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Ron Paul is the best republican candidate, but as he is a basically 'no-government' conservative, how does he propose we oversee out of control large corporations of the Enron persusausion? If we have no government oversight of business, what's the stop them from being even more criminal than they already are? Pitchforks and torches?
Will we just trust that agribusiness will provide us with e-coli free meat? Or will we let the market decide by saying, "Hey, 3,000 people just died from e-coli tainted meat..." I'll exercise free market choice and won't buy from Archer Daniel's Midland anymore!" What about clean water, what about the EPA?
Shall we put Dow Chemical on scouts honor to not dump toxic waste into our rivers? "I've had with you Dow, from now on, I'm making my own roach spray!"
I'm just asking questions. I appreciate Ron Paul's frankness, especially about the disasterous Iraq Occupation and our unnecessary foreign entanglements, but I want to know what he really means by "small government."
