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What they want is Utopia. Don't we all? But I'm a pragmatist and I believe any system that takes no account of human fallibility and imperfection won't work. In Ron Paul's world, if you get sick you have to go to your enormous bank account and pay for your treatment yourself. Fine. And if you don't have an enormous bank account? Too bad. You're on your own.
In his world the government is the enemy: not poverty and injustice which his system would set in stone for all time. The proof that his ideas don't work is all around him but of course 'there is none so blind as he who will not see'. He's a process man: get the perfect process and you get the perfect product (the Soviets thought exactly the same) but God doesn't like to be bored watching us ants crawling around, so that don't gonna work! Perfection is inhuman so I always have a healthy fear of an allegedly perfect system that does away with the human need for community and community support and and isolates each of us in our own little hell of individualism and competition. I can only imagine what all those enthusiasts running around campaigning for Paul think he stands for but having had one of those nasty 'humanist' educations I think I can see where he's heading - free market, libertarian crapola. These people are all the same. Margaret Thatcher claimed there was no such thing as society but that didn't stop her having her accomodation, transport, health insurance and income all provided by the society she claimed din't exist. If she really believed what she said she should have dissolved her government and given back all the money. She should have admitted she was a fascist with anarchist overtones on a mission to punish human beings for being -well, human. Ron Paul is firmly in the Thatcher camp. You've been warned. Just remember the story he tells about how doctors used to be paid with chickens when their patients couldn't pay. A great system that worked according to Mr Paul.
He's not even in the 20th century yet.
