luck. - PeppermintPig, on 05/09/2008, -0/+11So it's the fault of Paul supporters that the Nevada event was closed down?
And I suppose this has nothing to do with the fact that McCain's support wasn't able to represent itself well enough?? - stealthc, on 05/10/2008, -0/+11Speaking of logical gaps...
- fromonesource, on 05/10/2008, -1/+12He's not a religious fanatic. He would keep his religious opinions out of your life, so what do you care if he believes in god?
- peznex, on 05/09/2008, -2/+13Yesterday, I fell into a whole.
- kemp34, on 05/09/2008, -0/+11In all honesty, thank the media for the lack of "stick um" Paul was seriously blacked out during key weeks and the box still tells a lot of couch potato voters who is "legitimate".
0% coverage in the week leading up to Super Tuesday (arguably THE MOST critical week):
http://www.journalism.org/node/9610
Sad. - ajb2015, on 05/10/2008, -6/+16RON PAUL!!!
there i did it, no one else do it now, and please digg me down. - Nerys, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10SO when we follow the letter of the law its subversion and a hostile take over. WHen the republican establishment blocks NOTHING but simply THROWS OUT the very rules THEY created and does "what they want anyway" thats ok right? THATS supporting the democratic process that CREATED those damned rules to begin with!!
- Bilabrin, on 05/09/2008, -3/+13But I think that happens only when monopolies are able to infiltrate government and pass anti-competitve legislation.
For example. MegaUberCorp is the only provider of lightbulbs. The price of lightbulbs jumps to $10 a bulb. Now, this is a perfect opportunity for some small business to come along and make a killing selling lightbulbs for $5 a bulb. If there are not government created barriers to entry in the market (as there are now) the price of bulbs drops until no-one can eek any more profit from it. Prosperity ensues. - fredmv, on 05/10/2008, -7/+17Ron Paul rules. If only the system wasn't so corrupted, the media wasn't so one-sided, and if all of America could take their head out of their ass and see, quite plainly, that Ron Paul is the only choice should our country want to dig ourselves out of the deep hole we've dug and truly prosper. How very, very sad.
- expatcatalyst, on 05/10/2008, -0/+9Everyone needs to read it and at least make an informed decision about who RP is. Fantastic book!
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