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Down with antitrust law, regulations, price fixing, wage regulations, social security, and other Big Corporation laws! Up with the common man and real competition!

Geeze, illiberal people like you are leading us to the path of ever greater inequality. Haven't you ever wondered how, if our government is bought and paid for by corporations, it generates so many supposedly anti-elite things?

Hint: It doesn't. Corporations love minimum wages, antitrust regulations, wage regulations, and regulations in general. The elite can get exceptions, subsidies, or just eat the costs. Everybody else gets stuck. Only the elite can afford the lawyers, the lobbyists, the regulatory costs themselves. It kills small businesses, entrepreneurship, and individual efforts in favor of the largest and most well-connected.

They love social security too. Then unions demand less for pensions and individuals save less for retirement. Hey, corporations don't care if people are poor when their old because they're stuck living on a few dregs of government support. Big corporations want people to live for the present and spend their entire income - they know that they have fallbacks like government favoritism should they ever face capital shortages.

And so, over the years, more and more capital accrues in the hands of the elite. How do we react?

We demand more priveleges for the elite. We demand more favoritism for the biggest companies. We demand more regulations against independent companies and more restrictions on independent people. We fight every hint of competition and ambition in the labor market. Then we suppress any dissidence by those harmed by our actions.

This is not the path to equality and freedom. Ron Paul shows a better path to both.

Ooh! A zealot! I haven't seen too many of those before!

Look, N., throw your vote away on some nebulous dream of objectivism and libertarianism if you like, but don't expect the real world to think much of the potential results when they would allow the world to drown in a sea of pollution, when economic choice would dwindle to nothing in a monopolist society, and when women would be sent back to 19th century mores.

The only selling point Paul has to most people is that he's the one Republican who has the courage to say that Bush's war is wrong and that we should bail out. Too many of his supporters see that policy, say "oh, shiny!" and don't look at some of his other prescriptions. The point of my link was to show them where to find out the other data about the guy.

i am willing to overlook a lot of his faults if he were indeed bent on getting rid of the Federal Reserve. probably not attainable at this point, though.

AHH! it prints my email address as a link?! WTF!!! get it off!