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Ron Paul is the enemy of all of the above, because he believes in true free market capitalism. He has come out against allowing corporations to escape liability from damages caused by defective products.
Where?
For one thing, if we controlled our borders, we would not have the problem of e-coli in spinach due to illegals defecating in the fields they harvest.
Hilarious! You are a funny racist!
Just as it is fear of being killed in an auto accident that makes drivers obey the law, it is fear of a huge hit to the bottom line that makes corporations tow the line. Look at vaccine manufacturers like Merck. They lobby for laws to immunize themselves from lawsuits (pardon the pun) when their vaccines kill or hurt people.
You cretin. Government Regulation is what makes corporations obey the law. The very thing Ron Paul is against.
What was that drug that killed all those people...vioxx? What did the FDA do to protect the public? How many died before they finally did something...28,000 to 55,000 people, depending on who did the count! Boy, the government sure did a good job on that one!
It used to work fine until Republican cretins you voted for, just like Ron Paul, gutted the government. "Let's break it and then we can blame it."
Ron Paul would work to restore true competition to the marketplace.
How? By further dismantling the federal government, you moron?
How is electing another politician who has spent a lifetime facilitating all of the above going to improve anything?
Precisely my point!
How is electing yet another fox to guard the henhouse going to help anyone other than the foxes?
Ditto!
Ron Paul is the only viable candidate who gets his $$ from the grassroots. He won't take contributions from PAC's or from any corporations. We must open our eyes and see the truth of what's going on.
--Anonymous
Yes. We must. Read Digby and piss on Ron Paul and these idiotic propagandists. I've never heard such a load of crap since the perpetual motion machine or cold fusion.
Populist Monarchs and SubjectsBy Digby on December 2, 2007 - 6:38pm.
American right-wing populism is an interesting phenomenon that's coming to the fore once again in its usual nativist and racist form, but also as smooth misrepresentation of "tax reform"; clever, misleading public relations messaging about fair trade; and some fairly outlandish paranoia about conspiracies to erase the borders. Various permutations of these fairly common right-wing themes abound among conservative politicians and thinkers alike. But conservative populism is an oxymoron.
As Phil Agree wrote in this much discussed article about the definition of conservatism, "Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy ... [it] is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world."
Modern conservatism's most successful strategy was to merge public relations and politics into a seamless operation in which it could use modern marketing methods to convince people to vote against their own interests. In that sense, right-wing populism is just another marketing campaign for the aristocrats. And it's working...
http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/populist_monarchs_and_subjects
